On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.8.0. 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 1.8.0 release is a major new feature release with the following
highlights:
* New GDAL drivers : GTX, HF2, JPEGLS, JP2OpenJPEG, JPIPKAK,
KMLSUPEROVERLAY, LOS/LAS, MG4Lidar, NTv2,
OZI, PDF, RASDAMAN, XYZ
* New OGR drivers : AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML,
MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS
* Significantly improved OGR drivers : DXF, GML
* New implemented RFCs:
- RFC 7: Use VSILFILE for VSI*L Functions
- RFC 24: Progressive data support in GDAL
- RFC 28: OGR SQL Generalized Expressions
- RFC 29: OGR Set Ignored Fields
- RFC 30: Unicode Filenames
- RFC 33: GTIFF - Corrected PixelIsPoint Interpretation
* New utility : gdallocationinfo
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.8.0
release can be found at:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.8.0-News
Source code, documentation and the test suite can be downloaded from:
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal180.zip - source as a zip
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.8.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.8.0.tar.gz - test suite
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal180doc.zip - docs / web site
Best regards,
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
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and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent