{"comment":{"created_at":"2011-10-11T07:49:33Z","body":"[springmeyer] r2129 starts adding new, default updated projection string for WGS84/EPSG:4326","updated_at":"2011-10-11T07:49:33Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapnik-org/mapnik/issues/comments/2357412","id":2357412,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/941f68386168a8a6b60f2529a7830af7?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/artemp","id":59056,"login":"artemp"}},"action":"created","issue":{"number":331,"created_at":"2011-10-11T07:49:30Z","pull_request":{"diff_url":null,"patch_url":null,"html_url":null},"body":"I just noticed that QGIS stores its default 4326 projection as:\r\n\r\n{{{\r\n\"+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs\"\r\n}}}\r\n\r\nAlso, sr.org has that same proj4 string for epsg 4326 (coming from GDAL):\r\n\r\nhttp://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/proj4/\r\n\r\nwhile Mapnik defaults to:\r\n{{{\r\n'+proj=latlong +datum=WGS84'\r\n}}}\r\n\r\nHere: source:trunk/src/map.cpp#L53\r\n\r\nAny reason not to use the full Proj.4 for Mapnik's default?","comments":6,"title":"Mapnik's default Proj.4 srs should include +ellps and +no_defs?","updated_at":"2011-10-11T07:49:34Z","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapnik-org/mapnik/issues/331","id":1871901,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"closed_at":null,"user":{"avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/941f68386168a8a6b60f2529a7830af7?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","url":"https://api.github.com/users/artemp","id":59056,"login":"artemp"},"html_url":"https://github.com/mapnik-org/mapnik/issues/331","labels":[{"name":"Core_Library","url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mapnik-org/mapnik/labels/Core_Library","color":"FFFFFF"}],"state":"open"},"legacy":{"issue_id":1871901,"comment_id":2357412}}