[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released

[Pierre Racine]

That's a great news! I would like again to thanks, for the raster development:

-Bborie Park from the Center for Vectorborne Diseases at the University of California, our main developer since one year,

-Sandro Santilli now from Vizzuality,

-Jorge Arevalo from DEIMOS Space,

-David Zwarg from Azavea,

-Mateusz Loskot from CadCorp,

-Regina and Leo Obe from Paragon Corporation and

-the other members of the PostGIS team

for all their work on the raster extension. That has been great to work on this release with you guys!

Congratulation everybody for making PostGIS 2.0.0 alive!

Pierre

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Paul Ramsey
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 5:04 PM
> To: postgis-devel at postgis.refractions.net; PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: [postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released
> 
> 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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