Version 5.2
- when building a route in the map window, cancelling the
operation is now made with shift-middle button instead of just
middle button.
- waypoints have a new field, altitude in meters; route windows
present the difference in altitude between consecutive waypoints.
- there is now a
Locate menu-button in which an item displayed
on the map can be selected forcing the map to be scrolled so that
the item appears in the centre -- suggested by Stefan Heinen
(stefan.heinen_at_djh-freeweb.de) and Kyle Grieser (yuf_at_phoenixdsl.com).
- animation of the movement corresponding to a track on the map
window; this is a tentative implementation that is being extended to
a "moving map" with real-time track logging.
- the map window can now be panned by dragging the mouse with the
middle button down, and scrolled in the NE-SW and NW-SE directions
by using the arrow keys with shift.
- the arrow that shows the map scale can now represent less than 1
unit of distance -- suggested by Russell Senior
(seniorr_at_aracnet.com). Conversion from km to m and from mile
(either nautical or statute) to ft will be done in that case. In the
Options menus the Window geometry->Map scale entry
should be set to the desired value but only if the
Units and formats->Distance entry has already been correctly
set in a previous session.
- waypoint data in Fugawi export format can now be imported
(thanks to Niki Hammler, http://www.nobaq.net, who wrote a Perl script
to make the conversion).
- GPSMan format for data files has changed slightly in what
concerns waypoints (new attribute-value pair for altitude) and
tracks (fields for altitude and depth). Files in the previous format
are still accepted.
- support for Garmin receivers: there is now
explicit support to Garmin eTrex Euro (from tests
done by Harald Stauss, harald.stauss_at_web.de), Garmin eTrex Summit
(from tests done by Stefan Heinen, stefan.heinen_at_djh-freeweb.de), Garmin
GPS III+ (from tests made by Jonathan Pennington,
john_at_coastalgeology.org), and Garmin 12XL with software version before
3.01. Errors in the input/output of hidden information were detected
and solved (thanks to Harald Stauss, harald.stauss_at_web.de).
GPSMan User Manual
©Miguel
Filgueiras,
mig_at_ncc.up.pt, DCC-FC & LIACC,
Universidade do Porto, 2002
