The GDAL/OGR Project is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.7.0. This is the first major new release since the 1.6.0 release approximately one year ago, though there have been a number of 1.6.x bug fixes releases during that period. The 1.7.0 release brings many new features, including a number of new raster and vector drivers as well as many improvements to existing drivers, and limited extentions to the GDAL API.
* New Raster Drivers: BAG, EPSILON, Northwood/VerticalMapper, R, Rasterlite, SAGA GIS Binary, SRP (USRP/ASRP), EarthWatch .TIL, WKT Raster * GDAL PCIDSK driver using the new PCIDSK SDK by default * New Vector drivers : DXF, GeoRSS, GTM, PCIDSK and VFK * New utilities: gdaldem, gdalbuildvrt now compiled by default * Add support for Python 3.X. Compatibility with Python 2.X preserved * Remove old-generation Python bindings. * Significantly improved raster drivers: GeoRaster, GeoTIFF, HFA, JPEG2000 JasPer, JPEG2000 Kakadu, NITF * Significantly improved vector drivers: CSV, KML, SQLite/SpataiLite, VRT Full release news is available at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.7.0-News The source code, documentation and test suite can be downloaded from: Source: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.7.0.tar.gz http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal170.zip Documentation: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal170doc.zip Test Suite: http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.7.0.tar.gz http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.7.0.zip -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users
