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The uDig 1.2 "milestone 6" release is available for download.This release is the result of an amazing week long code sprint held at Hydrologis in Italy supplimented by developers all over the world. A special thanks to the participating ... [More] organizations: Axios, Camptocamp, Fraunhofer IAIS, HydroloGIS and LISAsoft.The milestone release features:Better support for TIFF and depending on your platform ECW and MrSID with an update to the imageio-ext libraryEnhanced vector editing, revamped printing supportUpgrade to the latest Eclipse 3.5 (finally we can offer cocoa support on mac!)Here are some example of some of the enchancements:Import multiple layers into catalog at onceDeleting multiple maps only asks for a single confirmation and deletestandard paper sizes are now supported when printing!Add rectangles, roundrectangles and ellipse when printingDrag and Drop improvements: drag and drop mixed content in the catalog and map, move several maps at once, multiple services on project at once, handle multiple layers in the layer viewImproved workflow: An Open Map action, switch between common map scalesAll in all 41 issues have been addressed for this release - for more information check the release notes. [Less]

This release, available for uDig 1.1.x, includes new features, improvements and bug fixes. We want to highlight the following ones:NEW FEATURESSpatial Operation Split splits features from a source layer using a LineString features from a second layer ... [More] (or reference layer). Spatial Operation Polygon To Line transforms the Polygon features from a source layer into LineString features.Spatial Operation Fill creates a new geometry using the reference line and the border of the source polygon as its own border. Spatial Operation Hole Cut makes a hole inside a polygon feature using a valid lineString that is within the polygon. IMPROVEMENTSMerge Tool the usability has been improved in several ways. New Split algorithm, it allows add vertex to neighbour geometries. Additionally, it solves many reported problems in the old split tool.Parallel Tool - Improvements ofthe algorithym.Spatial Operation Dissolve allows to select multiple dissolve property. The spatial operation framework was factored to provide an easy way to extend with new operations. Thus the control logic was encapsuled in abstract classes to simplify the creation, associations presenters- commands and event handling .Spatial Operation Extensions Point allows to add new spatial operations in the default set.To download this new release please visit the uDig update-site or our web site www.axios.es download page.Finally, we want to thank uDig community for your comments and suggestions to improve this product.If you want to know more about this project visit thefollowing page: uDig Axios Community Space - Spatial Operations and Editing Tools [Less]

The FOSS4G2009 presentations are defined, so here are some uDig related presentation that you might be interested to attend:Here is what the HydroloGIS team came up with:JGrass, present and futureAnatomy of a digital field mapping with ... [More] BeeGISJGrass-uDigs's sense for climate changeA very interesting live demosnstration comes from Potsdam, as suggested by Matthias Lendholt:Live Demonstration of DEWS (that will show a Tsunami Early Warning System using uDig and GeoTools. If the network connectivity works properly they will show a life scenario instead of a powerpoint presentation)Are there others around? Please send us an email if you are presenting something related to uDig & friends. [Less]

The meeting agenda was as follows:1) jre's and startup scripts2) to style or not to style3) where is my printer4) editing bugs adeThe good news is a release being organized for Friday.

The world-wide code sprint/grind has now wrapped up and with very good results. uDig trunk is very functional with an incredible number of bugs and usability issues addressed. Many (although not all) have been listed in other blog postings. We ... [More] will be combing through the logs and getting a complete list of the issues addressed very soon.There is only one more task to complete the sprint: make a new Milestone release. The new release will be trimmed down to the plug-ins that we think work very well and all other plug-ins will be moved to a unstable feature that will be avalaible from the update site (once the final, non-milestone, release is made). The unstable feature will also be available to developers in the SDK (that is the current plan but is up for debate). We hope to finish up the release this week and get it on-line. Good work to all the developers who helped out and the organizations who sponsered them:CamptocampLisaSoftHydroloGISAxiosFraunhofer IAIS [Less]

An interesting day ... John Hudson returns with a partner in crime by name of Jim Groffen and proceed to keep pace verifying all the bugs being fixed. They also identified the instructions for setting up a development environment as in need of ... [More] fixing (due to the recent arrival of Eclispe 3.5).Mark started hooking his user interface up to the StyleBlackBoard (and then want off on the town all dressed up - perhaps he had a date? Ugo Taddei is not the only good looking guy around here).Jody stayed up till oh dark early with the following (admittedly cool) screen snaps emerging. The first one is command completion with the entire function list avaialble as you type. And it is generated on the fly so it is always current!Next one is also interesting - field decorators that can provide feedback (warnings; errors; if the field is erquired etc...).Yes the warning tool tip on the decorator is a really horrible message from the Extrended Common Query Language Parser - I am going to see if we can get row,col information out so we can highlight where the problem is exactly and save the message as a "more details" kind of thing. [Less]

Day 3 of the code sprint has come and gone and Day 4 has now begun. Another fantastic day of work.Here's a quick summary:Andrea Antonello (HydroloGIS)Compiled ImageIO ext for Mr.Sid and Geotiff on MacReviewed printing frameworkAdded z-ordering ... [More] actions for the Page layoutJesse Eichar (Camptocamp)Some low level work to make more of uDig use the ID objects to identify Services and GeoResourcesRefactored Raster plugins to share more codeAdded type of raster to the titles of raster layers. This is required because multiple plugins can handle geotiff (for example) and there needs to be a way to distinguish between them.Windows still had a problem persisting services in the catalog. This was fixed.Improved displayed title for rasters in layers viewSilvia Franceschi (HydroloGIS)Saving our life with testingMauricio and Aritz (Axios)Set up environment for AritzFinished fixing a very challenging bug with hole tool [Less]