Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#4048 new enhancement

Make _ST_BestSRID public

Reported by: dbaston Owned by: pramsey
Priority: medium Milestone: PostGIS Fund Me
Component: postgis Version: master
Keywords: Cc:

Description

This is a useful function for which there is demand, and the cat was let out of the bag a long time ago anyway.

Why not make a public equivalent that produces actual EPSG codes and documents its behavior?

Change History (2)

comment:1 by pramsey, 6 years ago

WRT the "actual EPSG" codes issue, the reason is that the EPSG table is not a fixed entity, so we cannot count on the projections we want (UTMs, etc) being at the code-points we expect. We cannot even count on there being spatial_ref_sys records at all. Hence the fake codes.

comment:2 by komzpa, 6 years ago

Milestone: PostGIS 2.5.0PostGIS Fund Me
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