[From nobody Thu Jun 7 16:10:53 2018 Return-Path: <mig@ncc.up.pt> Delivered-To: jan@abnoba.hq Received: from mailman.intevation.de (intevation.de [131.173.30.110]) by abnoba.hq (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DDA1B740 for <jan@abnoba.hq>; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:44:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from omecihuatl.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (omecihuatl.rz.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE [131.173.17.35]) by mailman.intevation.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B10139EE for <jan@intevation.de>; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:47:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.ncc.up.pt (gateway.ncc.up.pt [193.136.39.2]) by omecihuatl.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6BJiC301981 for <jan@intevation.de>; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:44:13 +0200 Received: from khavo.ncc.up.pt (khavo.ncc.up.pt [193.136.39.77]) by mail.ncc.up.pt (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7457177D8 for <jan@intevation.de>; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:44:01 +0100 (WEST) Received: by ncc.up.pt via send-mail from stdin id <m15KPx9-0019AvC@khavo.ncc.up.pt> (Debian Smail3.2.0.111) for jan@intevation.de; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:47:19 +0100 (WEST) Message-Id: <m15KPx9-0019AvC@khavo.ncc.up.pt> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:47:19 +0100 (WEST) From: mig@ncc.up.pt (Miguel Filgueiras) To: jan@intevation.de [To: GPSMan-list] [Cc: mig@ncc.up.pt rvr@ncc.up.pt] Hello, This is to announce version 5.4 of GPSMan, available from http://www.ncc.up.pt/~mig/gpsman.html and in the next few days from the ftp site at sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/science/cartography Please note that the WWW pages were changed and links to addresses other than the above one will no longer work. The more important changes are mentioned below, with thanks to all those who have contributed. There is now an experimental RedHat/Mandrake package and we are trying that the Debian package is included in the official Debian distribution. Best wishes, Miguel Filgueiras --------- - the preferences file is now kept under a user data directory that will also contain other files generated automatically by GPSMan (such as those for keeping user-defined projections); GPSMan will try to create this directory on Unix/Linux systems when running 5.4 for the first time. - in Unix systems there is a new option with the path to a serial port device to be used as default; in Debian systems users must belong to the group owning the serial port device (normally dialout). - Alessandro Palma (alpalmas@tin.it) contributed code that provides elevation graphs for routes and tracks. - there are new operations on routes: chopping head or tail, including a route before or after the selected waypoint, and clearing all waypoints. - a route can be now converted into a track (suggested by Urs Forster, forster@bluemail.ch). - a waypoint shown on the map can be moved to a different place, changing its coordinates (suggested by Stefan Heinen, stefan.heinen@djh-freeweb.de); the operation is started from the waypoint map menu obtained by pressing the Control-key and clicking the mouse left-button (this used to be only the right-button). - as also suggested by Stefan Heinen, the creation of a route on the map has been extended to a more comprehensive set of edit operations; this now includes editing on the map a previously defined route; moving a waypoint on the map, automatically adjusts the routes it belongs to; when drawing a route on the map a waypoint cannot follow itself. - when editing a waypoint, renaming is no longer forbidden if the waypoint belongs to the route being edited; changes affect the information in any relevant route window. - when reading items that are displayed on the map, the map is updated and edit/show windows are re-opened with the new data. - all the waypoints in a group can have their position format changed to a selected format (in answer to Dan Jacobson, jidanni@kimo.com.tw)); if one of these waypoints is being edited, this change will revert its position to its initial value. - it is now possible to inspect datum and ellipsoid definitions and create new datums and ellipsoids; a few new datums and many variants of old datums were added to a total of 247: see the the manual for important information on this; new data structures and faster code are used (based on a suggestion by Stefan Heinen). - there is now support for user-defined particular cases of projections and coordinate grids; a few new projections were implemented (including Lambert Conic Conformal, Mercator and Cassini-Soldner); coordinates of waypoints created on the map will be given in the format chosen for the map cursor coordinates, defaulting to UTM/UPS if the format is a grid and the coordinates are out of the grid range. - the state of program can now be saved when exiting and will be restored automatically; there are two new options to control this under the Files sub-window of the Options window; a new GPSMan format for files is used to save map parameters when there is no background image. - the GSP receiver button is now a menu-button whose first menu entry replaces the previous button and the other entries provide most of the functionality of the receiver window (suggested by Stefan Heinen). - there is now a Clear menu-button in the map window similar to the Display on map one (in answer to Dan Jacobson). - the real-time record window was redesigned for use in smaller screens; its columns with empty first values will be collapsed automatically. - the procedures for opening files now support MS-Windows volumes. - changing the format of the position of a waypoint is now made keeping the internal representation of the position, to avoid conversions for the sake of accuracy. - the single document that was used to prepare the WWW pages and the user manual has been split; the user manual is now made available also in HTML (as asked by Dan Jacobson), and has an index; the PS and PDF versions also have a table of contents; the WWW pages have been simplified and redesigned. Portuguese documentation is no longer supported. - non-ASCII characters in file util.tcl caused problems in some computers (as reported by Dan Jacobson) and were moved to a new file that is only compiled if the option on composition of characters is selected. - up- and down-arrow keys scrolled the map in the wrong direction (reported by Dan Jacobson). - the binding of the Return key to the Cancel-button in the real-time record window is no longer active (suggested by Harald Koenig, koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de). - slight change in the code for providing support to USB serial ports under Linux (tested by Harald Koenig). - support for Garmin receivers has been enhanced by a simplification of the low-level communication procedures (more reliable under MS-Windows), and by providing explicit support to the following models: eTrex Venture (tested by William Sowerbutts, willmyat{}sowerbutts.com), eTrex Legend (tested by Frank Kujawski, Frank@Kujawski.org), 12CX (tested by Marko Hyvärinen, mth@sun3.oulu.fi), and eTrex Mariner (tested by Max Spring, mspring@cisco.com). ]