Gdal

GRASS Driver:
- Add Radim's version of the driver submitted by Radim. This version
uses GRASS 5.7 libraries directly instead of using libgrass.

DODS Driver:
- Added support for spatial_ref, FlipX and FlipY .das info.

CPG Driver:
- added new driver for Convair Polarimetric format.

HDF Driver:
- Significant bugs fixed.

USGS DEM Driver:
- Support writing UTM projected files.

PNG Driver:
- Upgraded to libpng 1.2.6.

MrSID Driver:
- Substantial performance improvements.
- Support for DSDK 4.x
- Support JPEG2000 files via MrSID SDK.

NITF Driver:
- Support JPEG2000 compressed files (with Kakadu support)

ESRI BIL:
- Support .clr color files.

VRT Driver:
- Added support for describing raw files with VRTRawRasterBand.
- Added support for virtual warped files with VRTWarpedRasterBand.

GeoTIFF Driver:
- Fix support for 16bit image color tables.
- Write ExtraSamples tag for files with more samples than expected
in photometric interpretation.
- External overviews now built for read-only files.

Erdas Imagine Driver:
- Fixed support for compressed floating point layers.
- Various other fixes for compatible with newer Imagine versions.
- improved metadata handling.

gdal_merge.py:
- sets projection on output file.

OGR 1.2.2 - Overview of Changes

SQLite Driver:
- New read/write driver implemented for SQLite databases.

CSV Driver:
- New read/write driver implemented for comma separated value files.

S-57 Driver:
- Substantial performance improvements.

ODBC Driver:
- Arbitrary length field values now supported.

GEOS:
- Integration a series of methods utilizing GEOS when available. Note
that Intersect() is still just an envelope comparison.

OGRSpatialReference:
- Fixed Swiss Oblique Mercator support.

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gdal_contour:
- Now build and installed by default.

HDF4 Driver:
- Added some degree of HDF-EOS support. HDFEOS layer now part of GDAL.

DODS Driver:
- Substantial fixes, support for flipped datasets.

HFA (Erdas Imagine) Driver:
- Fixed bug with files between 2 and 4GB.
- Capture statistics as metadata.

Erdas 7.x LAN/GIS Driver:
- Newly implemented.

USGS DEM Driver:
- Various fixes to creation support / CDED product.

NITF Driver:
- Capture USE001 and STDIDC TREs as metadata.
- Capture all sorts of header information as metadata.
- Support geocentric corner coordinate specification.

MrSID Driver:
- Support added for DSDK 4.0.x.

ECW Driver:
- Added preliminary support for using 3.0 SDK for JPEG2000 support.
- Fix oversampling assertion problem.

ArcInfo Binary Grids:
- Added support for 0x01 and 0x20 block type.

OGR 1.2.1 - Overview of Changes

OGRSpatialReference:
- Various fixes related to prime meridians.

PostgreSQL/PostGIS Driver:
- Added layer name laundering.
- Launder names on by default.
- Clean stale entries in geometry_columns table when creating a layer.
- Support treating names views as layers.
- Handle long command strings.

S57 Driver:
- Fixed serious bugs with support for auto-applying update files.
- Improvements to S57 writing support.

Configuration:
- Libtool used by default with Unix style builds. Use --without-libtool
to avoid this.
- PROJ.4 can now be linked statically using --with-static-proj4.
- Added --without-bsb option for those averse to legal risk.

DODS/OPeNDAP Driver:
- Preliminary DODS (OPeNDAP) driver implemented (James Gallagher URI).

PCIDSK Driver:
- PCIDSK read/write raster driver implemented (Andrey).

Erdas Imagine / HFA Driver:
- Support recent Imagine versions (data dictionary changes).
- Better logic to search for .rrd file locally.
- Support creating files in the 2GB to 4GB size range.

GIF Driver:
- Updated to libungif 4.1.0.
- Various hacks to try and identify transparent colors better.

BMP Driver:
- Handle 32bit BMPs properly.

HDF4 Driver:
- Added proper support for multi-sample GR datasets.
- Various fixes and improvements for specific product types.

GeoTIFF Driver:
- Added PHOTOMETRIC option to control photometric interp of new files.

JPEG2000/Kakadu Driver:
- Support reading/creating lossless 16bit files.
- Updated to support Kakadu 4.1 library.

