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-Metadata-Version: 1.0
+Metadata-Version: 1.1
 Name: Shapely
-Version: 1.2.14
+Version: 1.2.18
 Summary: Geometric objects, predicates, and operations
-Home-page: https://github.com/sgillies/shapely
+Home-page: https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely
 Author: Sean Gillies
 Author-email: sean.gillies@gmail.com
 License: BSD
-Description: ======
-        README
-        ======
-        
-        PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Pythoneers and
-        Pythonistas.
-        
-        .. image:: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2738/4511827859_b5822043b7_o_d.png
-           :width: 800
-           :height: 400
-        
-        Shapely is a BSD-licensed Python package for manipulation and analysis of
-        planar geometric objects. It is based on the widely deployed GEOS_ (the engine
-        of PostGIS_) and JTS_ (from which GEOS is ported) libraries. This C dependency
-        is traded for the ability to execute with blazing speed. Shapely is not
-        concerned with data formats or coordinate systems, but can be readily
-        integrated with packages that are. For more details, see:
-        
-        * Shapely wiki_
-        * Shapely manual_
-        * Shapely `example apps`_
-        
-        Dependencies
-        ============
-        
-        Shapely 1.2 depends on:
-        
-        * Python >=2.5,<3
-        * libgeos_c >=3.1 (3.0 and below have not been tested, YMMV)
-        
-        Installation
-        ============
-        
-        Windows users should use the executable installer, which contains the required
-        GEOS DLL. Other users should acquire libgeos_c by any means, make sure that it
-        is on the system library path, and install from the Python package index::
-        
-          $ pip install Shapely
-        
-        or from a source distribution with the setup script::
-        
-          $ python setup.py install
-        
-        Usage
-        =====
-        
-        Here is the canonical example of building an approximately circular patch by
-        buffering a point::
-        
-          >>> from shapely.geometry import Point
-          >>> patch = Point(0.0, 0.0).buffer(10.0)
-          >>> patch
-          <shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon object at 0x...>
-          >>> patch.area
-          313.65484905459385
-        
-        See the manual_ for comprehensive usage snippets and the dissolve.py and
-        intersect.py `example apps`_.
-        
-        Integration 
-        ===========
-        
-        Shapely does not read or write data files, but it can serialize and deserialize
-        using several well known formats and protocols. The shapely.wkb and shapely.wkt
-        modules provide dumpers and loaders inspired by Python's pickle module.::
-        
-          >>> from shapely.wkt import dumps, loads
-          >>> dumps(loads('POINT (0 0)'))
-          'POINT (0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000)'
-        
-        All linear objects, such as the rings of a polygon (like ``patch`` above),
-        provide the Numpy array interface.::
-        
-          >>> from numpy import asarray
-          >>> ag = asarray(patch.exterior)
-          >>> ag
-          array([[  1.00000000e+01,   0.00000000e+00],
-                 [  9.95184727e+00,  -9.80171403e-01],
-                 [  9.80785280e+00,  -1.95090322e+00],
-                 ...
-                 [  1.00000000e+01,   0.00000000e+00]])
-        
-        That yields a numpy array of [x, y] arrays. This is not always exactly what one
-        wants for plotting shapes with Matplotlib (for example), so Shapely 1.2 adds
-        a `xy` property for obtaining separate arrays of coordinate x and y values.::
-        
-          >>> x, y = patch.exterior.xy
-          >>> ax = asarray(x)
-          >>> ax
-          array([  1.00000000e+01,   9.95184727e+00,   9.80785280e+00,  ...])
-        
-        Numpy arrays can also be adapted to Shapely linestrings::
-        
-          >>> from shapely.geometry import asLineString
-          >>> asLineString(ag).length
-          62.806623139095073
-          >>> asLineString(ag).wkt
-          'LINESTRING (10.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000, ...)'
-        
-        Testing
-        =======
-        
-        Shapely uses a Zope-stye suite of unittests and doctests, exercised via
-        setup.py.::
-        
-          $ python setup.py test
-        
-        Nosetests won't run the tests properly; Zope doctest suites are not currently
-        supported well by nose.
-        
-        Support
-        =======
-        
-        Bugs may be reported and questions asked via https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely.
