GDAL/OGR 1.3.2 - General Changes

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WinCE Porting:

- Support for MS WinCE new for this release.

Java SWIG Bindings:

- Preliminary support implemented.

GDAL 1.3.2 - Overview of Changes

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Locale:

- Force numeric locale to "C" at a few strategic points.

Idrisi Driver:

- New for 1.3.2.

- Includes reading and writing.

- Limited coordinate system support.

DIPEx Driver:

- New for GDAL 1.3.2 (related to ELAS format).

Leveller Driver:

- New for GDAL 1.3.2.

NetCDF Driver:

- Improved autoidentification of x, y dimensions.

- Improved CF support.

JPEG2000 (JasPer) Driver:

- Use GDALJP2Metadata to support various kinds of georeferencing.

JPEG2000 (JP2KAK) Driver:

- Support writing tiles outputs so that very large images can be written.

GeoTIFF Driver:

- Report error when attempting to create >4GB uncompressed file.

- Updated to latest libtiff, now supports "old jpeg" fairly well.

- Improved support for subsampled YCbCr images.

Imagine (HFA) Driver:

- Support reading affine polynomial transforms as geotransform.

- Support overviews of different type than base band.

- Support reading RDO style "nodata" indicator.

PCI Aux Driver:

- Support projections requiring parameters.

MrSID Driver;

- Fixed problem with writing files other than 1 or 3 bands.

- Support ESDK 6.x.

BMP Driver:

- Added support for 32bit images with bitfields compression.

DODS Driver:

- Upgraded to support libdap 3.6.x.

- Upgraded to support [-x][-y] to flip image.

gdal_rasterize Utility:

- New for GDAL 1.3.2.

- Rasterize OGR polygons into a raster.

OGR 1.3.2 - Overview of Changes

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OGRFeature:

- Added support for OFTDate, OFTTime and OFTDateTime field types.

- Also applied to a few drivers (shapefile, mysql, postgres)

OGRLayer:

- GetFIDColumn() and GetGeometryColumn() added.

Generic OGR SQL:

- Proper support for spatial and attribute filters installed on

OGR SQL resultsets.

OGRSpatialReference:

- Upgraded data files to EPSG 6.9

PostGIS Driver:

- Include proj4text in new spatial_ref_sys entries.

- Fixed support for very large queries.

- Fixed DeleteLayer() implementation.

- Added COPY support for accerated loading.

MySQL Driver:

- Added read and write support for Spatial types.

- Support spatial_ref_sys and geometry_columns tables.

- Various other improvements (dates, smallint, tinyint, etc)

- More robust auto-detection of column types for layers

created from SQL statements

ArcSDE Driver:

- New for 1.3.2.

- Read-only support for all geometry types.

- Supports coordinate systems.

- Requires SDE C API from ESRI.

Shapefile Driver:

- Avoid posting errors when .dbf's without .shps are opened.

- Added pseudo-SQL REPACK command after deleting features.

- Implement DeleteFeature()

S-57 Driver:

- Added support for Arcs.

- Added special DSID_DSSI feature class to capture header info.

DGN Driver:

- Support writing geometry collections.

DWG/DXF Driver:

- New for OGR 1.3.2

- Only supports writing DWG and DXF.

- Depends on DWGdirect library.

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GDAL 1.3.1 - Overview of Changes

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Next Generation SWIG Wrappers (GDAL and OGR):

- Python, Perl and Ruby bindings considered to be ready to use.

- C#, Java, PHP are at best initial prototypes.

- Added configure options for most NG options.

PCRaster Driver:

- libcsf is now included as part of GDAL.

- PCRaster enabled by default on win32.

- --with-pcraster=internal option now supported on unix (but not yet default)

VSI Virtualization:

- The "large file API" (VSI*L) has been re-engineered to allow installing

additional file handlers at runtime.

- Added "in memory" VSI handler so that now any driver using VSI*L

functions for data access can operate on in-memory files.

- PNG, JPEG and GeoTIFF drivers upgraded to work with in-memory support.

Raster Attribute Tables:

- Implemented new Raster Attribute Tables support. See the

GDALRasterAttributeTable class for more information.

