[R-sig-Geo] Consolidated SRS database/list?

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Vijay Lulla wrote:

> Ok, thanks!  While the page provided information about the project and its
> funding status I couldn't find the SQLite database.  Do you happen to know
> when this will be available?

No more than is on that page, plus the time needed to re-write plenty of 
sf, lwgeom, rgdal and sp. At that stage, contributions welcome!

Roger

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> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:02 PM Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018, Vijay Lulla wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list members,
>>> A few years ago Roger Bivand posted a discussion (
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-geo/2015-August/023204.html ) about
>>> consolidating SRS definitions into a SQLite database and I am wondering
>> if
>>> there has been any development along those lines.
>>
>> Rather than trying this just within R, we're hoping that the GDAL
>> barn-raising effort:
>>
>> https://gdalbarn.com/
>>
>> will take us there and further, and be much better than having a
>> non-standard implementation.
>>
>> When that effort is done, we'll be open for ideas about interfacing it
>> through PROJ and GDAL, which now ship with CSV files that we copy into
>> Windows and MacOS binary packages (rgdal, sf, lwgeom).
>>
>> For now, if it helps, rgdal::make_EPSG() reads the EPSG CSV file shipped
>> with PROJ into the R workspace as a data.frame.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>> Specifically, is there any consolidated collection of SRS definitions in
>>> R (either a data.frame or tibble or SQLite backed) that are being used
>>> by geospatial packages that users can use too?  If so, can you please
>>> point me to it?  If not, would it be worthwhile to have this
>>> consolidated list/dataframe, maybe as part of data for one of the core
>>> geospatial packages? Thanks in advance, Vijay
>>>
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Roger Bivand
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Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
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