[Geotiff] GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS

[Oxenstierna Andreas]

Frank,
 
Several new coordinate systems has been defined in Northern and Eastern
Europe the last 15 years, due to both political and technical reasons.
Both the official Swedish and Estonian coordinate reference systems are
not supported by GeoTIFF but has been defined by EPSG since several
years. They are both defined using completely new geodetic measurements.
Is there any mechanism to make official updates to GeoTIFF? Or should we
(as a consultant company) just go ahead and recompile libgeotiff on our
own as needed?
 
Best Regards
 
Andreas 
 
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From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com]
Sent: den 14 juli 2008 16:41
To: Oxenstierna Andreas
Cc: geotiff at lists.maptools.org
Subject: Re: [Geotiff] GeoTIFF - unsupported PCS

Oxenstierna Andreas wrote:
> We are working with images over Estonia and tried to make GeoServer
> use an ImageMosaic of GeoTIFFs.
> However, we found out that GeoTIFF does not support the "new" Estonian
> Coordinate System from 1997:
> ProjectedCSTypeGeoKey (Short,1):
> PCS_Estonian_Coordinate_System_of_1997
> The file epsg_pcs.inc only includes the older Estonian PCS from 1992.
> 
> How is the status of GeoTIFF with "new" CRS? When looking into
> epsg_pcs.inc the latest entry seems to be several years old.
> 
> In Sweden we have a new geodetic system, SWEREF, which is not included
> as well.
> It is vacation in Sweden. I will contact the Swedish Land Survey in
> this matter when relevant people is back.
> We will also do work in the other Baltic countries and assume we will
> run into the same issue there.
> 
> Is it possible to just update epsg_pcs.inc (and epsg_gcs.inc etc.)
> with needed CS's and recompile libgeotiff?

Andreas,

The general practice has been to not update the .inc files (which do not
seem to have a very deterministic relationship with the names from the
EPSG database) so these still reflect a snapshot of the PCS codes from
the mid 90's when GeoTIFF was standardized.

But, people do just go ahead and use new PCS codes whether they are
represented in the .inc files or not.  Looking in my records the
"Estonian Coordinate System of 1997" is PCS 3301.

Best regards,
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