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1.1.0 (5-July-2005)

• Add some support for wxPython 2.5 and 2.6. Thuban is still compatible with wxPython 2.4.
• Change the way thuban deals with non-ascii text. The internal representation is now the user's default encoding. Thuban works a bit better with a unicode build of wxPython but there are still problems.
• Various raster data improvements. Among other things, translucent images are now supported on a sufficiently recent wxWidgets (2.6). Also, only the part of the window actually covered by the image is drawn which means you can have many raster images concurrently. Improved performance of map rendering for raster layers (by about a factor of 2 and even more when zoomed to small extents, measured for the Iceland demo).
• Improved PostGIS support:
  • Tables don't have to have a column named "gid" anymore. The user can select the column to use for ids.
  • PostgreSQL views are supported too.
  • Support more PostgreSQL versions. 7.4 works now.
• Added support for sizable points
• The middle mouse button can be used for panning now.
• Give a warning when the projection selected for a layer is probably wrong.
• Updated shapelib.
• Minimum version of GDAL now 1.2.5.
• A registry for extensions.
• New or improved extensions:
  • Improved WMS extension.
  • Completed SVG-Export extension.
  • New Extension to dump bounding boxes of all shapes of the selected layer.
  • New extension: umn_mapserver for managing UMN MapServer projects.
  • New extension: OGR for using the ogr library in order to load various datasource formats.
  • New Extension: mouseposition. Tool to collect mouse click positions (map coordinates) in a dialog.
• Documentation:
  • Added some documentation of the internals of Thuban. See Doc/technotes/
  • The Thuban manual has been partly translated to German

1.0.1 (20-December-2004)

• Translations
  • Updated: Spanish, French, Russian and German
  • New: Hungarian and Brazillian Portuguese
• Extensions
  • Updated gns2shp: Changes include fix for RT#2453.
  • New experimental extension: svgexport to export map and legend in svg format
• Thuban now remembers directories during a session. E.g. if you open a shape file Thuban remembers the directory it was loaded from and the next time you open a shapefile the dialog will start in the same directory. This also works for projections.
• The PostGIS interface was improved substantially compared to 1.0.0. However, there are some limitations in Thuban's PostGIS support that can't be fixed in the 1.0.x series without introducing incompatible file format changes (one such limitation is the requirement for a column called "gid"). The PostGIS changes in more detail:
  • Added support for LINESTRING geometries·
  • Added some support for tables with an explicit SRID.
  • Thuban 1.0.0 used to allow tables with multiple geometry columns in some cases. Those cases worked only by accident. 1.0.1 gives an error message when such tables are opened. Real support for tables with multiple geometry columns is available in 1.1.x (currently only in CVS).
• Fix a printing bug. The region of the map to be printed was a bit off so that some parts were not drawn sometimes (RT#2692)
• Other fixed issues:
  • RT#2237 EPSG projection with unsupported (by the dialog) parameters causes exception
  • RT#2239 (only the session tree part)
  • RT#2245 Thuban don't start, unhandled exception
  • RT#2482 (partly) NameError: name 'wx' is not defined
  • RT#2549 exception when trying to generate one class

1.0.0 (23-December-2003)

Feature list of Thuban 1.0.0:

• Comfortable Map Navigation
• Object selection and identification
• Legend and Legend Editor including automated Class Generation
• Printing
• Comfortable Management of Projections
• Multi-Language support (english, german, french, spanish, russian, italian)
• Table-Management (Join, Query)
• Supported Data Sources:
  • Shapefile
  • Raster Images
  • SFSQL via PostGIS
  • DBF-Tables
• API for Add-Ons (Extensions) including various examples
• User Manual in english

1.0rc1 (03-December-2003)

• Rendering improvements Rendering the map in the main window does not freeze Thuban completely anymore. While the rendering occurs the window is updated regularly to show the progress and you can interact with the window and thuban in general even when the rendering is not complete yet

  The map display is also faster in many cases now, especially when doing classifictions.

  The renderes have a mechanism to define how new layer classes defined in extensions can be rendered (see the new wms extension for an example)

• Added a few extensions in the Extensions sub-directory. Most of them are experimental to varying extents. Note that the binary packages might not contain all of these extensions.
  • gns2shp

    Convert GNS (GEOnet Names Server) files to shapefiles. See Extensions/gns2shp/gns2shp.py for more information

  • wms

    Use thuban as WMS client. See Extensions/wms/wms.py for more information

  • importAPR

    Import a ArcView project file (.apr) and convert it to Thuban.

  • profiling

    For developers: perfomance measurement for the rendering code. See Extensions/profiling/profiling.py for details.

  • drawshape

    This is a *very experimental* and potentially *dangerous* extension to add shapes to a shapefile. Be careful with it as it may lead to data loss. For more information, see Extensions/drawshape/README

• A new command line option --enable-attribute-editing, which when given turns on editing of attribute values in the identify view. It only works on layers whose attribute data is stored in DBF files. This experimental and may lead to data loss, so be careful when using it.

• EPSG projections

  Thuban now comes with two .proj files containing EPSG projections (epsg.proj and epsg-deprecated.proj in Resources/Projections/). These projections can be shown in the dialog with the new check boxes under "Show EPSG".

