PROJ

PROJ consists of programs and a library for managing cartographic projections.

Usage

By running one of the following

module load PROJ/7.2.1-GCCcore-10.2.0
module load PROJ/8.1.0-GCCcore-11.2.0
module load PROJ/9.1.1-GCCcore-12.2.0

you

  • add several PROJ programs to your PATH environment variable

  • allow other programs to make use of (dynamically link against) the PROJ library

  • activate version 10.2.0 of the GCC compiler (as its C++ standard library is required when using PROJ.7)

  • activate version 11.2.0 of the GCC compiler (as its C++ standard library is required when using PROJ.8)

  • activate version 12.2.0 of the GCC compiler (as its C++ standard library is required when using PROJ.9)

You can run proj to test that you are running the required version

$ proj
Rel. 9.1.1, December 1st, 2022
usage: proj [-bdeEfiIlmorsStTvVwW [args]] [+opt[=arg] ...] [file ...]

Documentation

Standard man pages are available for the provided commands/functions cs2cs, geod, proj, geodesic and pj_init.

These can be viewed using e.g.

$ man proj

Installation notes

This section is primarily for administrators of the system. PROJ has been installed using the default Easybuild config files.

Build logs and test reports can be found in $EBROOTPROJ/easybuild with a given module loaded.