[osgeo-ph] Fwd: [gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.9.0 Released

[maning sambale]

FYI,

The data library that powers most of the open source and some
proprietary applications release its 1.9 version.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM
Subject: [gdal-dev] GDAL/OGR 1.9.0 Released
To: gdal-announce at lists.osgeo.org, gdal-dev
<gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org>, announce at lists.osgeo.org


The GDAL/OGR team is pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.9.0.
This is a major new release including the following major new features:

 * New GDAL drivers: ACE2, CTG, E00GRID, ECRGTOC, GRASSASCIIGrid,
  GTA, NGSGEOID, SNODAS, WebP, ZMap
 * New OGR drivers:  ARCGEN, CouchDB, DWG, EDIGEO, ESRI FileGDB, Geomedia,
  Google Fusion Tables, IDRISI, MDB, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SVG, XLS
 * Significantly improved drivers: NetCDF
 * Encoding support for shapefile/dbf (#882)
 * RFC 35: Delete, reorder and alter field definitions of OGR layers
 * RFC 37: Add mechanism to provide user data to CPLErrorHandler (#4295)
 * gdalsrsinfo: new supported utility to report SRS in various form
  (supercedes testepsg)

Complete news on the new release can be found at:

 http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.9.0-News

The new release can be downloaded from:
 * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190.zip - source as a zip
 * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.0.tar.gz - source as .tar.gz
 * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdalautotest-1.9.0.tar.gz - test suite
 * http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal190doc.zip - documentation / website

Best regards,
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