PolarView NS 1.9 - Changelog

What's new in PolarView NS 1.9:

September 19th, 2012

· Download of NOAA raster charts
· Option to drop waypoint at vessel location by pressing ‘Shift’
· Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

What's new in PolarView NS 1.7:

June 25th, 2011

· Integrated ordering and download of world-wide cartography from ChartWorld
· Integrated download of USACE inland vector charts
· Export chart view to PDF document or image, in lieu of printing
· Manage and sort charts as packages
· Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

What's new in PolarView NS 1.6:

April 11th, 2011

· Improved and faster rendering of raster (BSB) charts
· Improved generated night palette for BSB charts
· Reprojection of BSB charts, support for BSB charts in most projections (including Polyconic, UTM)
· Support for BSB v4 charts including a built-in BSB v4 installer
· Show information on BSB chart datum and depth units
· Improved rendering of S63 charts
· Faster and more responsive “non-blocking” chart display
· Ability to query specific times and values on tide graph, including on-screen tide slider
· Support for world wide time zones and display of tide times in local timezone
· Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

What's new in PolarView NS 1.5:

February 14th, 2011

· New on-screen touch friendly UI
· Improved route and waypoint edit controls
· Improved “zoom” using mousewheel or slider
· ActiveCaptain POI integration
· Re-designed and improved ENC chart information presentation
· Ability to upload waypoints over NMEA link to GPS/chartplotter
· Improvements in ENC rendering
· Tighter integration with PolarCOM, to control instrument windows from on-screen UI
· “Man Overboard” on-screen button
· “Set anchor” on-screen button
· Tide station info directly on a chart view
· Numerous miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

What's new in PolarView NS 1.3:

March 16th, 2010

· AIS target display (rendered to scale), with heading and course, dangerous target marking
· AIS vessel list for direct search/information access
· Improved quality of raster chart rendering and scaling
· New Traditional color scheme for vector chart rendering
· Position/bearing/distance to cursor, scale/chart orientation as overlay on the map
· Rendering own ship to scale
· Arrival circle around next waypoint in navigated route
· Improved support for S57 chart rendering including new navaid symbols.
· Sounding decluttering and adjustable font size
· Better support for international charts and multiple other improvements.
· 0.5 degree resolution GFS grib data added to download options.

What's new in PolarView NS 1.2:

January 20th, 2010

· Display bearing and distance on each leg of current and navigation route
· Route reverse option
· Improved vessel marking when anchor alarm is set
· Better track handling (including distance and time calculation)
· Numerous improvements to ENC chart scaling and rendering

What's new in PolarView NS 1.1:

December 17th, 2009

· Tides & Currents (graphic/text display, TCD constituents database).
· GRIB wave direction display.
· Improvements to ENC chart display and scaling, incorporating some user feedback.

What's new in PolarView NS 0.7.51 Beta:

July 27th, 2009

· BSB raster chart support (including quilting)
· Individual chart cell on/off control

What's new in PolarView NS 0.6.154 Beta:

June 29th, 2009

· Improved GRIB support.
· Isobaric pressure.
· Wave height area contours.
· Direct wind/wave/pressure/temperature query.

What's new in PolarView NS 0.6 Beta:

May 26th, 2009

· Support for routes and waypoints (manager, visual editing).
· Great circle or rhumb line routing.
· Distance/bearing measurement in true or magnetic degrees.
· Import/export route and waypoint data to GPX and CSV files.
· Improved chart scaling.
· Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) compatibility restored.
· Various fixes to rendering, GRIB handling and others.

What's new in PolarView NS 0.5 Beta:

March 19th, 2009

· Support for S63 ENC chart viewing (operational with www.ChartWorld.com).
· Day and Night color schemes.
· Modifications to chart loading and rendering to improve process response.
· Clean up, bug fixes.

What's new in PolarView NS 0.4 Alpha:

March 19th, 2009

· GRIB file support (wind and atmospheric pressure).
· Light pattern labels for navigation aids.
· Maintenance and bug fixes.

What's new in PolarView NS 0.3 Alpha:

March 19th, 2009

· Worldwide base map.
· Automatic chart manager.
· Automatic quilting of unlimited number of charts.
· Link to Google Maps from object information window.
· Various bug fixes and improvements.

What's new in PolarView NS 0.2 Alpha:

March 19th, 2009

· Initial alpha release.
· S57 ENC charts viewing.
· Manual quilting.
· Object information query and display.