[Freegis-list] updates

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Dear list,

this time we have two updates for GDAL (abstraction library for spatial data,
now 1.1.1) and PROJ (projection support, now 4.4.2), both maintained by Frank Warmerdam.

Below you find the changes in detail.

	Jan

GDAL 1.1.1:

 o Support for reading GRASS raster layers (via libgrass5).

 o Improved GeoTIFF support, including auto-translation of 1bit files,
   YCbCr and some other odd files into RGBA format on read. 

 o Addition of OGDI Raster Support (not in default builds because of
   conflicts between OGDI PROJ.4 version and the current one). 

 o Added projection, and georeferencing support for PCI .aux format,
   and Erdas Imagine format.

 o Added Supported Formats documentation.

 o Made some improvements for building.  It mostly builds ok out of
   the box with Cygwin, though the shared library stuff doesn't seem
   to work properly. 

PROJ 4.4.2:

	* Update version to 4.4.2, in preparation for 4.4.2 release.

	* Ensure makefile.vc is distributed, and mention windows building
	in README.

	* Cast args to freev2() in bch2bps.c, and mk_cheby.c to avoid errors
	on the Cray.

	* Added "sphere" to pj_ellps.c. 

	* Fixed bug in nad_init() with path for datum shifting files.

	* Implemented cs2cs program for transforming between coordinate systems
	including datum shifts.

	* Implemented proj=latlong pseudo-projection.

	* Implemented pj_transform() to transform from one coordinate system
	to another, including applying geocentric datum shifts, and NAD27
	grid shifts.

	* Implemented 3/7 parameter geocentric datum shift support.

	* Added support for +datum, +towgs84, and +nadgrids parameters
	when defining PJ's (for pj_init()).  Added datum_type, and datum_params
	to PJ structure.

	* Patched proj.c to handle binary io properly on Windows and DOS.
	Patch submitted by Thomas Knudsen <thk at kms.dk>.

	* Added #define USE_PROJUV to projects.h to allow apps to
	work properly against old and new version.

	* Patch from Craig Bruce (cbruce at cubewerx.com) for PJ_ortho.c
	to make INVERSE() work well for points near zero.

	* Added hard links for invproj->proj and invgeod->geod in 
	src/Makefile.{am,in}.

-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner				http://intevation.de/~jan/

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