File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.051
Notes: Welcome to Geotag. Visit http://geotag.sourceforge.net for details For the time being I recommend using the Java Webstart facility on http://geotag.sourceforge.net/?q=node/3 Licensing and other information can be found in the 'res' directory
Changes: Release 0.051 (Alice Springs Edition) Now supporting time zones that don't have a whole number offset from GMT (like Alice Springs). Release 0.050 Speed up for loading images on Windows. Linux should not be affected. Any feedback (better/worse/unchanged) is welcome. Release 0.049 Menu items that only make sense for multiple images are no longer displayed on Google maps if only a single image is shown. Updated Danish translation Release 0.048 Images can now be removed from the images table. Note that this will not delete the images, but just remove them from view. CRW files can now be geotagged (using XMP files only) Fixed bug [1865891]: "copy location name" function not copying "city" field Added workaround for Java/Swing bug preventing table columns to be moved properly. 2008-01-01 Release 0.047 Fixed bug generating KMZ files under Windows. 2007-12-30 Release 0.046 Added Danish translation by Uffe Ougaard. 2007-12-29 Release 0.045 Bug fix 1860333: XMP:GPSTimeStamp error message 2007-12-26 Release 0.044 Added support for reading GPX 1.1 files. 2007-12-05 Release 0.043 Coordinates can now be set by copying them to the clipboard from any external application. 2007-12-01 Release 0.042 Fixed bug when reading XMP files with location names, but no coordinates. Fixed bug reading geonames information with non-English query language. 2007-11-25 Release 0.041 The geonames.org query language can now be overridden in the settings dialog, to stop Norwegian users getting place names in German only. 2007-11-20 Release 0.040 Fixed problems with reading multiple GPX files. 2007-11-18 Release 0.039 Geonames.org queries now use the correct language. Major code cleanup. Added support for proxies. For reverse geocoding there is now a difference between locations and cities. 2007-11-10 Release 0.038 Now displaying alternative location names. Now using the geonames findNearby query instead of findNearbyPlaceNames, resulting in more location names being returned, not only populated places. 2007-11-07 Release 0.037 Altitude, latitude and longitude can now be manually edited. There are now several display formats to choose from for displaying latitudes and longitudes. The altitude can now displayed in feet as well as in metres. 2007-11-03 Release 0.36 Added keyboard navigation with arrow keys 2007-11-02 Release 0.35 Right clicking on the image preview now opens the popup menu for that image. Search radius for reverse geocoding can now be specified in kilometers/kilometres or miles. Added 3rd supported language: British English ;-) General cleanup and minor fixes. 2007-10-30 Release 0.34 Added ability to change location name to another location found nearby. This also includes names from Wikipedia entries. Added ability to manually edit place names and to copy them to other images. 2007-10-28 Release 0.33 Added reverse geocoding with geonames.org The Edit menu now contains menu items to select all images, images with locations or images with new locations. It is now possible to display nearby Wikipedia entries on the Google Map. Display of thumbnail images in tooltips can now be turned off for better performance. 2007-10-22 Release 0.032 Added export to Google Earth KML/KMZ files. Redesign of the Settings dialog. 2007-10-17 Release 0.031 More big speed increase for matching tracks. The 'Show tracks on Google Maps' setting has been removed from the Settings dialog and added to the menu on the Google Map. 2007-10-16 Release 0.030 Matching tracks to images is now almost 10 times faster than before. Now asks before overwriting GPX files. Added keyboard shortcuts to the Google Maps menu (Feature request 1809768) 2007-10-09 Release 0.029 Added drag-and-drop support for adding files. Google Map menu open/closed state and scroll wheel zoom status are now remembered. Bug fixed: 1810081 2007-10-08 Release 0.028 Added a menu to the Google Map to ease navigation between several images on the map. 2007-10-07 Release 0.027 Fixed Javascript problem, resulting in thumbnail images not being displayed. Enabled scroll wheel zooming for Google Maps. 2007-10-01 Release 0.026 Geotag now works with Internet Explorer. Several ugly work-arounds were needed to keep this weird software happy. All other browsers were just fine. 2007-10-01 Release 0.025 As there are problems with Internet Explorer, a setting for the browser path was added. 2007-09-30 Release 0.024 More than one image can now be opened on a single Google Map. Displaying tracks on Google maps is now either on or off. The other choices didn't make sense with more than one image displayed. Image direction can now be edited manually, either as an angle or a cardinal direction (e.g NNW). 2007-09-28 Release 0.023 Added to ability to display and tag TIFF images. New About dialog with working hyperlinks. 2007-09-24 Release 0.022 Now shows an error message if a GPX file could not be read. Added a 'Geotag web site' item to the Help menu 2007-09-20 Release 0.021 Checking available memory on start-up and issuing a warning if it's not enough. Temporary files are now deleted on exit. 2007-09-19 Release 0.020 Bug fix release: Fixed problem with image direction when using with Google Earth 2007-09-18 Release 0.019 Images without coordinates will not automatically accept the default coordinates when shown in Google Earth. 2007-09-17 Release 0.018 Added check for a new version on program start-up. This can be turned off in the Settings dialog. 2007-09-17 Release 0.017 Mainly a bug fix/usability release. Main difference: When showing an image without coordinates in Google Maps, the last displayed coordinates at a lower zoom level are now displayed (assuming the image is in the same general area as the previous one) 2007-09-13 Release 0.016 Now can set the image direction with Google Maps. Now can handle displaying all tracks on a Google map. Done by not sending points to the maps are are so close in the track, that they make no visual difference. Now reporting back and remembering changes in map type in Google maps 2007-09-09 Release 0.015 Added ability to display GPS tracks on Google Maps. The last selected Google Maps zoom level is now reported back to Geotag and used for the next image opened in the browser. 2007-09-07 Release 0.014 Added possibility to specify additional exiftool arguments. 2007-09-07 Release 0.013 The column headers now have tool tips. Column widths are now saved as preferences. Column positions are now saved as preferences. The table font can now be changed. 2007-09-05 Release 0.012 Added handling of PPM thumbnail images. 2007-09-04 Release 0.011 Added support for the following RAW file formats: ARW, DCR, RAF, SR2, SRF, X3F. Exiftool can only read those files, so locations are automatically stored in XMP sidecar files. 2007-09-04 Release 0.010 Added support for XMP sidecar files 2007-09-03 Release 0.009 Added support for dcraw external program to display RAW images 2007-09-02 Release 0.008 Added support for .thm files (instead of .crw files which can't have EXIF data written to them). 2007-09-02 Release 0.007 Fixed bug with null altitudes. Now writing stdout/stderr to log file 2007-09-02 Release 0.006 Added support for the following RAW file formats: CR2, DNG, ERF, MEF, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, RAW Images are now sorted by GMT time stamp rather than by name 2007-09-01 Release 0.005 Messed up version information - had to re-release 2007-09-01 Release 0.004 Added support for Google Earth 2007-08-31 Release 0.003 Added support for GPSBabel Added possibility to save .gpx files Better behaviour if exiftool is not properly configured 2007-08-30 Release 0.002 Added settings dialog and made the path to exiftool configurable 2007-08-29 Release 0.001 initial release
