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<div class="">As mentioned in the PROJ 5.0.0RC6 announcement, it has been deemed necessary to</div>
<div class="">split the proj-datumgrid package into several distributions. This was sparked by the</div>
<div class="">recently added grids from Australia which are rather large compared to the rest of the</div>
<div class="">grids in the package. Therefore it was decided to instead distribute several packages:</div>
<div class="">A “core” package [1] with the bare necessities for a usable installation of PROJ and several</div>
<div class="">regional packages. So far packages with PROJ resources (some packages include</div>
<div class="">init-files as well) covering Europe [2], North America [3] and Oceania [4] have been</div>
<div class="">created. If needed other packages can be added in the future.</div>
<div class="">See [1], [2], [3] and [4] for details on the various packages.</div>
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<div class="">The division into several packages allow users of PROJ to only include the resources they</div>
<div class="">need, while also letting projects like QGIS include all the available grids by simply stating</div>
<div class="">that all the available grid packages are dependencies for the software. It is my hope that</div>
<div class="">this solution fits as many users needs as possible. </div>
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<div class="">The resource package release candidates can be downloaded here:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.7RC2.tar.gz" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.7RC2.tar.gz</a> || <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.7RC2.zip" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.7RC2.zip</a></div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.0RC1.tar.gz" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.0RC1.tar.gz</a> || <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.0RC1.zip" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.0RC1.zip</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.0RC1.tar.gz" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.0RC1.tar.gz</a> || <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.0RC1.zip" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.0RC1.zip</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-oceania-1.0RC1.tar.gz" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-oceania-1.0RC1.tar.gz</a> || <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-oceania-1.0RC1.zip" class="">http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-oceania-1.0RC1.zip</a> </div>
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<div class="">Unless serious problems are found in the above packages they will be released as final</div>
<div class="">versions on March 1st alongside PROJ 5.0.0.</div>
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<div class="">Please have patience with the downloads - due to the recent QGIS3 release the</div>
<div class="">servers are under heavy load at the moment.</div>
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<div class="">/Kristian</div>
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<div class="">[0] Some of the packages also include init-files.</div>
<div class="">[1] <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid</a></div>
<div class="">[2] <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/tree/master/europe" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/tree/master/europe</a></div>
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<div class="">[3] <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/tree/master/north-america" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/tree/master/north-america</a></div>
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<div class="">[4] <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/tree/master/oceania" class="">https://github.com/OSGeo/proj-datumgrid/tree/master/oceania</a></div>
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