RouteConverter 2.30.145 - Change Log

CHANGELOG

What's New in version 2.27.95:

Allows to select and move multiple positions on the map in the Open Source Edition
Supports Mac OS X 10.14 'Mojave' and later with a jjlink/jpackage based setup
Uses GraphHopper 0.13, BRouter 1.5.5, mapsforge 0.12 for the Open Source Edition
Has optimized deletion of positions in large tracks
Has optimized selection handling when removing all selected positions
Shows an error message if no JavaFX is present for the Google Edition like for Java 11
Introduces a fix for Google Maps in China for the Open Source Edition
Shows copyright texts for maps in the Open Source Edition
Tries to avoid the download of routing data in BRouter .rd5 tiles and GraphHopper .osm.pbf files
Tries to download the .osm.pbf file with smallest enclosing bounding box for GraphHopper
Fixes several bugs when writing Garmin Flight Plan (.fpl) files: description might have spaces, identifiers for same position are merged, country code can be determined from identifier, 4 digit identifiers are Airports, only User Waypoints have no country code
Fixes bugs in Microsoft Excel 97-2008 (.xls) and Microsoft Excel 2008 (.xlsx) files that empty columns stop parsing and description is not read from numeric columns
Fixes a bug where setting the map (device) scale factor didn't have an effect
Fixes service uris for Nominatim based geocoding
Fixes several initialization bugs which didn�t let the UI come up in rare circumstances

What's New in version 2.26.69:

adds Brazilian and Catalan localization
shows short distances in meter or feet instead of kilometers or miles
uses feet for elevation display in nautic unit system
writes heading, pressure and temperature in CSV and Excel files
shows notification popups during processing of GraphHopper .pbf files and during routing of long BRouter routes
supports WAD scripts for proxies
avoids the initialization of the remote tree if the local tree is the preference to speed up the browse panel
disables printing the Mapsforge based map
optimizes reading of Nominatim geocoding results
fixes red routing lines by loading segment files around the position the same way BRouter does it
fixes distance is displayed in elevation units when the distance is less than 10km
fixes distance is displayed in meters for nautic and statute units when the distance is less than 10km
fixes a NullPointerException in the Web Page (*.html) format since there is no default API Key anymore
fixes a bug in the overlay initialization

What's New in version 2.24.42:

Reads and writes Garmin Fit 2.0 (.fit) files
Extends the Offline Edition to use online maps
Extends the Offline Edition by the display of hill shading
Adds a zoom combobox to the Offline Edition
Allows to open files via double click on Mac OS X
Refuses to start with Java 8 Update 161 to 172 on Windows due to a JavaFX bug in Oracle's Java VM
Uses anti-aliasing on Linux
Limits zooming in the Offline Edition to a reasonable range
Adds columns to Microsoft Excel 97-2008 (.xls) and Microsoft Excel 2008 (.xlsx) files if they don't exist but are needed to store data
Fixes profile and map panel initialization problems on fast computers which didn't show the map on startup
Fixes bug when inserting intermediate positions in the Offline Edition: have to wait for adding to positions model to be completed before inserting the next positions
Fixes a bug where loading tile server list on Java 9+ failed since the Esri copyright was missing in the XML Schema
Fixes a bug where markers, tracks and waypoints where not removed from the map due to remove/add reordering issues
Fixes a bug where the deleted route was not correctly removed due to indexOf() broken due to equals() broken
Fixes a bug if the first position has no coordinates
Fixes a bug when completing time which enables the select all scenario again since it was gone after release 2.20
Fixes a bug reading Photo (.jpg) files with more than 64 KByte metadata
Fixes a bug writing Photo (.jpg) files which were overwritten with zeros
Adds a workaround to read Photo (.jpg) files with broken user comments
Adds a workaround to read NMEA 0183 Sentences (*.nmea) files with GGA sentences that are one comma shorter
Fixes a bug when reading some Navigon Mobile Navigator (*.route) files
Fixes a bug that stopped rendering of the Mapsforge map in the Offline Edition

