The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.10.0.
This is a major new release including the following major new features:
- New GDAL drivers:
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ARG: read/write support for the Azavea Raster Grid format (#4591)
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CTable2: read/write support for CTable2 datum grid shift format
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DDS: write-only support for DirectDraw Surface format (#5017)
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IRIS: read support for products generated by the IRIS weather radar
software (#4854) -
MAP: read OziExplorer .map files (#3380)
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MBTiles: read-only support for MBTiles rasters
- New OGR drivers:
- ElasticSearch: write-only support to write into ElasticSearch databases
- ODS : read/write support for OpenOffice .ods (Open Document Spreadsheets)
- OSM : read-only support for .osm / .pbf OpenStreetMap files
- PDF: read/write support for vector/structured PDF files
- XLSX: read/write support for MS Excel 2007 and later Open Office XML .xlsx
spreadsheets
- RFC 39: OGR Layer algebra methods :
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc39_ogr_layer_algebra - SQL SQLite dialect : http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr_sql_sqlite.html
- Make GDAL loadable as a SQLite3 extension (named VirtualOGR) (#4782)
- /vsicurl_streaming/: new virtual file system handler designed to read in
streaming mode dynamically generated files - GDAL API_PROXY mechanism to run GDAL drivers in a separate process:
http://gdal.org/gdal_api_proxy.html - Significantly improved drivers : PDF, SQLite, JP2OpenJPEG
- Geocoding client : http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr__geocoding_8h.html
- Upgrade to EPSG 8.0 database
Complete news on the new release can be found at:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.10.0-News
The new release can be downloaded from:
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdal1100.zip - source as a zip
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdal-1.10.0.tar.gz - source as
.tar.gz - http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdalautotest-1.10.0.tar.gz - test
suite - http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.0/gdal1100doc.zip - documentation /
website
From now, http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/CURRENT link also point to the latest
release.