-        
-        Credits
-        =======
-        
-        Shapely is written by:
-        
-        * Sean Gillies
-        * Aron Bierbaum
-        * Kai Lautaportti
-        * Oliver Tonnhofer
-        
-        Patches contributed by:
-        
-        * Howard Butler
-        * Frédéric Junod
-        * Éric Lemoine
-        * Jonathan Tartley
-        * Kristian Thy
-        * Mike Toews (https://github.com/mwtoews)
-        
-        Additional help from:
-        
-        * Justin Bronn (GeoDjango) for ctypes inspiration
-        * Martin Davis (JTS)
-        * Jaakko Salli for the Windows distributions
-        * Sandro Santilli, Mateusz Loskot, Paul Ramsey, et al (GEOS_ Project)
-        
-        Major portions of this work were supported by a grant (for Pleiades_) from the
-        U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov).
-        
-        .. _JTS: http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm
-        .. _PostGIS: http://postgis.org
-        .. _GEOS: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
-        .. _example apps: http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Examples
-        .. _wiki: http://trac.gispython.org/lab/wiki/Shapely
-        .. _manual: http://toblerity.github.com/shapely/manual.html
-        .. _Pleiades: http://pleiades.stoa.org
-        
-        
-        Changes
-        =======
-        
-        1.2.14 (2012-01-23)
-        -------------------
-        - A geometry's coords property is now sliceable, yielding a list of coordinate
-          values.
-        - Homogeneous collections are now sliceable, yielding a new collection of the
-          same type.
-        
-        1.2.13 (2011-09-16)
-        -------------------
-        - Fixed errors in speedups on 32bit systems when GEOS references memory above
-          2GB.
-        - Add shapely.__version__ attribute.
-        - Update the manual.
-        
-        1.2.12 (2011-08-15)
-        -------------------
-        - Build Windows distributions with VC7 or VC9 as appropriate.
-        - More verbose report on failure to speed up.
-        - Fix for prepared geometries broken in 1.2.11.
-        - DO NOT INSTALL 1.2.11
-        
-        1.2.11 (2011-08-04)
-        -------------------
-        - Ignore AttributeError during exit.
-        - PyPy 1.5 support.
-        - Prevent operation on prepared geometry crasher (#12).
-        - Optional Cython speedups for Windows.
-        - Linux 3 platform support.
-        
-        1.2.10 (2011-05-09)
-        -------------------
-        - Add optional Cython speedups.
-        - Add is_cww predicate to LinearRing.
-        - Add function that forces orientation of Polygons.
-        - Disable build of speedups on Windows pending packaging work.
-        
-        1.2.9 (2011-03-31)
-        ------------------
-        - Remove extra glob import.
-        - Move examples to shapely.examples.
-        - Add box() constructor for rectangular polygons.
-        - Fix extraneous imports.
-        
-        1.2.8 (2011-12-03)
-        ------------------
-        - New parallel_offset method (#6).
-        - Support for Python 2.4.
-        
-        1.2.7 (2010-11-05)
-        ------------------
-        - Support for Windows eggs.
-        
-        1.2.6 (2010-10-21)
-        ------------------
-        - The geoms property of an empty collection yields [] instead of a ValueError
-          (#3).
-        - The coords and geometry type sproperties have the same behavior as above.
-        - Ensure that z values carry through into products of operations (#4).
-        
-        1.2.5 (2010-09-19)
-        ------------------
-        - Stop distributing docs/_build.
-        - Include library fallbacks in test_dlls.py for linux platform.
-        
-        1.2.4 (2010-09-09)
-        ------------------
-        - Raise AttributeError when there's no backend support for a method.
-        - Raise OSError if libgeos_c.so (or variants) can't be found and loaded.
-        - Add geos_c DLL loading support for linux platforms where find_library doesn't
-          work.
-        
-        1.2.3 (2010-08-17)
-        ------------------
-        - Add mapping function.
-        - Fix problem with GEOSisValidReason symbol for GEOS < 3.1.
-        
-        1.2.2 (2010-07-23)
-        ------------------
-        - Add representative_point method.
