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Allow aliases in GeoTIFF CRS #122

Open desruisseaux opened 10 months ago

desruisseaux commented 10 months ago

In the planetary working group, there is a need for aliases because names or identifiers of some asteroids (for example) can change. The ISO 19111 specification already supports aliases, but not GeoTIFF. A possible approach would be as below:

desruisseaux commented 9 months ago

This pull request defines the structure of GeodeticCitationGeoKey. Some requirements in GeoTIFF specification seem to implicitly require a similar structure for VerticalCitationGeoKey and ProjectedCitationGeoKey as well — see https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues/59#issuecomment-1761681813. Current pull request does not cover those two latter cases.