NITF Driver:
- Implement support for IGEOLO="U" (MGRS/UTM) coordinates.
- Added overview (as external GeoTIFF file) support.

MrSID Driver:
- Support DSDK 4.2.x.

PNG Driver:
- Support required byte swapping of 16bit PNG data.

FAST Driver:
- lots of fixes, supports more datums and ellipsoids.

NetCDF Driver:
- New driver implemented for netCDF support.
- Pretty much tied to form of netCDF used in GMT for now.

VTerrain .bt Driver:
- New driver for VTerrain .bt elevation format.

ECW Driver:
- support supersampled reads efficiently.
- special case for dataset level RasterIO() implemented for much better
performance in some applications.

ESRI BIL (EHdr) Driver:
- Support world files.

VRT Driver:
- Implement filtering support.

GIO (Arc/Info Binary Grid via avgridio.dll):
- Driver disabled ... to undependable.


Python:
- Preliminary support for numarray in addition to numpy (Numeric).

Contouring:
- New gdal_contour utility program implementing contour generation.
- Underlying algorithm in gdal/alg.

Warping:
- Improved support in GDALSuggestedWarpOutput() for "world" sized
files that are only partially transformable.
- Bicubic resampler improved.
- What was gdalwarptest is now gdalwarp, and the old gdalwarp is now
gdalwarpsimple. The sophisticated warper is now the default.

Man Pages:
- Man pages for GDAL utilities now being maintained and installed (Silke).

OGR 1.2.0 - Overview of Changes

OGRSpatialReference:
- Added methods for converting to/from GCTP representation.
- Added HOM 2 points on centerline variant.

DODS (OPeNDAP) Driver:
- Preliminary implementation.

TIGER/Line Driver:
- Added support for GDT ASCII TIGER-like format.
- Support TIGER/Line 2003 format.

S-57 Driver:
- Preliminary export support implemented.
- Support capture of FFPT (feature to feature) linkages.
- Support capture of TOPI from VRPT.
- Support capture of primitives as additional layers.

Shapefile Driver:
- gdal/frmts/shapelib removed from GDAL source tree, now just a
copy of required shapelib files are kept in gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/shape.
- Attempt identify polygons that are really multi-polygons and convert them
into multi-polygons properly (Radim Blazek).
- Create FID attribute in .dbf file if no attribute added by application.

GML Driver:
- Lots of fixes and improvements for reading and writing.
- Now writes a schema file by default.
- Field types are set now when reading based on data found on first pass.
- Added support for the various kinds of geometry collections.

DGN Driver:
- Now using dgnlib 1.9 - this carries with it various new element types
and some important bug fixes.

ODBC Driver:
- New ODBC driver implemented. Build by default on Windows, and buildable
on Unix (with unixodbc).

VRT Driver:
- New "virtual" OGR Datasource format implemented.
- Configuration stored in XML control file.

Oracle (OCI) Driver:
- support reading views.

OGR Core:
- Added support for WKT EMPTY geometry objects (like "MULTIPOINT(EMPTY)").
- Added DeleteFeature() method on OGRLayer class.

NTF Driver:
- Support CHG_TYPE attribute for landline plus product.

o MrSID Driver: New for 1.1.9, read-only, includes good coordinate system
support, and should be high performance.

o ECW Driver: Now reads coordinate system information (but doesn't write).

o HDF Driver: Added support for Hyperion Level 1, Aster Level 1A/1B/2, MODIS
Level 1B(earth-view)/2/3, SeaWIFS Level 3.

o L1B Driver: Now reads GCPs for georeferencing.

o NITF Driver: Support for reading RPC, variety of bugs fixes for reading and
writing. Also some general RPC infrastructure added to GDAL.

o JP2KAK Driver: Can be used with Kakadu 4.0.2 now. Compatibility fixes
for internal geotiff to improve compatibility with Mapping Science tools.
Added palette support.

o HFA (Imagine) Driver: Added read/write support for color table opacity.
Added write support for large (spill) files.

o "core" directory renamed to "gcore" to avoid confusing configure script.

o Added support for GDAL_DATA environment variable to point to GDAL support
data files (those in gdal/data directory).

o Added GDALDataset::RasterIO() for more efficient reading of multiple bands
in one request (in some cases anyways).

o High performance warp api considered to be complete now, and substantially
optimized.

o gdal_merge.py: supported multiple bands, copying PCT.