-        
-        1.2.1 (2010-06-23)
-        ------------------
-        - Fixed bounds of singular polygons.
-        - Added shapely.validation.explain_validity function (#226).
-        
-        1.2 (2010-05-27)
-        ----------------
-        - Final release.
-        
-        1.2rc2 (2010-05-26)
-        -------------------
-        - Add examples and tests to MANIFEST.in.
-        - Release candidate 2.
-        
-        1.2rc1 (2010-05-25)
-        -------------------
-        - Release candidate.
-        
-        1.2b7 (2010-04-22)
-        ------------------
-        - Memory leak associated with new empty geometry state fixed.
-        
-        1.2b6 (2010-04-13)
-        ------------------
-        - Broken GeometryCollection fixed.
-        
-        1.2b5 (2010-04-09)
-        ------------------
-        - Objects can be constructed from others of the same type, thereby making
-          copies. Collections can be constructed from sequences of objects, also making
-          copies.
-        - Collections are now iterators over their component objects.
-        - New code for manual figures, using the descartes package.
-        
-        1.2b4 (2010-03-19)
-        ------------------
-        - Adds support for the "sunos5" platform.
-        
-        1.2b3 (2010-02-28)
-        ------------------
-        - Only provide simplification implementations for GEOS C API >= 1.5.
-        
-        1.2b2 (2010-02-19)
-        ------------------
-        - Fix cascaded_union bug introduced in 1.2b1 (#212).
-        
-        1.2b1 (2010-02-18)
-        ------------------
-        - Update the README. Remove cruft from setup.py. Add some version 1.2 metadata
-          regarding required Python version (>=2.5,<3) and external dependency
-          (libgeos_c >= 3.1).
-        
-        1.2a6 (2010-02-09)
-        ------------------
-        - Add accessor for separate arrays of X and Y values (#210).
-        
-        TODO: fill gap here
-        
-        1.2a1 (2010-01-20)
-        ------------------
-        - Proper prototyping of WKB writer, and avoidance of errors on 64-bit systems
-          (#191).
-        - Prototype libgeos_c functions in a way that lets py2exe apps import shapely
-          (#189).
-        
-        1.2 Branched (2009-09-19)
-        
-        1.0.12 (2009-04-09)
-        -------------------
-        - Fix for references held by topology and predicate descriptors.
-        
-        1.0.11 (2008-11-20)
-        -------------------
-        - Work around bug in GEOS 2.2.3, GEOSCoordSeq_getOrdinate not exported properly
-          (#178).
-        
-        1.0.10 (2008-11-17)
-        -------------------
-        - Fixed compatibility with GEOS 2.2.3 that was broken in 1.0.8 release (#176).
-        
-        1.0.9 (2008-11-16)
-        ------------------
-        - Find and load MacPorts libgeos.
-        
-        1.0.8 (2008-11-01)
-        ------------------
-        - Fill out GEOS function result and argument types to prevent faults on a
-          64-bit arch.
-        
-        1.0.7 (2008-08-22)
-        ------------------
-        - Polygon rings now have the same dimensions as parent (#168).
-        - Eliminated reference cycles in polygons (#169).
-        
-        1.0.6 (2008-07-10)
-        ------------------
-        - Fixed adaptation of multi polygon data.
-        - Raise exceptions earlier from binary predicates.
-        - Beginning distributing new windows DLLs (#166).
-        
-        1.0.5 (2008-05-20)
-        ------------------
-        - Added access to GEOS polygonizer function.
-        - Raise exception when insufficient coordinate tuples are passed to LinearRing
-          constructor (#164).
-        
-        1.0.4 (2008-05-01)
-        ------------------
-        - Disentangle Python and topological equality (#163).
-        - Add shape(), a factory that copies coordinates from a geo interface provider.
-          To be used instead of asShape() unless you really need to store coordinates
-          outside shapely for efficient use in other code.
-        - Cache GEOS geometries in adapters (#163).
-        
-        1.0.3 (2008-04-09)
-        ------------------
-        - Do not release GIL when calling GEOS functions (#158).
-        - Prevent faults when chaining multiple GEOS operators (#159).
