The general purpose of this library is to provide C language procedures related to cartographic processes. Procedures for each of the processes
will be strictly categorized and although they may share common subfunctions they
will not intersect in scope.
Current procedure categories consist of:
- Cartographic projections---the largest library section consisting of well over 180
entries.
- Geodesic procedures---procedures for determining the properties of the shortest
path on a sphere or ellipsoid.
- [future]Bivariate approximation---resurrection of original proj's
approximation procedure. Seems to be still useful.
- General support---general support procedures such as [de-]formating geographic
coordinates, controlling option lists, selecting ellipsoids, ... .
- [vague future]Datum conversions---in part will include resurrected material from
original proj distribution as well as alternative methods,
In addition to the library will be programs for usage of one or more library elements:
- lproj---semi-production procedure for performing cartographic projections
on tabular data. lproj is currently part of the libproj4 distribution.
- project---(proposed) is an
expanded version of lproj with more user friendly interface. Eventually
will replace lproj.
- geodesic---a user friendly, command driven replacement for program geod of the
original
proj distribution.
All
libproject software will be distributed with
configure and associated tools for installation on Linux/Unix class platforms.
Shared library will be installed when applicable.
Sorry, no Microsoft support available.
