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1Viking 1.4 (2013-02-11)
2New features since 1.3.2
3* Support for GPX Route type including transfer to/from GPS Devices.
4** Replaced 'Add Track' tool with 'Create Route' tool. (NB There still is the Create Track tool)
5* Support for GPX 'Description' for tracks, waypoints and routes.
6* Add ability to Acquire My OSM Traces and ability to choose any subset of the available traces.
7* GPS Upload from a track.
8* Enable giving a track a specific colour (drawn in default draw by track mode).
9* Enable drawing all tracks in a specific colour (no longer is Black the only option).
10* Allow option of drawing a direction arrow when drawing a track.
11* Allow configuration of trackpoint size and direction arrow size.
12* Display Waypoint Icons in the layers panel treeview.
13* Restored Route Finding via Google Services. [Was disabled in 1.3.2 due to change in formats supported]
14* Only display sublayer container when there are sublayers.
15* Display map tile source and cached file information in a dialog for a position.
16* Quick zoom level change from the statusbar by clicking on the zoom level to select another level.
17* In the Zoom Tool mode: can select an area to zoom in on (via holding shift key + drag mouse).
18* Mouse Zooming in/out maintains the position focus on the mouse pointer location.
19** (Use the keys Ctrl+Shift and mouse zoom to maintain the centered map location).
20* Improvements in Acquiring Wikipedia Points (allow more points, sortable columns, URL and feature type).
21* Allow opening a URL on a waypoint which has a URL for a comment or description.
22* Re-organized TrackWaypoint Layer menus to group functionality together better with New, View, Combine, Split, Delete, Acquire and Upload submenus.
23* Gradient Graph view on the Track Properties.
24* Allow same named TrackWaypoint sublayer items. i.e. can now have 2 (or more) waypoints with the same name.
25* Add support of a Map type for a local On Disk OSM Tile Format.
26* Revised Draw Track by Speed mode with a simple traffic light colouring scheme to represent slow/average/fast speeds.
27* Enable deletion of track points with the same timestamp.
28* Ability to merge segments of a track.
29* Allow generation of large pixel sized images.
30* Rework image generation to ask for file name first and then only allow supported map zoom levels.
31* Allow control of waypoint text size on the viewport display.
32* Allow control of GPX file saving track order (either Alphabetical or By Time via global preference).
33* Keyboard shortcuts to create layers and enable some tools.
34* Show the bearing and the step distance of the next point when creating a track or route.
35* Improved feedback in reading erroneous files.
36* Improved Help Manual.
37* More translation texts including a Finnish version.
38* Scripts to support the creation of the Windows Executable Installer.
39* Add a python tool to convert the Viking tile cache into a MapBox MBTiles format file.
40* Many internal improvements.
41
42Fixes since 1.3.2
43* Don't accidently overwrite GPX and KML files in the Viking file type.
44* Use the default desktop font for waypoint viewport display text.
45* Ensure when opening multiple .vik files they are each loaded into a new window.
46* Show UTM location in statusbar when in UTM mode.
47* Fix: crash when dealing with non-compressed DEM files
48
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49Viking 1.3.2 (2012-09-23)
50Bug Fix Release including:
51* Removed Route Finder Tool as Google Direction service interface has disabled the method Viking interfaced with it.
52* Fix for Debian#685817: Statusbar Update From Thread Instability
53* Fix SF#3564795: Crashing when attempting to create waypoints from EXIF images without enough GPS information.
54* Fix drawing of next potential trackpoint on Windows Systems.
55* Fix GPSBabel Dynamic Device List generation on Windows Systems.
56* Fix crashing when displayed map copyright(s) is longer than the internal buffer.
57* Fix crashing when deleting a GPS layer which has started a realtime tracking.
58* Fix printing of DEBUG message since glib 2.32
59
60Viking 1.3.1 (2012-06-26)
61Bug Fix for Windows Systems Release:
62* Fix crash in Show Picture functionality on Window's Systems.
63
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64Viking 1.3 (2012-04-22)
65New features since 1.2.2
66* Be consistent in that track and waypoint list dialogs are always sorted alphabetically.
67* Add OSM Transport map as a built in map option.
68* Add supported MIME types to the desktop file specification.
69* Add example script that can be used to upload a track as a route to a predefined GPS device.
70* Display the average moving speed for a track in the track properties.
71* Add ability to open a TrackWaypoint layer with another external program (default merkaartor).
72* Add ability to open a TrackWaypoint layer with an external program (default JOSM).
73* Use map default: OSM MapQuest tileserver.
74* Add and use a preference for the associated image viewer program.
75* Add and use KML File Export units option.
76* Add ability to geotag images interpolating times against tracks.
77* Acquire Geotag Images via TRW Layer
78* Ensure vtl created in acquire operation runs post read stage.
79* EXIF read implementation for geotagged images (libexif).
80* Add new process stage for acquire methods.
81* Enable reversing a track from the track menu.
82* Display compact message on the statusbar for the selected trackpoint or waypoint. (SF#3314888)
83* Enable multiple selection and deletion.
84* Scale waypoint icons to give large or small icons as necessary.
85* Add Yahoo! Maps webtool link.
86* Extend webtools with a bounds version for the URL which takes four string parameters.
87* Add webtool for Bing maps.
88* Add Acquire OSM option into the Track/Waypoint layer operations.
89* Add used geo-* scripts as they are public domain.
90* Continue geocaching.com support via third party tools.
91* Show elevation gain/loss on track creation 'tooltip' (as per SF#2838561 request), when such data is available.
92* Automatically attempt to set elevation data from the DEM layer whilst a track is being created.
93* When creating a track, display the total distance of track (via a tooltip like text) on the main display.
94* Allow to import any file known by gpsbabel
95* Add support for any device known by gpsbabel
96* Add experimental support for GPSD_API_MAJOR_VERSION 5.
97* Add ability to acquire GPS traces stored on OSM
98* Enable copying layer/sublayer names as plain text, so that it can be pasted into external text handling applications.
99* Enable getting of the statusbar from the window.
100* On creating a new waypoint always attempt to auto set the altitude if DEM data is available.
101* Enable the escape key to remove/reset the ruler tool.
102
103Fixes since 1.2.2
104* Remove Tiles@home support as the service has stopped.
105* cleanup: Remove unused and out of date 'viking-remote' script and related files.
106* cleanup: Remove *very* old documentation and don't bother distributing any of it which is all old.
107* Fix Track Properties graph blob marker drawn at wrong elevation when elevation graphs have different min/max heights.
108* Fix Track Properties graph DEM points drawn at wrong elevation when lowest elevation is not zero.
109* Use an intermediary program which will invoke the system's default for opening images.
110* Fix opening of external web sites via center method when the zoom level is less than 1 mpp.
111* Fix crashing on opening a file via recent menu after a .vik file is opened.
112* Fix too easy to accidently move a waypoint with an image with the select tool - must use shift key.
113* Fix can not immediately select another layer if currently selected layer's visibility changes.
114* Fix compilation with curl 7.21.7 (SF#3376584)
115* Improve libgps test with the consistently available function: gps_close
116* Fix <GTK 2.24 combo box usage.
117* Fix crashing on opening multiple files after a .vik file is opened.
118* Solution for SF#2766266 - Give user feedback about OSM uploads (success/failure).
119* Fix: send VLP's update signal when adding a layer
120* Fix: Don't abort program when attempting webtool center with different x & y factors.
121* Fix Join Tracks functionality.
122* Fix SF#3408170: Selected Track Thickness is Always 1px
123* Fix tracks not shown over map when map layer is dragged to the end of the treeview list.
124* Refuse to load unsupported file types.
125* Restore broken GPS power off command.
126* Fix: SF#3042692 - Tiles May Get Deleted During Offline Usage.
127* Fix some tracks elevation profile may display no altitude, despite all altitudes available in the track.
128* Fix SF#3387590: Top Layer cannot be renamed
129* Enable merging tracks without timestamps to other tracks that do not have timestamps. (SF#2886231)
130* Prevent track merge by time requests when there are no other suitable tracks.
131* Improve track name when split from Track Properties window.
132* Replace 'Magic Scissors' by a more accurate name - 'Route Finder'.
133
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134Viking 1.2.2 (2011-11-03)
135Fixes since 1.2.1
136* Increase default tile age check to 7 days.
137* Fix compilation with curl 7.21.7 (SF#3376584)
138
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139Viking 1.2.1 (2011-06-16)
140Fixes since 1.2
141* Support proper MAC OS file locations.
142* Fix incorrect track property line marker positioning when the track has gaps.
143* Fix track property point marker drawing error - sometimes draws dot marker too low.
144
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145Viking 1.2 (2011-05-24)
146New features since 1.1
147* Remove unecessary treeview item selection.
148* Add zoom level 0.5 to map layer
149* [DOC] Add links to access Viking's source code
150* Rename file to prevent any case-insensitive issues.
151* Add getting the users confirmation when deleting (emptying) data from the GPS layer.
152* Enable keypad delete to remove layers in the layers panel.
153* Enable deleting multiple tracks or waypoints within a layer by selecting them from a list.
154* Add getting the users confirmation when deleting an individual track or waypoint.
155* Add the ability to delete all waypoints or tracks in the layer.
156* Add getting the users confirmation when deleting a layer.
157* Start a new 'Tracks' treeview menu, similar to the 'new' Waypoints treeview menu.
158* Add operations on waypoints into the 'new' Waypoints treeview menu.
159* Add new graph type Speed/Distance in the track properties window.
160* Add new graph type Elevation/Time in the track properties window.
161* Add new graph type Distance/Time in the track properties window.
162* Improve Track Properties speed/time drawing to display in nice human friendly whole number scaled units.
163* Improve Track Properties elevation drawing to display in nice human friendly whole number scaled units.
164* On the Track Properties Window draw an always updating indicator of where the readings are taken from.
165* Enable controls of drawing DEM data and GPS speeds on the Track Properties Window.
166* Add keyboard accelerators for the Track Properties Window.
