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.
http://www.gdal.org/ 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, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- 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