-        
-        1.0.2 (2008-02-26)
-        ------------------
-        - Fix loss of dimensionality in polygon rings (#155).
-        
-        1.0.1 (2008-02-08)
-        ------------------
-        - Allow chaining expressions involving coordinate sequences and geometry parts
-          (#151).
-        - Protect against abnormal use of coordinate accessors (#152).
-        - Coordinate sequences now implement the numpy array protocol (#153).
-        
-        1.0 (2008-01-18)
-        ----------------
-        - Final release.
-        
-        1.0 RC2 (2008-01-16)
-        --------------------
-        - Added temporary solution for #149.
-        
-        1.0 RC1 (2008-01-14)
-        --------------------
-        - First release candidate
-        
+Description: =======
+        Shapely
+        =======
+        
+        PostGIS-ish operations outside a database context for Pythoneers and
+        Pythonistas.
+        
+        .. image:: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2738/4511827859_b5822043b7_o_d.png
+           :width: 800
+           :height: 400
+        
+        Shapely is a BSD-licensed Python package for manipulation and analysis of
+        planar geometric objects. It is based on the widely deployed GEOS_ (the engine
+        of PostGIS_) and JTS_ (from which GEOS is ported) libraries. This C dependency
+        is traded for the ability to execute with blazing speed. Shapely is not
+        concerned with data formats or coordinate systems, but can be readily
+        integrated with packages that are. For more details, see:
+        
+        * Shapely manual_
+        * Shapely `example apps`_
+        
+        Dependencies
+        ============
+        
+        Shapely 1.2 depends on:
+        
+        * Python >=2.5,<3
+        * libgeos_c >=3.1 (3.0 and below have not been tested, YMMV)
+        
+        Installation
+        ============
+        
+        Windows users should use the executable installer, which contains the required
+        GEOS DLL. Other users should acquire libgeos_c by any means, make sure that it
+        is on the system library path, and install from the Python package index::
+        
+          $ pip install Shapely
+        
+        or from a source distribution with the setup script::
+        
+          $ python setup.py install
+        
+        .. warning:: Windows users:
+           do not under any circumstances use pip (or easy_install) to uninstall
+           Shapely versions < 1.2.17. Due to the way Shapely used to install its GEOS
+           DLL and a distribute or setuptools bug, your Python installation may be
+           broken by an uninstall command. Shapely 1.2.17 will uninstall safely.
+        
+        Usage
+        =====
+        
+        Here is the canonical example of building an approximately circular patch by
+        buffering a point::
+        
+          >>> from shapely.geometry import Point
+          >>> patch = Point(0.0, 0.0).buffer(10.0)
+          >>> patch
+          <shapely.geometry.polygon.Polygon object at 0x...>
+          >>> patch.area
+          313.65484905459385
+        
+        See the manual_ for comprehensive usage snippets and the dissolve.py and
+        intersect.py `example apps`_.
+        
+        Integration
+        ===========
+        
+        Shapely does not read or write data files, but it can serialize and deserialize
+        using several well known formats and protocols. The shapely.wkb and shapely.wkt
+        modules provide dumpers and loaders inspired by Python's pickle module.::
+        
+          >>> from shapely.wkt import dumps, loads
+          >>> dumps(loads('POINT (0 0)'))
+          'POINT (0.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000)'
+        
+        All linear objects, such as the rings of a polygon (like ``patch`` above),
+        provide the Numpy array interface.::
+        
+          >>> from numpy import asarray
+          >>> ag = asarray(patch.exterior)
+          >>> ag
+          array([[  1.00000000e+01,   0.00000000e+00],
+                 [  9.95184727e+00,  -9.80171403e-01],
+                 [  9.80785280e+00,  -1.95090322e+00],
+                 ...
+                 [  1.00000000e+01,   0.00000000e+00]])
+        
+        That yields a Numpy array of [x, y] arrays. This is not always exactly what one
+        wants for plotting shapes with Matplotlib (for example), so Shapely 1.2 adds
+        a `xy` property for obtaining separate arrays of coordinate x and y values.::
+        
+          >>> x, y = patch.exterior.xy
+          >>> ax = asarray(x)
+          >>> ax
+          array([  1.00000000e+01,   9.95184727e+00,   9.80785280e+00,  ...])
