The PROJ.4 project is pleased to announce the release of PROJ 4.8.0. This is a major new feature release and collects all the work done since the PROJ 4.7.0 release in September 2009. The NEWS file includes these major items:
- Added the Natural Earth projection.
- Added HEALPIX, rHEALPIX and Icosahedral Snyder Equal Area projections.
- nad2bin now produces “CTable2” format grid shift files by default which are platform independent.
- nad2nad removed, use cs2cs for datum shift operations.
- projects.h no longer installed as a public include file. Please try to only use proj_api.h.
- Add pj_get_spheroid_defn() accessor.
- Added an alternate version of pj_init() that takes a projCtx (execution context) structure to address multithreading issues with error management and to provide a support for application hookable error reporting and logging.
- Upgrade to EPSG 7.9. Some changes in ideal datum selection.
- JNI bindings reworked, org.proj4.Projections deprecated in favor of org.proj4.PJ.
- Added preliminary vertical datum support.
- Fix various multithreading issues, particular in datum grid handling code.
- Added support for the +axis= option for alternate axis orientations as part of a coordinate system (used for TM South Orientated support).
- +proj=omerc implementatioin replaced with code from libproj4. +rot_conv flag no longer works, and some coordinate systems (ie. Malaysian) will need to use +gamma instead. “epsg” init file updated accordingly.
More detailed information on work can be found in the ChangeLog file at:
http://svn.osgeo.org/metacrs/proj/tags/4.8.0/proj/ChangeLog
The source code can be found at:
http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.8.0.tar.gz
http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.8.0.zip
