[Freegis-list] GDAL/OGR 1.1.7 Released

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

The GDAL/OGR package 1.1.7 release is now available for download in source
format.  It can be found at:

   ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal-1.1.7.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/gdal117.zip

GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that
is released under an Open Source license. As a library, it presents a
single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported
formats. The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source
tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data.

The following entries in the NEWS file cover major changes in 1.1.7.

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.

Best regards,

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