{"id":237,"date":"2007-07-23T16:22:02","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2007-07-23T16:22:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T21:22:02","slug":"spatial-reference-the-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/237\/spatial-reference-the-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial Reference: The Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.maptools.org\/pipermail\/gdal-dev\/2007-July\/013641.html\">post by Howard Butler to gdal-dev<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chris Schmidt and I have been working on <a href=\"http:\/\/spatialreference.org\">a website that reflects the EPSG spatial reference codes   database and user-contributed codes<\/a> in a variety of output formats.   The EPSG code database is never as up to date as you would like, and  we frequently tell people to hack their \/usr\/share\/proj\/epsg database  file with made up codes to support alternative projections.  If we  could consume URL-based spatial references with OSR, all that would  be required is someone adds the custom coordinate system definition  to the site and then everyone could refer to it at that location  (hopefully indefinitely).<\/p>\n<p>As for the website itself, if it has uptake and people find it  useful, we will work to put it somewhere it can live for a very long  time &#8212; for example OSGeo.  The source code (it&#8217;s written in Django)  will be made available so anyone can stand up their own version of  the site.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having a lot of fun: this is my first real foray into Django, and I wish I&#8217;d done it long ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a post by Howard Butler to gdal-dev: Chris Schmidt and I have been working on a website that reflects the EPSG spatial reference codes database and user-contributed codes in a variety of output formats. The EPSG code database is never as up to date as you would like, and we frequently tell people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-django","category-locality-and-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}