Erdas Imagine Overviews:

- Erdas Imagine driver upgraded to support building internal overviews.

- Generic overview handler updated to support overviews in Erdas Imagine

format for any file format. Set USE_RRD config option to YES to enable.

gdalwarp:

- Added proper support for "unified source nodata", so the -srcnodata

switch works well.

RIK Driver:

- New Swedish format driver implemented by Daniel Wallner.

JPEG Driver:

- Substantial improvements to EXIF support.

MrSID Driver:

- Updated with proper JPEG2000 support as JP2MRSID driver, including

encoding with ESDK.

- Updated to support MrSID Version 5.x SDKs.

PNG Driver:

- Fixed serious bugs with 16bit file support.

- Added NODATA_VALUES to identify RGB sets that indicate a nodata pixel.

OGR 1.3.1 - Overview of Changes

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Reference Counting:

- OGRSpatialReference and OGRFeatureDefn now honour reference counting

semantics.

- Note that, especially for the OGRFeatureDefn, it is now critical that

all drivers be careful with reference counting. Any OGR drivers not in

the core distribution will likely crash if not updated.

ESRI Personal Geodatabase Driver:

- New driver implemented for ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) files.

- Uses ODBC, enabled by default on win32.

ODBC Driver:

- Updated to support binary fields.

- Updated to support WKB geometry fields.

- Updated to support DSN-less connections.

S57 Driver:

- Added support for Inland Waterways, and Additional Military Layers profiles

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GDAL 1.3.0 - Overview of Changes

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Multithreading:

- Lots of work done to implement support for multiple threads reading

from distinct GDALDataset objects at the same time.

GDALRasterBand / Persistant Auxilary Metadata (PAM):

- Support for preserving a variety of metadata in a supporting XML file.

- GDALRasterBand now supports "remembering" histograms, and has a concept

of the default histogram.

- GDALRasterBand now supports remembering image statistics.

- Disabled by default (set GDAL_PAM_ENABLED=YES to turn on).

- Supported by *most* drivers with some caveats.

GDALCopyWords():

- This function is a low level work horse for copying and converting pixel

data in GDAL. It has been substantially optimized by Steve Soule (Vexcel).

Next Generation Bindings:

- Kevin Ruland and Howard Butler are working on reworked support for

SWIG to generate Python, PHP, Java, C# and other language bindings for GDAL

and OGR.

VB6 Bindings:

- Now substantially complete, see VB6 directory.

HDF5 Driver:

- New HDF5 driver implemented by Denis Nadeau.

RMF Driver:

- New driver for Raster Matrix Format by Andrey Kislev.

MSGN (Meteosat Second Generation Native) Driver:

- New driver implemented by Frans van der Bergh.

VRT Driver:

- Fixed whopper of a memory leak in warped raster case.

NetCDF Driver:

- Preliminary CF conventions support by Denis Nadeau.

NITF Driver:

- NITF files between 2 and 4 GB in size can now be read and written.

JPEG Driver:

- Added support for reading EXIF as metadata by Denis Nadeau.

DODS Driver:

- Fixed up libdap 3.5.x compatibility.

JP2ECW (JPEG2000 ECW SDK) Driver:

- Implemented support for new GML-in-JPEG2000 specification.

- Implemented support for old MSI "worldfile" box.

JP2KAK (JPEG2000 Kakadu) Driver:

- Implemented support for new GML-in-JPEG2000 specification.

- Implemented support for old MSI "worldfile" box.

PCIDSK Driver:

- tiled files now supported for reading.

- overviews now supported for reading.

HFA (Imagine) Driver:

- Supports creating internal overviews in very large files.

- Support reading class names.

- Support creating compressed files.

GeoTIFF Driver:

- Support reading files with odd bit depths (ie. 3, 12, etc).

- Support 16/24bit floating point TIFFs (per Technote 3) (Andrey).

- Support 12bit jpeg compressed imagery using libjpeg "MK1" library.

HDF4 Driver:

- Added support for ASTER Level 1A, 1B and 2 products (Andrey).

