*0.17* The 0.17 release is overdue, now, so it's time to call for a *feature freeze *. No definitive release date, yet, but before the end of the year anyway.
Translators: on your mark...set...go to launchpad translations<https://translations.launchpad.net/merkaartor> *0.18* Some of the things I have in mind for 0.18: - Hard dependencies: Keeping the "no hard dependencies" way seem a bit futile to me right now. So, as of 0.18, *PROJ4* and *GDAL* will become obligatory dependencies, and probably *Spatialite* as well. On the good side, it will allow me to get rid of Boost and to clean up the code. - Spatialite The tests I've been running with Spatialite for the plugin incite me of thinking about a *Spatialite backend* for Merkaartor, alongside the traditional memory/XML current way. The advantages will be a builtin spatial index (hopefully no more "indexing...") and the possibility to load and query far greater datasets than is possible today. The dream of loading the whole of Australia in Merkaartor might not be so far ;-) - Import/Export plugins Of less importance (at least, from the users POV) would be the implementation of *import/export as plugins*. While plugins in Merkaartor do not allow anyone to step-in (à la JOSM), the experience on the background ones show me how faster it is to develop such functionalities when the plugin approach is in place (+ it allows to cleanly separate code when external, non-core, dependencies are needed). - Chris - >From http://merkaartor.be/news/13
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