167* Add ability to resize the Track Properties window.
168* On the Track Properties Window, also show the elevation or speed for the current track position as indicated by the mouse pointer.
169* Add support for kml files.
170* Add ... where necessary to track & waypoint menu entries.
171* Enable Open Waypoint Image via right click menu entry.
172* Use ability to select a waypoint given the thumbnail image size.
173* Add ability to open the trackpoint edit dialog via the viewport right click menu when a trackpoint is selected.
174* Add ability to move selected trackpoint or waypoint by the mouse within the select tool.
175* Add a new select tool at the window level to enable/disbale item selection of the a track or a waypoint.
176* Enable to unselect treeview item
177* Add Select Request layer interface and use within the track/waypoint layer to select an item.
178* Add internal track right click menu variable.
179* Tidy up track/waypoint sublayer callbacks to only use the layers panel if it available.
180* Add viewport to sublayer add menu items callback.
181* Make the highlight colour configurable and use as appropriate for the selected track/waypoint drawing.
182* Add track and waypoint highlight for the selected layer or individual item.
183* Add the storage and retrieval of any kind of track or waypoint selected item (either an individual item, list (i.e. a sublayer) or layer) at the window level.
184* Add viewport property to control the display of the track / waypoint item highlight.
185* Add backup support for launching URLs with Mac OS based browsers.
186* Add backup support for launching URLs with Google Chrome based browsers.
187* Add support for Bing maps
188* Add support for dynamic copyright
189* Add map's logo support
190* Add support for reference documentation
191* Generate a trackwaypoint layer update on the finish creatiing of the thumbnails so the images are shown.
192* Enable the tree view panel to be more usefully resized smaller than the text names.
193* Windows: Open help pdf file when when clicked on Help->help
194* [DOC] Split By Number of Points
195* Add Track->Split by Number of Points (as per SF#2847587 request).
196* Add a new dialog to return positive number.
197* SF#2844872: Suggest name for the new track when splitting the track via the trackpoint edit dialog.
198
199Fixes since 1.1
200* Better safety checking to prevent crash due to null variable reference in use of the current trackpoint.
201* Fix: Reduce GObject cast
202* Fix etag handling
203* Fix: generate doc/reference/Makefile when needed
204* Fix Track -> Split by Timestamp such that newly created tracks are ordered correctly.
205* Fix sensitivity of the track properties window split marker to be disabled when the track marker is not drawn.
206* Fix crashing due to incorrect usage of libcurl - SF#3206628.
207* Fix non-void function should return a value.
208* Fix reference documentation generation - some systems need explicit mention of libz.
209* Fix displaying of 'Waypoints' treeview menu.
210* Fix vik_aggregate_layer_get_all_layers_of_type for track/waypoint layer types, since these may also be stored under GPS layers.
211* Improve previous fix: background calling code should control return value
212* Fix: background calling code should control return value
213* Fix: enforce background feature
214* Fix compiler warnings from gcc 4.5.4
215* SF#3178554: Fix Sun Studio build
216* gtk_object_sink has been deprecated since gtk version 2.10, use g_object_ref_sink() instead.
217
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218Viking 1.1 (2011-02-08)
219New features since 1.0
220* [DOC] Add MapQuest Nominating search service in examples
221* Adjust colour of last auto track colour to not clash with default create track colour.
222* Add menu icons for the maps layer menu.
223* Make the selection list in Merge With Other Tracks sorted alphabetically.
224* Add sort list by name function. Will be useful for track and waypoint list ordering.
225* [DOC] Mark ready for 1.1 release. Update help manual version to 0.2.
226* [DOC] Add layer information for Aggregates, Coords and GeoRefs in help.
227* [DOC] Add Maps layer help information.
228* [DOC] Add overall layer information and promote each layer to be a top level section in help.
229* [DOC] Add DEM layer help information.
230* [DOC] Mention waypoint properties in help information.
231* [DOC] Update GPS layer help information.
232* [DOC] Update track operations help information.
233* [DOC] Update waypoint operations help information.
234* [DOC] Update Tools help section
235* [DOC] Update TrackWaypoint layer menu help Information
236* Improve positioning of the menu separator on waypoint menus.
237* Add GeoRef layer tooltip to show the file name in use.
238* Add GPS Layer tooltip to say the protocol (aka device manufacturer) type.
239* TrackWaypoint Layer tooltip featuring summaries for tracks and waypoints.
240* Add maps layer tooltip to show the map name(type).
241* Add DEM layer tooltip to show the number of DEM files in use.
242* Add Track and waypoint sublayer tooltip information.
243* Add treeview use and display of layers tooltip.
244* Add Layer Tooltip callback definition
245* Add sublayer tooltip callback definition.
246* When getting data via the GPS layer automatically set the view to see it, unless the realtime tracking mode is on.
247* On acquiring data from sources (inc. GPS) automatically set the view to see it. Except for GeoCaches; as it's likely you're requesting data for the current area, so no point in trying to change the view.
248* On opening GPX files automatically view all the data.
