Slashgeo.org: GDAL / OGR 1.8.0 Released

At the core of many open source and commercial geospatial software, there is GDAL/OGR. And version 1.8.0 just got announced.

The 1.8.0 release is a major new feature release with the following highlights:

• New GDAL drivers : GTX, HF2, JPEGLS, JP2OpenJPEG, JPIPKAK, KMLSUPEROVERLAY, LOS/LAS, MG4Lidar, NTv2, OZI, PDF, RASDAMAN, XYZ


• New OGR drivers : AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML, MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS


• Significantly improved OGR drivers : DXF, GML


• New implemented RFCs:
  
  
  
  • RFC 7: Use VSILFILE for VSI*L Functions
  
  
  • RFC 24: Progressive data support in GDAL
  
  
  • RFC 28: OGR SQL Generalized Expressions
  
  
  • RFC 29: OGR Set Ignored Fields
  
  
  • RFC 30: Unicode Filenames
  
  
  • RFC 33: GTIFF - Corrected !PixelIsPoint Interpretation
  
  
  
  


• New utility : gdallocationinfo

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