http://postgis.refractions.net/news All the news that is fit to print. http://postgis.org/news/./20100311 <p>The 1.5.1 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.0 release.</p> <ul> <li>Fix to allow dumping table with invalid geometries</li> <li>Fixes to ST_SetPoint, ST_AddPoint, ST_RemovePoint, ST_AsGML, and ST_Line_Substring</li> <li>Fixes for geography features crossing the date line</li> </ul> <p><a href="/news/20100311/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20100310 <p>The 1.4.2 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.4.1 release.</p> <ul> <li>Fix to allow dumping tables with invalid geometries</li> <li>Fixes to install/uninstall scripts</li> <li>Fixes to ST_AsSVG, ST_SetPoint, ST_AddPoint, ST_RemovePoint, ST_AsGML, and ST_Line_Substring</li> </ul> <p><a href="/news/20100310/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20100204 <p>The 1.5.0 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This is a major release adding a significant number of new features including:</p> <ul> <li>New "geography" type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data <li>Performance-enhanced distance calculations <li>GML and KML format readers <li>Improved shape loading GUI <li>And more! </ul> <p><a href="/news/20100204/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20091217 <p>The 1.4.1 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.4.0 release.</p> <ul> <li>Bug fixes for ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_Union, ST_MakeLine</li> <li>Improved parsing for higher dimensional geometries</li> <li>Addressed memory issues with ST_As* functions</li> <li>Corrected inconsistent results when using the ~= operator</li> </ul> <p><a href="/news/20091217/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20091023 <a href="http://2009.foss4g.org"><img border="0" src="/news/20091023/foss4g2009.png"/></a> <p>The international open source GIS conference. The <b><a href="http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/">call for papers</a></b> is now open!</p> http://postgis.org/news/./20090724 <p>The 1.4.0 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This is a significant release including many performance enhancements, bug fixes, improved internal testing system, more detailed documentation.</p> <ul> <li>API Stability - new policies surrounding minor releases</li> <li>Support for PostgreSQL 8.4</li> <li>New methods - ST_GeoHash, ST_LineCrossingDirection, ST_AsGeoJSON, ST_MinimumBoundingCircle to name a few</li> <li>Significant performance improvements for many spatial operations, including ST_Union, ST_Intersects, ST_Contains, and ST_Within</li> <li>Vastly improved documentation and reference manual</li> <li>Improved build system, library structure, debugging framework, unit testing</li> <li>More stable support for CIRCULARSTRING, COMPOUNDCURVE and CURVEPOLYGON</li> </ul> <p><a href="/news/20090724/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20090506 <p>The 1.3.6 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This release includes several bug fixes and enhancements</p> <ul> <li>Improved PostgreSQL 8.4 compile support</li> <li>New .prj file support with pgsql2shp</li> <li>Documentation improvements</li> <li>Windows Vista memory bug fix</li> <li>Bug fixes with EWKB, shp2pgsql, pgsql2shp, and probe_geometry_columns</li> </ul> <p><a href="/news/20090506/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20081215 <p>The 1.3.5 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This release is a small bug fix release, including a critical fix for using PostGIS with Mapserver and LINE layers.</p> http://postgis.org/news/./20081124 <p>The 1.3.4 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This release includes many bug fixes, and some useful feature enhancements.</p> <ul> <li>ST_AsGeoJSON() function <li>PostgreSQL 8.4 support <li>Performance improvements with GEOS 3.1 <li>Memory leak fixes <li>Documentation improvements <li>More reliable handling of curve types </ul> <p><a href="/news/20081124/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.org/news/./20080901 <a href="http://www.foss4g2008.org/"><img style="border:0;padding:2px;padding-left:0;padding-top:0;" src="/news/20080901/foss4g2008.jpg"/></a> <p><a href="http://www.foss4g2008.org/">FOSS4G 2008</a> &ndash; this year in Cape Town, South Africa &ndash; is <em>the</em> conference to attend to meet the people who make open source geospatial software go. Project leaders, corporate supporters, implementers, and users all get together to tell their stories, share some fun, and learn.</p> http://postgis.org/news/./20080412 <p>The 1.3.3 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This release includes bug fixes and some minor feature enhancements.</p> <ul> <li>Improvements in the shp2pgsql/pgsql2shp utilities</li> <ul> <li>Better windows support</li> <li>DBF-only loading support</li> <li>Support for OS/X 10.5</li> <li>Output for Date types in DBF</li> </ul> <li>New function ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology( geometry, float8) to simplify polygons without creating invalid geometry</li> <li>KML support updates (from Eduin Carillo)</li> <li>SVG support updates (from Marco Hugentobler)</li> </ul> http://postgis.org/news/./20080314 <p>We recently heard from the folks at <a href="http://www.westinsavannah.com/golf.asp">Savannah Harbor Golf Club & Spa</a> about how they used PostGIS to help map and report on their course. Check out the story: <a href="http://www.golfcoursenews.com/news/news.asp?ID=4012">here</a> </p> http://postgis.org/news/./20080209 <p>There is a <a href="http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/history/">short history of PostGIS</a>, from conception to current state, available now on the Refractions web site. Have a look! </p> http://postgis.org/news/./20071217 <p>PostGIS has received <a href="http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/7-PostGIS-for-geospatial-analysis-and-mapping.html">a nice overview write-up</a> in the PostgreSQL online journal. Money-quote: </p><p> &ldquo;There is perhaps nothing more powerful in the geospatial world than the succinct expressiveness of SQL married with spatial operators and functions.&rdquo; </p> http://postgis.org/news/./20071201 <p>The 1.3.2 release of PostGIS is <a href='/download/'>now available</a>. This release includes bug fixes and some minor feature enhancements.</p> <ul> <li>Improvements in the TIGER geocoder </li> <li>Fix to ST_EndPoint() crasher bug </li> <li>Modified ST_AsGML() improving v2 and adding v3 support </li> <li>Fix to ensure ST_Envelope() returns valid geometries </li> <li>Change JDBC build to use Ant </li> <li>Fix for better OS/X support </li> <li>Fix to WKB parser to do simple validity checks </li> </ul>