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Revision 2674 - (show annotations)
Wed Oct 19 08:56:47 2005 UTC (19 years, 4 months ago) by bernhard
Original Path: trunk/thuban/NEWS
File size: 8022 byte(s)
* Thuban/UI/about.py: remove unused import of getdefaultlocale.
Added display of internal encoding to the about dialog text.

* Extensions/svgexport/__init__.py: changed version to "1.0.0+cvs".

Started to update the NEWS file.

1 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0+CVS
2 ===========================
3
4 - Startup improved: We fail right away if the internal encoding could
5 not be determined. In this case, try to set the LANGUAGE variable to
6 one value and use no colon.
7 If we startup you can see the internal encoding in the about dialog now.
8
9 - Improved extensions:
10
11 - Improved svxexport extension 1.0.0+cvs (Bernhard Reiter)
12
13 + Fixed ARC layer writing: No filling is done.
14 You could actually get polylines with filling in between,
15 when the classification for the lines had a fill color.
16 E.g. this happens when you generate a classification from a ramp.
17
18 + Fixed label export.
19
20 Changes in Thuban 1.1.0
21 =======================
22
23 - Thuban rembers directories in file selection dialogs during a thuban
24 session
25
26 - Add some support for wxPython 2.5 and 2.6. Thuban is still
27 compatible with wxPython 2.4.
28
29 - Change the way thuban deals with non-ascii text. The internal
30 representation is now the user's default encoding. Thuban works a
31 bit better with a unicode build of wxPython but there are still
32 problems. (Bernhard Herzog)
33
34 - Various raster data improvements. Among other things, translucent
35 images are now supported on a sufficiently recent wxWidgets (2.6).
36 Also, only the part of the window actually covered by the image is
37 drawn. (Jonathan Coles)
38
39 - Improved PostGIS support (Bernhard Herzog):
40
41 - support tables with multiple geometry columns. The user can
42 select which one to use
43
44 - support tables with srids
45
46 - tables don't have to have a column named "gid" anymore. The user
47 can select the column to use for ids
48
49 - PostgreSQL views are supported too
50
51 - support LINESTRING geometries
52
53 - support more PostgreSQL versions. 7.4 works now.
54
55 - Added support for sizable points (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
56
57 - When loading a (moved) session where shapefiles cannot be found, ask
58 the user (Frank Koormann)
59
60 - The middle mouse button can be used for panning now (Russell Nelson)
61
62 - Give a warning when the projection selected for a layer is probably
63 wrong (Russell Nelson)
64
65 - Updated shapelib
66
67 - New or improved extensions:
68
69 - A new extension which exports a map as SVG
70 (Markus Rechtien, Bernhard Reiter)
71
72 - Improved WMS extension (Martin Schulze)
73
74 - New Extension to dump bounding boxes of all shapes of the selected
75 layer (Frank Koormann)
76
77 - New extension: umn_mapserver (Jan Schüngel)
78
79 - New extension: OGR (Nina Hüffmeyer)
80
81 - New Extension: mouseposition. Tool to collect mouse click positions
82 (map coordinates) in a dialog. (Frank Koormann)
83
84 - Documentation:
85
86 - Add some documentation of the internals of Thuban.
87 See Doc/technotes/
88
89 - The thuban manual has been partly translated to German
90 (Jan-Oliver Wagner)
91
92 - Updated translations:
93 Russian (Alex Shevlakov)
94
95 - New translations:
96 Brazilian Portuguese (Eduardo Patto Kanegae)xb
97 Hungarian (Norbert Solymosi)
98
99
100 Changes in Thuban 1.0.0
101 =======================
102
103 - Updated translations:
104
105 Italian by Maurizio Napolitano
106 Spanish and French by Daniel Calvelo Aros
107 Russian by Alex Shevlakov
108
109 - some minor bug fixes
110
111
112 Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1
113 ========================
114
115 - Redering improvements
116
117 Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban
118 completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated
119 regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window
120 and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet
121
122 The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when
123 doing classifictions.
124
125 The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined
126 in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an
127 example)
128
129 - Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them
130 are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages
131 might not contain all of these extensions.
132
133 - gns2shp
134
135 Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See
136 Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information
137
138 - wms
139
140 Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more
141 information
142
143 - importAPR
144
145 Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.
146
147 - profiling
148
149 For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code.
150 See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.
151
152 - drawshape
153
154 This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension
155 to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to
156 data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README
157
158 - A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when
159 given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It
160 only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files.
161 This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using
162 it.
163
164 - EPSG projections
165
166 Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections
167 (epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These
168 projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under
169 "Show EPSG".
170
171 - Context menu in the legend window
172
173 The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer
174 commands
175
176 - Localization updates
177
178 The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and
179 thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and
180 the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows
181 .mo files are installed
182
183 Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel
184 Calvelo. Updated German translation
185
186 - PostGIS improvements
187
188 - Quote table and columns names properly.
189
190 - The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to
191 create a new connection when there already is a connection for the
192 same database)
193
194 - Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by
195 the unix version. The other way round was already possible.
196
197 - The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10
198
199 - Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.
200
201
202 Changes in Thuban 0.9
203 =====================
204
205 - An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the
206 XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The
207 binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An
208 online version is available at
209 http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html
210
211 - New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and
212 Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to
213 date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a
214 translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
215
216 - PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this
217 point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL
218 7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer
219 versions probably also work.
220
221 The user as which the connection is established obviously needs
222 select permissions on any table to show and also on the
223 geometry_columns table.
224
225 Known Issues:
226
227 - Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT,
228 MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
229
230 - Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL
231 integer which uniquely identifies the row.
232
233 - It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance
234 the number of queries done could be reduced substantially
235 especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid
236 column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older
237 versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
238
239 - Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions
240 can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.
241
242
243 More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file.

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