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Viking 0.9.6 (2008-07-31)
Fixes since 0.9.5

* Fix Google maps' URL
* Fix gcget command line to accomodate negative coords
* Fix unecessary viking.desktop

Viking 0.9.5 (2008-07-21)
New features since 0.9.4

* Add panning tool as default.
* Replace GtkFileSelection by GtkFileChooser.
* No longer converts waypoint names to uppercase. Waypoint names are now case insensitive.
* Windows port updated.
* Track properties: Keep markers of the graphs in sync with each other.
* Track properties: split track at marker.
* New translations: el, it, ja, lt, nb, nl, pl, zh_CN, zh_TW
* Added viking.desktop
* Added --debug and --verbose command line options.
* Updated man pages.

Fixes since 0.9.4

* Fix #1839948: Maximize/Restore changes current cursor.
* Bug #1915121: add an utility to reproduce (test/gpx2gpx).
* Fix #1915121: use GLib functions to handle ISO8601 dates.
* Fix pipe leaks.
* Remove dependency to wget.
* Fix google version number.
* Track graph marker now works again.
* Fix #1947456: Compiler warning fixes


Viking 0.9.4 (2008-02-25)
New features since 0.9.3

* Make elev graph show better graph for low altitude tracks.
* Printing support
* Draw circle for downloading geocaches.
* Improve track graphs. Some tracks looked too flat.
* Internationalization (I18N)
* Localization (L10N): Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish
* Use a list of possible browsers.
* New map source: BlueMarble tiles (http://mike.teczno.com/notes/blue-marble-tiles.html)
* New map source: Google Terrain
* Use the "next unused" (not really) waypoint number as default.
* Sort waypoints in GPX output.
* Preferences support in ~/.viking/viking.prefs
* Update source for OSM/Osmarender tiles
* Full screen mode.
* Tuned the v-t diagram drawing

Fixes since 0.9.3

* Many fixes around compilation warnings
* Fix a bug that caused crashes when displaying elev graph for some track.
* Fix bug that caused Old Google maps not being disabled by default.
* Fix a bug that can potentially cause segfault.
* Fix compilation under HURD (missing MAXPATHLEN macro)
* Fix: ensure config.h is included conditionnaly
* Fix a crash bug in mapcache
* Fix a crash bug in merge-by-time

Viking 0.9.3 (2007-10-21)
New features since 0.9.2

* Half-drawn redraw for faster refreshing display of viewport (Maps, tracks, waypoints...)
* Allow multiple selections when adding DEM files.
* (Semi) auto downloading and importing for SRTM 90m DEM file (worldwide).
* Indicating areas which have DEM file download but not imported.
* "Minimum elevation" is now configurable for DEM layer. It can be used together with the existing "Max Elev" to make DEM display more distinguish colors for a particular area of interest.
* Interpolating DEM data.
* Add realtime tracking to GPS layer with track recording.
* Trackpoints acquired in realtime mode store extra information of speed, course, fix mode and number of satellites.
* Track properties dialog no longer blocks user interaction on main window. Using multiple track dialogs (simultaneously for different tracks) is now allowed.
* Make use of DEM elevation data and GPS speed data for track graphs (Properties Dialog).
* Track Properties: now displays track distance/time instead of "Selected Time".
* Marker for selected position on track graphs.
* Various enhancement to improve usability of track dialog.
* Mouse cursor is now changed accordingly to tool currently in used.
* Magic Scissors (Automatically drawing track between points) can now be undone using right click, and extended via Ctrl-click.
* Shortcuts for panning: Ctrl-arrow key, and Shift-scroll and Ctrl-scroll.
* Extend track.
* Ctrl-shift-scroll to zoom like google, scroll to zoom w/o changing center.
* Preview adding a trackpoint by drawing a line when moving mouse.
* Esc key used to stop track edition.
* Backspace key used to remove last added point.
* Use $BROWSER environment variable (for viewing geocache pages).
* Automatically fetching google version numbers.
* Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM.

Fixes since 0.9.2

* Fix: Make viking's default start location somewhere more likely has maps.
* Fix: bug that causes crashes when using "Maps Download" tool.
* Fix: Adding command line option framework (--help & --version).
* Fix #1789550: mkdtemp usage is conditioned.
* Fix #1789550: define MAX macro if not defined on ALL systems.
* Fix: optional geocaching -- include config.h to compile.
* Fix: DEM Layer copy/paste.
* Fix: crashes on using wrong tools.
* Fix: bugs that caused odd display of date/time on track properties dialog.
* Fix: Correctly calculate position when click on speed-time graph.
* Fix: Relax dependencies about glib.
* Fix: Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM.
* Fix: plotting of DEM data on elevation graph.

Viking 0.9.2 (2007-09-04)
New features since 0.9.1

* Use $EMAIL to initialise email field for OSM upload.
* Preset filename when exporting a TrwLayer. 

Fixes since 0.9.1

* Fix: crash when "applying" a map layer property dialog.
* Fix: Do not warn about drawmode inconsistency while reading file.
* Fix: Hide Expedia view mode when expedia is not built in. 

Viking 0.9.1 (2007-09-02)
New features since 0.9

* Upload data (TrackWaypoint layer or single track) to OpenStreetMap.
* Group "Export Layer..." entries in a sub-menu.
* Added --enable-old-google to configure script. Old google modes are now disabled by default.
* Default mode for new maps is Google Maps.
* DEM module can now read hgt.zip files directly (no need to unzip them).
* DEM module can now process 1 arc sec hgt(.zip) files (mainly for USA regions).
* Display on status bar altitude at cursor using data from DEM layer(s). 

Fixes since 0.9

* Add redirect support.
* Some improves to introduce the drawmode notion.
* Better checking to detect downloaded text instead of images.
* New google version number.
* libcurl is a requirement.
* Fix bugs that cause crashes on layers copy/paste/delete.
* Fix bug in Google search that caused viking jump to wrong location when Google can not find the match.
* Clean up and eliminate compiler warning.
* Fix bug in creating temporary HOME when HOME is not set.
* Disable GeoCache Acquire since it no longer works. Can be enabled again using configure --enable-geocaches.
* Disable expedia map layer by default since it no longer works. Can be enabled again using configure --enable-expedia. 

Viking 0.9 (2007-07-13)
New Features since 0.1.3

    * DEM data -- DEMLayer & applying data to tracks & waypoints
    * Make "Save Image" and "Save Image Directory" dialogs reusable
    * Add viking icon
    * Download maps along track
    * Add User-Agent to http request header
    * Add cookies support (for google requests)
    * Add center mark which can be turn on/off in View menu
    * Make the scale more visible on dark maps
    * Add magic scissors feature
    * Add Google Maps search feature
    * Many new waypoint symbols
    * Add man pages
    * Improve performance for map autodownload
    * Google Directions now remembers previous query (from/to entries)
    * New menu items to remove all tracks and waypoints in GPS folders
    * Add "Save and Exit" to File menu
    * Save function for GPS layer
    * Map tool: Left click can now refresh display of map tiles 

Fixes since 0.1.3

    * View Mode displayed wrong setting on startup
    * crashes on gps download/upload
    * SEGFAULT on x86_64
    * segfault on trackpoint properties dialog
    * intermittent problem of map redraw
    * Stop autodownload from running forever on map downloading errors
    * Check for non-displayable data after downloading map 

Viking 0.1.3 (2007-05-17)
- New "Refresh onscreen tiles" entry menu
- Default .spec file for building RPM packages
- Default debian/ subtree for building Debian packages
- Usage of the libcurl library
- Three new map sources from OpenStreetMap
- Better usage of libusb
- Google source map improved
- GUI improves

Viking 0.1.2 (2007-02-13)
- direct access to GPS device: GPS layer
Commit	Line	Data
7a31304a GB	1	Viking 0.9.6 (2008-07-31)
	2	Fixes since 0.9.5
	3
	4	* Fix Google maps' URL
	5	* Fix gcget command line to accomodate negative coords
	6	* Fix unecessary viking.desktop
	7
389cd3aa GB	8	Viking 0.9.5 (2008-07-21)
	9	New features since 0.9.4
	10
	11	* Add panning tool as default.
	12	* Replace GtkFileSelection by GtkFileChooser.
	13	* No longer converts waypoint names to uppercase. Waypoint names are now case insensitive.
	14	* Windows port updated.
	15	* Track properties: Keep markers of the graphs in sync with each other.
	16	* Track properties: split track at marker.
	17	* New translations: el, it, ja, lt, nb, nl, pl, zh_CN, zh_TW
	18	* Added viking.desktop
	19	* Added --debug and --verbose command line options.
	20	* Updated man pages.
	21
	22	Fixes since 0.9.4
	23
	24	* Fix #1839948: Maximize/Restore changes current cursor.
	25	* Bug #1915121: add an utility to reproduce (test/gpx2gpx).
	26	* Fix #1915121: use GLib functions to handle ISO8601 dates.
	27	* Fix pipe leaks.
	28	* Remove dependency to wget.
	29	* Fix google version number.
	30	* Track graph marker now works again.
	31	* Fix #1947456: Compiler warning fixes
	32
	33
5b46f77e GB	34	Viking 0.9.4 (2008-02-25)
	35	New features since 0.9.3
	36
	37	* Make elev graph show better graph for low altitude tracks.
	38	* Printing support
	39	* Draw circle for downloading geocaches.
	40	* Improve track graphs. Some tracks looked too flat.
	41	* Internationalization (I18N)
	42	* Localization (L10N): Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish
	43	* Use a list of possible browsers.
	44	* New map source: BlueMarble tiles (http://mike.teczno.com/notes/blue-marble-tiles.html)
	45	* New map source: Google Terrain
	46	* Use the "next unused" (not really) waypoint number as default.
	47	* Sort waypoints in GPX output.
	48	* Preferences support in ~/.viking/viking.prefs
	49	* Update source for OSM/Osmarender tiles
	50	* Full screen mode.
	51	* Tuned the v-t diagram drawing
	52
	53	Fixes since 0.9.3
	54
	55	* Many fixes around compilation warnings
	56	* Fix a bug that caused crashes when displaying elev graph for some track.
	57	* Fix bug that caused Old Google maps not being disabled by default.
	58	* Fix a bug that can potentially cause segfault.
	59	* Fix compilation under HURD (missing MAXPATHLEN macro)
	60	* Fix: ensure config.h is included conditionnaly
	61	* Fix a crash bug in mapcache
	62	* Fix a crash bug in merge-by-time
	63
1530c21f GB	64	Viking 0.9.3 (2007-10-21)
	65	New features since 0.9.2
	66
	67	* Half-drawn redraw for faster refreshing display of viewport (Maps, tracks, waypoints...)
	68	* Allow multiple selections when adding DEM files.
	69	* (Semi) auto downloading and importing for SRTM 90m DEM file (worldwide).
	70	* Indicating areas which have DEM file download but not imported.
	71	* "Minimum elevation" is now configurable for DEM layer. It can be used together with the existing "Max Elev" to make DEM display more distinguish colors for a particular area of interest.
	72	* Interpolating DEM data.
	73	* Add realtime tracking to GPS layer with track recording.
	74	* Trackpoints acquired in realtime mode store extra information of speed, course, fix mode and number of satellites.
	75	* Track properties dialog no longer blocks user interaction on main window. Using multiple track dialogs (simultaneously for different tracks) is now allowed.
	76	* Make use of DEM elevation data and GPS speed data for track graphs (Properties Dialog).
	77	* Track Properties: now displays track distance/time instead of "Selected Time".
	78	* Marker for selected position on track graphs.
	79	* Various enhancement to improve usability of track dialog.
	80	* Mouse cursor is now changed accordingly to tool currently in used.
	81	* Magic Scissors (Automatically drawing track between points) can now be undone using right click, and extended via Ctrl-click.
	82	* Shortcuts for panning: Ctrl-arrow key, and Shift-scroll and Ctrl-scroll.
	83	* Extend track.
	84	* Ctrl-shift-scroll to zoom like google, scroll to zoom w/o changing center.
	85	* Preview adding a trackpoint by drawing a line when moving mouse.
	86	* Esc key used to stop track edition.
	87	* Backspace key used to remove last added point.
	88	* Use $BROWSER environment variable (for viewing geocache pages).
	89	* Automatically fetching google version numbers.