+        
+        Numpy arrays can also be adapted to Shapely linestrings::
+        
+          >>> from shapely.geometry import asLineString
+          >>> asLineString(ag).length
+          62.806623139095073
+          >>> asLineString(ag).wkt
+          'LINESTRING (10.0000000000000000 0.0000000000000000, ...)'
+        
+        Shapely can also integrate with other Python GIS packages using data modeled
+        after GeoJSON.
+        
+        .. sourcecode:: pycon
+        
+          >>> import json
+          >>> from shapely.geometry import mapping, shape
+          >>> s = shape(json.loads('{"type": "Point", "coordinates": [0.0, 0.0]}'))
+          >>> s
+          <shapely.geometry.point.Point object at 0x...>
+          >>> print(json.dumps(mapping(s)))
+          {"type": "Point", "coordinates": [0.0, 0.0]}
+        
+        Testing
+        =======
+        
+        Shapely uses a Zope-stye suite of unittests and doctests, exercised via
+        setup.py.::
+        
+          $ python setup.py test
+        
+        Nosetests won't run the tests properly; Zope doctest suites are not currently
+        supported well by nose.
+        
+        Support
+        =======
+        
+        Please discuss Shapely with us at
+        http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community.
+        
+        Bugs may be reported at https://github.com/Toblerity/Shapely.
+        
+        
+        
+        .. _JTS: http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/jtshome.htm
+        .. _PostGIS: http://postgis.org
+        .. _GEOS: http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
+        .. _example apps: https://github.com/sgillies/shapely/tree/master/shapely/examples
+        .. _manual: http://toblerity.github.com/shapely/manual.html
+        .. _Pleiades: http://pleiades.stoa.org
+        
+        
+        Credits
+        =======
+        
+        Shapely is written by:
+        
+        * Sean Gillies
+        * Aron Bierbaum
+        * Kai Lautaportti
+        * Oliver Tonnhofer
+        
+        Patches contributed by:
+        
+        * Howard Butler
+        * Fr |eaigue| d |eaigue| ric Junod
+        * Eric Lemoine
+        * Jonathan Tartley
+        * Kristian Thy
+        * Mike Toews (https://github.com/mwtoews)
+        * Phil Elson (https://github.com/pelson)
+        * Jeethu Rao (https://github.com/jeethu)
+        
+        Additional help from:
+        
+        * Justin Bronn (GeoDjango) for ctypes inspiration
+        * Martin Davis (JTS)
+        * Jaakko Salli for the Windows distributions
+        * Sandro Santilli, Mateusz Loskot, Paul Ramsey, et al (GEOS Project)
+        
+        Major portions of this work were supported by a grant (for Pleiades_) from the
+        U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov).
+        
+        .. |eaigue| unicode:: U+00E9
+           :trim:
+        .. _Pleiades: http://pleiades.stoa.org
+        
+        Changes
+        =======
+        
+        Next
+        ----
+        - Add buffering style options (#55).
+        
+        1.2.18 (2013-07-23)
+        --------------------
+        - Add shapely.ops.transform.
+        - Permit empty sequences in collection constructors (#49, #50).
+        - Individual polygons in MultiPolygon.__geo_interface__ are changed to tuples
+          to match Polygon.__geo_interface__ (#51).
+        - Add shapely.ops.polygonize_full (#57).
+        
+        1.2.17 (2013-01-27)
+        -------------------
+        - Avoid circular import between wkt/wkb and geometry.base by moving calls
+          to GEOS serializers to the latter module.
+        - Set _ndim when unpickling (issue #6).
+        - Don't install DLLs to Python's DLL directory (#37).
+        - Add affinity module of affine transformation (#31).
+        - Fix NameError that blocked installation with PyPy (#40, #41).
+        
+        1.2.16 (2012-09-18)
+        -------------------
+        - Add ops.unary_union function.
+        - Alias ops.cascaded_union to ops.unary_union when GEOS CAPI >= (1,7,0).
+        - Add geos_version_string attribute to shapely.geos.
+        - Ensure parent is set when child geometry is accessed.
+        - Generate _speedups.c using Cython when building from repo when missing,
+          stale, or the build target is "sdist".