OGR 1.3.0 - Overview of Changes

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OGRGeometry:

- WKT (and GML) encoding now attempts to preserve pretty much full double

precision.

- geometries are now "coordinate dimension preserving" rather than dynamically

figuring out dimension depending on whether Z is set. So a geometry can

now be 3D even if all z values are zero.

- Fixed up proper EMPTY geometry support per standard.

GRASS Driver:

- New driver for GRASS 6 vector data written by Radim Blazek.

Interlis Driver:

- New driver for Swiss Interlis format from Permin Kalberer (SourcePole).

Shape Driver:

- Fixed logic for degenerate polygons (Baumann Konstantin).

PostgreSQL/PostGIS Driver:

- Implemented fast GetExtent() method (Oleg Semykin).

- Implemented layer type from geometry_columns (Oleg Semykin).

- Handle PostGIS 1.0 requirements for coordinate dimemsion exactness.

- Handle EWKT type in PostGIS 1.0.

- Generally PostGIS 0.x and 1.0 should now be supported fairly gracefully.

- Added PostGIS "binary cursor" mode for faster geometry access.

VRT Driver:

- Pass through attribute queries to underlying driver.

- Pass through spatial queries as attribute filters on the underlying layer.

S57 Driver:

- Added concept of supporting different profiles.

- Added prototype AML profile support.

MySQL Driver:

- Fixed for FID recognition (eg. mediumint).

GML Driver:

- Various fixes for generated GML correctness (Tom Kralidis).

TIGER/Line Driver:

- Added Tiger 2004 support.

Oracle Driver:

- Use VARCHAR2 for fixed size string fields.

- Use OCI_FID config variable when creating layers, and reading select results

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GDAL 1.2.6 - Overview of Changes

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gdal_translate:

- Added -sds switch to copy all subdatasets.

gdalwarp:

- Added Thin Plate Spline support (-tps switch).

GDALRasterBand:

- Now uses two level block cache allowing efficient access to files

with a very large number of tiles.

- Added support for YCbCr color space for raster band color interpretations.

- Added AdviseRead() method - currently only used by ECW driver and OGDI

drivers.

ILWIS Driver:

- New driver for the raster format of the ILWIS software.

ECW Driver:

- Updated to use ECW SDK 3.1 (older ECW SDK no longer supported!)

ECWJP2 Driver:

- Added JPEG2000 support driver based on ECW/JPEG2000 SDK with a variety

of features.

NITF Driver:

- Added support for reading *and* writing JPEG2000 compressed NITF files

using the ECW/JPEG2000 SDK.

- Added ICHIPB support.

HDF Driver:

- Add support for georeferencing from some additional metadata formats.

- Fixed bug with multi-band HDF-EOS datasets.

MrSID Driver:

- Driver can now be built as a plugin on win32.

- Split out MrSID 3.x SDK support - not readily buildable now.

- Implemented accelerated IO cases for MrSID 4.x SDK.

- Support for writing MrSID files added (improved?)

Imagine Driver:

- Fixed bug reading some large multiband Imagine files.

- Added support for writing compressed files.

Win32 Builds:

- Added versioning information to GDAL DLL.

L1B Driver:

- Only return a reduced grid of control points.

IDA (WinDisp4) Driver:

- New read/write driver for the Image Display and Analysis raster format

used by WinDisp 4.

NDF (NLAPS) Driver:

- Added NDF/NLAPS read driver for version 1 and 2.

MSG Driver:

- Added support for the Metosat Second Generation raw file format.

GTiff Driver:

- Added support for offset/scale being saved and loaded (special metadata).

- Added Cylindrical Equal Area.

- Added PROFILE creation option to limit extra tags.

PNG Driver:

- Updated internal code for libpng to libpng 1.2.8.

OGR 1.2.6 - Overview of Changes

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OGRSFDriverRegistrar:

- Added support for autoloading plugin drivers from ogr_<driver>.so.

ogr.py:

- Geometry, and Feature now take care of their own reference counting and

will delete themselves when unreferenced. Care must still be taken to

unreference all features before destroying the corresponding

layer/datasource.

