On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased
to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.11.0. GDAL/OGR is a C++
geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats,
databases and web services. It includes bindings for several
languages, and a variety of command line tools.
The 1.11.0 release is a major new feature release with the following
highlights:
* New GDAL drivers:
- KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format
http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#KRO
* New OGR drivers:
- CartoDB : read/write support
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_cartodb.html
- GME / Google Map Engine : read/write support
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GMEDriver
- GPKG / GeoPackage : read-write support (vector part of the spec.)
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_geopackage.html
- OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency)
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openfilegdb.html
- SXF: read-only support
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sxf.html
- WALK: read-only support
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_walk.html
- WasP .map : read-write support
http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wasp.html
* Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML
* RFC 40: enhanced RAT support
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc40_enhanced_rat_support
* RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc41_multiple_geometry_fields
* RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc42_find_laundered_fields
* RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275)
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc43_getmetadatadomainlist
* RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc45_virtualmem
* Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.11.0
release can be found at:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.0-News
The new release can be downloaded from:
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110.zip - source as a zip
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal-1.11.0.tar.gz - source
as .tar.gz
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdalautotest-1.11.0.tar.gz -
test suite
* http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110doc.zip -
documentation / website