[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5.1RC1 Available

[Jean-Claude Repetto]

Frank Warmerdam wrote :
> Jean-Claude Repetto wrote:
>> Hello Frank,
>>
>> It seems that the patch for bug #1935 has been forgotten (the 
>> milestone is set for 1.5.1).
>> I have put on my web site a screenshot of Qgis displaying a tiled 
>> version of NASA BlueMarble.
>> <http://jrepetto.free.fr/bug1935.png>
>>
>> You can see the world (very small)  in the upper left corner. The tile 
>> whose upper left coordinates are (0,0) (central Africa) is much too 
>> large.
>>
>> This is due to bug #1935.
> 
> Jean-Claude,
> 
> I have reviewed and applied the suggested patch for #1935 in trunk and 1.5
> branch this morning without testing, though my visual review suggests the
> approach is fine.
> 
> There are lots of bugs that were not addressed for 1.5.1, but I came to
> the conclusion that waiting for the release was not the best approach.
> However, this fix will now appear in 1.5.1RC2.
> 
> Best regards,
> 

Thanks Frank,

In case of you or anyone else wants to test the same data, I have put 
the tiles in an archive at:
<http://jrepetto.free.fr/ttmaps/BlueMarble.zip>

Regards,
Jean-Claude