[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released

[Javier de la Torre]

Congrats to everybody,

Today is a beautiful day. 

Sent from my iPad

On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:

> The PostGIS development team is super excited,
> can hardly believe that they are actually doing this,
> aren't maybe even sure that they are ready to make
> this kind of commitment, not so young, and not when
> we have so much more living to do, but:
> 
> PostGIS 2.0.0 is complete and available for download.
> 
>  http://postgis.org/download/postgis-2.0.0.tar.gz
> 
> The development process for 2.0 has been very long,
> but has resulted in a release with a number of exciting
> new features.
> 
> * Raster data and raster/vector analysis in the database
> * Topological models to handle objects with shared boundaries
> * PostgreSQL typmod integration, for an automagical
>   geometry_columns table
> * 3D and 4D indexing
> * Index-based high performance nearest-neighbour searching
> * Many more vector functions including
>   * ST_Split
>   * ST_Node
>   * ST_MakeValid
>   * ST_OffsetCurve
>   * ST_ConcaveHull
>   * ST_AsX3D
>   * ST_GeomFromGeoJSON
>   * ST_3DDistance
> * Integration with the PostgreSQL 9.1 extension system
> * Improved commandline shapefile loader/dumper
> * Multi-file import support in the shapefile GUI
> * Multi-table export support in the shapefile GUI
> * A geo-coder optimized for free US Census
>   TIGER (2010) data
> 
> We are greatly indebted to our large community of beta testers
> who valiantly tested PostGIS 2.0.0 and reported bugs so we could
> squash them before release time.
> 
> And also we want to thank our parents for making PostGIS possible.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> The PostGIS development team
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