June 8th, 2013· Correct following issues.
· In User Data Edit dialog, string search function ignores kind and layer menu selection.
· In panorama view, invisible name string may be printed.
· Many alert dialogs will appear when files do not exist for files to be automatically read during start up.
· Other minor issues.
May 13th, 2013Correct following issues:
· Imported color sets are not saved.
· Showing info of main window leads to infinite loop when no DEM is read.
· Can't remove user data by "Edit User Data" dialog.
· Lines of creating route or area data and measuring mileage may not appear after main window size was changed.
· Other minor issues.
April 25th, 2013· Improved seashore drawing in Panorama view.
· Correct following issues.
· May crash when changing string attributes in User Data Preferences dialog.
· Other minor issues.
April 11th, 2013· Index line settings are ignored in Contour dialog.
· Geo-Profile settings can't be changed.
· Too deep lower limit may be set when the route includes sea.
· Main window information shows zero for number of DEM files always.
· Other minor issues.
February 20th, 2013Correct following issues:
· Equi-Area azimutahl projection map is drawn invalidly if the center is at the North or South pole.
· May crash when clicking up-arrow icon in the vertical scroll bar, if map shows north end already. ( only on Mac OS X 10.6 )
· Always USGS ASCII DEM files are drawn, even if more precise DEM files co-exist.
· Crash when scrolling map at following condition.
· When no DEM file is read, start reading several DEM files and cancel it after more than one DEM files had been read.
· Crash when clicking cancel button during reading GeoTiff DEM file.
· Other minor issues.
February 1st, 2013Correct following issues:
· Mouse point longitude shows W18x.x and "N/A" for elevation for east hemisphere, if 180 degrees meridian exists in the left half of the map window.
· Invalid vertical lines are drawn in right side in the map window, when 180 degrees meridian exists in the right half of the map window and scroll to right, in version 4.3.0.
· Invalid vertical line is drawn at right of 180 degrees meridian for DEMs that covers more than 360 degrees. e.g. ETOPO1 DEM file that has 21601 columns.
· Sun settings are not set correctly when panorama view dialog is shown from panorama info panel or panorama info file (sdpano).
January 21st, 2013· Support milage pitch drawing in profile.
· Support opacity in texture mapping.
· Index map content can be dragged now.
· Under help menu, you can download pdf manual using safari or other browser.
· correct following issues.
· Panorama view window sometimes could not be closed after user data drawing.
· May crash during readingd many DEMs, if SimpleDEMViewer goes to background.
· When using utm DEMs, mouse point elevation is N/A always, if interpolation value is selected in preference.
· When using utm DEMs, panorama view may draw invalidly near DEM file boundaries.
· In Edit-User-Data dialog, it takes very long time when change sort during very large number of items are selected.
· Other minor issues.
December 8th, 2012Correct following issues:
· May crash when reading GeoTiff data ( DEM or texture map ) if it is big endian.
December 8th, 2012· Support ETOPO2 variations of ETOPO2_f4_MSB.flt, ETOPO2_f4_LSB.flt, ETOPO2_i2_MSB.bin, ETOPO2_i2_LSB.bin.
Correct following issues:
· User route data is drawn go through the world invalidly, when line section connects points in east and west edge of the window.
· Color set is not set correctly in panorama dialog when activated from panorama info file or from another panorama view windwo.
November 16th, 2012· Support USGS SDTS format DEM.
· Support netCDF format DEM. File extension should be "grd".
· When activating SimpleDEMViewer by double clikking on DEM files user memo, route, area data or panorama view setting file, SimpleDEMViewer can read those files.
· When dropping previous files or folder contains them on to application icon, SimpleDEMViewer can read them.
· Dropping panorama view setting file on to main window can show panorama dialog. Required DEMs should have read previously.
· Maximum emphasizing value for stereograph is 20.0..
· Correct following issues.
· When deleting a memo by update dialog, it remaind on the map until map is refreshed.
· Crashed when show picture indo twice for each projection maps, grayscale maps, stereographs and bird's eye views.
· Place info is ivalid for panorama view when window height is less than picture height.
October 19th, 2012· Creates UTM projection map.
· Read gpx format GPS data as user memo or user route data.
· Exports and imports color sets to exchange them between users and other macs.
· Exports and imports settings of panorama view, for saving or passing to some person.
· Stereograph sapports drawing latitude and longitufr lines instead of address marker.
