The package now has a mysql option in addition to the default pgsql.
GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 - General Changes
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Perl Bindings:
- Added doxygen based documentation.
NG Python Bindings:
- Implemented numpy support.
CSharp Bindings:
- Now mostly operational.
WinCE Porting:
- CPL
- base OGR, OSR and mitab and shape drivers.
- GDAL, including GeoTIFF, DTED, AAIGrid drivers
- Added test suite (gdalautotest/cpp)
Mac OSX Port:
- Added framework support (--with-macosx-framework)
GDAL 1.4.0 - Overview Of Changes
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WCS Driver:
- New
PDS (Planetary Data Set) Driver:
- New
ISIS (Mars Qubes) Driver:
- New
HFA (.img) Driver:
- Support reading ProjectionX PE strings.
- Support producing .aux files with statistics.
- Fix serious bugs with u1, u2 and u4 compressed data.
NITF Driver:
- Added BLOCKA reading support.
- Added ICORDS='D'
- Added jpeg compression support (readonly)
- Support multiple images as subdatasets.
- Support CGM data (as metadata)
AIGrid Driver:
- Use VSI*L API (large files, in memory, etc)
- Support upper case filenames.
- Support .clr file above coverage.
HDF4 Driver:
- Added support for access to geolocation arrays (see RFC 4).
- External raw raster bands supported.
PCIDSK (.pix) Driver:
- Support METER/FEET as LOCAL_CS.
- Fix serious byte swapping error on creation.
BMP Driver:
- Various fixes, including 16bit combinations, and non-intel byte swapping.
GeoTIFF Driver:
- Fixed in place update for LZW and Deflated compressed images.
JP2KAK (JPEG2000) Driver:
- Added support for reading and writing gmljp2 headers.
- Read xml boxes as metadata.
- Accelerate YCbCr handling.
JP2MrSID (JPEG2000) Driver:
- Added support for reading gmljp2 headers.
EHDR (ESRI BIL) Driver:
- Support 1-7 bit data.
- Added statistics support.
OGR 1.4.0 - Overview of Changes
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OGR SQL:
- RFC 6: Added support for SQL/attribute filter access to geometry, and
style strings.
OGRSpatialReference:
- Support for OGC SRS URNs.
- Support for +wktext/EXTENSION stuff for preserving PROJ.4 string in WKT.
- Added Two Point Equidistant projection.
- Added Krovak projection.
- Updated support files to EPSG 6.11.
OGRCoordinateTransformation:
- Support source and destination longitude wrapping control.
OGRFeatureStyle:
- Various extensions and improvements.
INFORMIX Driver:
- New
KML Driver:
- New (write only)
E00 Driver:
- New (read only)
- Polygon (PAL) likely not working properly.
Postgres/PostGIS Driver:
- Updated to support new EWKB results (PostGIS 1.1?)
- Fixed serious bug with writing SRSes.
- Added schema support.
GML Driver:
- Strip namespaces off field names.
- Handle very large geometries gracefully.
ODBC Driver:
- Added support for spatial_ref_sys table.
SDE Driver:
- Added logic to speed things up while actually detecting layer geometry types
PGeo Driver:
- Added support for MDB Tools ODBC driver on linux/unix.
VRT Driver:
- Added useSpatialSubquery support.
Mahesh Chittur, and Brook Milligan in pkgsrc-wip.
GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that
is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license. As a library, it
presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for
all supported formats. The related OGR library (which lives within
the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple
features vector data. It includes roughly 60 format drivers. Current
translators include:
* GeoTIFF (read/write)
* Erdas Imagine (read/write)
* ESRI .BIL (read)
* .aux labelled raw (read/write)
* DTED (read)
* SDTS DEM (read)
* CEOS (read)
* JPEG (read/write)
* PNG (read/write)
* Geosoft GXF (read)
* Arc/Info Binary Grid (read)
A full list is available at
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/formats_list.html
