MITAB users, I have posted a MITAB 1.6.3 release to the MITAB website a few minutes ago. This release does not provide any new functionality, it mostly aims to solve the issues that were introduced by the new spatial index mode introduced in MITAB 1.6.0 (and that had been causing problems since).
With this release there are currently no known issues related to the generation of the "optimized spatial index". However, just to be safe, the optimized spatial index is still disabled by default in this release and has to be enabled explicitly using the "-o" option of the tab2tab.exe program (e.g. tab2tab source.mif dest.tab -o). The complete change log is included at the end of this message, and the source and binary packages are available on the http://mitab.maptools.org/ website as usual. FYI, I am currently working on a set of enhancements that will constitute a 1.7 release, that includes support for v8.x and 9.x objects and data types, and.... support for random update (i.e. read/write mode)... this last one may well justify bumping the version number to 2.0. The next release (1.7 or 2.0) will also have the optimized spatial index turned on by default again. Daniel Version 1.6.3 (2007-10-12) -------------------------- - Remove static variables that interfere with reentrancy. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1883 Version 1.6.3-beta2 (2007-09-18) -------------------------------- - Fixed another issue related to splitting of object blocks with the optimized spatial index. The compressed coordinate origin values were not initialized properly before being written (bug 1732) Version 1.6.3-beta1 (2007-09-14) -------------------------------- - Fixed the splitting of object blocks with the optimized spatial index mode that was producing files with misaligned bytes that confused MapInfo (bug 1732) Note that even if this bug is (hopefully) fixed, the optimized spatial index is still disabled by default in this release and we still use the quick (i.e. traditional) spatial index mode by default. - Fixed problem with MIF parser being confused by special attribute names (bug 1795) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
