Hi all,

2 month with no update! Bad, bad, bad. Ok here we go, a new release. 
What's sizzling new?

The new feature everyone is waiting for has not been implemented by me. 
The guy's name is Thomas Oberthanner and he did it: Custom URLs for OSM 
tile servers. You simply right click on the ---OSM--- entry and choose 
information/configuration. The rest is self explanatory. Do I hear that 
little scream: "YEAH! Finally!"?

And, well, I did a bit of work, too. Let's see what has been on the 
stack. A few bugfixes, bah nothing. A few nifty little changes, you 
hardly will notice. Ah, map selection.

Let's talk about map selection. We all know about Garmin Custom Maps. 
Well we know about JNX files (http://whiter.brinkster.net/en/JNX.html), 
too, but let's focus on Custom Maps. These are up to 100 jpeg tiles of 
size 1024x1024 stuffed into a completely brain dead zip container with 
some stupid XML mumbo jambo. The thing is called KMZ. So far every tile 
was packed into it's own KMZ. Luckily Garmin had some mercy and supports 
KMZs with several tiles.

But still Custom Maps suck, because the limitations of that format suck. 
There are no levels and the 100 tile limit is very scarce. The new stuff 
in QLGT tries to address the later problem. Now you can select a large 
area of more than 100 tiles and select/deselect tiles to reach the 
limit. The final export will be a single KMZ with all tiles.

And as selecting/deselecting tiles is a stupid and hideous work I 
decided to enhance the QLB format to store the selection into QLB files. 
And if you do QLB files the next step is to add it to the geo database. 
By that you can save the map selection of your last trip for future use.

Imho that makes the best out of the pittance we receive from Garmin.


Have fun with the new release

Oliver


Bug     #267:
Fix: Segfault for maps with more bands than RGB

Request #268:
Show formats supported by GDAL in the about box

Request #269:
Edit track color and name on the fly

Request #270:
Add info and config dialog for other maps than Garmin

Bug     #271:
Alpha channel artifacts on maps for cheap graphic cards

Request #272:
Add OSM configuration dialog to add new server URLs

Request #273:
Add hints for geocaches

Request #274:
Support OZI track files

Request #275:
Add sort waypoints by time

Bug     #276:
Fix: Crash when cancelling new waypoint

Request #277:
Make tiles selectable for Garmin Custom Maps

Bug     #278:
Fix: Non unique key when creating tracks from route

Request #279:
Export tiles for Garmin Custom Map as one kmz

Request #280:
Add map selections to geodb

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