Hi, On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 2.4.0. 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 2.4.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights: * New GDAL drivers: - BYN: read/write support for Natural Resources Canada's Geoid binary format - EEDAI: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API - IGNFHeightASCIIGrid: read-only driver to read IGN-France height correction ASCII grids - NGW: NextGIS Web read-only driver - NTv1: read-only driver for NTv1 datum shift grids * New OGR drivers: - EEDA: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API - GeoJSONSeq: read/creation support of new-line or record-separator separated GeoJSON features (#378) - NGW: NextGIS Web read-write driver * Improved drivers: - BAG: add read support for variable-resolution grids, and write support for single-resolution grids - GTiff driver: add Lerc and WebP codecs - PostgisRaster: add support for out-db rasters - RMF - MSSQLSpatial * RFC 72: Make GDAL Python autotest suite use pytest framework * Add /vsihdfs/ virtual file system handler for Hadoop File System (via libhdfs) * Add /vsiwebhdfs/ read-write virtual file system for Web Hadoop File System REST API * gdal_contour rewriting: speed optimizations and capability to compute polygon isosurfaces. * Remove PHP and Ruby bindings. * Continued code linting in C++, Python scripts, Shell scripts and autotest More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 2.4.0 release can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/2.4.0-News The release can be downloaded from: * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal240.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal-2.4.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal-2.4.0.tar.xz - source as .tar.xz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal-grass-2.4.0.tar.gz - GDAL-GRASS plugin * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdalautotest-2.4.0.tar.gz - test suite * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.4.0/gdal240doc.zip - documentation / website The migration guide can be found at : https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/2.4/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT Best regards and Season's greetings, Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
