[Geotiff] libgeotiff 1.6.0 RC1 available

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Even,

No problems on Windows with VC2017 (proj-master, libtiff-4.1.0).

-jeff



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On 2020-04-22 3:24 p.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've prepared a libgeotiff 1.6.0 release candidate
> 
> Sources at:
> 
> - http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.6.0rc1.tar.gz
> 
> - http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.6.0rc1.zip
> 
> It is used as the internal libgeotiff copy in GDAL master.
> 
> I'll call for a vote for promoting it to final soon if I don't hear 
> about serious issues with it.
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> New features:
> 
> * Add support for OGC GeoTIFF 1.1
> 
> * Expose GTIFGetPCSInfoEx(), GTIFGetProjTRFInfoEx(), GTIFGetGCSInfoEx(), 
> GTIFGetDatumInfoEx(), GTIFGetEllipsoidInfoEx(), GTIFGetPMInfoEx(), 
> GTIFGetUOMLengthInfoEx() and GTIFGetUOMAngleInfoEx() so that users can 
> specify their own PROJ context
> 
> * Add GTIFKeyGetASCII(), GTIFKeyGetSHORT() and GTIFKeyGetDOUBLE() as 
> safer variants of GTIFKeyGet() with type checking
> 
> * autotools build: enable build in a separate tree from source (#37) 
> (fixes #28)
> 
> * Use pkg-config for libtiff detection
> 
> Bug fixes:
> 
> * GTIFDecToDMS(): fix rounding issue (refs #16)
> 
> * geo_names.c: Silence warning in GetNameFromDatabase
> 
> * cpl_serv.h: add parenthesis in macro definitions
> 
> * Fix spelling errors
> 
> * geo_normalize.c: set UOMLength from GeogLinearUnits (for geocentic 
> CRS) (GDAL #1595)
> 
> * testlistgeo: remove hardcoded path in test output (fixes 
> https://github.com/OSGeo/libgeotiff/issues/16#issuecomment-502267406)
> 
> * Adapt test script for PROJ 6.2 EPSG database (fixes #22)
> 
> * Use unix EOL for cmake related files (fixes #14)
> 
> * configure.ac: drop dead code
> 
> * geo_normalize.c: avoid look up of user-defined geokeys that cause PROJ 
> warnings (fixes GDAL #2321)
> 
> * listgeo: fix corner coordinates for images with RasterPixelIsPoint (#36)
> 
> Even
> 
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