OGR 1.1.9 - Overview of Changes

o Oracle Spatial: New generic read/write, and implemented highly optimized
loading support.

o Tiger driver: added support for TIGER/Line 2002 product.

o GML driver: now supports Xerces versions from 1.6 up to 2.3. Lots of
bugs fixes and improvements. GML Geometry now in OGR core.

o Improved support for translating to and from ESRI WKT, including a complete
mapping between EPSG related ESRI datum names and OGR's expected names.

o Improved support for alternate prime meridians in coordinate system code.

o Shapefiles: Can write features with NULL geometry,

o DGN: added 3d write support.

o Implemented generic attribute indexing support (only used for shapefile
at this point). Use in SQL where clauses and ExecuteSQL().

o WKT MULTIPOINT in/out formatting fixed.

o Added SynToDisk() method on OGRDataset and OGRLayer.

o Implemented "Web Coordinate Transformation Service" (ogr/wcts).

o Implemented "in memory" format driver.

o C API documented.

o Implemented HDF 4 read/write support. This includes HDF EOS reading.

o Implemented Windows BMP read/write support.

o Implemented NITF read/write support.

o Implemented NOAA Polar Orbiter L1B format driver.

o Implemented EOSAT FAST format driver.

o Implemented a JasPer based JPEG2000 driver (several limitations).

o Implemented a Kakadu based JPEG2000/GeoJP2(tm) driver (full featured, but
Kakadu is not open source).

o Implemented new 'gdalwarp' application for projection and GCP based image
warping. See gdal/alg for underlying algorithms. Currently gdalwarp only
supports 8 bit images and holds the whole source image in memory.

o Implemented write support for ESRI ASCII Grids.

o Lots of improvements to GeoTIFF driver. Metadata writing, update of
georeferencing, and support for writing PCS codes based on AUTHORITY fields
in WKT.

o Implemented support for uncompressed 1bit data in Erdas Imagine files,
as well as generic metadata.

o Fixed 0xFF compression support in the Arc/Info Binary Grid (AIG) driver.

o Lots of improvements to BSB drive, including preliminary uncompressed
output support, support for reading BSB 3.0 and GEO/NOS.

o Lots of work on VRT format.

o ECW: Fixed bug with reading a more than full resolution.

o Envisat driver now supports AATSR TOA and MERIS data.

o Fixes for nodata support in GRASS driver.

o Added the --version and --formats options to many utility programs.

o gdal_translate:
- added -projwin flag to copy a window specified in projection coordinates.
- added the -a_srs option to assign a user supplied SRS to output file.
- translation with subsetting to any format now support (uses VRT inside).

o Lots of metadata now attached to driver objects describing their
capabilities.

o Implemented GDALDestroyDriverManager() to ensure full memory cleanup of
GDAL related resources.

o Added a 'devinstall' target on Windows to support easy installation of
include files and stub libraries on Windows. Also many other improvements
to Windows build. Most options can be easily turned on and off from the
nmake.opt file now.


OGR 1.1.8 - Overview of Changes

o Implemented support for writing 2D DGN files. Added support for MSLINK
and Text values available as attributes.

o Implemented FMEObjects based read driver.

o Implemented ExecuteSQL() method on OGRDataSource. Generic code supports
fairly full featured SELECT statements.

o Various fixes to 3D shapefile support.

o Fixes to binary representation for 2.5D geometries. Fixed MULTIPOINT WKT
geometry representation.

o Upgraded OGRSpatialReference.importFromEPSG() to use the new EPSG 6.2.2
tables instead of the old EPSG 4.x tables.

o Many fixes to PostGIS driver, including special creation options for
"laundering" field names to save tokens.

o Many improvements to standards conformance of OGRSpatialReference WKT
representation to the OGC Coordinate Transformations specification. Still
some quirks related to prime meridians and coordinate systems with units
other than degrees.

o Implemented support for Meridian 2 NTF files in NTF driver. Better
support for GENERIC_CPOLY geometries.

o Added support for [NOT] IN, [NOT] LIKE and IS [NOT] NULL predicates in
WHERE clauses.

o Implemented a C API for accessing OGR.

o Implemented support for building OLE DB Provider with Visual Studio.NET
(many changes in ATL templates). Lots of other OLE DB improvements for
better MapGuide compatibility.

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.