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Hi,

The site is plagued with spam, so I will lock a lot of user soon.

If you were locked in error and you are real, just send an email at admin_at_merkaartor_dot_be to have your account reactivated.

- Chris -

Hi All,

I've added a [[FAQ]] to the wiki.

If there are answers/tricks you feel should be added, don't hesitate.

- Chris -

Hi All,

This to inform you that the Windows debug nightly builds are resuming for 0.18 at http://www.semperpax.com/merkaartor/nightly-builds/windows/
As indicated, those builds use the Qt 4.7.1 debug libraries available at the same location.

- Chris -

Due to regressions causing TMS and remote control crashes in 0.17.1, here is Merkaartor 0.17.2

• FIX : Crash when using TMSes
• FIX : probable fix for remote control crashes
• FIX : Harden Filter Editor (fixes #3247)
• FIX : Unblock indexing after an aborted doawnload, too (fixes #3248)
• FIX : crash with --ignore-preferences
• FIX : Crash when creating a tag template based upon an empty one (fixes #3250)

Head on to the Files section and happy mapping.

The Merkaartor Team

We have to pleasure of announcing the release of a bugfix release Merkaartor 0.17.1.

• FIX : Do not simplify (i.e. remove) nodes outside the downloaded area (fixes #3246)
• FIX : Issue when creating nodes when active layer is closed (fixes #3244)
• FIX : Bing maps: Make initial providers request non-blocking to avoid NULL document (fixes #3241)
• FIX : Use "=" rather than "is" in selection dialog (fixes #3218)
• FIX : Background cache size not limited (fixes #3227)
• FIX : do not save local to registry in portable mode
• FIX : do not create ~/.merkaartor in portable mode
• FIX : Handle UTF8 in GDAL fields
• FIX : Only check styles for POI nodes
• FIX : Feature dock: Relations not shown in "All' tab
• FIX : log2 not available on FreeBSD (fixes #3211)
• FIX : Make sure new id's are unique (fixes #3223)
• FIX : Background image refresh issue when going to tiled from direct (e.g. GeoTIFF)

Head on to the Files section and happy mapping.

The Merkaartor Team

We have to pleasure of announcing the release of Merkaartor 0.17.0.

Besides the usual bug fixes, the main nicenesses are:

• 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.

• and many tweaks and little things...

Please check the CHANGELOG file for the full list of improvements since 0.16

Head on to the Files section and happy mapping.

The Merkaartor Team

As announced, 0.17-rc5 is now available in the files section.
A major addition since rc4 is the background image alignment feature.

As usual, please test and report issues.
- Chris -

P.S. Could the issue reporters close their tickets when the resolution is confirmed, please. Thanks in advance.
P.P.S Fedora 14 RPMs are available directly from the Fedora buildhost - Koji

I think there has been far too many commits on 0.17 this week to go live on the 19th, so we'll have a rc5 this weekend first.

New release date is set to the 26th December.

Regards
- Chris -

Hi,

I just committed to dev trunk the possibility to adjust the background imagery alignment (especially useful for Bing a low zoom levels).

• press and hold <SPACE> and drag to adjust the background image
• for tiled imagery, the displacement is specified by zoom level
• there is a new contextual action on the Image layer to reset the adjustments; for tiled imagery, it only resets the adjustments for the current zoom
• switching to a different image provider resets the adjustments
• the adjustments are saved to the MDC document for re-use.

Please provide your feedback, good and bad.
I might include this in 0.17.0 if there are no major issues.

Enjoy
- Chris -

One week to the release...

Here comes 0.17-rc4, last (or second to last?) release candidate before 0.17.0.
As usual, Source and Windows binaries are in the files section.
Mac and Linux packages to follow soon.

Fedora 14 RPMs are available directly from the Fedora buildhost - Koji

- Chris -