[Xastir] Heads up for Ubuntu 8.04 users of libproj

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:06:35PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <n1mie at mac.com> flavor, containing:
> I got the same result on a Mac run libproj version: 4.5.0. So it's  
> anyone running that version or thereabouts.

No, not really. 

libproj of *any* version will behave that way if it was built without datum
shifting grids. 

It's easy to rebuild libproj so it gets this right, it's just a matter of
unpacking a second tarball in the source tree before building.

> On Apr 23, 2009, at 17:47, Lee Bengston wrote:
> 
> >> If someone out there is using 8.10, could you check whether the  
> >> proj package there has the same error?  I have chosen to stick with  
> >> 8.04 for its full 3 year support term and not upgrade to a  
> >> completely new version every 6 months.
> >
> > I didn't have Ubuntu 8.10 handy, but on Mepis 8.0, which is Debian  
> > Lenny based, the problem is there:
> >
> >  # cs2cs +proj=latlong +datum=NAD83 +to +proj=latlong +datum=NAD27
> >  106d38'17.94"W 35d15'40.14"N
> >  106d38'17.94"W  35d15'40.14"N -0.000
> 
> 
> 
> -- Chip
>       n1mie at mac.com
> 
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