What's New in version 2.24:

Reads and writes Garmin Fit 2.0 (.fit) files
Extends the Offline Edition to use online maps
Extends the Offline Edition by the display of hill shading
Adds a zoom combobox to the Offline Edition
Allows to open files via double click on Mac OS X
Refuses to start with Java 8 Update 161 to 172 on Windows due to a JavaFX bug in Oracle's Java VM
Uses anti-aliasing on Linux
Limits zooming in the Offline Edition to a reasonable range
Adds columns to Microsoft Excel 97-2008 (.xls) and Microsoft Excel 2008 (.xlsx) files if they don't exist but are needed to store data
Fixes profile and map panel initialization problems on fast computers which didn't show the map on startup
Fixes bug when inserting intermediate positions in the Offline Edition: have to wait for adding to positions model to be completed before inserting the next positions
Fixes a bug where loading tile server list on Java 9+ failed since the Esri copyright was missing in the XML Schema
Fixes a bug where markers, tracks and waypoints where not removed from the map due to remove/add reordering issues
Fixes a bug where the deleted route was not correctly removed due to indexOf() broken due to equals() broken
Fixes a bug if the first position has no coordinates
Fixes a bug when completing time which enables the select all scenario again since it was gone after release 2.20
Fixes a bug reading Photo (.jpg) files with more than 64 KByte metadata
Fixes a bug writing Photo (.jpg) files which were overwritten with zeros
Adds a workaround to read Photo (.jpg) files with broken user comments
Adds a workaround to read NMEA 0183 Sentences (*.nmea) files with GGA sentences that are one comma shorter
Fixes a bug when reading some Navigon Mobile Navigator (*.route) files
Fixes a bug that stopped rendering of the Mapsforge map in the Offline Edition

What's New in version 2.23:

Reads and writes comma and semicolon separated CSV (.csv) files
Reads and writes Microsoft Excel 97-2008 (.xls) files
Reads and writes Microsoft Excel 2008 (.xlsx) files
Adds Norwegian Bokmal localization
Adds a column displaying the distance between two positions
Supports Java 9 and Java 10
Removes the Eclipse SWT based map
Replaces the embedded GPSBabel 1.3.6/1.4.4 with a downloaded GPSBabel 1.5.4
Removes support for MS Autoroute (.axe) files as GPSBabel 1.5.4 doesn't support it anymore
Has better support for reading and writing Garmin3, Trackpoint v1 and v2 and trekbuddy extensions
Uses Mapsforge 0.9.1 for the Offline Edition
Replaces URLs for Strava maps
Fixes a bug to not zoom out of map if a new map covers the currently visible region
Fixes a bug when moving positions in the Offline Edition by decoupling dragging of markers from editing the position
Fixes a bug when choosing to download larger maps for the Offline Edition
Fixes a bug where a new/open file doesn't update the route in the background but displays the new route in the foreground
Fixes a bug when reading Navigon Cruiser (.cruiser) files with binary elements
Fixes decimal formatting in GPX 1.1 (.gpx) files with TrackPoint extensions
Adds a workaround for broken CoPilot files on Samsung Galaxy S5
Fixes timestamp set to 1.1.1970 if time delta is zero
Fixes a bug when no description was found which stopped the rendering

What's New in version 2.17:

uses the crowd source translation via weblate.org
allows to restart and stop downloads
uses version 3.21 of the Google Maps API for the Online Edition
allows users of the Offline Edition to download routing and elevation data together with the maps where they're needed
splits up the maps and themes dialog of the Offline Edition to 2 dialogs and makes their tables sortable
scans for missing files in the download queue and adds them if required to keep them current
searches in the download queue for downloads that need to be updated and marks them as outdated
shows the wait cursor when downloading categories from the RouteCatalog which unfortunately doesn't work when expanding the tree with the plus '+'
fixes a bug where the insertion of waypoints and turnpoints didn't work anymore
fixes a bug where the JavaFX-based map didn't initialize on Java 7
fixes a bug where printing for the JavaFX-based map view under Java 8 was not working (under Java 7 there is no print support for JavaFX)
fixes a bug where dragging and modifying positions in the position list leads to invalid routes, tracks, waypoint lists
fixes a bug where the selection on the map was not updated when dragging and modifying positions in the position list
fixes a bug where the display of the waypoint description on the map was always disabled

