[Geotiff] Re: libgeotiff 1.2.3 Released

[Harley P. Parks]

You asked: "Do you really use the built-in .c tables instead of the .csv
files?"

I don't know if libgeotiff uses the .inc, csv or the .c tables. I assumed
the .inc and .c tables were being compiled into the executables.
 
Does libgeotiff use the csv tables when it's time to compile? Does
libgeotiff use the *.inc tables? If so, I could just change the definitions
of datums, projections, and coordinate systems that I need to match what is
in the csv tables so I can re-compile listgeo and geotifcp.

On the other hand if the csv tables are compiled into listgeo and geotifcp,
then I need to check my usage of listgeo and geotifcp as it should be able
to support the "hawaii state plane coordinate system zone 3 NAD83 HARN" in
units of FEET.

Thanks for all your help.
Harley 

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
Warmerdam
Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 3:29 AM
To: Harley P. Parks
Cc: geotiff at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Geotiff] Re: libgeotiff 1.2.3 Released


Harley P. Parks wrote:
> Frank:
> I feel like I made some progress and that at least I can compile the
> executables, however, the *.inc and /csv/*.c files need to have the
updated
> information.
> 
> Can you point me in the right direction. I see you have updated the 
> CSV files as of 2/28/06.. Early  in the morning...
> 
> But the *.inc or *.c files are not. Even though I am finding HARN 
> references in the csv/*.c files. My guess is that there are some tools 
> here to populate the codes in these files.
> How should I proceed?

Harley,

The .inc files are largely unchanged since the initial release of
libgeotiff. There does not seem to be an obvious algorithm to generate the
macro names it uses from the EPSG database.

I changed the way I generate the .csv files this time, using the EPSG .sql
files for Postgres instead of the access database.  For that reason, I
couldn't use the usual odbc2csv to dump out .c files of the tables.  There
is a script to turn .csv into .c but I vaguely recall it doesn't work right
so I put it off.

Do you really use the built-in .c tables instead of the .csv files?

Best regards,

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