249* Add 'View All Tracks' option to the panel Layer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see all the tracks of that layer.
250* Add 'View Waypoints' option to the TrackWaypoint layer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see all the Waypoints.
251* Add 'View Track' option to the Track sublayer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see the track.
252* Add 'View Layer' option to the TrackWaypoint Layer menu options, which sets the view (center & zoom) to see the entire layer.
253* Add the ability to 'autozoom' to view an area specified by maximum and minimum lat/longs for a TrackWaypoint layer.
254* Create a new 'Show' submenu entry
255* Improve curl usage as should call cleanup on application exit.
256* Add copyright and license properties for NASA BlueMarble data.
257* Add background thread loading of DEM files.
258* Add Track->Goto Highest and Lowest points features.
259* Add Track->Goto Maximum Speed feature.
260* Rework Track->Goto menu options.
261* Add support for the TMS interface provided by SPOTMaps
262* Add license related properties
263* Add copyright property
264* Improve key binding for Mercator Mode -> ctrl+m
265* Add documentation for generic TMS map source
266* Improve key bindings for ModeLatLon.
267* Add OSM WMS Server
268* Add support for WMS-C
269* Add support for more standard TMS
270* Move-up download methods
271* Add LatLon projection
272* Better safety checking code
273* Add support for Locosys devices via GPSBabel's navilink device protocol.
274* Add support for DeLorme devices via GPSBabel's delbin device protocol.
275* Add the ability to insert a trackpoint into a track via the Edit Trackpoint dialog.
276* Add internal function to insert a trackpoint after the currently selected trackpoint.
277* Add license notice to new file
278* Enable individual track to GPX export via the Track sublayer menu.
279* Set default action on dialogs.
280* Add a perl script to auto generate basic Viking .vik files for directories containing images.
281* Enable control of the visibility of the menubar [including keyboard shortcut - F4]. Also enable panic key 'Escape' to restore menubar if hidden and no tool uses it.
282* Enable control of the visibility of the toolbar [including keyboard shortcut - F3].
283* Make use of the vikwindow toolbar variable.
284* Enable control of the visibility of the statusbar [including keyboard shortcut - F12].
285
286Fixes since 1.0
287* Prevent Gtk-CRITICAL assertion when the application is closed with a Track Property window on display.
288* Prevent Gtk-CRITICAL assertion when the application is closed whilst loading DEMs.
289* Fix trackpoint edit altitude sensitivity to be re-enabled after it has been disabled.
290* Fix incorrect cut/copy of sublayers when accessed via the layers panel buttons.
291* Fix the List Dialog so that it does not become taller than the screen when there are lots of entries.
292* Fix some compiler warnings in viktrwlayer.c when configured to build with --disable-alphabetized-trw
293* Fix Resource leak detected by cppcheck 1.46
294* Fix compiler warning in curl_download.c
295* Fix compiler warning in vikmapslayer.c
296* Fix compiler warning in vikwindow.c - use correct const typing.
297* Fix compiler warnings - correct Widget / Window type.
298* Fix memory leak when generating image file
299* Fix: Improve XML reading error reporting
300* Fix compiler warnings in osm.c
301* Fix compiler warning in vikmapslayer.c
302* Fix Waypoint & Track visibility issues.
303* Fix SF#3104028: Default Color Background is incorrectly saved as black into a new .vik file.
304
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305Viking 1.0 (2010-11-14)
306New features since 0.9.96
307* Add minimal translator-credits in About dialog
308* Add documenters to About dialog
309
310Fixes since 0.9.96
311* Improve copyright holders
312* Prevent crashes when downloading Expedia Maps.
313* Fix extend track using magic scissors.
314* Fix autodownloading while panning
315* Fix Debian #599048: Segmentation fault when using gpsbabel
316* Fix dem_gradient_colors allocation.
317* Fix compiler warnings in preferences.c
318
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319Viking 0.9.96 (2010-10-11)
320New features since 0.9.95
321* Use ETag to detect fresh tiles on servers
322* Add new menu entry in GPS Layer to delete the realtime information.
323* Ensure GPS realtime information deleted when GPS Layer -->Empty All is called.
324* Prevent zoom factor string displaying unnecessary .0s when it's a whole number.
325* Improve Track Properties speed profile display for low speed difference (e.g. walking) tracks.
326* Use speed units in display of Track/Waypoint layer draw by velocity config values, but maintain units as metres per second when read from/saved to files.
327* Add keyboard accelerators for as many as possible View Menu entries.
328* Simplify zoom status when xmpp and ympp are equal
329* Use height units in the altitude readout for the cursor position on the status bar.
330* Use height units in display of DEM min / max elevation values, but maintain units as metres when read from/saved to files.
331
332Fixes since 0.9.95
333* Fix many memory leaks
334* DEM layer properties tidy up.
335* Prevent getting stuck in a near infinite loop when using Coord layer, UTM mode and zoomed out to see the whole world.
336* Prevent lock up in attempt to download maps along a track in UTM mode.
337* Launchpad Bug #445374: Prevent crash when downloading maps along a track, with Terraserver maps when in Mercator mode.