- ogr.Feature fields can now be fetched and set directly as attributes.

- Geometry contructor can now take various formats (wkt, gml, and wkb).

- Added docstrings.

- Added better __str__ methods on several objects.

- Various other improvements.

OGRLayer:

- Re-wrote generic spatial search support to be faster in case of rectangular

filters.

- Intersects() method now really uses GEOS. This also affects all OGR

layer spatial filtering (with non-rectangular filters).

- Added SetNextByIndex() method on OGRLayer.

OGRSpatialReference:

- Automatically generate +towgs84 from EPSG tables when translating to

PROJ.4 if available and TOWGS84 not specified in source WKT.

- Updated GML CRS translation to follow OGC 05-011 more closely. Still

incomplete but operational for some projections.

- Added support for FIPSZONE State Plane processing for old ESRI .prjs.

- Added Goode Homolosine support.

- Added GEOS (Geostationary Satellite) support.

OCI (Oracle) Driver:

- Added GEOMETRY_NAME creation option to control the name of the field to

hold the geometry.

PostGIS Driver:

- Fixed some problems with truncation for integer and float list fields.

Shapefile Driver:

- Added support for MapServer style spatial index (.qix).

GML Driver:

- Improved support for 3L0 (GML 3 - Level 0 profile) reading and writing.

On read we can now use the .xsd instead of needing to build a .gfs file.

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GDAL 1.2.5 - Overview of Changes

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gdalwarp Utility:

- Added "proper" source and destination alpha support.

PCRaster Driver:

- added write support, now consider ready for regular use.

MrSID Driver:

- Initial support for writing to MrSID with encoding SDK.

GeoTIFF Driver:

- Updated internal copy of libtiff to fix overview building ... really!

- Fixed bug when writing south-up images.

OGR 1.2.5 - Overview of Changes

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OGRSpatialReference:

- Added Bonne projection.

Docs:

- Added OGR C++ API Tutorial (reading and writing).

PostGIS Driver:

- Implemented SetFeature() and DeleteFeature() methods for in-place updates.

Oracle (OCI) Driver:

- Fixed support for writing into Oracle 10g.

- Fixed serious memory leak of geometries.

- Fixed bug with 3D multipolygons.

- Added support for selecting tables in the datasource name.

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GDAL 1.2.4 - Overview of Changes

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gdalwarp:

- Fixed some issues with only partially transformable regions.

- Added Alpha mask generation support (-dstalpha switch).

HFA/Imagine Driver:

- bug fix in histogram handling.

- improved support for large colormaps.

Envi Driver:

- Capture category names and colormaps when reading.

SAR CEOS Driver:

- Added support for PALSAR/ALOS Polarimetric Datasets.

RadarSat 2 Driver:

- New. Reads RadarSat 2 Polarimetric datasets with a "product.xml" and

imagery in TIFF files.

OGDI Driver:

- Important bug fix for downsampled access.

GeoTIFF Driver:

- Lots of libtiff upgrades, including some quite serious bug fixes.

- Added better support for 16bit colormaps.

- Write projection information even if we don't have a geotransform or GCPs.

- Improved alpha support.

- Generate graceful error message for BigTIFF files.

DODS Driver:

- Almost completely reimplemented. Uses chunk-by-chunk access. Supports

reading several bands from seperate objects. Some new limitations too.

NetCDF Driver:

- Seperated out a GMT NetCDF driver and a more generic but partially broken

NetCDF driver (Radim).

JP2KAK Driver:

- Added alpha support, including greyscale+alpha.

AirSAR Driver:

- New, reads AirSAR Polarimetric Radar format.

OGR 1.2.4 - Overview of Changes

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epsg_tr.py:

- Added escaping rules when generating PostGIS output.

tigerpoly.py:

- Discard dangles and degenerate rings.

VRT Driver:

- Fixed serious error in handling cleanup of VRT datasources, was often

causing a crash.

SQLLite Driver:

- Fixed substantial memory leaks.

MySQL Driver:

- New readonly non-spatial MySQL driver implemented.

MITAB Driver:

- Updated from upstream, several fixes.

