[Geotiff] 1.2.4 Release Candidate (EPSG 6.13)

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

I have prepared a release candidate for a libgeotiff 1.2.4 release at:

   http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff-1.2.4RC1.tar.gz
   http://download.osgeo.org/geotiff/libgeotiff/libgeotiff124RC1.zip

This release is primarily an upgrade to EPSG 6.13 tables, and a change in
the processing to avoid applying any custom overrides directly to the
EPSG tables.  The overrides (mainly used by software such as GDAL and PROJ.4)
are still available in override files call pcs.override.csv and
gcs.override.csv.

EPSG 6.13 includes a new data distribution terms and in combination with
care to not modify the data values it clears up some legality issues with
past distributions of the EPSG in csv tables.  As such, 1.2.4 *should*
be adopted fairly promptly by anyone distributing the CSV files with
open source or proprietary software.

I would appreciate testing of the 1.2.4 release candidate by interested
folks.  I'll likely promote the release candidate to an official release
some time next week if no problems are encountered.

The ChangeLog has the following items since the 1.2.3 release:

2007-07-20  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* Prepare libgeotiff 1.2.4 release.

	* csv/*.csv,*.c: Upgrade to EPSG 6.13.  Avoid applying pcs.override.csv
	and gcs.override.csv to pcs.csv and gcs.csv as this sort of dataset
	change is discouraged by the EPSG folks.

	* geo_normalize.c: Pre-search pcs.override.csv and gcs.override.csv.

	* cpl_csv_incode.c: Handle unexpected .csv files, and missing
	records more gracefully.

2007-06-05  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* Modified GTIFGetUOMLengthInfo() (for normalization) to have
	built in known values for foot and us survey foot.

2007-03-13  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* geotiff_proj4.c, geo_normalize.c: Added support for new zealand
	map grid per http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519

2007-02-04  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* Makefile.in: Fix Progs dependency so parallel makes work properly.
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475

2006-12-18  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* bin/listgeo.c: Don't report hemispheres *and* signs when using -d.

2006-11-11  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* xtiff.c, xtiffio.h: Made XTIFFInitialize() public so that
	applications can call it themselves when using alternate opens.
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296

2006-10-18  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* Upgraded csv files to EPSG 6.11.1.

2006-10-13  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* Makefile.in: Avoid running configure or autoconf automatically.
	It is nothing but heartache.

2006-07-20  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* bin/Makefile.in: Fix prefix handling.
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245

2006-06-26  Frank Warmerdam  <warmerdam at pobox.com>

	* geo_new.c: If the ascii parameters list is too short for the declared
	  size of an ascii parameter, but it doesn't start off the end of the
           available string then just trim the length.  This is to make the
           ESRI sample data file 34105h2.tif work properly.  I wish we had
           a way of issuing warnings!

Best regards,
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