GDAL/OGR 1.11.0 released
The new version 1.11.0 of GDAL/OGR (http://www.gdal.org/) which offers major new features has been released. GDAL/OGR is a C++ geospatial data access library for raster and vector file formats, databases and web services. It includes bindings for several languages, and a variety of command line tools.
Highlights:
- New GDAL driver:
- KRO: read/write support for KRO KOKOR Raw format
- New OGR drivers:
- CartoDB: read/write support
- GME / Google Map Engine : read/write support
- GPKG / GeoPackage : read-write support (vector part of the spec.)
- OpenFileGDB: read-only support (no external dependency)
- SXF: read-only support
- WALK: read-only support
- WasP .map : read-write support
- Significantly improved drivers: GML, LIBKML
- RFC 40: enhanced RAT support
- RFC 41: multiple geometry fields support
- RFC 42: OGR Layer laundered field lookup
- RFC 43: add GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList() (#5275)
- RFC 45: GDAL datasets and raster bands as virtual memory mapping
- Upgrade to EPSG 8.2 database
More complete information on the new features and fixes in the 1.11.0 release can be found at http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.11.0-News
The new release can be downloaded from:
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110.zip – source as a zip
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal-1.11.0.tar.gz – source as .tar.gz
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdalautotest-1.11.0.tar.gz – test suite
- http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.11.0/gdal1110doc.zip – documentation / website
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