What's New in version 2.15:

adds an option to disable 'show all positions' after loading and after switching position lists
provides elevation service that tries to select the best possible elevation service
shows the URLs of routes in the catalog as a tooltip
uses JavaFX on Windows for the map view which requires Oracle Java 7 Update 40 or later to work
uses the system-wide proxy configuration as documented by Oracle
removes the faulty Outdoor Active maps integration
fixes a bunch of bugs during the startup phase which make the map, routing and elevation unusable
fixes a bug where routes where just rendered partially and inaccurately
fixes a bug where elevation information was erased when trying to complete it
fixes a bug where downloads where slowed down, performed twice and reported failures
fixes a bug where the conversion of long routes to tracks did not render an accurate track afterwards
fixes a bug where gpsbabel did not work on 64 Bit operation systems
fixes a bug where Google Maps URLs where not parsed correctly
fixes a bug where the rename of a category in the local route catalog had no visible effect
fixes a bug where the route length is doubled each time the position list is switched

What's New in version 2.14:

adds the OSM-based OpenTopoMap
adds Portuguese localization
adds notifications in the lower right corner to display download progress
requires at least Java 7
uses a single JAR for 32 and 64 Bit support, which internally selected the correct version
uses the Apple key as an accelerator instead of Ctrl
uses JavaFX on Mac OS X for the map view which requires Oracle Java 7 Update 40 or later to work
uses version 3.18 of the Google Maps API which introduces fading of map tiles and supports the avoid ferries routing option
supports the Garmin TrackPointExtension v1 and v2 for GPX 1.1 (.gpx) files
renders a red line if a routing request to Googles servers did not return any results
completes elevation data when inserting positions only if the data is already locally available
creates trips for Garmin z�mo 590LM with more than 29 waypoints
makes route color configurable
fixes reading CoPilot 9 (.trp) files which are UTF-16LE encoded
fixes a bug when loading the Hikemap
fixes a bug where the Outdoor Active Maps showed missing tiles
fixes a bug where the profile didn't use all the horizontally available space
fixes a bug in undo for completion after insertion of intermediate positions
fixes a bug in undo for removing positions
fixes a bug that WPL sentences might have no checksum
fixes an int overrun bug in the track duration calculation
fixes a bug to make value conversion for Statute and Nautic unit system commutative

What's New in version 2.12:

allows to choose between NASA SRTM1, SRTM3 and Jonathan de Ferranti DEM 1, DEM 3 when completing elevation data
allows to keep the option dialog open all the time
offers a downloads dialog to show the previously hidden downloads of elevation data
adds a column to the positions table that shows the elevation difference from a position to its predecessor
is signed with a certificate from Certum which enables Webstart with Java 1.7.0_51 again
uses version 3.15 of the Google Maps API which enables the mouse wheel with Internet Explorer 11 again
fixes a bug when the sort menu entries are not activated directly after loading a file

What's New in version 2.11:

reads Columbus TimeAlbum (.csv) files
reads and writes MotoPlaner URLs
reads SRTM1 and SRTM3 files when completing elevation data
allows to switch between speed and elevation in the context menu of the profile graph
uses the Glopus (*.tk) format with latitude,longitude,comment when pasting to the clipboard
uses a single instance when calling the Webstart API and passing it an URL to open
uses integer tick units for the profile graph to avoid fraction number
is more robust when reading NMEA 0183 Sentences (*.nmea) files
allows to use zoom level 19 of Mapnik maps
fixes the performance issues when deleting large number of positions in tracks with lots of positions
fixes a bug when converting routes to tracks that inserted new positions in unpredictable order
fixes a bug when reading NMEA 0183 Sentences (*.nmea) files where the ZDA year is encoded with 4 digits
fixes a bug when writing Garmin POI (*.gpi) files with spaces in the position list name
fixes a bug when writing Google Earth 5 (*.kml) speed bars with wrong speed segments
fixes a bug when writing [WebPage (*.html)] files which failed to display positions
fixes a bug when registering at the RouteConverter service that allowed empty first and last names

