Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Release/1.6.0-News


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Dec 10, 2008, 8:34:14 AM (15 years ago)
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    33'''These are preliminary release notes, the 1.6.0 release has not yet occured.'''  (Made from SVN log from r13414 to r15836)
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     5== Highlights Summary ==
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     7=== General ===
     8 * RFC 20: Preliminary support for alternate axis orientations in SRS.
     9 * On the fly access to data in .zip and .gz compressed files.
     10 * RFC 22: Support for reading from, and warping with RPC (Rational Polynomial
     11   Coefficients) from various formats.
     12 * Gaussian and Mode resampling added for overview generation.
     13 * Added raster to vector (polygon) conversion utility.
     14 * Added raster proximity utility.
     15 * Added raster sieve filtering utility.
     16 * Added -expand rgb/rgba ability to gdal_translate
     17 * Added cutline / blend support to gdalwarp.
     18 * Added -segmentize option to ogr2ogr to break long line segments.
     19 * RFC 23: Preliminary support for character set transcoding (in OGR for now).
     20 * RFC 21: OGR SQL supports type casting and field name aliasing
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     22=== New Raster Drivers ===
     23 * BLX Magellan Topo Driver (New)
     24 * EIR Erdas Imagine Raw Driver (New)
     25 * Oracle GeoRaster Driver (New)
     26 * GRIB Driver (now part of standard distribution)
     27 * LCP (FARSITE) Driver (New)
     28 * Terralib driver (New)
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     30=== New Vector Drivers ===
     31 * Geoconcept Export Driver (New)
     32 * INGRES RDBMS Driver (New)
     33 * XPlane/Flightgear Driver (New)
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    536== GDAL/OGR 1.6.0 - General Changes ==