The GDAL/OGR project team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.6.0. This release represents 11 months of new feature development since the GDAL/OGR 1.5.0 release, as well as many bug fixes. The release source code is available as described at:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource The new release includes the following feature highlights, with detailed information on changes at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.6.0-News New Raster Drivers: * BLX Magellan Topo Driver (New) * EIR Erdas Imagine Raw Driver (New) * Oracle GeoRaster Driver (New) * GRIB Driver (now part of standard distribution) * LCP (FARSITE) Driver (New) * Terralib driver (New) New Vector Drivers: * Geoconcept Export Driver (New) * INGRES RDBMS Driver (New) * XPlane/Flightgear Driver (New) General: * RFC 20: Preliminary support for alternate axis orientations in SRS. * On the fly access to data in .zip and .gz compressed files. * RFC 22: Support for reading from, and warping with RPC (Rational Polynomial Coefficients) from various formats. * Gaussian and Mode resampling added for overview generation. * Added raster to vector (polygon) conversion utility. * Added raster proximity utility. * Added raster sieve filtering utility. * Added -expand rgb/rgba ability to gdal_translate * Added cutline / blend support to gdalwarp. * Added -segmentize option to ogr2ogr to break long line segments. * RFC 23: Preliminary support for character set transcoding (in OGR for now). * RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