338* Add explicit linking against libz and libm
339* Fix SF#3009431: Prevent Crash in Real Time Tracking GPS Mode & Autodownload Maps.
340* Fix display of rounded speed units scale markers in the speed profile.
341* Fix cycle map URL
342* Fix compiler warnings
343* Fix Track Draw by Velocity mode, so that individual track points are coloured (as was the intention).
344* Fix bug where older file was removed when network not present
345* Fix: warning 'draw-mode' message does not display
346* Fix incorrect limitation on source map id
347
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348Viking 0.9.95 (2010-09-07)
349New features since 0.9.94
350* Add some function short cut key definitions to control showing of the center mark and scale viewport features.
351* [DOC] Replace Google with OSM capability in man pages.
352* When manually creating a track, automatically give it a default name.
353* [DOC] Add contributors from the Wiki(s) history.
354* Better dialog name when searching for a waypoint.
355* Change max cache time to 1 week.
356
357Fixes since 0.9.94
358* Prevent "Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated" messages.
359* Invalid number of arguments in call to a_http_download_get_u
360* Prevent crash when cut of a GPS track/waypoint layer is attempted via the layers buttons.
361* Prevent DEM layer colour indexing going negative and can crash on gradient view.
362* Fix DEM layer to show default sea level.
363* Fix track background thickness being able to set back to zero.
364* Fix internal tile locking
365* Fix top layer not drawn after made invisible and then back to being visible.
366* Fix impaired (drawcentermark setting bodged) vik file if saved with the top layer visibility turned off.
367* Fix syntax errors in help manual
368* Fix map drag and drop to show the correct whole map
369* Fix "Go to UTM" dialog title.
370* Fix first opening of a file which has spaces (or other interesting characters) via the recent files menu.
371* Fix unnamed_tracks / unnamed_waypoints misuse.
372
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373Viking 0.9.94 (2010-06-10)
374New features since 0.9.93
375* Add knots as a speed unit option.
376* Detect USB Garmin eTrex HCx Legend devices (and maybe others).
377* Auto use of /dev/ttyUSB type device if available on Unix systems.
378* Add ability to turn off Garmin GPS after transfer.
379* Add a 'home' default location preference.
380* Add ability to changes preferences outside of the preferences.c file.
381* NLS Maps API: Historic map of Great Britain
382* Change GUI related command line parameter for Waypoint symbol size into run time preference.
383* Support All Zoom Levels in Zoom Menu
384* [DOC] Import User Manual from wiki
385* Add menu item for help contents
386
387Fixes since 0.9.93
388* Add Viking's contributors as copyright holders
389* Remove unecessary '\' from the View Menu
390* Better Preferences Dialog Title
391* More Menu Improvements
392* Replace autogen.sh
393* On GPS data acquire, only create a layer if it contains something.
394* Fix POTFILES with new source file
395* Fix OMF category
396* Fix Filter->Simplify All Tracks default.
397* [DOC] Fix Gnome's menu entry category for viking
398* [DOC] Fix erroneous warning
399* Fix compiler warning.
400* Fix #2977752: win-gtk: osm tiles don't show up
401* Fix Track -> View Google Directions URL
402* Fix function's return value
403* Fix compilation warnings
404* Fix #2988574: Can't save files opened via recent file menu
405* Fix #2991657: Terraserver downloads fail
406* Fix geocaching
407
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408Viking 0.9.93 (2010-04-11)
409New features since 0.9.92
410* Allow overriding map source
411* Make GPS layer cut/copy available from popup menu.
412* [DOC] Document new files in viking's manpage
413* Increase possible smaller zoom
414* Add negative scales so that we can have bigger zoom on maps
415* Allow images from bigger and smaller zoom to be selected if current zoom has no image
416
417Fixes since 0.9.92
418* Fix: set a default filename while exporting
419* [DOC] Fix: Viking's sources are hosted by Git now
420* Further variable type corrections.
421* Fix GPS layer copy.
422* Fix Track/Waypoint Layer Paste on 64bit systems.
423* [DOC] Fix FILES section of manpage.
424* Fix: First Track not Black in Draw All Tracks Black Mode.
425
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426Viking 0.9.92 (2010-03-15)
427New features since 0.9.91
428* Memorize previously selected go-to service.
429* Better scale when zoomed close in and in miles distance mode.
430* Add and use preference for height units.
431* Add and use preference for speed units.
432* Add and use preference for distance units.
433* Use a preference to set the tiles age.
434* New preference for default maplayer cache.
435* Improve DEM-Layer.
436* Remove OpenAerial support.
437* Translation updates.
