The changes are fully described at
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Release/1.8.0-News
However, the following are the highlights.
In a nutshell:
* New GDAL drivers : GTX, HF2, JPEGLS, JP2OpenJPEG, JPIPKAK,
KMLSUPEROVERLAY, LOS/LAS, MG4Lidar, NTv2, OZI, PDF, RASDAMAN,
XYZ
* New OGR drivers : AeronavFAA, ArcObjects, GPSBabel, HTF, LIBKML,
MSSQLSpatial, NAS, OpenAir, PDS, PGDump, SOSI, SUA, WFS
* Significantly improved OGR drivers : DXF, GML
* New implemented RFCs:
o RFC 7: Use VSILFILE for VSI*L Functions
o RFC 24: Progressive data support in GDAL
o RFC 28: OGR SQL Generalized Expressions
o RFC 29: OGR Set Ignored Fields
o RFC 30: Unicode Filenames
o RFC 33: GTIFF - Corrected !PixelIsPoint Interpretation
* New utility : gdallocationinfo
Backward compatibility issues:
* MITAB driver: use "," for the OGR Feature Style id: parameter
delimiter, not "." as per the spec. Known impacted application:
MapServer?
* RFC 33 changes the way PixelIsPoint? is handled for GeoTIFF
* GML driver: write valid <gml:MultiGeometry> element instead of
the non-conformant <gml:GeometryCollection>. For backward
compatibility, recognize both syntax for the reading part
Changes:
* French Cadastre plugin
* Bing Maps plugin
* GDAL raster background plugin
* Printing and exporting to PDF/raster/SVG
* Extrude interaction for ways
* Filter system
* Toolbar editor (create/modify tollbars)
* Allow to align background image with <SPACE>+pan
* When opening/importing, always fallback to GDAL if available. Allows to open most GDAL supported geomtery files.
* Styles : allow to texture areas with an icon
* Auto-add "source" tag when drawing over a background map; define the value in the WMS and TMS editors
* New command line options: "--ignore-preferences" && "--reset-preferences"
* "--importag-tags-as-is" command-line switch to prevent adding underscores to imported tags
* When creating a way or area, press "C" to close the current way
* New preference: "Allow node/way creation in select mode". When checked, allows double-click to create a node and double-click on a node to start a way in select mode.
* Snap to angle functionality when creating way: keeping "o" pressed snap to 45° angles, "h" snap to 30° angles
* Ability to enter and select multiple OSM servers in preferences
* Use Nominatim (http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/) for place name lookup due to gazetteer closure
* Support for XAPI
* Allow to rename a layer by double-clicking on its name
* If a shapefile do not provide its projection, ask the user for it and do not crash
* "Set view projection to layer's" action added to image layers; set the main projection to the one of the layer
* Tool to align edges to regularly spaced angles (can orthogonalise buildings)
* Join areas tool
* Add a "portable" mode to merkaartor via command-line ("-p") or build setting ("PORTABLE=1")
* Add a "Find" button to the Feature dock. Press "Reset" to revert to list current features.
Changes:
Merkaartor 0.16.3.
The only issue solved since 0.16.2 is the inability to switch languages.
Merkaartor 0.16.2.
The CHANGELOG since 0.16.1 is:
- FIX : Initial viewport issue
- FIX : Do not export incomplete features
- FIX : CSV import bugs
- FIX : Use "GPX track width" setting even when not in "Simple track appearance" (fixes#3095)
- FIX : temporary solution for #3082
- CHG : Allow to pan with middle mouse button
- FIX : lat/lon grid fixes for non-othogonal projections
- FIX : for non-rthogonal projections, maximize the viewport in lat/lon
- FIX : Handle empty style list in editor (fixes#3079)
- FIX : Fix scale bar to take latitude into account.
- FIX : Do not tag-match relation's children unless the type is "multippolygon" (fixes#2916)
- FIX : problem with "Bottom-left standard" TMS
- FIX : OSX fix
- FIX : Draw relations children dashed to avoid multiple parent drawing
- FIX : Fix several issues with features dock.
- FIX : Fix reappearance of deleted features.
- FIX : Fix WayRemoveNodeCommand reversibility.
changes:
Added the possibility to show a lat/lon grid
Support for WMS-C servers
Support for "standard" TMS servers
Allow to tile (and cache) arbitrary WMS'es (only EPSG:4326 and
google projection supported)
Allow google maps links and others in goto and download dialogs
Added a projection editor
Enhanced Relations support
Geo-tagging of photos inside Merkaartor, importing them without
track layer and displaying them directly on the map
Improved SHP support
Support for JOSM remote protocol on port 8111
Added Ramer-Douglas-Peucker simplification of ways (in Roads menu)
Add a "portable" mode to merkaartor via command-line ("-p")
and many tweaks and little things...
The CHANGELOG since 0.15 is:
* FIX : roads not always refreshed when changing type or properties (fixes#2773)
* FIX : Cannot cleanly copy tags from one relation to another (fixes#2746)
* FIX : When merging contiguous nodes in the same way, check that we don't add the same node twice (fixes#2771)
* FIX : OSX enhacements (by Aleksandar Topuzovic) (closes#2774)
* FIX : When nodes are hidden,do not put them in the way of selecting roads
* FIX : avoid multiple updateVirtuals() at download time by disabling it and doing them all when the download is done
* FIX : speedup node moving by disabling virtual nodes and index updates during drag
* FIX : crash when coming from "Separate move mode" and a feature is selected.
changes:
Switch to API 0.6, remove support for 0.5
Add a Features dock displaying the features in the current viewport
Alternative way of drawing GPX tracks
Support for proxy authentification
Ability to create a junction between to crossing roads
Ability to create polygons of any number of sides
Ability to rotate roads/areas
Ability to create house numbers "Karlsruhe" style
Spatial indexing of features for faster display with large downloaded areas
Support for multiple image layers
Support for multi-selection of layers; allow to show/hide or readonly
several layers at once
Drag&drop re-ordering of layers
plugin-bassed background layers
Ability to choose Qt style
Discardable dialog/messageboxes
and other tweaks and little things...
tested by Jochen Kunz (and me)