TIGER/Line Driver:

- Fixed serious bug with handling "full" records at end of .RT2 file.

OCI/Oracle Driver:

- Added OCI_FID environment support to control FID selection.

OGRGeometry:

- Added Centroid() implementation (from GEOS?)

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GDAL 1.2.3 - Overview of Changes

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GeoTIFF Driver:

- Fixed many missing compression codecs when built with the internal

libtiff.

- Modified driver metadata to only list available compression types.

DODS Driver:

- Added support for OPeNDAP version after 3.4.x (use of opendap-config).

GRASS Driver:

- Fixed support for building with grass57.

MrSID Driver:

- Fixed support for MrSID Encoding SDK.

NITF Driver:

- Fixed serious bug with non-square output files.

OGR 1.2.3 - Overview of Changes

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OGRSpatialReference:

- Corrected memory leaks - OSRCleanup() cleans up temporary tables.

- Fixed build problem with ogrct.cpp on Solaris.

TIGER Driver:

- Improved generality of support for GDT files.

OGRGeometry:

- Added getArea() method for rings, polygons and multipolygons.

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GDAL 1.2.2 - Overview of Changes

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GRASS Driver:

- Add Radim's version of the driver submitted by Radim. This version

uses GRASS 5.7 libraries directly instead of using libgrass.

DODS Driver:

- Added support for spatial_ref, FlipX and FlipY .das info.

CPG Driver:

- added new driver for Convair Polarimetric format.

HDF Driver:

- Significant bugs fixed.

USGS DEM Driver:

- Support writing UTM projected files.

PNG Driver:

- Upgraded to libpng 1.2.6.

MrSID Driver:

- Substantial performance improvements.

- Support for DSDK 4.x

- Support JPEG2000 files via MrSID SDK.

NITF Driver:

- Support JPEG2000 compressed files (with Kakadu support)

ESRI BIL:

- Support .clr color files.

VRT Driver:

- Added support for describing raw files with VRTRawRasterBand.

- Added support for virtual warped files with VRTWarpedRasterBand.

GeoTIFF Driver:

- Fix support for 16bit image color tables.

- Write ExtraSamples tag for files with more samples than expected

in photometric interpretation.

- External overviews now built for read-only files.

Erdas Imagine Driver:

- Fixed support for compressed floating point layers.

- Various other fixes for compatible with newer Imagine versions.

- improved metadata handling.

gdal_merge.py:

- sets projection on output file.

OGR 1.2.2 - Overview of Changes

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SQLite Driver:

- New read/write driver implemented for SQLite databases.

CSV Driver:

- New read/write driver implemented for comma seperated value files.

S-57 Driver:

- Substantial performance improvements.

ODBC Driver:

- Arbitrary length field values now supported.

GEOS:

- Integration a series of methods utilizing GEOS when available. Note

that Intersect() is still just an envelope comparison.

OGRSpatialReference:

- Fixed Swiss Oblique Mercator support.

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GDAL 1.2.1 - Overview of Changes

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gdal_contour:

- Now build and installed by default.

HDF4 Driver:

- Added some degree of HDF-EOS support. HDFEOS layer now part of GDAL.

DODS Driver:

- Substantial fixes, support for flipped datasets.

HFA (Erdas Imagine) Driver:

- Fixed bug with files between 2 and 4GB.

- Capture statistics as metadata.

Erdas 7.x LAN/GIS Driver:

- Newly implemented.

USGS DEM Driver:

- Various fixes to creation support / CDED product.

NITF Driver:

- Capture USE001 and STDIDC TREs as metadata.

- Capture all sorts of header information as metadata.

- Support geocentric corner coordinate specification.

MrSID Driver:

- Support added for DSDK 4.0.x.

ECW Driver:

- Added preliminary support for using 3.0 SDK for JPEG2000 support.

- Fix oversampling assertion problem.

ArcInfo Binary Grids:

- Added support for 0x01 and 0x20 block type.

OGR 1.2.1 - Overview of Changes

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OGRSpatialReference:

- Various fixes related to prime meridians.

PostgreSQL/PostGIS Driver:

- Added layer name laundering.

