[ANNOUNCE]: HDF4 driver supports writing

[Andrey Kiselev]

Hello, GDAL users,

Writing support recently added to HDF4 GDAL driver. Both Create() and
CreateCopy() methods accessible.

By default multiband dataset stored as single 3D SDS. The third dimension
represent band number. With "RANK=2" option set of 2D SDSs will be
produced, one per each band. Projection name, transformation matrix,
band descriptions and metadata also stored and restored back
automatically.

Note, that default behaviour of the HDF4 driver changed: now if input
HDF file contains only single multidimensional subdataset it will be
opened automatically. If several subdatasets exist, you should select
one of them manually, as previously. I don't know is it really right
way, so any feedback appreciated.

Regards,
Andrey

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Andrey V. Kiselev
Scientific Research Center for Ecological Safety Russian Academy of Sciences
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