PROJ

What is PROJ?

"PROJ is a generic coordinate transformation software that transforms geospatial coordinates from one coordinate reference system (CRS) to another. This includes cartographic projections as well as geodetic transformations... PROJ includes command line applications for easy conversion of coordinates from text files or directly from user input" (PROJ documentation). PROJ is frequently refereed to as PROJ4 as well.

How is PROJ loaded?

The below can be used to view all of the installations of PROJ on a particular system, where this example uses Coeus.

$ module avail |& grep -i "proj"

Spatial/proj4/5.1.0/gcc-7.2.0

How is PROJ invoked?

To invoke the PROJ binary, use the below.

$ Spatial/proj4/5.1.0/gcc-7.2.0

$ proj