SpatiaLite 2.4.0 RC-0

Alessando announced today that the latest version of SpatiaLite is ready for download. This is a Release Candidate so he is really looking for feedback! Please download it and test if you can…Check out the impressive RoadMap for this Open Source project.

Road Map
libspatialite
  • supporting 3D geometries [XY, XYZ, XYM, XYZM]
  • implementing compressed geometries
  • supporting ST_alias-names for OGC functions
  • supporting SQLite v.3.6.20, and consequently truely enforcing Foreign Key constraints
  • supporting libproj 4.7.0 [lots of new SRIDs added]
  • added SQL functions supporting GreatCircle and Geodesic distance/lenght computation
  • added SQL functions for unit conversions [meter to feet and alike]
  • fixed several SHP related issues
  • supporting 3D shapefiles
spatialite-tools
  • added a new CLI tool spatialite_osm supporting direct acquisition of

    road networks from Open Street Map XML/OSM datasets
librasterlite
  • minor bug-fixing and code cleaning
  • now supporting the MSVC compiler as well
Important notice:
Alexender Simakov [the Wavelet codec developer]

is currently evaluating my proposal to re-release his libepsilon under the LPGL.

accordingly to this librasterlite will be re-released under LGPL as soon as possible
spatialite-gui
  • supporting an interactive Query / View builder tool
  • added the capability to DROP or RENAME columns
spatialite-gis
  • supporting View-based layers [read-only]
  • supporting VirtualSHP-based layers [read-only]
  • supporting map labeling with optional anti-overlap optimization
  • supporting interactive routing
  • supporting map output generation as:
    • PNG, JPEG, TIFF images
    • PDF documents
    • SVG documents
Quantum GIS QGis
  • updated data provider released on QGis trunk SVN

I particularly like the fact that it now supports routing using OpenStreetMap! Way cool, Sando!

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