#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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Reporter: timmie | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Python | Version: unspecified
Keywords: wish enhancement gui location-wizard |
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Maybe a link to http://spatialreference.org/ could be added to the
location wizard.
A extra button: "Look-Up your EPSG-code on the web". This button could
link to the above mentioned address.
Also a explanation why or what the EPSG-code is good for (the Mapserver
docs have nice examples) would be nice.
Many migrating users would never have heard of EPSG...
Experienced users will appreciate when working with other projections...
#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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Reporter: timmie | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Python | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: wxgui, location-wizard
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Changes (by martinl):
* keywords: wish enhancement gui location-wizard => wxgui, location-
wizard
* priority: major => minor
* type: defect => enhancement
#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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Reporter: timmie | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Python | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: wxgui, location-wizard
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Comment (by martinl):
Replying to [ticket:26 timmie]:
Copied from grass-dev ML by Hamish:
> Maybe a link to http://spatialreference.org/ could be added to the
location wizard.
>
> A extra button: "Look-Up your EPSG-code on the web". This button could
link to the above mentioned address.
A nice idea, albeit subject to volatility of some else's website.
Link the button to something we control like a page GRASS's wiki or
OSGeo's wiki or grass's osgeo web pages? Then old versions don't have
hardcoded deal links one day.
> Also a explanation why or what the EPSG-code is good for (the Mapserver
docs have nice examples) would be nice.
> Many migrating users would never have heard of EPSG...
mouse-over tooltip?
> Experienced users will appreciate when working with other projections...
#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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Reporter: timmie | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Python | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: wxgui, location-wizard
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Comment (by martinl):
From grass-dev ML by Michael Barton:
I echo Hamish's sentiments below. The page is nice, but I worry about
hardcoding a link to a URL that we don't control. Also, GRASS (i.e., PROJ)
can only read epsg codes that are in the database that comes with GRASS. I
don't know if we can depend on the web version and local versions being
the
same.
Re explanation of EPSG codes, we need a help manual for the location
wizard.
There are other aspects that need to be explained too. The new GUI is
still
under development and we are very grateful for any who are taking the time
to test it. We also welcome any assistance--eg. Creating the html pages
for
location manager help. We could then add help buttons to pages.
#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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Reporter: timmie | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Python | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: wxgui, location-wizard
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Comment (by neteler):
#26: please let people find their EPSG on the web
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Reporter: timmie | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: unspecified
Resolution: | Keywords: wxgui, location-wizard
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Changes (by martinl):
http://epsg.io/ is much newer than http://spatialreference.org/ and nicer
(more user friendly) than http://www.epsg-registry.org/. This also shows
what changed and what not (old link works after 7 years but we might want
to change it to something else now which we again don't know how stable it
will be).
Creating a manual page on that topic with (external) links to these three
websites is a good idea, I think, and links in the GUI wouldn't be so bad.
We can add there more than one to increase the probability that at least
one of them works.
Anyway, GUI does not prevent people from opening browser and finding one
of these web pages online using their judgment, so downgrading priority to
trivial.