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Re: [udig-devel] Projection WGS 84 as default
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Right; well here is what I am thinking. When I go into a GIS shop most
times they just have directories full of shapefiles. No projections. The
files are all in the same projection and everybody knows that and they
don't bother to tell the tools (because that would be an extra step).
uDig is one of the few tools that cares; how should we work with these
shops that don't care?
I figure we have 30 mins of their time (usually 10 mins) and if this is
slowing us down during that initial evaluation window then we need to do
something about it. Another idea would be to prompt the first time a
"unprojected" shp is loaded, and show them the default, and have a
little check box that says "don't ask me again".
So it is my turn; this seems simply normal.
I think my idea about remembering a CRS per directory "path" may be the
best... it would catch the case where all the files in a directory are
in the same CRS; and we could prompt the user when they start working in
another directory.
Jody
Adrian Custer wrote:
Maybe I'm dense but this seems simply wrong. You want to define the
values of the coordinates when they have no values? This sounds like I
give you a graph with the axes unlabeled and then you are going to
decide what the axes are. If we have no unit information we can only
plot this as x and y.
We could start guessing based on the size of the values but I don't
think that's what you are talking about.
Regardless, only the user can really start assigning 'default' CRS's;
uDig can only help to the extent of informing the user some key stuff is
missing and providing easy ways to fix missing info.
--adrian
