[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Congratulations to the team!

Thank you for your hard work.



On 04/04/2012 12:04 AM, Paul Ramsey 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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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos