Aaron Racicot <aaronr <at> z-pulley.com> writes: > > We played with something just like this last year (called projfinder): > > http://projfinder.com/ > > That is just a simple demo application that was a proof of concept. Center the map where you think your data is > from, enter in a sample X,Y from your dataset and it tries to guess what projection your data is in. Nothing > fancy like parsing arbitrary file formats etc… just simple X,Y from your data. > > I gave a presentation on it at FOSS4G-NA 2013 (you can reference it here): > > http://reprojected.com/blog/2013/05/28/foss4g-na-2013-was-a-home-run/ > > If you are interested in the code I can point you to it. In the end it is basically a simple web-service built > around a PostGIS SQL query that does the distance calculations to percolate up likely projections > against the EPSG database. > > Aaron >
Thanks Aaron, I can't do anything with code but this service would deserve publicity or if it is just a proof of concept, spatialreference.org could have a new tab for projfinder http://spatialreference.org/. -Jukka- _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
