I did release 1.4.0 on my PPA Am Sonntag 26 Februar 2012, 13:48:26 schrieb Oliver Eichler: > hi all, > > time to clean up the pending feature list with a new release. > > The major change has been done in the map section. As signaled in the > past I decided to give QLGT a native WMS support. The GDAL approach is > not usable for a GUI application. Now the GUI will stay responsive while > loading the map. Of course loading will not be faster, just feel faster :). > > QLGT uses the same XML definition for WMS servers as GDAL does. The XML > file is now a recognized format. Thus if you load the file, the map will > be added to left hand map list. There is a small "but" as usual. If you > want to stack maps you still have to use a *qmap file. And loading XML > WMS definition via *qmap will still use the GDAL approach -> blocking > GUI. To change this is quite a huge change in the concept of QLGT. > That's why I didn't dare to fix this for now. > > Another nice feature containing WMS/TMS maps is the export of those maps > to other formats. However I am not a friend sucking pirate copies from > servers. Thus it's terrible limited. I think it's fair use of a server's > resources if the export only takes those map tiles that are already > stored in the tile cache. Thus if you want an area to export you have to > view it first on that very particular zoom level. And that still does > not solve the problem of breaking copyright laws. Thus please use it > responsibly. > > Another change in the map section is support for a new raster map > format. RMAP is used by the CompeGPS software TwoNav. > > And of course many little other changes. Some are listed below, most are > of such a low importance that they never get mentioned. > > Have fun with the new release. > > Oliver > > > > > --- 2012.02.26 --- > > Request #363: > Add nativ WMS support > > Bug #364: > Fix compass for polar regions > > Request #365: > Add configuration for diskcache (path, size limit, time limit) > > Request #366: > Enable limited map export from TMS/WMS maps > > Request #367: > Add a user defined projection to --- no map --- > > Request #368: > Add export of spoiler pictures to Garmin Bulk Device export > > Request #369: > Add dialog to crop a map > > Request #370: > Add basic support to view and create maps in RMAP format > > Request #371: > Add commandline option to define configuration file explicitely. > > Request #372: > Increase length of media filter for track profiles if applied several times. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Qlandkartegt-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users --
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