Hi, it's release time! The biggest change is done by Norbert Truchsess integrating BRouter (http://brouter.de/brouter/). It's a quite famous routing engine for Android apps. The "B" stands for "bike". BRouter is special as it takes the elevation into account. As BRouter is written in Java it can't be used as a library. You can either use the online service, or you install your own local server running with Java. If you choose to install it locally, you can even use it for on-the-fly routing.
The only bad part is how BRouter handles Internet security. Distributing it from a non-https location isn't advised anymore these days. And the server listens to all of your PCs ports. This is a risk if you are in a public network. For use in your local network it should be fine. Michel Durand donated the code to read and write TCX files. Those files are used by Garmin devices, to handle training data. So if you have one of these devices give it a try Wolfgang Thämelt did a great job translating QMapShack to Russian and donating the quickstart help in English, German and Russian. It would be nice if there are some volunteers to translate it to other languages. And of course he is constantly improving the Wiki together with Rainer Woitok. I tried to enhance the reprojection of maps and DEM. If you have maps in Mercator or UTM projection and want to display them in UTM or Mercator (or Lambert etc...) the map has to be reprojected on-the-fly. As a full reprojection is quite time consuming and the GDAL API isn't very usable for this, QMapShack is using an approximation. This works good enough for closer zoom ranges. On outer zoom ranges you get nasty gaps. I tried to mitigate the problem by automatically applying the approximation to smaller tiles. It's still an approximation, thus far from perfect. But it's less ugly on the outer zoom levels. Let's see how this will prove itself in every days work. Of course there are many other small fixes and closed issues, too. As usual have a look into the changelog or the Mercurial log at Bitbucket. Have fun with the release! Oliver Add: Links to quickstart help Add: Russian translation Add: TCX file read and write support Add: Different cut modes for track cut function Add: Option for optimized build for local system architecture Add: Support for BRouter (online/offline) Add: Enhance reprojection between projections like merc/utm/lcc [Issue #152] Garmin maps: Alter scale to detail level table [Issue #189] Fix drawing of range selection in trkptedit mode [Issue #189] Draw bubble after line to prevent drawing over bubble [Issue #195] Copy errors in message (file)? [Issue #198] Logfile encoding [Issue #201] Provide 'Import GIS data' in database menu [Issue #204] Option to allow only one QMS instance at one time [Issue #211] Desired feature: change symbol for multiple selected waypoints [Issue #213] Adding a Garmin POI as waypoint [Issue #214] Crash when creating Routino database [Issue #217] BRouter setup window - not translated string [Issue #218] CSingleInstanceProxy & Multiuser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