What's New in version 2.10:

reads ape@map (.trk) files
reads broken Columbus V990 (.csv) files as reported here
reads Google's MultiTrack extension for Google Earth 5 (*.kml) files
extracts Google Earth 5 (*.kml) from Google Maps My Places URLs starting with http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?...
adds Polish and Russian localization
allows for floating point input to the position deletion dialog
solves speed problems when rendering lots of markers with and without descriptions
fixes a bug when Extras/Options... preferences where not loaded from the place where they were saved
fixes a bug when writing GoPal Route (.xml) files with wrong ISO-8859-1 character set definition
fixes a bug when writing Training Center Database (.tcx) files that were missing the heartbeat information
fixes a bug when starting GPSBabel with spaces in the path due to changes to Runtime.exec in Java 1.7.0_21 for Windows

What's New in version 2.9:

reads Garmin Fit (.fit) files
extracts speed from Sports Tracker (*.gpx) files
is optimized for large tracks with several hundred thousand positions
allows to display coordinates as decimal degrees, degrees and decimal minutes, degrees minutes and seconds
allows to display coordinates at current mouse position
allows to display the waypoint description next to the waypoint
allows to add time to positions interpolated from existing time information
allows to add new positions not only for one but for all selected positions
stores position list name and description for waypoints in of GPX files
gives routes nicer names when splitting them
notifies about Java updates
fixes a bug when the Google Maps Directions API throwed OVER_QUERY_LIMIT exception since more than one request was active at a given time
fixes a bug stopping threads when shutting down to fix Java 1.7.0_07 on OpenSUSE problems
fixes a bug when selecting and moving positions failed
fixes a bug when displaying large number of waypoints
fixes a bug that route names in Training Center Database(.tcx) files should be unique and not exceed 15 characters
fixes a bug when writing Google Maps URLs (*.url)
fixes a bug when reading i-Blue 747 (.csv) and Qstarz BT-Q1000 (*.csv) files without timestamps
fixes a bug when reading Columbus V900 Standard (.csv) files with 'G' fix indicator
fixes a bug when writing GPX 1.1 (.gpx) files with speed as m/s
fixes a bug that SRTM data files were deleted upon program completion
fixes a bug that required to select a position to be allowed to print
fixes a bug that null values for elevation where ignored during complete or edit operations
fixes a bug to bring up the help window when started via Webstart

What's New in version 2.8:

reads and writes GoRiderGPS (*.rt) files
reads Google Maps URLs without coordinates as Google dropped the KML support
follows Windows Shortcuts (*.lnk) in the local RouteCatalog
opens all files from a directory when a directory is dropped on RouteConverter
adds relief and symbols to the Hike map
adds the OutdoorActive maps Topographic, Austria and Swiss
remembers the map bounds and zoom when it is closed and uses them for the next start
shortens paths in the reopen menu like the Microsoft Office programs
moves Google Maps API calls from Java to JavaScript to make support for OpenLayers and OpenRouteService easier
allows to print only if there is a position
allows to print route descriptions only if the position list is of the type route
shows an increased stability of the map module when extensively used
fixes a bug when reading Google Earth 6.2 (*.kml) files with Track extension and non-UTC timezones
fixes a bug when writing Navigon Mobile Navigator (*.route) files
fixes a bug when reading TomTom firmware version 9 files
fixes a bug when reading Garmin POI (*.gpi) files with umlauts
fixes a bug when splitting iGO8 Route (*.kml) files
fixes a bug which scrambled the position order when opening multiple files at once
fixes a bug which made saving a converted file besides the original file very difficult
fixes a bug did not hide map controls during printing
fixes a bug to avoid 'null' output when printing
fixes a bug which allowed to rename or delete the root node of the RouteCatalog

