[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released

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Congrats, it's been well worth the wait indeed :)
On Apr 3, 2012 5:08 PM, "Javier de la Torre" <jatorre at vizzuality.com> wrote:

> 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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