[ gpsdrive ] Mapnik Projection used by gpsdrive

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Dienstag 23 September 2008 schrieb Jan-Benedict Glaw:
> > that's right.
> > but it's not a good solution to use a fixed projection. who knows how
> > often they will change it?
>
> Nobody, unfortunately.
>
> > so the best way is to read the projection from the database, if possible,
> > or to store it somewhere on database creation.
>
> A quick look at the osm2pgsql code tells me that this isn't stored
> anywhere, but I may be wrong. Though, it probably would be nice to add
> another table with at least the used SRS, or even the whole projection
> string.
>
shouldn't have postgis facilities to store this?
if osm2pgsql knows the projection, it could be made to save it there, or at 
least to spill it out...


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