Thanks to all on the gdal/ogr team who worked hard to make this release
happen!
gdal/ogr is getting better and better and is one of the most important
corner stones of Open Source GIS! The rapid success of Open Source
Desktop and Web-GIS (like QGIS, gvSIG, OpenLayers, and to a certain
extent
On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.8.0. 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