+        - The is_simple predicate of invalid, self-intersecting linear rings now
+          returns ``False``.
+        - Remove VERSION.txt from repo, it's now written by the distutils setup script
+          with value of shapely.__version__.
+        
+        1.2.15 (2012-06-27)
+        -------------------
+        - Eliminate numerical sensitivity in a method chaining test (Debian bug
+          #663210).
+        - Account for cascaded union of random buffered test points being a polygon
+          or multipolygon (Debian bug #666655).
+        - Use Cython to build speedups if it is installed.
+        - Avoid stumbling over SVN revision numbers in GEOS C API version strings.
+        
+        1.2.14 (2012-01-23)
+        -------------------
+        - A geometry's coords property is now sliceable, yielding a list of coordinate
+          values.
+        - Homogeneous collections are now sliceable, yielding a new collection of the
+          same type.
+        
+        1.2.13 (2011-09-16)
+        -------------------
+        - Fixed errors in speedups on 32bit systems when GEOS references memory above
+          2GB.
+        - Add shapely.__version__ attribute.
+        - Update the manual.
+        
+        1.2.12 (2011-08-15)
+        -------------------
+        - Build Windows distributions with VC7 or VC9 as appropriate.
+        - More verbose report on failure to speed up.
+        - Fix for prepared geometries broken in 1.2.11.
+        - DO NOT INSTALL 1.2.11
+        
+        1.2.11 (2011-08-04)
+        -------------------
+        - Ignore AttributeError during exit.
+        - PyPy 1.5 support.
+        - Prevent operation on prepared geometry crasher (#12).
+        - Optional Cython speedups for Windows.
+        - Linux 3 platform support.
+        
+        1.2.10 (2011-05-09)
+        -------------------
+        - Add optional Cython speedups.
+        - Add is_cww predicate to LinearRing.
+        - Add function that forces orientation of Polygons.
+        - Disable build of speedups on Windows pending packaging work.
+        
+        1.2.9 (2011-03-31)
+        ------------------
+        - Remove extra glob import.
+        - Move examples to shapely.examples.
+        - Add box() constructor for rectangular polygons.
+        - Fix extraneous imports.
+        
+        1.2.8 (2011-12-03)
+        ------------------
+        - New parallel_offset method (#6).
+        - Support for Python 2.4.
+        
+        1.2.7 (2010-11-05)
+        ------------------
+        - Support for Windows eggs.
+        
+        1.2.6 (2010-10-21)
+        ------------------
+        - The geoms property of an empty collection yields [] instead of a ValueError
+          (#3).
+        - The coords and geometry type sproperties have the same behavior as above.
+        - Ensure that z values carry through into products of operations (#4).
+        
+        1.2.5 (2010-09-19)
+        ------------------
+        - Stop distributing docs/_build.
+        - Include library fallbacks in test_dlls.py for linux platform.
+        
+        1.2.4 (2010-09-09)
+        ------------------
+        - Raise AttributeError when there's no backend support for a method.
+        - Raise OSError if libgeos_c.so (or variants) can't be found and loaded.
+        - Add geos_c DLL loading support for linux platforms where find_library doesn't
+          work.
+        
+        1.2.3 (2010-08-17)
+        ------------------
+        - Add mapping function.
+        - Fix problem with GEOSisValidReason symbol for GEOS < 3.1.
+        
+        1.2.2 (2010-07-23)
+        ------------------
+        - Add representative_point method.
+        
+        1.2.1 (2010-06-23)
+        ------------------
+        - Fixed bounds of singular polygons.
+        - Added shapely.validation.explain_validity function (#226).
+        
+        1.2 (2010-05-27)
+        ----------------
+        - Final release.
+        
+        1.2rc2 (2010-05-26)
+        -------------------
+        - Add examples and tests to MANIFEST.in.
+        - Release candidate 2.
+        
+        1.2rc1 (2010-05-25)
+        -------------------
+        - Release candidate.
+        
+        1.2b7 (2010-04-22)
+        ------------------
+        - Memory leak associated with new empty geometry state fixed.
+        
+        1.2b6 (2010-04-13)
+        ------------------
+        - Broken GeometryCollection fixed.