	90	* Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM.
	91
	92	Fixes since 0.9.2
	93
	94	* Fix: Make viking's default start location somewhere more likely has maps.
	95	* Fix: bug that causes crashes when using "Maps Download" tool.
	96	* Fix: Adding command line option framework (--help & --version).
	97	* Fix #1789550: mkdtemp usage is conditioned.
	98	* Fix #1789550: define MAX macro if not defined on ALL systems.
	99	* Fix: optional geocaching -- include config.h to compile.
	100	* Fix: DEM Layer copy/paste.
	101	* Fix: crashes on using wrong tools.
	102	* Fix: bugs that caused odd display of date/time on track properties dialog.
	103	* Fix: Correctly calculate position when click on speed-time graph.
	104	* Fix: Relax dependencies about glib.
	105	* Fix: Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM.
	106	* Fix: plotting of DEM data on elevation graph.
	107
13c9d849 GB	108	Viking 0.9.2 (2007-09-04)
	109	New features since 0.9.1
	110
	111	* Use $EMAIL to initialise email field for OSM upload.
	112	* Preset filename when exporting a TrwLayer.
	113
	114	Fixes since 0.9.1
	115
	116	* Fix: crash when "applying" a map layer property dialog.
	117	* Fix: Do not warn about drawmode inconsistency while reading file.
	118	* Fix: Hide Expedia view mode when expedia is not built in.
	119
ad11b047 GB	120	Viking 0.9.1 (2007-09-02)
	121	New features since 0.9
	122
	123	* Upload data (TrackWaypoint layer or single track) to OpenStreetMap.
	124	* Group "Export Layer..." entries in a sub-menu.
	125	* Added --enable-old-google to configure script. Old google modes are now disabled by default.
	126	* Default mode for new maps is Google Maps.
	127	* DEM module can now read hgt.zip files directly (no need to unzip them).
	128	* DEM module can now process 1 arc sec hgt(.zip) files (mainly for USA regions).
	129	* Display on status bar altitude at cursor using data from DEM layer(s).
	130
	131	Fixes since 0.9
	132
	133	* Add redirect support.
	134	* Some improves to introduce the drawmode notion.
	135	* Better checking to detect downloaded text instead of images.
	136	* New google version number.
	137	* libcurl is a requirement.
	138	* Fix bugs that cause crashes on layers copy/paste/delete.
	139	* Fix bug in Google search that caused viking jump to wrong location when Google can not find the match.
	140	* Clean up and eliminate compiler warning.
	141	* Fix bug in creating temporary HOME when HOME is not set.
	142	* Disable GeoCache Acquire since it no longer works. Can be enabled again using configure --enable-geocaches.
	143	* Disable expedia map layer by default since it no longer works. Can be enabled again using configure --enable-expedia.
	144
44a9a037 GB	145	Viking 0.9 (2007-07-13)
	146	New Features since 0.1.3
	147
	148	* DEM data -- DEMLayer & applying data to tracks & waypoints
	149	* Make "Save Image" and "Save Image Directory" dialogs reusable
	150	* Add viking icon
	151	* Download maps along track
	152	* Add User-Agent to http request header
	153	* Add cookies support (for google requests)
	154	* Add center mark which can be turn on/off in View menu
	155	* Make the scale more visible on dark maps
	156	* Add magic scissors feature
	157	* Add Google Maps search feature
	158	* Many new waypoint symbols
	159	* Add man pages
	160	* Improve performance for map autodownload
	161	* Google Directions now remembers previous query (from/to entries)
	162	* New menu items to remove all tracks and waypoints in GPS folders
	163	* Add "Save and Exit" to File menu
	164	* Save function for GPS layer
	165	* Map tool: Left click can now refresh display of map tiles
	166
	167	Fixes since 0.1.3
	168
	169	* View Mode displayed wrong setting on startup
	170	* crashes on gps download/upload
	171	* SEGFAULT on x86_64
	172	* segfault on trackpoint properties dialog
	173	* intermittent problem of map redraw
	174	* Stop autodownload from running forever on map downloading errors
	175	* Check for non-displayable data after downloading map
	176
9c89ac8e GB	177	Viking 0.1.3 (2007-05-17)
	178	- New "Refresh onscreen tiles" entry menu
	179	- Default .spec file for building RPM packages
	180	- Default debian/ subtree for building Debian packages
	181	- Usage of the libcurl library
	182	- Three new map sources from OpenStreetMap
	183	- Better usage of libusb
	184	- Google source map improved
	185	- GUI improves
	186
07f39a64 GB	187	Viking 0.1.2 (2007-02-13)
	188	- direct access to GPS device: GPS layer
	189