---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:16 PM Subject: [postgis-users] PostGIS 1.5.0 Released To: PostGIS Users Discussion <[email protected]>, PostGIS Development Discussion <[email protected]>, GEOS Development List <[email protected]>, [email protected], mapserver-users <[email protected]>
February 4, 2010 The PostGIS development team has, after a long course of reflection and a detailed self-examination of our various personal failings, decided to release PostGIS 1.5.0 to the public. http://postgis.org/download/postgis-1.5.0.tar.gz This new version of PostGIS includes a new "geography" type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data, performance-enhanced distance calculations, GML and KML format readers, an improved shape loading GUI, and other new features as well. Especial thanks to: * Dave Skea for algorithms and mathematics necessary to support spherical geometry * Nicklas Avén for the new performance enhanced distance calculations and other distance-related functions * Sandro Santilli for new buffering features (end caps and style options) * Olivier Courtin for GML/KML input functions * Guillaume Lelarge for support for the upcoming PgSQL 9.0 * George Silva for an example implementation of history tables * Vincent Picavet for Hausdorff distance calculations * The maintainers of GEOS, Proj4, and LibXML, without whom we would have less of a spatial database Love, the PostGIS project steering committee, Mark Cave-Ayland Kevin Neufeld Regina Obe Paul Ramsey ----- Release Notes ---- PostGIS 1.5.0 2010/02/04 * Important Changes * - =~ operator now indicates bounding box equality, not feature equality - GEOS 3.1 is now the minimum accepted version of GEOS - GEOS 3.2 is needed if you want to use enhanced buffering features and ST_HausdorffDistance - GEOS, LibXML2, and Proj4 are now mandatory dependencies * New Features * - Added Hausdorff distance calculations (#209) (Vincent Picavet) - Added parameters argument to ST_Buffer operation to support one-sided buffering and other buffering styles (Sandro Santilli) - Performance improvements to ST_Distance (Nicklas Avén) - Addition of other Distance related visualization and analysis functions (Nicklas Avén) - ST_ClosestPoint - ST_DFullyWithin - ST_LongestLine - ST_MaxDistance - ST_ShortestLine - KML, GML input via ST_GeomFromGML and ST_GeomFromKML (Olivier Courtin) - Extract homogeneous collection with ST_CollectionExtract (Paul Ramsey) - Add measure values to existing linestring with ST_AddMeasure (Paul Ramsey) - History table implementation in utils (George Silva) - Win32 support and improvement of core shp2pgsql-gui (Mark Cave-Ayland) - In place 'make check' support (Paul Ramsey) - Geography type and supporting functions - Spherical algorithms from Dave Skea - Object/index implementation from Paul Ramsey - Selectivitiy implementation from Mark Cave-Ayland - Serializations (KML, GML, JSON) from Olivier Courtin - ST_Area, ST_Distance, ST_DWithin, ST_GeogFromText, ST_GeogFromWKB, ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_Buffer - Documentation updates and improvements (Regina Obe, Kevin Neufeld) - Testing and quality control (Regina Obe) - PostGIS 1.5 support PostgreSQL 8.5 trunk (Guillaume Lelarge) - Many many other changes: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/query?status=closed&milestone=PostGIS+1.5.0 _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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