- Launder names on by default.

- Clean stale entries in geometry_columns table when creating a layer.

- Support treating names views as layers.

- Handle long command strings.

S57 Driver:

- Fixed serious bugs with support for auto-applying update files.

- Improvements to S57 writing support.

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GDAL 1.2.0 - Overview of Changes

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Configuration:

- Libtool used by default with Unix style builds. Use --without-libtool

to avoid this.

- PROJ.4 can now be linked statically using --with-static-proj4.

- Added --without-bsb option for those averse to legal risk.

DODS/OPeNDAP Driver:

- Preliminary DODS (OPeNDAP) driver implemented (James Gallagher @ URI).

PCIDSK Driver:

- PCIDSK read/write raster driver implemented (Andrey).

Erdas Imagine / HFA Driver:

- Support recent Imagine versions (data dictionary changes).

- Better logic to search for .rrd file locally.

- Support creating files in the 2GB to 4GB size range.

GIF Driver:

- Updated to libungif 4.1.0.

- Various hacks to try and identify transparent colors better.

BMP Driver:

- Handle 32bit BMPs properly.

HDF4 Driver:

- Added proper support for multi-sample GR datasets.

- Various fixes and improvements for specific product types.

GeoTIFF Driver:

- Added PHOTOMETRIC option to control photometric interp of new files.

JPEG2000/Kakadu Driver:

- Support reading/creating lossless 16bit files.

- Updated to support Kakadu 4.1 library.

NITF Driver:

- Implement support for IGEOLO="U" (MGRS/UTM) coordinates.

- Added overview (as external GeoTIFF file) support.

MrSID Driver:

- Support DSDK 4.2.x.

PNG Driver:

- Support required byte swapping of 16bit PNG data.

FAST Driver:

- lots of fixes, supports more datums and ellipsoids.

NetCDF Driver:

- New driver implemented for netCDF support.

- Pretty much tied to form of netCDF used in GMT for now.

VTerrain .bt Driver:

- New driver for VTerrain .bt elevation format.

ECW Driver:

- support supersampled reads efficiently.

- special case for dataset level RasterIO() implemented for much better

performance in some applications.

ESRI BIL (EHdr) Driver:

- Support world files.

VRT Driver:

- Implement filtering support.

GIO (Arc/Info Binary Grid via avgridio.dll):

- Driver disabled ... to undependable.

Python:

- Preliminary support for numarray in addition to numpy (Numeric).

Contouring:

- New gdal_contour utility program implementing contour generation.

- Underlying algorithm in gdal/alg.

Warping:

- Improved support in GDALSuggestedWarpOutput() for "world" sized

files that are only partially transformable.

- Bicubic resampler improved.

- What was gdalwarptest is now gdalwarp, and the old gdalwarp is now

gdalwarpsimple. The sophisticated warper is now the default.

Man Pages:

- Man pages for GDAL utilities now being maintained and installed (Silke).

OGR 1.2.0 - Overview of Changes

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OGRSpatialReference:

- Added methods for converting to/from GCTP representation.

- Added HOM 2 points on centerline variant.

DODS (OPeNDAP) Driver:

- Preliminary implementation.

TIGER/Line Driver:

- Added support for GDT ASCII TIGER-like format.

- Support TIGER/Line 2003 format.

S-57 Driver:

- Preliminary export support implemented.

- Support capture of FFPT (feature to feature) linkages.

- Support capture of TOPI from VRPT.

- Support capture of primitives as additional layers.

Shapefile Driver:

- gdal/frmts/shapelib removed from GDAL source tree, now just a

copy of required shapelib files are kept in gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape.

- Attempt identify polygons that are really multi-polygons and convert them

into multi-polygons properly (Radim Blazek).

- Create FID attribute in .dbf file if no attribute added by application.

GML Driver:

- Lots of fixes and improvements for reading and writing.

- Now writes a schema file by default.

- Field types are set now when reading based on data found on first pass.

- Added support for the various kinds of geometry collections.

DGN Driver:

- Now using dgnlib 1.9 - this carries with it various new element types

and some important bug fixes.

