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Changes in Thuban 1.0.0
=======================

 - Updated translations:

   Italian by Maurizio Napolitano
   Spanish and French by Daniel Calvelo Aros
   Russian by Alex Shevlakov

 - some minor bug fixes


Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1
========================

 - Redering improvements

   Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban
   completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated
   regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window
   and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet

   The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when
   doing classifictions.

   The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined
   in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an
   example)

 - Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them
   are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages
   might not contain all of these extensions.

   - gns2shp

     Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See
     Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information

   - wms

     Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more
     information

   - importAPR

     Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.

   - profiling

     For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code.
     See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.

   - drawshape

     This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension
     to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to
     data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README

 - A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when
   given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It
   only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files.
   This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using
   it.

 - EPSG projections

   Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections
   (epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These
   projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under
   "Show EPSG".

 - Context menu in the legend window

   The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer
   commands

 - Localization updates

   The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and
   thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and
   the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows
   .mo files are installed

   Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel
   Calvelo. Updated German translation

 - PostGIS improvements

   - Quote table and columns names properly.

   - The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to
     create a new connection when there already is a connection for the
     same database)

 - Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by
   the unix version. The other way round was already possible.

 - The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10

 - Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.


Changes in Thuban 0.9
=====================

 - An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
   XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
   binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
   online version is available at
   http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html

 - New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
   Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
   date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
   translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.

 - PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
   point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
   7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
   versions probably also work.

   The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
   select permissions on any table to show and also on the
   geometry_columns table.

   Known Issues:

    - Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
      MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.

    - Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
      integer which uniquely identifies the row.

    - It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
      the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
      especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
      column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
      versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.

 - Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
   can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.


More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.
1	bh	2043	Changes in Thuban 1.0.0
2			=======================
3
4			- Updated translations:
5
6			Italian by Maurizio Napolitano
7			Spanish and French by Daniel Calvelo Aros
8			Russian by Alex Shevlakov
9
10			- some minor bug fixes
11
12
13	bh	1997	Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1
14			========================
15
16			- Redering improvements
17
18			Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban
19			completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated
20			regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window
21			and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet
22
23			The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when
24			doing classifictions.
25
26			The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined
27			in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an
28			example)
29
30			- Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them
31	bh	2006	are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages
32			might not contain all of these extensions.
33	bh	1997
34			- gns2shp
35
36			Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See
37			Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information
38
39			- wms
40
41			Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more
42			information
43
44			- importAPR
45
46			Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.
47
48			- profiling
49
50			For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code.
51			See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.
52
53			- drawshape
54
55			This is a very experimental and potentially dangerous extension
56			to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to
57			data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README
58
59			- A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when
60			given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It
61			only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files.
62			This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using
63			it.
64
65			- EPSG projections
66
67			Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections
68			(epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These
69			projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under
70			"Show EPSG".
71
72			- Context menu in the legend window
73
74			The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer
75			commands
76
77			- Localization updates
78
79			The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and
80			thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and
81			the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows
82			.mo files are installed
83
84			Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel
85			Calvelo. Updated German translation
86
87			- PostGIS improvements
88
89			- Quote table and columns names properly.
90
91			- The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to
92			create a new connection when there already is a connection for the
93			same database)
94
95			- Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by
96			the unix version. The other way round was already possible.
97
98			- The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10
99
100			- Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.
101
102
103	bh	1700	Changes in Thuban 0.9
104			=====================
105
106			- An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
107			XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
108			binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
109			online version is available at
110			http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html
111
112			- New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
113			Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
114			date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
115			translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
116
117			- PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
118			point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
119			7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
120			versions probably also work.
121
122			The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
123			select permissions on any table to show and also on the
124			geometry_columns table.
125
126			Known Issues:
127
128			- Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
129			MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
130
131			- Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
132			integer which uniquely identifies the row.
133
134			- It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
135			the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
136			especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
137			column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
138			versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
139
140			- Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
141			can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.
142
143
144			More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.
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