438
439Fixes since 0.9.91
440* Fix: Correctly rotate thumbnail images
441* Fix #2958601: Support for non ascii characters in "Go-to" search
442* Fix error handling in go-to feature
443
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444Viking 0.9.91 (2010-02-06)
445New features since 0.9.9
446* Interpolation for maps: use less precise images when wanted image is not present
447* GObjectify maps
448** Add compatibility facilities
449* GObjectify go-to/search feature
450** Add Name finder search engine
451** Add Nominatim search engine
452** Add Geonames search engine
453** Add generic XML search code
454* Add configuration file for map sources, goto and external tool
455 (See examples in distribution)
456* Add option to download only maps that are more recent on server
457** Try to download newer tiles when autodownload is set and server supports such check
458** Tiles must be older than a specified age before checking server
459* Add support for recently used files
460* Add DEM Gradient
461* Add DOAP file
462
463Fixes since 0.9.9
464* Fix: add GIO dependency and header for GFile
465* Fix #2946287: open a recent file
466* fix some confusing indentation and bracing
467* Fix #2881916: rename a track with c&p
468* Fix #2766373: Use a string as device path
469* Fix "Moving Map Method" cannot be disabled
470* Fix #2880741: replace gps_open with gps_open_r
471* Fix #2921899: uses conditional macro to support two versions of libgps
472* Fix warnings
473* Fix URL formatting issue
474* Fix error messages
475* Fix #2801874: keep second part of a splitted track visible
476* Fix #2838556: emit warning when gpsbabel is not found in PATH
477* Fix bashism in test script.
478* Merge branch 'fix-osm-api-0.6'
479* Fix magic scissors
480* Get rid deprecated GtkTooltips API.
481* Add configure option to track deprecated feature
482* Use motion hints to make map motion more responsive in slow environment.
483* Viking compatible with libgps >= 2.90
484* finish OSM 0.6 API support
485* Optimise bandwidth usage
486* keeping OSM password safe
487
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488Viking 0.9.9 (2009-09-09)
489New features since 0.9.8
490* Filter out irrelevant key-modifiers.
491* Upgrade OSM-traces support to 0.6 API
492* Manage hdop,vdop,pdop,nsat
493* Remove unused (and buggy) feature
494* Document previous merge
495* Improvement of map cache
496* Add a viking parameter for mapcache memory size
497* Add menu option to flush mapcache, and reduce viking memory footprint
498* Use thread-pool to manage download
499* Show path used for map directory in options even when using default one
500* Include full libcurl version in user agent
501
502Fixes since 0.9.8
503* Don't crash when jobs are cancelled via the background jobs dialog.
504* Fix #2163652: GPX file with byte order mark not parsed
505* Fix #2766609: Don't use gpsd_units()
506* Fix #2812856: Change SRTM URL
507* Fix #2818818: unset langage preset while opening external Google
508* Fix copyright in --version output
509* Fix SRTM Server change
510* Fix memory leaks found with cppcheck
511* Fix warning in call to MD5Update() in function md5_hash()
512* Fix previous patch
513* vdop, hdop, pdop, nsats and fix_mode values were not shown
514* Fix #570956: change saved_width to 1
515* Fix build problem
516* Fix bug #2481237: Maps directory file chooser should look for directory
517
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518Viking 0.9.8 (2009-01-31)
519New features since 0.9.7
520* Add GeoNames support (both for search and for POI import from Geonames+Wikipedia)
521* Remove Google's map tiles.
522* Add external tools framework.
523* Add OpenStreetMap and Google web tools.
524* Clicking on "visible" tick no longer makes the layer selected.
525* GPX export: sort track by time.
526* Merging tracks by name.
527* Tittle waypoint properties dialog as "Waypoint Properties".
528* Add larger size waypoint symbols (icons).
529* Waypoint names are now displayed at the top of waypoint symbol.
530* Waypoint symbols: Use Garmin waypoint.
531* New server for OSM cycle map.
532
533Fixes since 0.9.7
534* Fix loading of world map file.
535* Fix 2249398: Fix some memory leaks.
536* Fix bugs that caused magic scissors not working.
537* Fix compatibility problem for windows.
538* Fix implicit declaration of maps_layer_default_dir().
539* Fix missing status return in spawn_command_line_async().
540* Fix curl error buffer usage.
541* GPS realtime tracking: Keep retrying when fail to connect.
542* Windows port: avoid "\\" in URL.
543
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544Viking 0.9.7 (2008-10-12)
545New features since 0.9.6
546* Add new moving map method for realtime tracking.
547* Rename icon: viking_icon.png -> viking.png
548* src/viking.desktop.in: add GenericName and revise Categories
549* Change "Zoom To" short cut to avoid conflict with "Zoom Tool".
550* Update translations
551* Google search adapting changes from Google.
552* add osm cycle layer support
553* add a menu entry to extend an existing track using magic scissors
554* Patch #2009666: OpenAerialMap
555* Add preferences to select how degrees are displayed
556* Color picker button for the Coordlayer properties dialog
557* Cut/Copy/Paste empty selection is not critical
558* Layers panel UI improvements
559* Homogeneous icons management.
560* Add preferences to store OSM login/password
561* Add a password entry widget
562* Ensure that confirmation dialog is over file selector
563
564Fixes since 0.9.6
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565* Fix 2161310: Fix some more compiler warnings
566* Fix 2134452: Properties of some tracks show as NaN
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567* QA: cleanning old stuff
568* Fix segfault in realtime tracking.
