Log Message:
geography/gdal-lib: Update to 2.4.0

= GDAL/OGR 2.4.0 Release Notes =

== In a nutshell... ==

 * New GDAL drivers:
   - BYN: read/write support for Natural Resources Canada's Geoid binary format
   - EEDAI: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API
   - IGNFHeightASCIIGrid: read-only driver to read IGN-France height correction \ 
ASCII grids
   - NGW: NextGIS Web read-only driver
   - NTv1: read-only driver for NTv1 datum shift grids
 * New OGR drivers:
   - EEDA: read-only driver for Google Earth Engine Data API
   - GeoJSONSeq: read/creation support of new-line or record-separator separated \ 
GeoJSON features (#378)
   - NGW: NextGIS Web read-write driver
 * Improved drivers:
   - BAG: add read support for variable-resolution grids, and write support for \ 
single-resolution grids
   - GTiff driver: add Lerc and WebP codecs
   - PostgisRaster: add support for out-db rasters
   - RMF
   - MSSQLSpatial
 * RFC 72: Make GDAL Python autotest suite use pytest framework
 * Add /vsihdfs/ virtual file system handler for Hadoop File System (via libhdfs)
 * Add /vsiwebhdfs/ read-write virtual file system for Web Hadoop File System \ 
REST API
 * gdal_contour rewriting: speed optimizations and capability to compute polygon \ 
isosurfaces.
 * Remove PHP and Ruby bindings.
 * Continued code linting in C++, Python scripts, Shell scripts and autotest

== Backward compatibility issues ==
 * The value of COMPRESSION_ZSTD used for ZStd-in-TIFF compression has been \ 
changed. ZStd-compressed TIFF files produced by GDAL 2.3.0 will not be readable