pkgsrc/geography/gdal-lib/DESCR
gdt 4bf9d9f84c Update to 1.4.0, supplied by Brook Milligan in PR 35752.
The package now has a mysql option in addition to the default pgsql.


GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 - General Changes
--------------------------------

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
--------------------------------

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
-------------------------------

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.
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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.gdal.org/formats_list.html.