Bug#540182: ITP: libgctp -- General Cartographic Transformation Package Library
Alastair would you please also notify debian-gis list about prospective
packages of interest? It would be nice adding them to the general
list monitored.
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:20:24PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>
>
> * Package name : libgctp
> Version : 1.0
> Upstream Author : Abe_Taaheri Abe_Taaheri@raytheon.com
> * URL : http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/USGS-GCTP.html
> * License : Mixed public-domain and BSD
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : General Cartographic Transformation Package Library
>
> The General Cartographic Transformation Package (GCTP) is a system of
> software routines designed to permit the transformation of coordinate
> pairs from one map projection to another. The GCTP is the standard
> computer software used by the National Mapping Division for map
> projection computations.
>
> This library is used by hdf-eos4 and hdf-eos5, which have ITP's assigned,
> as well as libproj internally.
>
> The upstream author claified the license situation:
>
> The GCTP was originally developed by USGS. For EOS (funded by NASA) we took it and added a few more projections to be used by HDF-EOS. Any one
> can use it or modify it (both commercial and non-comercial) as long as it is acknowledged. If you want to use it please use the latest versions ( see download
> at http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html ). The source code is packaged with hdfeos and hdfeos5.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0.2
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
>
>
>
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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