Thomas Knudsen

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I'm `-0` on this, and somewhat concerned. Not with respect to the problem at hand (#3170), but more in the general case of fear of painting ourselves deeper into some...

> I agree. `NaN` is a better indicator of "you asked me to do something ridiculous" than `HUGE_VAL`. However it would be good to think through what it really means....

That's not a bad idea, and I'm sure a pull request will be much appreciated. The `PROJ_HEAD` macro, however, is an (elegant, but opaque) hack, originally devised by [Jerry Evenden](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30467686)...

> My main question is why Wikidata would be more authoritative Wikidata is not the crux here, and it would not necessarily be "more" authoritative. Actually, it would not be...

> I'm skeptical too. Especially since we seem to have more projections in our inventory than Wikipedia does There definitely will be a number of `UNKNOWN` indicators - which, on...

> Actually thinking that the EPSG ID can be tricky Definitely - but I do not think it will lead to anything that cannot (as a first measure) be solved...

pinned this, as the imminent arrival of EGM2020, and the prospect of a global vertical reference frame makes it worth taking this suggestion for another spin

> What do you mean? Also it is not yet released, no? @ValZapod, as I wrote, but you carefully edited out of your malquotation: > pinned this [issue], as the...

> So we could store each X/Y value on a signed short Makes sense, but why do decimal scaling when going for binary representation? Doing a binary scaling would offer...

> Or if using binary representation, 2^16/(330 - -270) => 1 unit = 1. / 109 degree ~ 1km. So you would need the binary scaling to reach 1 km...