Re: [Geojson] Drop all CRS? (Tracker issue #94)

Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> Tue, 12 January 2016 06:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Geojson] Drop all CRS? (Tracker issue #94)
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On 07 Jan 2016, at 23:55, Sean Gillies <sean.gillies@gmail.com> wrote:
> In https://github.com/geojson/draft-geojson/issues/94, it is suggested that
>> Relative to https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-butler-geojson-06.txt
>> 
>> Section 6.3 and 6.3
>> 
>> As the original
>> http://geojson.org/geojson-spec.html#coordinate-reference-system-objects
>> is dropped from the internet draft - I am not sure why these sections
>> cannot be simplified to simply stating that any and all coordinates are to
>> be in EPSG:4326.
>> 
>> Or alternatively - to introduce these - but do so wholesale and as a first
>> class citizen (and allowing variant/attributed coordinates); with absence
>> denoting EPSG:4326
>> 
> I would love to drop all CRS other than the default (CRS84, to be precise,
> not EPSG:4326) and have proposed that we do so in the past, but I believe
> that we don't have consensus for anything other than what's in
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geojson-00#section-3, a strong
> recommendation against anything other than the default.

Could you elaborate why you would want CRS84 rather than EPSG:4326 ?

Thanks,

Dw.