As someone who used to do some GIS hacking in an office job[0] before I was a 'Software Developer/engineer' this is super cool.
[0] - Honestly some of the coolest stuff I ever got to do in it's own right. Building tools that could move data between AutoCAD, Microstation, and Google Earth while also importing other bits with metadata from Trimble units[1]. Also it was probably the most I ever used math in my entire career [2], so there's that.
[1] - I wound up finding a custom font maker, and one of our folks made a font library with the symbols, made it easy to write a parser too :D
[2] - One of those PDFs I always seem to wind up having floating on a hard drive is the USGS 'Map Projections, a working manual'. At one point I used it as a reference to implement a C# library to handle transforms between coordinate systems... alas it was internal.
Thank you! I've relied on that USGS Projects manual multiple times haha. Working with satellite data some of it was in somewhat obscure projections and the manual always told you how to convert back to latitude-longitude.
[0] - Honestly some of the coolest stuff I ever got to do in it's own right. Building tools that could move data between AutoCAD, Microstation, and Google Earth while also importing other bits with metadata from Trimble units[1]. Also it was probably the most I ever used math in my entire career [2], so there's that.
[1] - I wound up finding a custom font maker, and one of our folks made a font library with the symbols, made it easy to write a parser too :D
[2] - One of those PDFs I always seem to wind up having floating on a hard drive is the USGS 'Map Projections, a working manual'. At one point I used it as a reference to implement a C# library to handle transforms between coordinate systems... alas it was internal.