Version 1.6.0 of the ubiquitous GDAL/OGR package has been released. Full details and the(very) long list ofadditions and changes are listed at: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.6.0-News

GDAL/OGR (Geospatial Data Abstraction Library) is used in a wide range of open source mapping projects and a number of commercial offerings. In addition to the main library, OGR contains a number of data manipulation utilities - these proved useful when I was preparing the data for the Eco Map Costa Rica project.