PROJ. 4

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PROJ. 4

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Basic data

Maintainer Frank Warmerdam, Howard Butler
developer Gerald Evenden
Current  version 6.1.1
(July 1, 2019)
operating system portable
programming language C.
category Library (GIS)
License WITH
German speaking No
http://proj4.org/

PROJ.4 , or now PROJ , is a program library that can be used to convert geodata between different map network designs . It is z. B. used by GDAL / OGR , GRASS GIS , QGIS , MapServer , PostGIS and Mapnik . There is also a command line based program ( cs2cs ) with which coordinates can be converted directly.

There are numerous bindings in other languages, e.g. B. Java , JavaScript , PHP or C # .

Versioning and naming

With the release of version 5, the program library was renamed PROJ. The project itself remains with the name PROJ.4.

With a few exceptions, the library should remain backwards compatible.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. AUTHORS. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
  2. Release PROJ 6.1.1 OSGeo / proj.4 GitHub. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .