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)