http://postgis.refractions.net/news All the news that is fit to print. http://postgis.refractions.net/news/./20111115 <p><a href="http://www.gisday.com">GIS Day</a> is November 16th this year, making November 17th Post-GIS Day. How will you celebrate?</p> http://postgis.refractions.net/news/./20110625 <p>The PostGIS team is proud to announce the release of version <href='/download/'>1.5.3</a>. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.2 release in addition to fixes that allow it to compile against PostgreSQL 9.1beta.</p> <p><a href="/news/20110625/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.refractions.net/news/./20110609 A <a href="http://www.postgresql-sessions.org/en/2/start">free, 1-day conference</a> in Paris, France, focusing on PostGIS. http://postgis.refractions.net/news/./20110426 <a href="http://2011.foss4g.org"><img src="http://wiki.osgeo.org/images/7/72/Foss4g_2011_150px.png" alt="FOSS4G Conference"/></a> <p>The international open source GIS conference is coming to Denver this year. You can <a href="http://community-review.foss4g.org/">vote on the program</a> now!</p> http://postgis.refractions.net/news/./20100927 <p>The PostGIS team is proud to announce the release of version <href='/download/'>1.5.2</a>. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.1 release.</p> <ul> <li>Fix handling of empty geometries</li> <li>Improvements to geography methods and indexing</li> <li>Fixes to the geography data type that previously errored: ST_DWithin, Analyzing a table</li> <li>Fixes to the shp2pgsql utility program and GUI</li> </ul> <p><a href="/news/20100927/">Read more...</a></p> http://postgis.refractions.net/news/./20100901 <a href="http://2010.foss4g.org"><img src="http://2010.foss4g.org/images/logo_125x125.jpg" alt="FOSS4G Conference"/></a> <p>The international open source GIS conference. The <b><a href="http://2010.foss4g.org/presentations.php">call for papers</a></b> is now open!</p> http://postgis.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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.refractions.net/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>