[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0.0 Released

[Astrid Emde]

Congratulations and thanks to all involved and your parents!

On Tue, April 3, 2012 9:04 pm, 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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>
>


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