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GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 Released (Updated: WMS Driver)
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The GDAL mailing list announced the release of GDAL/OGR 1.4.3. Here's the bugfix list and new features. GDAL is quite mature, being used by ESRI, Google, most open source geospatial software and many more. From the official site: "GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing. [...] The related OGR library (which lives within the GDAL source tree) provides a similar capability for simple features vector data." Copied below is a link to the previous story on comparing FDO, GDAL/OGR and FME. Update: 11/02 18:14 GMT by S : Wouhou! A colleague just made me realize the GDAL WMS driver is included in this release, and with little efforts, we made it work. This is great news and a new easy way to add WMS support for projects which uses GDAL/OGR. However, I don't know yet to which extent the driver can be considered mature or not.
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which is something new for GDAL/OGR. That means it contains virtually no
new features, but it does contain all important bug fixes since 1.4.0. It
should be possible for anyone using GDAL/OGR 1.4.0 to upgrade to GDAL/OGR
1.4.1 with a minimum of concern of new bugs or disruptive changes." Here's the overview of changes. GDAL/OGR is arguably the most important geospatial open source software, being used by numerous open source geospatial projects and proprietary projects including Google and ESRI.
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GDAL/OGR 1.4.4 Released
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The GDAL mailing list informs us the widely used GDAL/OGR 1.4.4 has been released: "This is a bug fix release in the 1.4.x stable release series and
adds no significant new features.
This release replaces the GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 release which has been retracted
by the project as it included an unexpected ABI (Application Binary
Interface) change from the earlier 1.4.x releases." Here's the detailed changes.
GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 Released (Updated: WMS Driver)
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