569* Fix missing files in po/POTFILES.in
570* viking.spec.in, src/icons/Makefile.am: Fix icon target dir
571* fix parallel build (make -j8) on multi-processor machines.
572* Fix #1947260: correct a corrupted escape
573* Fixed crashes when creating new layers.
574* Fix #1952523: mode_button assertion loading old datafile
575* Fix: update layer after applying properties
576* Fixed google map download problem.
577* Replace specific About dialog by GtkAboutDialog
578* Replace some g_warning by g_debug
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580Viking 0.9.6 (2008-07-31)
581Fixes since 0.9.5
582
583* Fix Google maps' URL
584* Fix gcget command line to accomodate negative coords
585* Fix unecessary viking.desktop
586
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587Viking 0.9.5 (2008-07-21)
588New features since 0.9.4
589
590* Add panning tool as default.
591* Replace GtkFileSelection by GtkFileChooser.
592* No longer converts waypoint names to uppercase. Waypoint names are now case insensitive.
593* Windows port updated.
594* Track properties: Keep markers of the graphs in sync with each other.
595* Track properties: split track at marker.
596* New translations: el, it, ja, lt, nb, nl, pl, zh_CN, zh_TW
597* Added viking.desktop
598* Added --debug and --verbose command line options.
599* Updated man pages.
600
601Fixes since 0.9.4
602
603* Fix #1839948: Maximize/Restore changes current cursor.
604* Bug #1915121: add an utility to reproduce (test/gpx2gpx).
605* Fix #1915121: use GLib functions to handle ISO8601 dates.
606* Fix pipe leaks.
607* Remove dependency to wget.
608* Fix google version number.
609* Track graph marker now works again.
610* Fix #1947456: Compiler warning fixes
611
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613Viking 0.9.4 (2008-02-25)
614New features since 0.9.3
615
616* Make elev graph show better graph for low altitude tracks.
617* Printing support
618* Draw circle for downloading geocaches.
619* Improve track graphs. Some tracks looked too flat.
620* Internationalization (I18N)
621* Localization (L10N): Czech, Danish, German, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish
622* Use a list of possible browsers.
623* New map source: BlueMarble tiles (http://mike.teczno.com/notes/blue-marble-tiles.html)
624* New map source: Google Terrain
625* Use the "next unused" (not really) waypoint number as default.
626* Sort waypoints in GPX output.
627* Preferences support in ~/.viking/viking.prefs
628* Update source for OSM/Osmarender tiles
629* Full screen mode.
630* Tuned the v-t diagram drawing
631
632Fixes since 0.9.3
633
634* Many fixes around compilation warnings
635* Fix a bug that caused crashes when displaying elev graph for some track.
636* Fix bug that caused Old Google maps not being disabled by default.
637* Fix a bug that can potentially cause segfault.
638* Fix compilation under HURD (missing MAXPATHLEN macro)
639* Fix: ensure config.h is included conditionnaly
640* Fix a crash bug in mapcache
641* Fix a crash bug in merge-by-time
642
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643Viking 0.9.3 (2007-10-21)
644New features since 0.9.2
645
646* Half-drawn redraw for faster refreshing display of viewport (Maps, tracks, waypoints...)
647* Allow multiple selections when adding DEM files.
648* (Semi) auto downloading and importing for SRTM 90m DEM file (worldwide).
649* Indicating areas which have DEM file download but not imported.
650* "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.
651* Interpolating DEM data.
652* Add realtime tracking to GPS layer with track recording.
653* Trackpoints acquired in realtime mode store extra information of speed, course, fix mode and number of satellites.
654* Track properties dialog no longer blocks user interaction on main window. Using multiple track dialogs (simultaneously for different tracks) is now allowed.
655* Make use of DEM elevation data and GPS speed data for track graphs (Properties Dialog).
656* Track Properties: now displays track distance/time instead of "Selected Time".
657* Marker for selected position on track graphs.
658* Various enhancement to improve usability of track dialog.
659* Mouse cursor is now changed accordingly to tool currently in used.
660* Magic Scissors (Automatically drawing track between points) can now be undone using right click, and extended via Ctrl-click.
661* Shortcuts for panning: Ctrl-arrow key, and Shift-scroll and Ctrl-scroll.
662* Extend track.
663* Ctrl-shift-scroll to zoom like google, scroll to zoom w/o changing center.
664* Preview adding a trackpoint by drawing a line when moving mouse.
665* Esc key used to stop track edition.
666* Backspace key used to remove last added point.
667* Use $BROWSER environment variable (for viewing geocache pages).
668* Automatically fetching google version numbers.
669* Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM.
670
671Fixes since 0.9.2
672
673* Fix: Make viking's default start location somewhere more likely has maps.
674* Fix: bug that causes crashes when using "Maps Download" tool.
675* Fix: Adding command line option framework (--help & --version).
676* Fix #1789550: mkdtemp usage is conditioned.
677* Fix #1789550: define MAX macro if not defined on ALL systems.
678* Fix: optional geocaching -- include config.h to compile.
679* Fix: DEM Layer copy/paste.
