OpenOrienteering is a project developing a collection of tools which help with the creation of orienteering maps and the organization of orienteering events.
Posted on 05 August 2018 by Kai Pastor
The stable releases of Mapper support reading of OCD files from version 6 to version 12, and writing version 8 files. There are lots of shortcomings, for example the loss of georeferencing information.
Now a rewritten OCD export feature has reached our ‘unstable’ builds. It supports writing OCD format version 8 to 12. The new code removes some of the past limitations. It is accompanied by corresponding changes to the OCD import feature. Areas of improvement are:
The OCD import may now also open version 2018 files. However, this is really experimental, as documentation for this format is not available ATM.
You may test this new code by downloading and running the unstable packages for Windows or Linux. We remind you that the new code is likely to have some bugs. Please take care (i.e. backups) of your map files when working with the unstable packages. If you find issues, please report them, so that they get fixed before release 0.9.
Posted on 11 March 2018 by Kai Pastor
Four weeks after v0.8.0, we now present a patch release. Apart from bug fixes and updated translations, it even adds a few new features:
A selection of other changes:
Find the resolved issues on Github. Known issues in v0.8.1 will be collected there, too. The release contains 107 commits since 0.8.0, changing 78 source files, contributed by 12 persons.
Thanks to all the contributors!
Posted on 11 February 2018 by Kai Pastor
We are proud to offer a you a new release which marks a significant step forward. This release brings ISOM2017 symbol sets, adding some new features to symbols where needed. For replacing symbols, but also for importing data e.g. from OpenStreetMap files, you may now use CRT files. A simple but effective query language helps you to identify objects beyond code numbers and layer names.
Not only with Android users in mind, a lot of work was done on symbol icon appearance. Especially on Android, you will benefit from the possiblity to change the symbol icon size. But you may now also hide or protected symbols in the mobile app. When drawing in the field, jump to your current location with just one touch, or switch easily to 1x or 2x zoom. Generally when drawing, you may now see azimuth and distance information if desired.
The symbol sets were integrated into the same system of online translation as the Mapper user interface, facilitating contributions. On the documentation side, there is now a PDF version of the manual.
A small selection of other changes:
Find the resolved issues on Github. Known issues in v0.8.0 will be collected there, too. The release contains 788 commits since 0.7.0, changing 583 source files, contributed by 27 persons.
Thanks to all the contributors!
Posted on 05 June 2017 by Kai Pastor
We are proud to announce the release of Mapper 0.7.0. This release contains many visible and invisible changes over Mapper 0.6.x.
The software is build on top of a significant number of third-party components which have to be assembled and delivered with Mapper for Windows, Mac and Android. A new “superbuild” system (#674, https://github.com/OpenOrienteering/superbuild) helps to provide a consistent and reproducible set of sources, patches and documentation.
You may think this affects only developers. But wait: The superbuild facilitates the provisioning of Mapper updates, including security updates and bug fixes for third-party components, and the addition of new features which depend on third party components.
For example, Mapper starts using GDAL/OGR, adding access to many geodata file formats (#574). However, only a small set of vector data formats are supported at the moment. Shape file support is the only real addition so far. DXF file support is much improved. GPX and OSM support has some changes in behaviour. More formats and raster data will be added in future Mapper releases.
The text editor has been significantly reworked. Now it features input method support which helps not only for non-latin alphabets but also enables text editing on Android. A number of quirks were removed.
For DXF files generated by Terje's script for lidar data processing, there is now basic support for assigning symbols by a CRT file (#261).
More changes in brief:
Find the resolved issues on Github. Known issues in v0.7.0 will be collected there, too. The release contains 373 commits since 0.6.8, changing 480 source files, contributed by 14 persons.
Thanks to all the contributors!
Posted on 25 May 2017 by Kai Pastor
Mapper 0.7.0 is close to being released, and we kindly invite you to test the release candidate.
The software is build on top of a significant number of third-party components which have to be assembled and delivered with Mapper for Windows, Mac and Android. A new “superbuild” system helps to provide a consistent and reproducible set of sources, patches and documentation. In addition, this superbuild makes it possible to provide Mapper updates, including security updates for third-party components, much easier and faster. That’s why it became possible to provide release candidate packages also for macOS and Android.
With Mapper 0.7.0, we start using GDAL/OGR for adding access to many geodata file formats. Shape file support is the only real addition so far, but DXF file support is much improved. GPX and OSM support has some changes in behaviour. More formats and raster data will be added in future Mapper releases.
Find the resolved issues on Github. Known issues in v0.7.0 will be collected there, too. The release contains 370 commits since 0.6.8, changing 480 source files, contributed by 14 persons.
Thanks to all the contributors!