[Geotiff] Shift to WGS84 on two coordinate systems.

[Ari Jolma]

Dear geotiff developers and users,

The finnish "KKJ" coordinate system has got officially endorsed (JHS 
153) values for the towgs84 parameter. These have been added to the 
Proj.4 epsg file (4123, 2391-4, 3386-7). I guess these parameters should 
be added to the gcs file of libgeotiff too?

Also, Proj.4, since version 4.6.0, requires explicit towgs84 parameters 
to do datum transformations. As ETRS89 (epsg 4258 and several others - 
ETRS89 is a widely used new European reference system, it is endorsed by 
European Commission since 1999) does not have them, it causes programs 
like ogr2ogr, when used with EPSG codes, to not work as well as they should.

ETRS89 is for practical purposes the same as WGS84. This statement is 
backed by NIMA TR8530.2 (http://earthinfo.
nga.mil/GandG/publications/tr8350.2/tr8350_2.html). Thus the towgs 
parameters for ETRS89 should be 0's. I guess the method code in gcs.csv 
should also be changed to 9603, 6 or 7 since the current 6422 leads to 
ignoring the towgs84 parameters at least in GDAL.

See also:

http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ticket/15
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2639

Best regards,

Ari

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Prof. Ari Jolma
Environmental Management Information Technology
Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology
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