Natural Resources Database - GIS

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 2.3 beta

Notes:
About

NRDB Pro is a GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to 
provide people in developing countries with a powerful yet simple tool to assist in the 
managing of their own resources.

The Natural Resources Database software was originally developed for the Bohol 
Environment Management Office, Provincial Government of Bohol, Philippines, by Richard D. 
Alexander, with the assistance of Voluntary Service Overseas. This was supported through 
the Skills for Community-based Resource Utilization and Management (SCRUM) program.

SCRUM was a four-year project partly funded by the European Union (EU) and the British 
Embassy. The goal of the project was to promote effective resource management by 
communities so as to ensure food security and well-being, alleviate poverty and prevent 
further depletion of valuable natural resource in which their livelihoods depend.

The NRDB project was extended to the Sustainable Development Foundation, Thailand, 
under a VSO regional programme SPARK (Sharing and Promotion of Awareness and 
Regional Knowledge), a five-year programme, launched in January 2000, to promote 
community-based approaches to natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods in 
the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand.

Further development of NRDB has been supported by Conservation International as part of 
the Palawan Corridor Strategy Development Project, Philippines.

Development of training materials and provision of support for NRDB has been undertaken by 
the PEP Network as part of their Community Based Monitoring System.

Installation

To install the software, unzip the download file and run setup.exe.

NRDB Pro runs on Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2K or XP and requires that Microsoft Data Access 
Components and Microsoft Jet Database Engine are installed on your computer. It will also 
run with a MySQL database server.

Support

The NRDB website includes news and details of active projects relating to the NRDB 
software. There are also video tutorials available for the NRDB Pro software. Please use the 
NRDB Users' Forum to obtain assistance with the NRDB Pro software and to assist others. 

Please report bugs in this version by posting a description of the problem to the NRDB Users' 
Forum under 'Support'.
Please feel free to update others about your project, by registering on the website. Please 
help to promote the NRDB Project by linking to www.nrdb.co.uk from your project web site. 

Open Source

NRDB Pro is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  This means that the 
software is redistributed with the source code so that end users may make changes and 
improvements to the software.   The GPL requires that any modified versions of the software 
remain free and are also distributed under the conditions of the GPL license.

The source code for NRDB Pro may be downloaded from the NRDB website. This includes 
the makefiles for rebuilding the software with Visual C++ 6.0. NRDB Pro is written in C++ 
using the MFC class libraries. It is hoped that the software can be ported to a non-proprietary 
cross-platform class library. 

If you use source code from NRDB Pro in your own applications please acknowledge the 
source as the NRDB Project and provide a link to www.nrdb.co.uk.
If you are able to contribute to the further development of NRDB Pro and by doing so assist 
environmental / socio-economic projects around the world please contact us.

Credits

This software uses the FreeImage open source image library. See freeimage.sourceforge.net 
for details. FreeImage is used under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2, June 
1991.

The set-up program for NRDB Pro uses Inno Setup 5.1.8, Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Jordan 
Russell.



Changes:
    * Calc Area: Now takes into account holes in polygons
    * Colour Ranges: Can now save/load colour range default styles (xml file)
    * Data Dictionary: Feature and attribute names may now contain
    * appostrophes
    * Database: Support for MySQL database server implemented
    * Database: Support for world-wide latitude/longitude implemented
    * Digitising: Can now associate a newly digitised polygon with an existing feature
    * Digitising: Can now delete last point of multi-part polygon
    * Digitising: Supports snapping to multiple nodes at once
    * Graphs: If no data is returned user given option to re-query
    * Images: Backwards compatability for 2.0 embedded images
    * Img2Shp: Fixed problem of some JPEG images appearing as black image
    * Import: Correctly imports shapefiles with aprostrophe (single quote) in text
    * Import: Fixed problem of incorrect no. of errors when importing multiple tables
    * Login: Replaced browse option with ... button
    * Print preview: Coordinates displayed in x,y or lat/long depending on user preference
    * Projection: Fixed problem of not storing correct ellipsoid
    * Projections: Re-implemented support for latitude/longitude projections
    * Queries: Optimised to support display of large numbers of features
    * Queries: Performs date conditions prior to other conditions
    * Select features: Is now available for features with no parent
    * Units: Supports user defined length and area units (xml file)
    * View Map: Labels now displayed at geometeric centroid of polygons