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GDAL 1.1.9 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------
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
-------------------------------
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.
==============================================================================
GDAL 1.1.8 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------
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.
o Envisat driver now supports AATSR TOA and MERIS data.
o Fixes for nodata support in GRASS driver.
o Added the --version and --formats options to many utility programs.
o gdal_translate:
- added -projwin flag to copy a window specified in projection coordinates.
- added the -a_srs option to assign a user supplied SRS to output file.
- translation with subsetting to any format now support (uses VRT inside).
o Lots of metadata now attached to driver objects describing their
capabilities.
o Implemented GDALDestroyDriverManager() to ensure full memory cleanup of
GDAL related resources.
o Added a 'devinstall' target on Windows to support easy installation of
include files and stub libraries on Windows. Also many other improvements
to Windows build. Most options can be easily turned on and off from the
nmake.opt file now.
OGR 1.1.8 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------
o Implemented support for writing 2D DGN files. Added support for MSLINK
and Text values available as attributes.
o Implemented FMEObjects based read driver.
o Implemented ExecuteSQL() method on OGRDataSource. Generic code supports
fairly full featured SELECT statements.
o Various fixes to 3D shapefile support.
o Fixes to binary representation for 2.5D geometries. Fixed MULTIPOINT WKT
geometry representation.
o Upgraded OGRSpatialReference.importFromEPSG() to use the new EPSG 6.2.2
tables instead of the old EPSG 4.x tables.
o Many fixes to PostGIS driver, including special creation options for
"laundering" field names to save tokens.
o Many improvements to standards conformance of OGRSpatialReference WKT
representation to the OGC Coordinate Transformations specification. Still
some quirks related to prime meridians and coordinate systems with units
other than degrees.
o Implemented support for Meridian 2 NTF files in NTF driver. Better
support for GENERIC_CPOLY geometries.
o Added support for [NOT] IN, [NOT] LIKE and IS [NOT] NULL predicates in
WHERE clauses.
o Implemented a C API for accessing OGR.
o Implemented support for building OLE DB Provider with Visual Studio.NET
(many changes in ATL templates). Lots of other OLE DB improvements for
better MapGuide compatibility.
GDAL 1.1.7 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------
o Add XPM (X11 Pixmap) format.
o Added rough ENVI raster format read support.
o Added --version support (and supporting GDALVersionInfo() function).
o Special hooks for getting raw record data from sar ceos files and Envisat
via the metadata api.
o Upgraded TIFF/GeoTIFF support to CVS version ... includes new extension
API and removes need for private libtiff include files entirely.
o gdal_translate now has scaling option (-scale).
o Added utility documentation.
OGR 1.1.7 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------
o Added Arc/Info binary coverage format read support.
o Added ogrtindex for building MapServer compatible OGR tile indexes.
o Added default implementation of GetFeature(fid) method on OGRLayer.
o Shape driver now supports reading and creating free standing .dbf files
for layers without geometry.
o Added utility documentation.
o Fixed major memory/file handle leak in SDTS access.
o Added ADSK_GEOM_EXTENT support for OLE DB provider.
o Ensure shapefiles written with correct polygon ring winding direction
plus various other shapefile support fixes.
o GML read/write working reasonable well, including use of .gfs files.
GDAL 1.1.6 - Overview of Changes
--------------------------------
o Add > 2GB file support on Linux 2.4.
o Implemented USGS DEM reading.
o Implemented BSB Format (Nautical Chart Format) read support.
o Preliminary implementation of Virtual Datasets (gdal/frmts/vrt).
o Support for writing DTED files.
o Some raw formats (ie. PAux, HKV) support files larger than 2GB.
o Add the AddBand() method on GDALDataset.
o PAux: Added color table read support.
o Various fixes to OGDI driver.
o Stripped out the GDALProjDef related capabilities. Superceeded by
OGRSpatialReference, and OGRCoordinateTransformation functionality.
o Improved CEOS support, notable for ESA LANDSAT files, D-PAF ERS-1 and
Telaviv ERS data.
o geotiff: upgraded libtiff support to approximately libtiff 3.5.7.
o DGN: Added support for complex shapes, shapes assembled from many elements.
Various other improvements.
OGR 1.1.6 - Overview of Changes
-------------------------------
o Fixed OGDI driver so that gltp urls with drive letters work properly on
windows.
o Many improvements to OLE DB provider during the process of making it
compatible with the MapGuide (SDP) client. These include implementing
restrictions for schema rowsets, treating missing information like WKT
coordinate systems as NULL fields, and setting ISLONG on geometry fields.
Also made thread safe.
o DGN: Threat SHAPE elements as polygons. Set style information for text.
Added 3D support for most elements.
o Fixed bugs in WKT format for some OGR geometry types (ie. multipoint).
o Added support for morphing to/from ESRI WKT format for OGRSpatialReference.
o NTF: Don't try to cache all the records from multiple files at once.
o Added experimental XML SRS support ... not the final schema. Added
supporting "minixml" support to CPL.
o PostGIS: Upgraded to PostGIS 0.6. Added "soft transaction" semantics.
