[SIS-131] Database backend for CRS definitions

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4, 0.5, 0.6
• Fix Version/s: 0.7
• Component/s: Referencing
• Assignee: Martin Desruisseaux
• Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
• Created: 30/Aug/13 08:50
• Updated: 17/Nov/17 11:01
• Resolved: 17/May/16 21:23

Description

We will need some kind of database for holding the Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) definitions. The main source of CRS definitions is the EPSG database (http://www.epsg.org), which provide their definitions as SQL scripts. The proposal is to use the database created by those scripts directly. We propose to support at least the following engine:

• Apache Derby (http://db.apache.org/derby)
• HSQL (http://hsqldb.org)
• PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org)
• Spark (http://spark.incubator.apache.org)
• MS-Access (actually the original EPSG format)

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: SIS-9 Allow for multiple spatial reference systems
• is depended upon by: SIS-117 Allow definition of custom CRS by properties files