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GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS
by Oxenstierna Andreas
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We are working with images over Estonia and tried to
make GeoServer use an ImageMosaic of GeoTIFFs.
However, we found out that GeoTIFF does not support the
"new" Estonian Coordinate System from 1997:
ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey (Short,1):
PCS_Estonian_Coordinate_System_of_1997
The file epsg_pcs.inc only includes the
older Estonian PCS from 1992.
How is the status of GeoTIFF with "new" CRS? When
looking into epsg_pcs.inc the latest entry seems to be several years
old.
In Sweden we have a new geodetic system, SWEREF, which
is not included as well.
It is vacation in Sweden. I will contact the Swedish
Land Survey in this matter when relevant people is back.
We will also do work in the other Baltic countries and
assume we will run into the same issue there.
Is it possible to just update epsg_pcs.inc (and
epsg_gcs.inc etc.) with needed CS's and recompile libgeotiff?
Best Regards
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Re: GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS
by Frank Warmerdam-2
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Oxenstierna Andreas wrote:
> We are working with images over Estonia and tried to make GeoServer use > an ImageMosaic of GeoTIFFs. > However, we found out that GeoTIFF does not support the "new" Estonian > Coordinate System from 1997: > ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey (Short,1): PCS_Estonian_Coordinate_System_of_1997 > The file epsg_pcs.inc only includes the older Estonian PCS from 1992. > > How is the status of GeoTIFF with "new" CRS? When looking into > epsg_pcs.inc the latest entry seems to be several years old. > > In Sweden we have a new geodetic system, SWEREF, which is not included > as well. > It is vacation in Sweden. I will contact the Swedish Land Survey in this > matter when relevant people is back. > We will also do work in the other Baltic countries and assume we will > run into the same issue there. > > Is it possible to just update epsg_pcs.inc (and epsg_gcs.inc etc.) with > needed CS's and recompile libgeotiff? Andreas, The general practice has been to not update the .inc files (which do not seem to have a very deterministic relationship with the names from the EPSG database) so these still reflect a snapshot of the PCS codes from the mid 90's when GeoTIFF was standardized. But, people do just go ahead and use new PCS codes whether they are represented in the .inc files or not. Looking in my records the "Estonian Coordinate System of 1997" is PCS 3301. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@... light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Geotiff mailing list Geotiff@... http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/geotiff |
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RE: GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS
by Oxenstierna Andreas
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Frank,
Several new coordinate systems has been defined in Northern and Eastern
Europe the last 15 years, due to both political and technical reasons. Both the
official Swedish and Estonian coordinate reference systems are not supported by
GeoTIFF but has been defined by EPSG since several years. They are both defined
using completely new geodetic measurements.
Is there any mechanism to make official updates
to GeoTIFF? Or should we (as a consultant company) just go ahead and recompile
libgeotiff on our own as needed?
Best
Regards
Andreas
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From: Frank Warmerdam [warmerdam@...] Sent: den 14 juli 2008 16:41 To: Oxenstierna Andreas Cc: geotiff@... Subject: Re: [Geotiff] GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS Oxenstierna Andreas wrote: > We are working with images over Estonia and tried to make GeoServer > use an ImageMosaic of GeoTIFFs. > However, we found out that GeoTIFF does not support the "new" Estonian > Coordinate System from 1997: > ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey (Short,1): > PCS_Estonian_Coordinate_System_of_1997 > The file epsg_pcs.inc only includes the older Estonian PCS from 1992. > > How is the status of GeoTIFF with "new" CRS? When looking into > epsg_pcs.inc the latest entry seems to be several years old. > > In Sweden we have a new geodetic system, SWEREF, which is not included > as well. > It is vacation in Sweden. I will contact the Swedish Land Survey in > this matter when relevant people is back. > We will also do work in the other Baltic countries and assume we will > run into the same issue there. > > Is it possible to just update epsg_pcs.inc (and epsg_gcs.inc etc.) > with needed CS's and recompile libgeotiff? Andreas, The general practice has been to not update the .inc files (which do not seem to have a very deterministic relationship with the names from the EPSG database) so these still reflect a snapshot of the PCS codes from the mid 90's when GeoTIFF was standardized. But, people do just go ahead and use new PCS codes whether they are represented in the .inc files or not. Looking in my records the "Estonian Coordinate System of 1997" is PCS 3301. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------- ---------------------------------------+------ I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@... light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Geotiff mailing list Geotiff@... http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/geotiff |
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Re: GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS
by Frank Warmerdam-2
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Oxenstierna Andreas wrote:
> Frank, > > Several new coordinate systems has been defined in Northern and Eastern > Europe the last 15 years, due to both political and technical reasons. > Both the official Swedish and Estonian coordinate reference systems are > not supported by GeoTIFF but has been defined by EPSG since several > years. They are both defined using completely new geodetic measurements. > Is there any mechanism to make official updates to GeoTIFF? Or should we > (as a consultant company) just go ahead and recompile libgeotiff on our > own as needed? Andreas, I'm aware the EPSG database has evolved substantially in the last 15 years. You can always add stuff to your .inc files and recompile if you wish. But my position is that we should ignore the .inc files for new definitions. That, is we should treat the .inc files as historical and not attempt to use those pre-defines for PCS codes and other similar objects. Instead just use the code numbers as defined by EPSG. I would add there is no proper process to revise the GeoTIFF specification since there is no responsible organization. However, we do try to establish best practice on this mailing list by consensus. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@... light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Geotiff mailing list Geotiff@... http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/geotiff |
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