Hobu, Inc.

Upload 4500 Oracle SRIDs to http://spatialreference.org, even though sr.org can’t interpret them.  Your IP address was XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.  I admire your curl and bash skills, but don’t you think that maybe sr.org should provide Oracle SRID support through another mechanism than just bulk uploading them?  Please send an email next time…

/me wonders about adding more restrictions to who can post SRSs to sr.org…

Update: ok, the person who did this contacted me and I may have overreacted just a little :)  The reason why Oracle SRIDs aren’t supported by sr.org is they aren’t supported by GDAL/Proj.4.  Oracle has different names for many of its SRS WKT elements, they are different between versions of Oracle, and GDAL doesn’t have a dictionary to map these names to OGC/ESRI WKT names.  It is hoped that once CS-Map is released, we’ll have a dictionary to do this mapping, but until that time, open source GIS support for Oracle SRS WKT is pretty limited.

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