• Context menu in the legend window

  The legend window now has a context menu for most of the layer commands

• Localization updates

  The localization is now done with wxWindow's localization support and thus deals automatically with character encoding transformations and the standard dialogs are also translated properly if the wxWindows .mo files are installed

  Updated translations for French and Spanish contributed by Daniel Calvelo. Updated German translation

• PostGIS improvements
  • Quote table and columns names properly.
  • The dialog deals better with duplicate connections (e.g. trying to create a new connection when there already is a connection for the same database)

• Files written with the Windows version of Thuban can now be read by the unix version. The other way round was already possible.

• The shapefile handling code now uses shapelib 1.2.10

• Thuban should work without problems and warnings with Python 2.3 now.

0.9.0 (02-September-2003)

• An initial version of the Thuban User's Manual. Currently only the XML sources and the images are shipped with the Thuban sources. The binary distributions do not contain the document at this point, but there's an online version.
• New Translations: German, Italian and Russian. The Italian and Russion translations are based on 0.8.1 and therefore not quite up to date. German is up to date, though. For 1.0 we intend to have a translation period where all translations can be brought up to date.
• PostGIS support. This feaure is still a bit experimental at this point and is not very well tested yet. It should work PostgreSQL 7.2.1 and postgis 0.7 as that's what we tested it with. Newer versions probably also work.

  The user as which the connection is established obviously needs select permissions on any table to show and also on the geometry_columns table.

  Known Issues:

  • Only four geometry types are currently supported: POINT, MULTILINESTRING, POLYGON and MULTIPOLYGON.
  • Tables must have a gid column which is assumed to be a non-NULL integer which uniquely identifies the row.
  • It's not optimized so some things may be very slow. For instance the number of queries done could be reduced substantially especially if you use classifications. Having an index on the gid column can speed things up in that case. Note that at least older versions shp2pgsql do not create such an index.
• Renamed the subdirectory extensions to libraries. The name extensions can now be used for a directory with Thuban extensions.

0.8.1 (30-June-2003)

0.8.0 (26-June-2003)

• Projection Management
  The new projection dialog makes it possible to import, export, create and select projections which can then be applied to layers and maps.
• Automatic Classification Generation
  The tedious work of adding new groups to a classification is greatly simplied with this new tool. Classificatons can be generated using uniform distributions, unique values, or quantiles. The visual properties (e.g. line width, line color, and fill color) are also adjusted according to predefined color schemes, or a custom scheme.
• Image Layers
  Images that are supported by GDAL (e.g. GeoTIFF) can be added to Thuban as layers. They then behave just as layers do and can be raised, lowered, and even projected.
• Table Joins
  Independent tables can be opened with Thuban and joined with other tables. The results can then be exported or treated just as any other table in the session.
• Table Queries
  The table view has a new query function which allows shapes to be selected based on certain criteria which their fields match. Results from a query are highlighted both in the table and in the map. Queries can also be refined with other search criteria.
• Legend
  The legend provides a more user-friendly face to the session tree (which is still available). It displays each layer along with any classification. The layers can be raised, lowered, shown, or hidden through the toolbar on the legend. A layer's properties are accessible by double-clicking a layer or selecting the properties button.
• Improved Printing
  Maps are framed and printed with the legend and scalebar.
• Export under Windows
  On Windows platforms maps can be exported to Enhanced Meta-File format.

0.2.0 (17-March-2003)

• The most striking new feature is classifications. A classification is a set of groups that determine how a layer is drawn on the map. The groups are based on the fields of the associated data table.

  For example, with the iceland_sample.thuban file you can group roads by their length so that all the roads that are 0-0.2 km are red, 0.2-0.4 km are green, 0.4-0.6 km are blue, and so on. Or, you can group the roads into types so that all roads of type 1 are red, all roads of type 2 are green, and so on. This is what is done in the iceland_sample_class.thuban file.

  Classification Screenshots: http://thuban.intevation.org/screenshots.html Version 0.2.0 is backward compatible with previous releases: it can read and write old files.

• Python 2.2 and wxWindows 2.4 are from now on the reference. Thuban will be compatible with these two dependencies for quite some time.
• As usual: Various bug fixes, see ChangeLog and Bug Tracker for details.

0.1.3 (19-November-2002)

• Thuban now requires at least Python 2.1. As a result of this, the requirement of PyXML has been dropped. Thuban now uses the XML parsers that come with Python.
• Thuban is extensible with python modules now. Extensions can add new menu items and tools. The new Examples subdirectory contains some commented extensions that explain how this works.
• Thuban can be more easily used to build applications on top of it. Applications built this way can have their own application objects, and main windows, among other things. We use this feature at Intevation for the GUI client of GREAT-ER: http://great-er.intevation.org/
• Installing thuban now creates a module thubaninit that can be imported by applications built on top of Thuban to initialize paths needed for Thuban.
• There's a small test suite now in test/.
• The identify dialog now allows the user to modify the attributes. The current implementation of this may be a bit dangerous in that editing is on by default, there's no undo and you don't have to press a button to commit the changes.

0.1.2 (8-May-2002)

• Thuban is quite a bit faster now. This is mainly due to using shapelib's quad tree in various places, but there were also some other speedups.
• The current mouse position in projected coordinates is now displayed in the status bar.
• A menu item to open the tree view so that it can be reopened if you've closed its window
• "View full extent" is now also a button in the toolbar
• Various bug-fixes. Among other things thuban works properly with Python >= 2.0 and on PPC systems now.

0.1.1 (4-April-2002)

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