[gdal-dev] About new GDAL/OGR drivers

[Peter Baumann]

...plus this GDAL driver:
* rasdaman raster database ( http://gdal.org/frmt_rasdaman.html ) : 
retrieval and processing of 2-D extracts from multi-dimensional raster 
data sets.

-Peter



On 09/06/2010 08:27 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've neglected to mention a few of the GDAL/OGR drivers that I have recently
> added into trunk since 1.7 release. For those that like doing early testing
> and write useful bug reports so that those new drivers are in shape for the
> 1.8.0 release, here's a summary :
>
> GDAL drivers :
> * HF2/HFZ ( http://gdal.org/frmt_hf2.html ) : heightfield raster datasets that
> can be compressed. Read/write support.
> * JP2OpenJPEG ( http://gdal.org/frmt_jp2openjpeg.html ) : another (the 5th!)
> JPEG2000 driver, based on the open-source OpenJpeg library (BSD-licenced).
> More potential than Jasper with big images, but depends on an (yet) unreleased
> development branch of OpenJpeg. Read/write support.
> * XYZ ( http://gdal.org/frmt_xyz.html ) : to access simple gridded ASCII files.
> Read/write support.
> * GeoPDF ( http://gdal.org/frmt_geopdf.html ) : to extract both georeferencing
> and rasterize PDF documents, that have georeferencing encoded in either of the
> 2 current existing ways : the OGC GeoPDF encoding best practice (promoted by
> TerraGo), or according to the Adobe Supplement to ISO 32000. Read-only, based
> on poppler library (GPL-licenced)
>
> OGR drivers :
> * GPSBabel ( http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_gpsbabel.html ) : leverages the
> capabilities of the GPSBabel utility (GPL-licenced) to read/write many GPS file
> formats.
> * OpenAir ( http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_openair.html ) and SUA (
> http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_sua.html ) : 2 fairly equivalent and special-purpose
> drivers to read text files describing Special Use Airspaces.
> * PDS ( http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pds.html ) : another fairly specialized driver
> to extract tabular information from NASA PDS  (Planetary Data Systems) files
> * PGDump ( http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_pgdump.html ) : I believe I alrealdy
> mentionned that one. A write-only driver to generate SQL dump files that can be
> later injected into a live PostgreSQL instance. More or less similar to
> PostGIS shp2pgsql utility
> * WFS ( http://gdal.org/ogr/drv_wfs.html ) : a WFS/WFS-T client that can read
> and write OGC WFS 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 services.
>
> The GML driver was also significantly upgraded, in particular to support more
> GML3 geometries, more complex documents with non-flat structures and various
> tweaks that help reading some GML application schemas (CityGML, AIXM) etc...
> For more details about that... and the work done by all the others GDAL
> contributors, you can have a look at the preliminary NEWS :
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/NEWS
>
> How testing those new stuff ?
> - Unix/Linux users : checkout GDAL svn trunk (or daily snapshot from
> http://gdal.org/daily/ ), configure, make, make install ;-)
> - Windows users : build from source, or use for example Tamas Szekeres' daily
> builds at http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/  (Note that those builds don't
> currently include JP2OpenJPEG and GeoPDF due to the external dependencies). I
> believe that gdal-dev in osgeo4w has also been recently updated with a
> 1.8.0dev snapshot.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Even
>
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