[FWTools] Will the EPSG version be updated for OGR?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mikael Rittri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As far as I can tell, the OGRSpatialReference methods 
>    importFromEPSG(int) 
> and
>    importFromEPSGA(int) 
> 
> in GDAL/OGR version 1.6.1 (May 2009) supports the 
> EPSG database version 6.17 (June 2008), but not 
> the more recent versions (6.18 from Nov 2008, 
> or 7.1 from May 2009).
> 
> (I haven't found any documentation on this, but
>  the files data/pcs.csv and data/gcs.csv were
>  last modified on 21 July 2008.)
> 
> Are there any plans to update the OGR support
> to more recent versions of EPSG? 

Mikael,

Yes, I intend to update to a recent version of the EPSG database before
the GDAL 1.7 release, but it could be several more months before this
occurs.

Best regards,
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