What's New in version 2.6:

reads and writes iGO8 Route (*.kml) files
allows to export the current position list to a file
moves all selected positions when dragging a position on the map
displays elevation or speed in the profile view at the bottom of the window
displays elevation, distances and speed in metric, nautic and statute measurement system
displays copyright messages for OpenStreetMap and OutdoorActive maps
uses the routing instructions from Google Maps Directions API when adding positions
uses Google Maps Elevation API first when completing elevation information
uses the latest Eclipse SWT 3.8M3 library to show a map again on Windows XP
fixes reading Navigating POI-Warner (*.asc) files containing control characters
fixes reading Tom Tom POI (*.ov2) files containing control characters
fixes writing Training Center Database 1 (*.tcx) and Training Center Database 2 (*.tcx) files
fixes a bug when tracks were not painted anymore after scrolling the map
fixes a bug localizing the map display and controles
fixes a bug when routes over water were not painted
fixes a bug omitting the username required for geonames.org
fixes a bug when reading ZIP archives containing file names with umlauts

What's New in version 2.4:

reads and writes CoPilot 8 (*.trp) files
reads and writes Opel Navi 600/900 (*.poi) files
adds Czech and Slovakian localization
allows to drag and drop positions in the position list
displays time data in the default time zone of the users machine
duplicates the first position for Navigon Mobile Navigator and CoPilot routes
adds a confirmation dialog before deleting categories
opens a dialog when adding information to positions takes a long time
uses a pointer as the mouse pointer on the map
uses digits for the elevation axis of the elevation profile
fixes the display of maximized windows if the task bar is not at the bottom
fixes reading data from URLs
fixes copying positions from a position list to a newly created position list failed if the file format is not GPX
fixes the misleading error message when a user tries to register with an already existing name
fixes links in about dialog under Linux
fixes files read from root if their path was relative under Linux
tries to make the map work on all major 32- and 64-bit Linux distributions

What's New in version 2.1:

reads and writes GoPal Route 5 (*.xml) files
reads time and elevation from Google Earth (*.kml) files written by Navigon 6310 devices
adds Spanish localization
adds a menu with recently opened files
always displays times in GMT/UTC timezone
solves the menu performance problems on Mac OS X
avoids the browser polling most of the time on Linux and Mac OS X
complements comments, elevation and time of manually inserted positions
speeds up reading of files by first trying most likely candidates
speeds up writing of files by not reloading them if the format didn't change
contains a workaround for GPST(racker) which stores m/s instead of Km/h in GPX 1.1 (*.gpx) files
fixes a bug introduced in 2.0 where selected positions where not centered on the map
fixes a problem with routes that could not be selected in the position list chooser
fixes wrong time when reading GoPal Route 3 (*.xml) files
fixes wrong order of positions when writing Falk Navigator (.tour) files
fixes the find populated place lookup by using http://ws.geonames.org/ as a default

What's New in version 1.33:

reads Wintec WBT-202 (*.tes) files
reads Navilink (*.sbp) files
contains a warning dialog about XML parser bugs in Java versions before 1.6.0_14
contains an option to turn off centering the map for the selected positions when zooming
parses short Tripmaster 2.5 TomTomRoute (*.itn) track logs
extracts the speed from Google Earth (*.kml) track logs created by Wintec WBT-201 devices
salvages the heart beat rate when converting from GPX 1.1 to Training Center Database 1 (*.crs)
fixes a bug where coordinates where geocoded for the default position name
fixes Google Earth (*.kml) coordinates parsing bug when coordinates are string lists separated by spaces
fixes a memory leak that kept the previous position list in memory when a new one was loaded
fixes a bug where written Garmin POI Database (*.xcsv) files contained a position list three times