[gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.8.0 Released

[Andreas Neumann]

Thanks to all on the gdal/ogr team who worked hard to make this release 
happen!

gdal/ogr is getting better and better and is one of the most important 
corner stones of Open Source GIS! The rapid success of Open Source 
Desktop and Web-GIS (like QGIS, gvSIG, OpenLayers, and to a certain 
extent also GRASS) is only possible because of the very good base libraries.

Congrats,
Andreas

On 1/23/11 5:25 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On behalf of the GDAL/OGR development team and community, I am pleased to
> announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.8.0.  GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial
> data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and
> web services.  It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety
> of command line tools.
>
>   http://www.gdal.org/
>
> The 1.8.0 release is a major new feature release with the following
> highlights:
>
>  * New GDAL drivers : GTX, HF2, JPEGLS, JP2OpenJPEG, JPIPKAK,
>                       KMLSUPEROVERLAY, LOS/LAS, MG4Lidar, NTv2,
>                       OZI, PDF, RASDAMAN, XYZ
>  * New OGR drivers : AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML,
>                      MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, 
> SUA, WFS
>  * Significantly improved OGR drivers : DXF, GML
>  * New implemented RFCs:
>    - RFC 7: Use VSILFILE for VSI*L Functions
>    - RFC 24: Progressive data support in GDAL
>    - RFC 28: OGR SQL Generalized Expressions
>    - RFC 29: OGR Set Ignored Fields
>    - RFC 30: Unicode Filenames
>    - RFC 33: GTIFF - Corrected PixelIsPoint Interpretation
>  * New utility : gdallocationinfo
>
> More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.8.0
> release can be found at:
>
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.8.0-News
>
> Source code, documentation and the test suite can be downloaded from:
>
>  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal180.zip - source as a zip
>  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.8.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
>  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.8.0.tar.gz - test suite
>  http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal180doc.zip - docs / web site
>
> Best regards,