MIGRATION GUIDE FROM GDAL 1.11 to GDAL 2.

0
-----------------------------------------This file documents backwards incompatible changes. You are strongly encouraged
to read the relevant RFCs for details and rationale for those changes.
A) RFC 46: Unification of GDAL and OGR driver models
Link: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc46_gdal_ogr_unification
C++ API:
* The following methods from OGRSFDriverRegistrar are removed : Open(),
OpenShared(), ReleaseDataSource(), DeregisterDriver(), AutoLoadDrivers()
* OGRDataSource::CreateLayer() specialized implementations should be renamed
as ICreateLayer() to benefit from layer creation options validation.
* OGRLayer::GetInfo() has been removed.
* All methods of OGRDataSource have been transfered to GDALDataset, except
SyncToDisk() that should now be implemented as FlushCache() in drivers.
* GDALOpenInfo::papszSiblingFiles member is now private. Use the new
GetSiblingFiles() method instead.
* GDALOpenInfo::fp member is replaced by fpL member of type VSILFILE*.
* OGRSFDriver::CopyDataSource() has been removed.
* GDALDriverManager::GetHome() and SetHome() have been removed.
Out-of-tree drivers :
* Read RFC 46 for the needed changes. Changes in GDALOpenInfo will impact GDAL
drivers. GDAL drivers should also declare SetMetadataItem( GDAL_DCAP_RASTER,
"YES" ).
OGRDataSource::CreateLayer() and SyncToDisk() changes will affect OGR driver
s.
Behaviour changes :
* GDALDriverManager::GetDriverCount() and GetDriver() return both raster and
vector drivers. The nature of a driver can be tested with the GDAL_DCAP_RAST
ER
and GDAL_DCAP_VECTOR driver metadata item.
* GetRefCount() starts at 1 for OGRDataSource instead of 0.
B) RFC 49: Curve geometries
Link: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc49_curve_geometries
C/C++ API :
* Use of wkb25DBit macro is strongly discouraged, as not compatible with new
geometry types. Use wkbFlatten(), wkbHasZ(), wkbSetZ() instead
* OGRwkbGeometryType enumeration has new values.
Behaviour changes :

* GML, NAS, WFS, PostGIS, VRT, GeoPackage and CSV drivers can return non-linea
r geometries.
Applications that do not wish to get such geometries can call
OGRSetNonLinearGeometriesEnabledFlag(FALSE)
Out-of-tree drivers :
* Read RFC 49 for the needed changes. CreateFeature() and SetFeature() virtual
methods must be renamed ICreateFeature() and ISetFeature().
MIGRATION GUIDE FROM GDAL 1.10 to GDAL 1.11
------------------------------------------This file documents backwards incompatible changes.
C++ API:
* GDALRasterAttributeTable is now an abstract class.
See http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc40_enhanced_rat_support
The functionnality of GDAL 1.X GDALRasterAttributeTable is now in
GDALDefaultRasterAttributeTable.
OGR drivers :
* Due to RFC 41, if a OGR driver calls SetGeomType(wkbNone) on a layer,
it will be impossible to affect geometries to features of that layer.
This worked before, although it was inconsistant, but it does no longer now.
In the developmenet of RFC 41, the CSV and VRT drivers have been upgraded
to fix such errors.
Changes that should likely not impact anybody :
* OGRGeometry::exportToGEOS() and OGRGeometryFactory::createFromGEOS() now
take a GEOSContextHandle_t argument ( GEOS >= 3.1.0 )
* OGRGeometryFactory::getGEOSGeometryFactory() has been removed.
This method returned NULL since 2006
( http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/9899/trunk/ogr/ogrgeometryfactory.cp
p )