Changes between Version 220 and Version 221 of WKTRaster

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Aug 27, 2012, 8:24:09 AM (12 years ago)

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pracine

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 <B>What's new about PostGIS Raster?</B><BR><BR>
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+<I>August 27, 2012</I><BR><B>FME 2013 will soon read and write rasters stored in PostGIS!</B><BR>David Bélanger, geomatic scientist at the <A href=http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/about/organization/organization-structure/centre-for-topographic-information/11744>Centre for Topographic Information</A>, the Canada's national topographic mapping agency, informed me last week that they have contracted <A href=http://www.safe.com/>Safe Software</A> to write a reader, a writer and some others functionalities to interact with rasters stored in PostGIS! These tools should be released with FME 2013 and already available in <A href=http://www.safe.com/support/support-resources/fme-downloads/beta/>future beta versions of FME</A> this fall. A great news for the PostGIS community!<BR><BR>
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+On the GDAL side, lots of improvement have been recently done on the <A href=http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/frmts_wtkraster.html>PostGIS Raster driver</A>. You can now read irregular arrangements of raster and translate them into any format supported by GDAL. We are still looking for sponsors to implement the writer part of the driver.<BR><BR>
 
 <I>July 24, 2012</I><BR><B>PostGIS Raster Released with PostGIS 2.0 and another GSoC!</B><BR>Lot's of things happened since the last news was published in this page. First of all PostGIS Raster is now part of <A href=http://postgis.refractions.net/news/20120403/>PostGIS 2.0</A>! Congratulation to everybody who worked (and still work) on the raster stuff: Bborie, Jorge, Regina, David, Mateusz, Sandro & Pierre! Second: A second Google summer of Code project has been accepted for PostGIS (the first was for the GDAL driver and hence for the GDAL project actually). Qing Liu will work on a <A href=http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/PostGIS_Raster_SoC_Idea_2012/Distance_Analysis_Tools> distance raster to feature function</A> and a cost distance function if she gets time. Welcome Qing!<BR><BR>