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.
Michael
On 1/26/08 8:22 PM, "grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org"
<grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:53:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: wxgrass Location Wizard scroll issue in
EPSG code selection
To: Tim Michelsen <timmichelsen@gmx-topmail.de>, grass5@grass.itc.it
Message-ID: <129734.76296.qm@web45816.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1Tim Michelsen wrote:
Maybe a link to http://spatialreference.org/ could be included.
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.mouse-over tooltip?
Many migrating users would never have heard of EPSG...
true
Hamish
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