<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to<br>
announce the release of GDAL/OGR 3.0.0.  GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial<br>
data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and<br>
web services.  It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety<br>
of command line tools.<br>
<br>
   <a href="http://www.gdal.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.gdal.org/</a><br>
<br>
The 3.0.0 release is a new feature release with the following highlights:<br>
<br>
 * Implement RFC 73: Integration of PROJ6 for WKT2, late binding capabilities, <br>
time-support and unified CRS database.<br>
    ==> PROJ >= 6 is now a build requirement<br>
    <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc73_proj6_wkt2_srsbarn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc73_proj6_wkt2_srsbarn</a><br>
 * New GDAL drivers:<br>
  - DAAS: read driver for Airbus DS Intelligence Data As A Service<br>
  - TileDB: read/write driver for <a href="https://www.tiledb.io" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tiledb.io</a> (#1402)<br>
 * New OGR drivers:<br>
  - MongoDBv3: read/write driver using libmongocxx v3.4.0 client (for MongoDB <br>
>= 4.0)<br>
 * Improved drivers:<br>
   - FITS: read/write support for scale, offset and CRS<br>
   - netCDF: read support for groups<br>
   - PDF: add a COMPOSITION_FILE creation option to generate a complex <br>
document<br>
   - PDS4: subdataset creation support, read/write table/vector support<br>
 * Support for minimal builds on Unix (#1250)<br>
 * Add a docker/ directory with Dockerfile for different configurations<br>
 * Continued code linting<br>
<br>
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 3.0.0<br>
release can be found at:<br>
<br>
  <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/3.0.0-News" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/3.0.0-News</a><br>
<br>
The release can be downloaded from:<br>
  * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal300.zip" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal300.zip</a> - source as a zip<br>
  * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal-3.0.0.tar.gz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal-3.0.0.tar.gz</a> - source as .tar.gz<br>
  * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal-3.0.0.tar.xz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal-3.0.0.tar.xz</a> - source as .tar.xz<br>
  * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal-grass-3.0.0.tar.gz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal-grass-3.0.0.tar.gz</a> - GDAL-GRASS <br>
plugin<br>
  * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdalautotest-3.0.0.tar.gz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdalautotest-3.0.0.tar.gz</a> - test <br>
suite<br>
  * <a href="http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal300doc.zip" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/3.0.0/gdal300doc.zip</a> - documentation / <br>
website<br>
<br>
The migration guide can be found at  :<br>
      <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.0/gdal/MIGRATION_GUIDE.TXT</a><br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Even<br>
<br>
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