PostGIS 2.2.0 Release
The 2.2.0 release of PostGIS is now
available.
Over the last two years a number of
interesting new features have been added, such as:
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True nearest-neighbor searching for all geometry and geography types
New volumetric geometry support, including ST_3DDifference,
ST_3DUnion and more
Temporal data model support and functions like
ST_ClosestPointOfApproach to support temporal query
Spatial clustering functions ST_ClusterIntersecting and ST_ClusterWithin
Subdividing large geometries with ST_Subdivide
Fast box clipping with ST_ClipByBox2D
In-database raster processing with ST_Retile and ST_CreateOverview
New high-speed native code address standardizer
Visvalingam-Whyatt geometry simplification with ST_SimplifyVW
Support for compressed .tiny well-known binary. format with
ST_AsTWKB and ST_GeomFromTWKB
See the full list of changes:
http://svn.osgeo.org/postgis/tags/2.2.0/NEWS
