• PostGIS 1.5.0 Release

    作者:  • 2010 年 2 月 5 日 • 技术主义 • 暂无评论

    半年前才发布1.4.0, 今天又发布了1.5.0. Paul Ramsey你也太快了。The 1.5.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a major release adding a significant number of new features including:

    • New “geography” type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data
    • Performance-enhanced distance calculations
    • GML and KML format readers
    • Improved shape loading GUI
    • And more!

    RELEASE NOTES
    Important Changes

    • =~ operator now indicates bounding box equality, not feature equality
    • GEOS 3.1 is now the minimum accepted version of GEOS
    • GEOS 3.2 is needed if you want to use enhanced buffering features and ST_HausdorffDistance
    • GEOS, LibXML2, and Proj4 are now mandatory dependencies
    • New Features
    • Added Hausdorff distance calculations (#209) (Vincent Picavet)
    • Added parameters argument to ST_Buffer operation to support one-sided buffering and other buffering styles (Sandro Santilli)
    • Performance improvements to ST_Distance (Nicklas Avén)
    • Addition of other Distance related visualization and analysis functions (Nicklas Avén)
    • ST_ClosestPoint
    • ST_DFullyWithin
    • ST_LongestLine
    • ST_MaxDistance
    • ST_ShortestLine
    • KML, GML input via ST_GeomFromGML and ST_GeomFromKML (Olivier Courtin)
    • Extract homogeneous collection with ST_CollectionExtract (Paul Ramsey)
    • Add measure values to existing linestring with ST_AddMeasure (Paul Ramsey)
    • History table implementation in utils (George Silva)
    • Win32 support and improvement of core shp2pgsql-gui (Mark Cave-Ayland)
    • In place ‘make check’ support (Paul Ramsey)
    • Geography type and supporting functions
    • Spherical algorithms from Dave Skea
    • Object/index implementation from Paul Ramsey
    • Selectivitiy implementation from Mark Cave-Ayland
    • Serializations (KML, GML, JSON) from Olivier Courtin
    • ST_Area, ST_Distance, ST_DWithin, ST_GeogFromText, ST_GeogFromWKB, ST_Intersects, ST_Covers, ST_Buffer
    • Documentation updates and improvements (Regina Obe, Kevin Neufeld)
    • Testing and quality control (Regina Obe)
    • PostGIS 1.5 support PostgreSQL 8.5 trunk (Guillaume Lelarge)
    • Many, many other changes

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