ODBC Driver:

- New ODBC driver implemented. Build by default on Windows, and buildable

on Unix (with unixodbc).

VRT Driver:

- New "virtual" OGR Datasource format implemented.

- Configuration stored in XML control file.

Oracle (OCI) Driver:

- support reading views.

OGR Core:

- Added support for WKT EMPTY geometry objects (like "MULTIPOINT(EMPTY)").

- Added DeleteFeature() method on OGRLayer class.

NTF Driver:

- Support CHG_TYPE attribute for landline plus product.

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GDAL 1.1.9 - Overview of Changes

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o MrSID Driver: New for 1.1.9, read-only, includes good coordiante system

support, and should be high performance.

o ECW Driver: Now reads coordinate system information (but doesn't write).

o HDF Driver: Added support for Hyperion Level 1, Aster Level 1A/1B/2, MODIS

Level 1B(earth-view)/2/3, SeaWIFS Level 3.

o L1B Driver: Now reads GCPs for georeferencing.

o NITF Driver: Support for reading RPC, variety of bugs fixes for reading and

writing. Also some general RPC infrastructure added to GDAL.

o JP2KAK Driver: Can be used with Kakadu 4.0.2 now. Compatibility fixes

for internal geotiff to improve compatibility with Mapping Science tools.

Added palette support.

o HFA (Imagine) Driver: Added read/write support for color table opacity.

Added write support for large (spill) files.

o "core" directory renamed to "gcore" to avoid confusing configure script.

o Added support for GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to GDAL support

data files (those in gdal/data directory).

o Added GDALDataset::RasterIO() for more efficient reading of multiple bands

in one request (in some cases anyways).

o High performance warp api considered to be complete now, and substantially

optimized.

o gdal_merge.py: supported multiple bands, copying PCT.

OGR 1.1.9 - Overview of Changes

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o Oracle Spatial: New generic read/write, and implemented highly optimized

loading support.

o Tiger driver: added support for TIGER/Line 2002 product.

o GML driver: now supports Xerces versions from 1.6 up to 2.3. Lots of

bugs fixes and improvements. GML Geometry now in OGR core.

o Improved support for translating to and from ESRI WKT, including a complete

mapping between EPSG related ESRI datum names and OGR's expected names.

o Improved support for alternate prime meridians in coordinate system code.

o Shapefiles: Can write features with NULL geometry,

o DGN: added 3d write support.

o Implemented generic attribute indexing support (only used for shapefile

at this point). Use in SQL where clauses and ExecuteSQL().

o WKT MULTIPOINT in/out formatting fixed.

o Added SynToDisk() method on OGRDataset and OGRLayer.

o Implemented "Web Coordinate Transformation Service" (ogr/wcts).

o Implemented "in memory" format driver.

o C API documented.

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GDAL 1.1.8 - Overview of Changes

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o Implemented HDF 4 read/write support. This includes HDF EOS reading.

o Implemented Windows BMP read/write support.

o Implemented NITF read/write support.

o Implemented NOAA Polar Orbiter L1B format driver.

o Implemented EOSAT FAST format driver.

o Implemented a JasPer based JPEG2000 driver (several limitations).

o Implemented a Kakadu based JPEG2000/GeoJP2(tm) driver (full featured, but

Kakadu is not open source).

o Implemented new 'gdalwarp' application for projection and GCP based image

warping. See gdal/alg for underlying algorithms. Currently gdalwarp only

supports 8 bit images and holds the whole source image in memory.

o Implemented write support for ESRI ASCII Grids.

o Lots of improvements to GeoTIFF driver. Metadata writing, update of

georeferencing, and support for writing PCS codes based on AUTHORITY fields

in WKT.

o Implemented support for uncompressed 1bit data in Erdas Imagine files,

as well as generic metadata.

o Fixed 0xFF compression support in the Arc/Info Binary Grid (AIG) driver.

o Lots of improvements to BSB drive, including preliminary uncompressed

output support, support for reading BSB 3.0 and GEO/NOS.

o Lots of work on VRT format.

o ECW: Fixed bug with reading a more than full resultion.