680* Fix: crashes on using wrong tools.
681* Fix: bugs that caused odd display of date/time on track properties dialog.
682* Fix: Correctly calculate position when click on speed-time graph.
683* Fix: Relax dependencies about glib.
684* Fix: Upgrading to API 0.5 of OSM.
685* Fix: plotting of DEM data on elevation graph.
686
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687Viking 0.9.2 (2007-09-04)
688New features since 0.9.1
689
690* Use $EMAIL to initialise email field for OSM upload.
691* Preset filename when exporting a TrwLayer.
692
693Fixes since 0.9.1
694
695* Fix: crash when "applying" a map layer property dialog.
696* Fix: Do not warn about drawmode inconsistency while reading file.
697* Fix: Hide Expedia view mode when expedia is not built in.
698
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699Viking 0.9.1 (2007-09-02)
700New features since 0.9
701
702* Upload data (TrackWaypoint layer or single track) to OpenStreetMap.
703* Group "Export Layer..." entries in a sub-menu.
704* Added --enable-old-google to configure script. Old google modes are now disabled by default.
705* Default mode for new maps is Google Maps.
706* DEM module can now read hgt.zip files directly (no need to unzip them).
707* DEM module can now process 1 arc sec hgt(.zip) files (mainly for USA regions).
708* Display on status bar altitude at cursor using data from DEM layer(s).
709
710Fixes since 0.9
711
712* Add redirect support.
713* Some improves to introduce the drawmode notion.
714* Better checking to detect downloaded text instead of images.
715* New google version number.
716* libcurl is a requirement.
717* Fix bugs that cause crashes on layers copy/paste/delete.
718* Fix bug in Google search that caused viking jump to wrong location when Google can not find the match.
719* Clean up and eliminate compiler warning.
720* Fix bug in creating temporary HOME when HOME is not set.
721* Disable GeoCache Acquire since it no longer works. Can be enabled again using configure --enable-geocaches.
722* Disable expedia map layer by default since it no longer works. Can be enabled again using configure --enable-expedia.
723
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724Viking 0.9 (2007-07-13)
725New Features since 0.1.3
726
727 * DEM data -- DEMLayer & applying data to tracks & waypoints
728 * Make "Save Image" and "Save Image Directory" dialogs reusable
729 * Add viking icon
730 * Download maps along track
731 * Add User-Agent to http request header
732 * Add cookies support (for google requests)
733 * Add center mark which can be turn on/off in View menu
734 * Make the scale more visible on dark maps
735 * Add magic scissors feature
736 * Add Google Maps search feature
737 * Many new waypoint symbols
738 * Add man pages
739 * Improve performance for map autodownload
740 * Google Directions now remembers previous query (from/to entries)
741 * New menu items to remove all tracks and waypoints in GPS folders
742 * Add "Save and Exit" to File menu
743 * Save function for GPS layer
744 * Map tool: Left click can now refresh display of map tiles
745
746Fixes since 0.1.3
747
748 * View Mode displayed wrong setting on startup
749 * crashes on gps download/upload
750 * SEGFAULT on x86_64
751 * segfault on trackpoint properties dialog
752 * intermittent problem of map redraw
753 * Stop autodownload from running forever on map downloading errors
754 * Check for non-displayable data after downloading map
755
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756Viking 0.1.3 (2007-05-17)
757- New "Refresh onscreen tiles" entry menu
758- Default .spec file for building RPM packages
759- Default debian/ subtree for building Debian packages
760- Usage of the libcurl library
761- Three new map sources from OpenStreetMap
762- Better usage of libusb
763- Google source map improved
764- GUI improves
765
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766Viking 0.1.2 (2007-02-13)
767- direct access to GPS device: GPS layer
e39a77aa 768- position inputs accept DDD/DMM/DMS formats (ex: 3.5, 3\B030.0, 3\B030'0.00)
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769- time position in Track Poperties
770- tool (menu entries and buttons) are enabled/disabled following context
771- standard 'Edit' menu (with 'Copy', 'Cut', 'Paste' and 'Delete' actions)
772- 'Edit' popup menus for waypoint and track
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773- new configure options:
774 * --disable-google
775 * --disable-terraserver
776 * --disable-expedia
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777- visual feedback when moving waypoints
778- map sections are displayed while downloading
779- cosmetics changes (window title, viking's URL in files, 'About' dialog...)
780- some improves in source code
781- lot of fixes
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783Viking 0.1.1 (2006-06-11)
784- more map sources such as google
785- drag and drop of layers and way/trackpoints
786- copy/paste between vikings
787- "smart" copy which can parse a lat/lon from web pages like geocaching, emails, etc.
788- graphs of altitude/velocity
789- newer gtk with toolbar icons
790- experimental "acquire" features: from GPS, from Google directions, from Geocaching
791- gpx support
792
793Viking 0.1.0 (2005-02-27)
794- new map layer which supports Google, Expedia, and Topozone maps in addition to the three types of Terraserver maps,
795- lots of other fixes,
796- visualization options,
797- miscellaneous goodies.