Thinking in GIS

Today in the GDAL mailing list Frank Warmerdam has announced that GDAL 1.9.0 has finally been released.Being a major new release, it offers many new features, but what I was waiting for is the support for Esri File GDB and Google Fusion Table.So I couldn't resist to install it and giving a try.For using the File Geodatabase driver I had to dowload the Esri File Geodatabase API (you need to be registered for downloading it).It was then just a matter of setting the value of the library path in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, and using the --with-fgdb GDAL configuration option when...
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