[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.9.0 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.9.0.
This is a major new release including the following major new features:

  * New GDAL drivers: ACE2, CTG, E00GRID, ECRGTOC, GRASSASCIIGrid,
    GTA, NGSGEOID, SNODAS, WebP, ZMap
  * New OGR drivers:  ARCGEN, CouchDB, DWG, EDIGEO, ESRI FileGDB, Geomedia,
    Google Fusion Tables, IDRISI, MDB, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SVG, XLS
  * Significantly improved drivers: NetCDF
  * Encoding support for shapefile/dbf (#882)
  * RFC 35: Delete, reorder and alter field definitions of OGR layers
  * RFC 37: Add mechanism to provide user data to CPLErrorHandler (#4295)
  * gdalsrsinfo: new supported utility to report SRS in various form
    (supercedes testepsg)

Complete news on the new release can be found at:

  http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News

The new release can be downloaded from:
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190.zip - source as a zip
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.9.0.tar.gz - test suite
  * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190doc.zip - documentation / website

Best regards,
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