| 4 | |
| 5 | == Highlights Summary == |
| 6 | |
| 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 |
| 21 | |
| 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) |
| 29 | |
| 30 | === New Vector Drivers === |
| 31 | * Geoconcept Export Driver (New) |
| 32 | * INGRES RDBMS Driver (New) |
| 33 | * XPlane/Flightgear Driver (New) |
| 34 | |