+        
+        1.2b5 (2010-04-09)
+        ------------------
+        - Objects can be constructed from others of the same type, thereby making
+          copies. Collections can be constructed from sequences of objects, also making
+          copies.
+        - Collections are now iterators over their component objects.
+        - New code for manual figures, using the descartes package.
+        
+        1.2b4 (2010-03-19)
+        ------------------
+        - Adds support for the "sunos5" platform.
+        
+        1.2b3 (2010-02-28)
+        ------------------
+        - Only provide simplification implementations for GEOS C API >= 1.5.
+        
+        1.2b2 (2010-02-19)
+        ------------------
+        - Fix cascaded_union bug introduced in 1.2b1 (#212).
+        
+        1.2b1 (2010-02-18)
+        ------------------
+        - Update the README. Remove cruft from setup.py. Add some version 1.2 metadata
+          regarding required Python version (>=2.5,<3) and external dependency
+          (libgeos_c >= 3.1).
+        
+        1.2a6 (2010-02-09)
+        ------------------
+        - Add accessor for separate arrays of X and Y values (#210).
+        
+        TODO: fill gap here
+        
+        1.2a1 (2010-01-20)
+        ------------------
+        - Proper prototyping of WKB writer, and avoidance of errors on 64-bit systems
+          (#191).
+        - Prototype libgeos_c functions in a way that lets py2exe apps import shapely
+          (#189).
+        
+        1.2 Branched (2009-09-19)
+        
+        1.0.12 (2009-04-09)
+        -------------------
+        - Fix for references held by topology and predicate descriptors.
+        
+        1.0.11 (2008-11-20)
+        -------------------
+        - Work around bug in GEOS 2.2.3, GEOSCoordSeq_getOrdinate not exported properly
+          (#178).
+        
+        1.0.10 (2008-11-17)
+        -------------------
+        - Fixed compatibility with GEOS 2.2.3 that was broken in 1.0.8 release (#176).
+        
+        1.0.9 (2008-11-16)
+        ------------------
+        - Find and load MacPorts libgeos.
+        
+        1.0.8 (2008-11-01)
+        ------------------
+        - Fill out GEOS function result and argument types to prevent faults on a
+          64-bit arch.
+        
+        1.0.7 (2008-08-22)
+        ------------------
+        - Polygon rings now have the same dimensions as parent (#168).
+        - Eliminated reference cycles in polygons (#169).
+        
+        1.0.6 (2008-07-10)
+        ------------------
+        - Fixed adaptation of multi polygon data.
+        - Raise exceptions earlier from binary predicates.
+        - Beginning distributing new windows DLLs (#166).
+        
+        1.0.5 (2008-05-20)
+        ------------------
+        - Added access to GEOS polygonizer function.
+        - Raise exception when insufficient coordinate tuples are passed to LinearRing
+          constructor (#164).
+        
+        1.0.4 (2008-05-01)
+        ------------------
+        - Disentangle Python and topological equality (#163).
+        - Add shape(), a factory that copies coordinates from a geo interface provider.
+          To be used instead of asShape() unless you really need to store coordinates
+          outside shapely for efficient use in other code.
+        - Cache GEOS geometries in adapters (#163).
+        
+        1.0.3 (2008-04-09)
+        ------------------
+        - Do not release GIL when calling GEOS functions (#158).
+        - Prevent faults when chaining multiple GEOS operators (#159).
+        
+        1.0.2 (2008-02-26)
+        ------------------
+        - Fix loss of dimensionality in polygon rings (#155).
+        
+        1.0.1 (2008-02-08)
+        ------------------
+        - Allow chaining expressions involving coordinate sequences and geometry parts
+          (#151).
+        - Protect against abnormal use of coordinate accessors (#152).
+        - Coordinate sequences now implement the numpy array protocol (#153).
+        
+        1.0 (2008-01-18)
+        ----------------
+        - Final release.
+        
+        1.0 RC2 (2008-01-16)
+        --------------------
+        - Added temporary solution for #149.
+        
+        1.0 RC1 (2008-01-14)
+        --------------------
+        - First release candidate
+        
         
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