· Accept plural picture files at drag-and-drop them onto the map window to create user memo data
Correct following issues:
· Terminate abnormally when changing line color of equidistant circle for projection maps.
· When different pitch DEMs of same type exist, removing one of them always remove shortest pitch DEM.
· Cannot show info-panel of 16 bits grayscale maps.
· Cannot create world file when saving 16 bits grayscale maps.
· When using utm DEMs, section of user route data longer than 150 km is not drawn.
· Using utm DEMs, when saving map with different scale from map window, latitude and longitude lines are drawn incorrectly.
September 29th, 2012Correct following issues:
· .Invalid range defined for srtm-1 and srtm-2, so that gaps exist between dem files.
· Srtm dem always be drawn evenif more precise dem exists.
· .In name search panel for selecting target or eye point of panorama view, input values to name or address field are ignored if name field is not filled previously.
September 24th, 2012Correct following issues:
· Cannnot do anything except kill the rogram if you select "Show info" under the file menu when no DEM file is read.
· In a panorama view dialog, minimum distance of haze effect is 1000 times greater when the dialog is called from info panel of panorama view window.
· Info panel of panorama view always show its direction as "north" if actual direction is not west, east nor south.
September 8th, 2012· Remove 32 bit mode support.
Correct following issues:
· If lowest elevation boundary of color set is higher than 0 meter, areas their elevation is 0 meter may be filled with invalid color.
· Some dialog shows Japanese characters in English dialog.
September 4th, 2012Correct following issues:
· When feet is selected for GeoProfile elevation unit, profile is drawn incorrectly..
· Attribute fields of memo creation or update dialog are reset invalidly when new kind is set and click "Defaults" button.
· Custom scale menu shows invalid value for main window.
· Removed route data is restored when previous session started with restored route data and finished no route data.
· Map center address is not changed even when custom scale dialog is activated from popup menu.
· Texture map is shrink invalidly during positioning session if you drag whole texture map and part of it goes out of window.
· Other bugs.
September 4th, 2012· Change search field behaviour in the edit user data dialog. List shows only the data those have specified string in thie title field..
Correct following issues:
· When showing popup menu on a memo mark and start panorama view or set panorama view target, memo address is not referred.
· When showing popup menu on a memo mark with no title showing, memo address is not referred.
· 333% and 33.3% scale menu in dialogs of Bird,s-eye view, StereoGraph and Grayscale functions can not show correctly.
· Other scale menu of Grayscale dialog shows invalid strings.
· Other scale menu of Grayscale cannnot show input dialog except first time.
· Panorama view may not finish its drawing when many strings exist to draw.
· Lead line of strings in panorama view sometimes has invalid color.
· Opacity of Visible region is treated as transparency except 100 %.
· Other bugs.
September 4th, 2012· Support creating world file when saving Grayscale map..
· Support creating world file when saving anaglyph if its one pane is maked as Equidistant Cylindrical.
· Support only Tiff and PNG as file format to save 16 bits grayscale map.
Correct following issues:
· Coloring by Slope function ignores preference setting of "Sea as no data".
· Panorama picture will be blanked in a file saved first after program activation.
· Program terminate abnormally after completing drawing stereographic panorama view.
· Other bugs.
September 4th, 2012· Support to create memos by dropping files on the main window.
· Support to drag strings on the projection map windows.
· Support drag each node of route data and area data. Enter node drag editing mode by double clicking title or node string with option and shift key pressed. In that mode, small black dot appears on each node, and you can drag them.
· Support option to not connect web site from the memo even it points web site.
Correct following issues:
· Cannot override existing color set in preferences dialog.
· When reading e00 file to create route data, many gabbages created.
· When small picture is saved to file, progressive message panel remains on the screen, and any other job can not proceeds.
· Other bugs.
September 4th, 2012· Large pictures, up to 65500 pixels for both width and height.
· Panorama view. See below.
· Colorizing visible region. See below.
· Free direction for Bird's-eye view and Stereograph.
· Measuring milage along any path with moving mouse.
· Changing scale by pinch operation on the trackpad.
· Orthographic and Azimuthal equal-area projection map support equidistant circle.
· Working set restoration. See below.
· Nautical mile for milage unit. Applied to Scale panel, Measuring, Route data, Geo-profile, Panorama view.
September 4th, 2012· Fixed following issues: Under Mac OS X 10.7 ( Lion ), cannot change file format when saving main window picture or grayscale picture with make-world-file option.
August 18th, 2011· Fixed following issues.
