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Inf vs NaN

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Currently pyproj returns inf whenever a projection operation fails, which is coherent with the behaviour of PROJ. However, I could see some benefits from changing this to NaN, see https://github.com/OSGeo/PROJ/issues/2376.

Since the PROJ developers are cautious making such a breaking change, would it be an option to expose NaN instead of inf in pyproj? Downstream applications using np.isfinite to filter invalid values would not be affected, since this also filters NaN. It would be a breaking change for users checking lat > 90 for instance.

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snowman2commented, Oct 15, 2020

I don’t have much experience with Cython, but so I can improve my knowledge.

That’s where all cython developers start ⚡ . If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

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sfinkenscommented, Oct 15, 2020

@snowman2 For sure! I don’t have much experience with Cython, but so I can improve my knowledge.

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