PROJ 6 Krovak axis order

[dg0yt]

We observe problems with EPSG:5514 SHP files in GDAL 3/PROJ 6.2 which work in GDAL 2.2.3/PROJ 4.9.

One sub-issue is the axis order which is determined as "southing, westing" by PROJ 6.2 while the data is "easting, northing". Since the order is unspecified in the .prj file, I wonder where the default comes from.

Passing the .prj file contents to proj_info, I get:

$  default/install/bin/projinfo --summary  'PROJCS["S_JTSK_Krovak_East_North",GEOGCS["GCS_S-JTSK",DATUM["D_S_JTSK",SPHEROID["Bessel_1841",6377397.155,299.1528128]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],PROJECTION["Krovak"],PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",49.5],PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",24.83333333333333],PARAMETER["azimuth",30.28813972222222],PARAMETER["pseudo_standard_parallel_1",78.5],PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9999],PARAMETER["false_easting",0],PARAMETER["false_northing",0],UNIT["Meter",1]]'
PROJ.4 string:
+proj=krovak +axis=swu +lat_0=49.5 +lon_0=24.8333333333333 +alpha=30.2881397222222 +k=0.9999 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=bessel +towgs84=589,76,480,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs +type=crs

WKT2_2018 string:
PROJCRS["S_JTSK_Krovak_East_North",
    BASEGEOGCRS["GCS_S-JTSK",
        DATUM["System of the Unified Trigonometrical Cadastral Network",
            ELLIPSOID["Bessel 1841",6377397.155,299.1528128,
                LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
            ID["EPSG",6156]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]],
    CONVERSION["unnamed",
        METHOD["Krovak",
            ID["EPSG",9819]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of projection centre",49.5,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8811]],
        PARAMETER["Longitude of origin",24.8333333333333,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8833]],
        PARAMETER["Co-latitude of cone axis",30.2881397222222,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",1036]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of pseudo standard parallel",78.5,
            ANGLEUNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8818]],
        PARAMETER["Scale factor on pseudo standard parallel",0.9999,
            SCALEUNIT["unity",1],
            ID["EPSG",8819]],
        PARAMETER["False easting",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8806]],
        PARAMETER["False northing",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8807]]],
    CS[Cartesian,2],
        AXIS["southing",south,
            ORDER[1],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1,
                ID["EPSG",9001]]],
        AXIS["westing",west,
            ORDER[2],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1,
                ID["EPSG",9001]]]]

In contrast, EPSG:5514 gives:

$  default/install/bin/projinfo --summary EPSG:5514
PROJ.4 string:
+proj=krovak +lat_0=49.5 +lon_0=24.8333333333333 +alpha=30.2881397527778 +k=0.9999 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=bessel +towgs84=589,76,480,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs +type=crs

WKT2_2018 string:
PROJCRS["S-JTSK / Krovak East North",
    BASEGEOGCRS["S-JTSK",
        DATUM["System of the Unified Trigonometrical Cadastral Network",
            ELLIPSOID["Bessel 1841",6377397.155,299.1528128,
                LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
        ID["EPSG",4156]],
    CONVERSION["Krovak East North (Greenwich)",
        METHOD["Krovak (North Orientated)",
            ID["EPSG",1041]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of projection centre",49.5,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8811]],
        PARAMETER["Longitude of origin",24.8333333333333,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8833]],
        PARAMETER["Co-latitude of cone axis",30.2881397527778,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",1036]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of pseudo standard parallel",78.5,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8818]],
        PARAMETER["Scale factor on pseudo standard parallel",0.9999,
            SCALEUNIT["unity",1],
            ID["EPSG",8819]],
        PARAMETER["False easting",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8806]],
        PARAMETER["False northing",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8807]]],
    CS[Cartesian,2],
        AXIS["easting (X)",east,
            ORDER[1],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
        AXIS["northing (Y)",north,
            ORDER[2],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]],
    USAGE[
        SCOPE["unknown"],
        AREA["Europe - Czechoslovakia"],
        BBOX[47.73,12.09,51.06,22.56]],
    ID["EPSG",5514]]

[dg0yt]

I can confirm that the patch also solves our original problem. Thanks for the quick fix!