Announcing PROJ 6.3.0

Happy new year everyone! What better than to celebrate with a new PROJ release. The PROJ 6.3.0 release includes new features and a range of bug fixes. Download the archives here:

See the release notes below.

In addition to the PROJ release we are also issuing releases of three regional datumgrid packages:

Oceania-1.1:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-oceania-1.1.zip

  • Added AUSGeoid98, AUSGeoid09 & AUSGeoid2020
  • Added various grids for New Zealand
  • Added GDA94_GDA2020 grids for Christmas and Coco Island

North-America-1.3:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-north-america-1.3.zip

  • Added Quebec grids na27na83.gsb and cq77na83.gsb
  • Added MAY76V20.gsb for Canadian NAD27(76)->NAD83 transformations
  • Added Canadian geoid models for CGVD28, CGVD2013(CGG2013) and CGVD2013(CGG2013a)
  • Added Canadian provincial horizontal shift grids
  • Added USA geoid models 1999, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2018

Europe-1.5:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-europe-1.5.zip

  • Added SeTa2016.gsb for DE_DHDN -> ETRS89 in Saarland
  • Added 100800401.gsb for Catalonia ED50 -> ETRS89
  • Added NTv2_SN.gsb for RD/83 to ETRS89 in Saxony
  • Added AT_GIS_GRID.gsb for Austria MGI->ETRS89
  • Added various grids for Iceland, including ISL init file
  • Added BWTA2017.gsb for DHDN->ETRS89 for Baden-Württemberg
  • Added vertical grids for Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: RASPM2018 and CGVD2013RGSPM06
  • Added NTv2 grids for convertion between Portuguese Lisbon Datum and Datum 73 to ETRS89

6.3.0 Release Notes

Updates

  • Database: tune accuracy of Canadian NTv1 file w.r.t NTv2 (#1812)
  • Modify verbosity level of some debug/trace messages (#1811)
  • projinfo: no longer call createBoundCRSToWGS84IfPossible() for WKT1:GDAL (#1810)
  • proj_trans: add retry logic to select other transformation if the best one fails. (#1809)
  • BoundCRS::identify(): improvements to discard CRS that aren’t relevant (#1802)
  • Database: update to IGNF v3.1.0 (#1785)
  • Build: Only export symbols if building DLL (#1773)
  • Database: update ESRI entries with ArcGIS Desktop version 10.8.0 database (#1762)
  • createOperations(): chain operations whose middle CRSs are not identical but have the same datum (#1734)
  • import/export PROJJSON: support a interpolation_crs key to geoid_model (#1732)
  • Database: update to EPSG v9.8.4 (#1725)
  • Build: require SQLite 3.11 (#1721)
  • Add support for GEOIDMODEL (#1710)
  • Better filtering based on extent and performance improvements (#1709)

Bug fixes

  • Horizontal grid shift: fix issue on iterative inverse computation when switching between (sub)grids (#1797)
  • createOperations(): make filtering out of ‘uninteresting’ operations less aggressive (#1788)
  • Make EPSG:102100 resolve to ESRI:102100 (#1786)
  • ob_tran: restore traditional handling of +to_meter with pj_transform() and proj utility (#1783)
  • CRS identification: use case insensitive comparison for authority name (#1780)
  • normalizeForVisualization() and other methods applying on a ProjectedCRS: do not mess the derivingConversion object of the original object (#1746)
  • createOperations(): fix transformation computation from/to a CRS with +geoidgrids and +vunits != m (#1731)
  • Fix proj_assign_context()/pj_set_ctx() with pipelines and alternative coord operations (#1726)
  • Database: add an auxiliary concatenated_operation_step table to allow arbitrary number of steps (#1696)
  • Fix errors running gie-based tests in Debug mode on Windows (#1688)

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