[Freegis-list] Shapelib 1.2.9 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

GIS Developers,

I am pleased to announce the 1.2.9 release of Shapelib.  Shapelib is a free
C library for reading and writing  ESRI Shapefiles.  It also includes
commandline utilities for viewing (as text) the contents of shapefiles,
for clipping, shifting, and scaling shapes, and for reprojecting shapes.
This release includes:

  o Good support for reading and writing NULL fields in .dbf files, good
    support for NULL shapes and addition of the DBFGetFieldIndex() functions
    (all contributed by Jim Matthews).

  o An upgraded shputils.c has been contributed by Bill Miller.

  o Daniel Morissette contributed DBFGetNativeFieldType().

  o Better error checking for disk errors in dbfopen.c. Various other bug
    fixes and safety improvements.

The Shapelib web page, which includes the new release, and various other
information, is at:

   http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib/index.html

For this release I have created an entry for Shapelib on the popular
Freshmeat site.  Anyone interested in learning of new releases of Shapelib
is encouraged visit the following URL and select "Subscribe to new
releases" on the right.

   http://freshmeat.net/projects/shapelib/

Best regards,

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