Many create feature calls can now be part of one transaction. Transactions
are now a general OGR concept although only implemented for PostGIS.
o Added transform() and transformTo() methods for reprojecting geometries and
added user options for this in ogr2ogr.
o Very preliminary GML read/write support. Needs Xerces C++ XML parser for
read support.
==============================================================================
GDAL 1.1.5 New Features
-----------------------
o AIGrid:
- Return nodata value.
o OGDI:
- Added format user documentation.
- Added Sub Dataset support.
- Utilize OGDI 3.1 style capabilities metadata.
o SAR_CEOS:
- Added support for Alaska SAR Toolbox naming convention.
- Read map projection record for corner GCPs.
o PNG Driver:
- read/write support for transparency via colortable and nodata value.
o Erdas Imagine (HFA) Driver:
- Added support for reading external large image files.
- Added support for uncompressed, but reduced precision blocks.
o GIF Driver:
- Added .wld world file support.
- Added transparency read support.
- Upgraded to libungif 4.x.
o JPEG Driver:
- Added .wld world file support.
o PAux Driver:
- Added limited gcp and projection read support.
o GeoTIFF Driver:
- Added specialized support for 1 bit files.
- Upgraded world file reading (added .wld files), use
GDALReadWorldFile().
o JDEM Driver is new (Japanese DEM format).
o FujiBAS Driver is new.
o ERMapper ECW Driver is new.
o GDAL Bridge: upgraded to include new entry points, like GCP access and
nodata api.
o gdal_translate: added the -not_scrict option.
o GDALGetRandomRasterSample(): Return magnitude for random samples.
o Added use of CPL_CVSID macro in most source files. Running the RCS ident
command on any GDAL executable or shared library should now give a listing
of most object file versions from which it was built.
o Various improvements so that static builds will work under Cygwin.
o Various improvements so that builds can be done on MacOS X.
o Overviews: Implement AVERAGE_MAGPHASE option for complex image overviews.
o Added support for sub datasets to gdalinfo, core api and OGDI raster driver.
o The size of the GDAL cache can now be overridden with the GDAL_CACHEMAX
environment variable (measured in MB).
o Added Driver implementation tutorial to documentation.
o Added apps/gdaltindex.c - application for building tile indexed raster
datasets suitable for use with UMN MapServer.
GDAL 1.1.5 Significant Bug Fixes
--------------------------------
o SAR_CEOS:
- Don't try to get GCPs from scanlines with no prefix data.
o GeoTIFF:
- Fixed handling of RGBA band ordering on big endian systems.
- Fixed bugs in overview generation, especially when updating in place.
o gdal-config should work properly in all situations now.
o JPEG Driver: improved magic number tested to avoid ignoring some jpeg files.
o FITS Driver: lots of fixes and improvements.
OGR 1.1.5 New Features
----------------------
o Implemented support for attribute query filters (SetAttributeFilter())
on OGRLayer, provided SWQ based implementation, plugged into all
drivers and added hooks to ogrinfo.
o MapInfo Driver:
- Added accelerated spatial query support.
- Upgraded to current MITAB source as of GDAL release date.
o S-57 Driver:
- Added support for applying S-57 updates automatically.
o SDTS Driver:
- Added ENID and SNID to line features.
- Return coordinate system in WKT instead of PROJ.4 format.
o Shapefile Driver:
- Auto determine shapefile type from first object written.
- Added good support for NULL shapes, and NULL attribute fields.
- Added support for .prj files (read and write).
o PostgreSQL Driver:
- Added PostGIS support.
- Pass attribute queries through to PostgreSQL.
o NTF Driver:
- Added support for GTYPE 5 geometries (a type of arc).
- Added support for GEOMETRY3D records in indexed (generic) datasets.
o TIGER/Line Driver:
- Added write support.
- Improved read support for TIGER 2000.
o OLE DB Provider:
- Added support for spatial queries via ICommand parameters.
- Added support for attribute queries by parsing out WHERE clause.
- In general substantial rework and extentions were made to make it
work with ESRI and AutoDesk clients.
o Added gdal/data/stateplane.txt - a test file with one line per state plane
zone for applications wanting to present options to users.
o Install ogrsf_frmts.a on install if building with OGR support enabled.
o Reports layer extents in ogrinfo.
OGR 1.1.5 Significant Bugs
--------------------------
o OGRSpatialReference:
- Fix bug with extracting linear units from EPSG derived definitions.
- Fixed bug translating LCC from EPSG to WKT (importFromEPSG()).
- Improved IsSame() test for GEOGCS now.
- Fixed crash if PROJECTION missing from PROJCS definition.
o S-57:
- Improve recovery from corrupt line geometries.
- Read objects as generic if the object class is not recognised.
- Handle LIST attributes as a string, instead of as a single int.
o NTF:
- Fixed circle conversion to polylines to close the circle properly.
- Upped MAX_LINK to 5000 to handle much more complex geometries.
o DGN:
- Don't include elements with the complex bit set in extents
computations.
o OGRGeometry:
- Fixed WKT format (import and export) for various container types.
- WKT import fixed for coordinates, and Z coordinates.