[Gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.2.0 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I have released GDAL 1.2.0 final (hopefully).  It is available at:

   ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/gdal-1.2.0.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/gdal120.zip

I would especially like to think Alessandro Amici who did all the libtool
related support for this release despite my ackward requirement that we
still be able to build without libtool, and my avoidance of automake.

I also want to thank Andrey Kiselev, my GDAL co-maintainer who is
responsible for many of the new developments and improvements in this
release.   These include the new PCIDSK, and MrSID driver.

I also owe a debt to the GDAL community who have given back many fixes
and improvements, and perhaps most of all to the many corporate sponsors
who have funded improvements over the last year.  This include (but are
not limited to) Safe Software, DM Solutions Group, i-cubed, AUG Signals,
Keyhole, Applied Coherent Technology, Atlantis Scientific, SRC and
GeoTango.

I am including the improvements since 1.1.9 from the NEWS file below.
If no one reports any major problems in the next few hours I will announce
the release in a few other venues and on freshmeat.net.


GDAL 1.2.0 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------

Configuration:
     - Libtool used by default with Unix style builds.  Use --without-libtool
       to avoid this.
     - PROJ.4 can now be linked statically using --with-static-proj4.
     - Added --without-bsb option for those averse to legal risk.

DODS/OPeNDAP Driver:
     - Preliminary DODS (OPeNDAP) driver implemented (James Gallagher @ URI).

PCIDSK Driver:
     - PCIDSK read/write raster driver implemented (Andrey).

Erdas Imagine / HFA Driver:
     - Support recent Imagine versions (data dictionary changes).
     - Better logic to search for .rrd file locally.
     - Support creating files in the 2GB to 4GB size range.

GIF Driver:
     - Updated to libungif 4.1.0.
     - Various hacks to try and identify transparent colors better.

BMP Driver:
     - Handle 32bit BMPs properly.

HDF4 Driver:
     - Added proper support for multi-sample GR datasets.
     - Various fixes and improvements for specific product types.

GeoTIFF Driver:
     - Added PHOTOMETRIC option to control photometric interp of new files.

JPEG2000/Kakadu Driver:
     - Support reading/creating lossless 16bit files.
     - Updated to support Kakadu 4.1 library.

NITF Driver:
     - Implement support for IGEOLO="U" (MGRS/UTM) coordinates.
     - Added overview (as external GeoTIFF file) support.

MrSID Driver:
     - Support DSDK 4.2.x.

PNG Driver:
     - Support required byte swapping of 16bit PNG data.

FAST Driver:
     - lots of fixes, supports more datums and ellipsoids.

NetCDF Driver:
     - New driver implemented for netCDF support.
     - Pretty much tied to form of netCDF used in GMT for now.

VTerrain .bt Driver:
     - New driver for VTerrain .bt elevation format.

ECW Driver:
     - support supersampled reads efficiently.
     - special case for dataset level RasterIO() implemented for much better
       performance in some applications.

ESRI BIL (EHdr) Driver:
     - Support world files.

VRT Driver:
     - Implement filtering support.

GIO (Arc/Info Binary Grid via avgridio.dll):
    - Driver disabled ... to undependable.


Python:
     - Preliminary support for numarray in addition to numpy (Numeric).

Contouring:
     - New gdal_contour utility program implementing contour generation.
     - Underlying algorithm in gdal/alg.

Warping:
     - Improved support in GDALSuggestedWarpOutput() for "world" sized
       files that are only partially transformable.
     - Bicubic resampler improved.
     - What was gdalwarptest is now gdalwarp, and the old gdalwarp is now
       gdalwarpsimple.  The sophisticated warper is now the default.

Man Pages:
     - Man pages for GDAL utilities now being maintained and installed (Silke).



OGR 1.2.0 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------

OGRSpatialReference:
    - Added methods for converting to/from GCTP representation.
    - Added HOM 2 points on centerline variant.

DODS (OPeNDAP) Driver:
    - Preliminary implementation.

TIGER/Line Driver:
    - Added support for GDT ASCII TIGER-like format.
    - Support TIGER/Line 2003 format.

S-57 Driver:
    - Preliminary export support implemented.
    - Support capture of FFPT (feature to feature) linkages.
    - Support capture of TOPI from VRPT.
    - Support capture of primitives as additional layers.

Shapefile Driver:
    - gdal/frmts/shapelib removed from GDAL source tree, now just a
      copy of required shapelib files are kept in gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape.
    - Attempt identify polygons that are really multi-polygons and convert them
      into multi-polygons properly (Radim Blazek).
    - Create FID attribute in .dbf file if no attribute added by application.

GML Driver:
    - Lots of fixes and improvements for reading and writing.
    - Now writes a schema file by default.
    - Field types are set now when reading based on data found on first pass.
    - Added support for the various kinds of geometry collections.

DGN Driver:
    - Now using dgnlib 1.9 - this carries with it various new element types
      and some important bug fixes.

ODBC Driver:
    - New ODBC driver implemented.  Build by default on Windows, and buildable
      on Unix (with unixodbc).

VRT Driver:
    - New "virtual" OGR Datasource format implemented.
    - Configuration stored in XML control file.

Oracle (OCI) Driver:
    - support reading views.

OGR Core:
    - Added support for WKT EMPTY geometry objects (like "MULTIPOINT(EMPTY)").
    - Added DeleteFeature() method on OGRLayer class.

NTF Driver:
    - Support CHG_TYPE attribute for landline plus product.

Best regards,
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