Release Notes

SRM SDK Release 3.1.1

October 1, 2002

  1. Introduction
  2. Distribution Packages
  3. Installation
  4. SDK Documentation
  5. Applications
  6. Included Upgrades
  7. Bug Reports and Feedback
  8. Web Pages

Introduction

Thank you for downloading this release of the SRM Software Development Kit (SRM SDK). The SRM SDK is the development environment for creating applications that use the Spatial Reference Model (SRM), a conceptual model that allows a set of spatial reference frames to be defined in such a way that they describe geometric properties uniquely. The SRM supports unambiguous specification of the positions, directions, distances, and times associated with spatial information. It also defines algorithms for precise transformation of positions, directions and distances (for a given time) among different spatial reference frames. Its spatial operation algorithms are designed to achieve high accuracy (typically 1 mm "error ball" accuracy), and are optimized to achieve very high performance measures without compromising that accuracy."

This release has been tested on multiple platforms, such as Linux, Irix, Sun, and Windows 98/Me/NT/2000. For detailed information on platform and compiler versions supported see the Build Kit.

For help, comments, and bug reports please send email to help@sedris.org. If you are an associate, please use se-coders@sedris.org.

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Distribution Packages

This version of the SDK is being made available in multiple distribution formats. In addition to source code, pre-compiled binaries for all supported platforms can be downloaded from the SEDRIS web site (www.sedris.org).

The following matrix table shows the contents of the different packages and the directories you will find in them (note that the links on the column headers take you to the directories, so they may not work depending on your distribution and, as in the case of a source distribution, on whether you have compiled the libraries and/or applications):

 

Package and Contents bin:

Compiled binaries for applications

docs:

Documentation, including Release Notes and Reference Manual

include:

Header files for applications and libraries

lib:

Compiled binaries for libraries

src:

Source code and headers for libraries and applications

Complete Suite Source:
  • Libraries
  • Applications
  • Documentation
  X     X
Complete Suite Binary:
  • Libraries and available extensions
  • Applications
  • Documentation
X X X X  

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Installation

The SRM SDK is distributed as a GNU-zipped tar file for Unix systems and a Zip file in Win32 systems.

Note: If you have an earlier version of the SDK and you haven't changed its default installation directory, you may want to do it now because this version of the SDK may overwrite it.

To install, extract the contents of the compressed file:

Unix

Use the "tar" and "gzip" commands to extract the contents of the SDK:

gunzip -c sdk_file.tar.gz | tar xf -
using the appropriate filename for "sdk_file.tar.gz".

If you have GNU tar installed, you can use the following command instead:

tar xzf sdk_file.tar.gz

Win32

Use WinZip or other decompression utility to extract the contents of the downloaded file.

If you are installing the SRM SDK under the SEDRIS SDK, you will need to extract the contents of the file into the "sedris/src/lib" directory of the SEDRIS SDK, so that the extraction process puts all the files in the "sedris/src/lib/srm" directory.

See the Build Kit page for information on how to compile and link the software, and how to link your applications or libraries against this SDK.

Note that the file name for binary releases includes the OS/System architecture type as part of the name. After extracting the software, users should see a top-level "srm" directory. Binary releases associated with different OS/architecture can be installed on a common "srm" directory. This is to allow users who work on several platforms to install all the releases under a common "srm" directory in a shared network drive. In that case, on each installation, the non-OS-specific files are replaced by the new release and the OS specific libraries and executables are stored under their respective sub-directories under the "lib" and "bin" directories discriminated by their platform/version/architecture combination.

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SDK Documentation

The SDK Documentation is divided into the following areas:

Release Notes (this document)
Describes the capabilities of this release, its contents, and supported platforms and compilers.

Build Kit
Details the build options and procedures for compiling and linking the software.

SRM Reference Manual
Provides links to detailed documents for the SRM.

Migration Guide
Provides information to migrate applications from previous versions of the SRM SDK.

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Applications

This release includes a sample application that demonstrate the use of the SRM SDK.

Applications:

Sample SRM Access
An application that takes a latitude and longitude as parameters in GD and converts them to AUTM.

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Included Upgrades

The table below summarizes the changes to the SRM SDK in this release.

 

SRM
  • Added UTM validation via SRM_ValidateCoordinate.
  • Added support for GCS validations and conversions.
  • Added support for Horizontal Datum transformation.
  • Added support for on-demand loading of the Geoidal Separation Table for WGS84.
MISC.
  • Added support for Sun compiler 5.2 (Forte).
  • Added support for GCC 3.0.1 compiler.

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Bug Reports and Feedback

Questions, comments, and bug reports should be sent to help@sedris.org.

If you are an associate, please send email to se-coders@sedris.org.

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Web Pages

These links require Internet access.

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