[DebianGIS] Fwd: [Freegis-list] GDAL/OGR 1.3.0 Released
New upstream version available. A number of important improvements, so it
would be great to have it packaged.
Please note: it contains the new OGR driver for GRASS, which has presumably
the same issues (crossdependency) as the GDAL grass driver; its natural place
would therefore seem to be in the package libgdal1-grass.
All best wishes.
pc
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Subject: [Freegis-list] GDAL/OGR 1.3.0 Released
Date: 23:42, lunedì 15 agosto 2005
From: Frank Warmerdam <fwarmerdam@gmail.com>
To: GDAL <gdal-dev@lists.maptools.org>, "freegis-list@intevation.de"
<freegis-list@intevation.de>
Folks,
At last, the GDAL/OGR 1.3.0 final release is out there.
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.3.0.tar.gz
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal130.zip
From the NEWS file:
GDAL 1.3.0 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------
Multithreading:
- Lots of work done to implement support for multiple threads reading
from distinct GDALDataset objects at the same time.
GDALRasterBand / Persistant Auxilary Metadata (PAM):
- Support for preserving a variety of metadata in a supporting XML file.
- GDALRasterBand now supports "remembering" histograms, and has a concept
of the default histogram.
- GDALRasterBand now supports remembering image statistics.
- Disabled by default (set GDAL_PAM_ENABLED=YES to turn on).
- Supported by *most* drivers with some caveats.
GDALCopyWords():
- This function is a low level work horse for copying and converting pixel
data in GDAL. It has been substantially optimized by Steve Soule
(Vexcel).
Next Generation Bindings:
- Kevin Ruland and Howard Butler are working on reworked support for
SWIG to generate Python, PHP, Java, C# and other language bindings for
GDAL and OGR.
VB6 Bindings:
- Now substantially complete, see VB6 directory.
HDF5 Driver:
- New HDF5 driver implemented by Denis Nadeau.
RMF Driver:
- New driver for Raster Matrix Format by Andrey Kislev.
MSGN (Meteosat Second Generation Native) Driver:
- New driver implemented by Frans van der Bergh.
VRT Driver:
- Fixed whopper of a memory leak in warped raster case.
NetCDF Driver:
- Preliminary CF conventions support by Denis Nadeau.
NITF Driver:
- NITF files between 2 and 4 GB in size can now be read and written.
JPEG Driver:
- Added support for reading EXIF as metadata by Denis Nadeau.
DODS Driver:
- Fixed up libdap 3.5.x compatibility.
JP2ECW (JPEG2000 ECW SDK) Driver:
- Implemented support for new GML-in-JPEG2000 specification.
- Implemented support for old MSI "worldfile" box.
JP2KAK (JPEG2000 Kakadu) Driver:
- Implemented support for new GML-in-JPEG2000 specification.
- Implemented support for old MSI "worldfile" box.
PCIDSK Driver:
- tiled files now supported for reading.
- overviews now supported for reading.
HFA (Imagine) Driver:
- Supports creating internal overviews in very large files.
- Support reading class names.
- Support creating compressed files.
GeoTIFF Driver:
- Support reading files with odd bit depths (ie. 3, 12, etc).
- Support 16/24bit floating point TIFFs (per Technote 3) (Andrey).
- Support 12bit jpeg compressed imagery using libjpeg "MK1" library.
HDF4 Driver:
- Added support for ASTER Level 1A, 1B and 2 products (Andrey).
OGR 1.3.0 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------
OGRGeometry:
- WKT (and GML) encoding now attempts to preserve pretty much full double
precision.
- geometries are now "coordinate dimension preserving" rather than
dynamically figuring out dimension depending on whether Z is set. So a
geometry can now be 3D even if all z values are zero.
- Fixed up proper EMPTY geometry support per standard.
GRASS Driver:
- New driver for GRASS 6 vector data written by Radim Blazek.
Interlis Driver:
- New driver for Swiss Interlis format from Permin Kalberer (SourcePole).
Shape Driver:
- Fixed logic for degenerate polygons (Baumann Konstantin).
PostgreSQL/PostGIS Driver:
- Implemented fast GetExtent() method (Oleg Semykin).
- Implemented layer type from geometry_columns (Oleg Semykin).
- Handle PostGIS 1.0 requirements for coordinate dimemsion exactness.
- Handle EWKT type in PostGIS 1.0.
- Generally PostGIS 0.x and 1.0 should now be supported fairly gracefully.
- Added PostGIS "binary cursor" mode for faster geometry access.
VRT Driver:
- Pass through attribute queries to underlying driver.
- Pass through spatial queries as attribute filters on the underlying layer.
S57 Driver:
- Added concept of supporting different profiles.
- Added prototype AML profile support.
MySQL Driver:
- Fixed for FID recognition (eg. mediumint).
GML Driver:
- Various fixes for generated GML correctness (Tom Kralidis).
TIGER/Line Driver:
- Added Tiger 2004 support.
Oracle Driver:
- Use VARCHAR2 for fixed size string fields.
- Use OCI_FID config variable when creating layers, and reading select
results
Best regards,
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