[OSGeo-Announce] GDAL/OGR 1.11.0 released

[Anne Ghisla]

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