[OSGeo-Announce] Announcing PROJ 6.2.1

On behalf of the PROJ development team I am happy to announce the

release of PROJ 6.2.1. See release notes below for details.

Download the source distribution here:

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.2.1.tar.gz (https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.2.1.tar.gz.md5)

https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.2.1.zip (https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.2.1.zip.md5)

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6.2.1 Release Notes

Updates

o Update the EPSG database to version 9.8.2

Bug fixes

o Fixed erroneous spelling of “Potsdam” (#1573)

o Calculate y-coordinate correctly in bertin1953 in all cases (#1579)

o proj_create_crs_to_crs_from_pj(): make the PJ* arguments const PJ* (#1583)

o PROJStringParser::createFromPROJString(): avoid potential infinite
recursion (#1574)

o Avoid core dump when setting ctx==NULL in functions
proj_coordoperation_is_instantiable and
proj_coordoperation_has_ballpark_transformation (#1590)

o createOperations(): fix conversion from/to PROJ.4 CRS strings with
non-ISO-kosher options and +towgs84/+nadgrids (#1602)

o proj_trans_generic(): properly set coordinate time to HUGE_VAL when no
value is passed to the function (#1604)

o Fix support for +proj=ob_tran +o_proj=lonlat/latlong/latlon instead of only
only allowing +o_proj=longlat (#1601)

o Improve backwards compatibility of vertical transforms (#1613)

o Improve emulation of deprecated +init style initialization (#1614)

o cs2cs: autopromote CRS to 3D when there’s a mix of 2D and 3D (#1563)

o Avoid divisions by zero in odd situations (#1620)

o Avoid compile error on Solaris (#1639)

o proj_create_crs_to_crs(): fix when there are only transformations with
ballpark steps (#1643)

o PROJ string CRS ingester: recognize more unit-less parameters, and general
handling of +key=string_value parameters (#1645)

o Only call pkg-config in configure when necessary (#1652)

o aeqd: for spherical forward path, go to higher precision ellipsoidal
case when the point coordinates are super close to the origin (#1654)

o proj_create_crs_to_crs(): remove elimination of Ballpark operations
that caused transformation failures in some cases (#1665)

o createOperations(): allow transforming from a compoundCRS of a bound
verticalCRS to a 2D CRS (#1667)

o Avoid segfaults in case of out-of-memory situations (#1679)

o createOperations(): fix double vertical unit conversion from CompoundCRS
to other CRS when the horizontal part of the projected CRS uses non-metre
unit (#1683)

o importFromWkt(): fix axis orientation for non-standard ESRI WKT (#1690)