From the Email Bag. I think GDAL is about my second favorite piece of Open Source GIS Software. Maybe it’s tied for first.
On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.11.0. 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 1.11.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights: * New GDAL drivers: - KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#KRO * New OGR drivers: - CartoDB : read/write support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_cartodb.html - GME / Google Map Engine : read/write support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GMEDriver - GPKG / GeoPackage : read-write support (vector part of the spec.) http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_geopackage.html - OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency) http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openfilegdb.html - SXF: read-only support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sxf.html - WALK: read-only support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_walk.html - WasP .map : read-write support http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wasp.html * Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML * RFC 40: enhanced RAT support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc40_enhanced_rat_support * RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc41_multiple_geometry_fields * RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc42_find_laundered_fields * RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275) http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc43_getmetadatadomainlist * RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc45_virtualmem * Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.11.0 release can be found at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.0-News The new release can be downloaded from: * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110.zip - source as a zip * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal-1.11.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdalautotest-1.11.0.tar.gz - test suite * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110doc.zip - documentation / website Best regards, Even
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