I am happy to announce the release of version 3.0.6 of PlanetGIS, now available for downloading. This update features dozens of improvements and also some cool new features requested by our users:
- Bug fix: the style element prioritization feature introduced in 3.0.5 also caused raster images to be drawn 11 times over. It is a testament to Planet’s rendering speed since it was only noticed by a few users who complained about hugely increased print job sizes!
- Improved labelling. Up to 4 different labels can be stored with a feature’s geometry and you can create separate displays showing specific labels. Labels can now also be set to not align with a line feature and a new font style introduces “boxed” text;
- Zoom extents & feature count menu options for displays;
- Much improved handling of displays which visibility depends on scale constraints in either the display properties or style properties;
- A new streamlined Quick Launch start-up screen;
- Selected features are now also printed with the user defined selection style;
- Maps relying on other maps can now be set to only open those maps when they are needed, eg. once zoomed to small enough scale or when a display is toggled from hidden to visible;
- Drawing priority for style elements: you can now group individual style elements (pens, fills, fonts and symbols) into priority slots to determine the drawing order. This new feature enables you to make road maps with outlined roads;
- Proximity select and containment select now allows you to select multiple feature classes;
- Discover Spatial Tables feature (currently only for Oracle Spatial);
- Zoom to same location: jump to the same geographic position in another opened map;
- More “select all” options: visible features, features in map, features in view.
Please log in to your user account to download the latest update: www.planetgis.co.za/login.php and let me know if you need any assistance.
Our Gauteng cadastral map is *finally* ready. Please preview it here: http://www.planetgis.co.za/browsemap.php?id=88. It took more time to prepare the Gauteng map for the parcel locator than all the other completed provinces put together. Now on to Limpopo and Mpumalanga…