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Changes in Thuban 1.0rc1 |
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- Redering improvements |
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Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban |
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completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated |
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regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window |
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and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet |
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The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when |
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doing classifictions. |
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The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined |
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in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an |
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example) |
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- Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them |
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are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages |
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might not contain all of these extensions. |
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- gns2shp |
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Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See |
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Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information |
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- wms |
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Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more |
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- importAPR |
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Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban. |
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- profiling |
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For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code. |
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See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details. |
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- drawshape |
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This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension |
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to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to |
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data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README |
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- A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when |
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given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It |
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only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files. |
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This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using |
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it. |
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- EPSG projections |
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Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections |
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(epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These |
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projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under |
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"Show EPSG". |
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- Context menu in the legend window |
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The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer |
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commands |
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- Localization updates |
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The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and |
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thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and |
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the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows |
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.mo files are installed |
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Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel |
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Calvelo. Updated German translation |
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- PostGIS improvements |
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- Quote table and columns names properly. |
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- The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to |
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create a new connection when there already is a connection for the |
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same database) |
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- Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by |
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the unix version. The other way round was already possible. |
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- The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10 |
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- Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now. |
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Changes in Thuban 0.9 |
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- An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the |
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XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The |
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binary distributions do not contain the document at this point. An |
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online version is available at |
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http://thuban.intevation.org/documentation.html |
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- New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and |
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Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to |
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date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a |
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translation period where all translations can be brought up to date. |
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- PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this |
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point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL |
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7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer |
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versions probably also work. |
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The user as which the connection is established obviously needs |
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select permissions on any table to show and also on the |
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geometry_columns table. |
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Known Issues: |
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- Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT, |
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MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON. |
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- Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL |
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integer which uniquely identifies the row. |
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- It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance |
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the number of queries done could be reduced substantially |
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especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid |
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column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older |
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versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index. |
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- Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions |
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can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions. |
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More changes in even more detail are listed in the ChangeLog file. |
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