Hi All,<br><br>FYI: I've added the required dependencies for the OpenJPEG and GeoPDF drivers to all the development packages available at: <a href="http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/" target="_blank">http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/</a> so all the new drivers mentioned below can now be tested against the recent GDAL SVN daily builds.<br>
If you encounter any issues feel free to provide a feedback.<br><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tamas<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/6 Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@mines-paris.org">even.rouault@mines-paris.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I've neglected to mention a few of the GDAL/OGR drivers that I have recently<br>
added into trunk since 1.7 release. For those that like doing early testing<br>
and write useful bug reports so that those new drivers are in shape for the<br>
1.8.0 release, here's a summary :<br>
<br>
GDAL drivers :<br>
* HF2/HFZ ( <a href="http://gdal.org/frmt_hf2.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/frmt_hf2.html</a> ) : heightfield raster datasets that<br>
can be compressed. Read/write support.<br>
* JP2OpenJPEG ( <a href="http://gdal.org/frmt_jp2openjpeg.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/frmt_jp2openjpeg.html</a> ) : another (the 5th!)<br>
JPEG2000 driver, based on the open-source OpenJpeg library (BSD-licenced).<br>
More potential than Jasper with big images, but depends on an (yet) unreleased<br>
development branch of OpenJpeg. Read/write support.<br>
* XYZ ( <a href="http://gdal.org/frmt_xyz.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/frmt_xyz.html</a> ) : to access simple gridded ASCII files.<br>
Read/write support.<br>
* GeoPDF ( <a href="http://gdal.org/frmt_geopdf.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/frmt_geopdf.html</a> ) : to extract both georeferencing<br>
and rasterize PDF documents, that have georeferencing encoded in either of the<br>
2 current existing ways : the OGC GeoPDF encoding best practice (promoted by<br>
TerraGo), or according to the Adobe Supplement to ISO 32000. Read-only, based<br>
on poppler library (GPL-licenced)<br>
<br>
OGR drivers :<br>
* GPSBabel ( <a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_gpsbabel.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_gpsbabel.html</a> ) : leverages the<br>
capabilities of the GPSBabel utility (GPL-licenced) to read/write many GPS file<br>
formats.<br>
* OpenAir ( <a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openair.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openair.html</a> ) and SUA (<br>
<a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sua.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sua.html</a> ) : 2 fairly equivalent and special-purpose<br>
drivers to read text files describing Special Use Airspaces.<br>
* PDS ( <a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pds.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pds.html</a> ) : another fairly specialized driver<br>
to extract tabular information from NASA PDS (Planetary Data Systems) files<br>
* PGDump ( <a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgdump.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgdump.html</a> ) : I believe I alrealdy<br>
mentionned that one. A write-only driver to generate SQL dump files that can be<br>
later injected into a live PostgreSQL instance. More or less similar to<br>
PostGIS shp2pgsql utility<br>
* WFS ( <a href="http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wfs.html" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wfs.html</a> ) : a WFS/WFS-T client that can read<br>
and write OGC WFS 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 services.<br>
<br>
The GML driver was also significantly upgraded, in particular to support more<br>
GML3 geometries, more complex documents with non-flat structures and various<br>
tweaks that help reading some GML application schemas (CityGML, AIXM) etc...<br>
For more details about that... and the work done by all the others GDAL<br>
contributors, you can have a look at the preliminary NEWS :<br>
<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/NEWS" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/NEWS</a><br>
<br>
How testing those new stuff ?<br>
- Unix/Linux users : checkout GDAL svn trunk (or daily snapshot from<br>
<a href="http://gdal.org/daily/" target="_blank">http://gdal.org/daily/</a> ), configure, make, make install ;-)<br>
- Windows users : build from source, or use for example Tamas Szekeres' daily<br>
builds at <a href="http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/" target="_blank">http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/</a> (Note that those builds don't<br>
currently include JP2OpenJPEG and GeoPDF due to the external dependencies). I<br>
believe that gdal-dev in osgeo4w has also been recently updated with a<br>
1.8.0dev snapshot.<br>
<br>
Have fun,<br>
<br>
Even<br>
<br>
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