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Bug#671615: ITP: libgeo-point-perl -- module to simplify handling geographic points



Hi Jonas,

this somehow seems to be interesting for Debian GIS.  Team maintenance
comes to mind.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 02:00:57PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
> 
> * Package name    : libgeo-point-perl
>   Version         : 0.93
>   Upstream Author : Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>
> * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-point/
> * License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : module to simplify handling geographic points
> 
>  One location on the globe, in any coordinate system. Geo::Point tries
>  to hide the maths and the coordinate system in which the point is
>  represented.
>  .
>  One of the most confusing things when handling geometrical data, is
>  that sometimes latlong, sometimes xy are used: horizontal and vertical
>  organization reversed. This package tries to hide this from your
>  program by providing abstract accessors latlong(), longlat(), xy(), and
>  yx().
>  .
>  This package provides the following modules:
>   * Geo::Line - a sequence of connected points
>   * Geo::Point - a point on the globe
>   * Geo::Proj - simplified wrapper for Geo::Proj4
>   * Geo::Shape - base class for 2-dimensional points on the earth
>     surface
>   * Geo::Space - A collection of various items
>   * Geo::Surface - A surface description
> 
> 
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