Major developments in osgEarth 1.2

• Data management:
  • Automatic reprojection of source data
  • New Map/MapLayer? data model
  • Add and remove sources at runtime
  • Updates and fixes to the WMS, WCS, and GDAL drivers
  • Optional caching of reprojected data for better performance
  • New DirectReadTileSource for directly querying data tiles without a scene graph
  • Better support for Spherical Mercator datasets
  • Better Plate Carree support (x=long, y=lat maps)

• Performance
  • Support for new FileLocationCallback available in OSG 2.9.X to support faster loading of fully cached areas
  • Added WIN32_USE_MP option to enable multithreaded builds in Visual Studio

• Rendering:
  • Automatically cross-fade layers with the new ElevationFadeCallback utility
  • New "cube" terrain tessellation method improves image accuracy in polar regions (experimental)

• Extras (new osgEarthUtil library)
  • Fully programmable camera manipulator (EarthManipulator) designed specifically for geospatial visualization
  • New ObjectPlacer utility for placing objects on the terrain using latitude/longitude coordinates
  • FadeLayerNode class for adjusting layer transparency at run-time