[ANNOUNCE] Apache SIS 1.1 Release

[Martin Desruisseaux <de...@apache.org>]

The Apache SIS PMC is pleased to announce the immediate availability of 
the SIS 1.1 release.

The release can be obtained from the Apache SIS download page - 
http://sis.apache.org/downloads.html

Release notes are available at - 
http://sis.apache.org/release-notes/1.1.html

Apache SIS is a Java language library for developing geospatial 
applications. SIS provides data structures for geographic features and 
associated metadata along with methods to manipulate those data 
structures. The library is an implementation of GeoAPI 3.0 interfaces 
and can be used for desktop or server applications.

Some Apache SIS features are:

  * Read/write ISO 19115-3 metadata and legacy ISO 19139 compliant XML
    documents
  * Read netCDF-3, GeoTIFF, Landsat, GPX and Moving Feature CSV data
  * Referencing by coordinates (ISO 19111) or by identifiers (ISO 19112)
      o Well Known Text (WKT) version 1 and 2 (ISO 19162)
      o Geographic Markup Language (GML) version 3.2 (ISO 19136)
      o Geodetic objects and operations from EPSG geodetic dataset
      o Mercator, Lambert, stereographic and more map projections
      o Geohashes and Military Grid Reference System (MGRS)
  * Units of measurement
      o JSR-363 with parsing, formating and unit conversion functionalities
  * Processing
      o Multi-threaded raster reprojection
      o Multi-threaded isolines computation from raster data
      o Filtering of features (ISO 19143 conceptual model)

For general information on Apache SIS, please visit the project website: 
http://sis.apache.org/