· Under Mac OS X 10.7 ( Lion ), cannot read failes when you select alias files in open-file dialog.
· Cannot show elevations under mouse in west henisphere for etopo5 dem.
May 21st, 2011· Supports 32-bits-float GeoTiff..
· Supports datums WGS72, NAD83 for GeoTiff added to current WGS84. All are treated as WGS84.
April 18th, 2011· Supports 32-bits-integer GeoTiff.
· To supports etopo1 published in march, that is in 32-bits-integer ( accidentally ).
December 26th, 2010· Supports GeoTiff greater than 256 MB.
· Supports tiled GeoTiff.
October 29th, 2010· Supports saving working status.
· Writing EXIF GPS information ( center address of the picture ) when saving pictures to jpeg or tiff files, for main window map, Bird's eye view, stereograph, corn / orthographic / equidistant / equi-area projection maps. Require Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
· Supports creating memo data by dropping any jpeg or tiff picture files with EXIF GPS information onto main map window.
· During the user data edit dialog, you can position the map so that selected data is shown at the center of the map.
· In the user data edit dialog, automatically convert multi-line title to one-line so that full title is shown in title field.
· In the stereographic picture function, supports an option to make one pane orthography. Address indicators can be set to it.
· Fixed following issues.
· Wide invalid lines appear in Bird's eye view, stereograph, corn / orthographic / equidistant / equi-area projection maps at extended drawing.
· In user data preference dialogs, table view will be invalid after some kinds are removed.
· Pattern of the user area data has conflict between names and actual patterns.
October 29th, 2010· Fixed following issues.
· Program terminate abnormally when saving any picture as tiff file at the first time since starting.
September 25th, 2010· Fixed following issues.
· Blue or blank lines are appeared at the top of the map window, when scrolling to north by mouse wheel and the map is extended more than 150%.
· Some portion get too dark shading when different pitch DEMs are read and the map is shrinked.
· Picture options are ignored specified at saving pictures. MacOS X 10.5 and later.
· GPS data is ignored in many cases, when a picture file is dropped on to Memo data dialog even it has correct GPS informations.
· Terminate abnormally when click the mark control in Change All Memo Data dialog.
· Terminate abnormally when deleting some user data in Edit User Data dialog that kind menu showing All.
· Attached utility "LSMixer" updated to version 3.1.1 .
August 24th, 2010· Support decimal number for elevation emphasizing of stereo pictures.
Fixed following issues:
· Many error messages are output to the console during read file dialog operations.
· During rout creation operations, when click on a string, informations belong to it is referred even without option key.
· During rout creation operations, when click on a string with option key, the elevation data of the string is not copied.
January 21st, 2010· Improve drawing performance to draw user route data on projection map windows.
January 21st, 2010· Supports an option to show kinds that user data existing only, in Show/Hide user data dialog.
Fixed following issues:
· Cannot check checkboxes after clicking set-all buttons in Show/Hide user data dialog.
· Search function cannot position to correct row in Edit user data dialog, when the movement goes over 1365 rows.
November 12th, 2009Fixed following issues:
· Cannot draw route and area data correctly under some conditions.
· Picture memory is not released when picture window is closed, it introduces insufficient memory error after several such operations.
September 20th, 2009Fixed following issues:
· Line width specified to Equi-distant circles is ignored.
· User route data are drawn incorrectly, if those are at the right edge of the window and map shows 180 degree meridian.
· User route data reading from e00 files did not appear correctly at the right edge of the map window.
· Files are opened incorrectly and not released when you read data files with selecting any folders.
September 1st, 2009· Supports more flexible format of address data for pasting to address control. Ex. 42° 37' 30.058'', -88° 27' 00.350''. Lat: 42.625016, Lng: -88.450097
Fixed following issues:
· Vacant color is invalid under MacOS X 10.6 when it is specified as sea color. Same error occurs under MacOS X 10.5 if you change the display gamma to 2.2 in the system preference.
· "Treat sea as no data" option in the preference is not saved.
July 20th, 2009· Supports ASTER GDEM. ( http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/index.jsp )
· Supports GeoTiff dems. The datum should be WGS84.
· Supports reading e00 files as User Route Data.
· Drawing performance is improved when there are many lake data.
· Geo-Profile function supports float dems.
· Fixed following issues
· Bil without nodata entry in the hdr file be shown as unknown type.
June 15th, 2009· Supports the function to find highest or lowest point in the specified region or whole dem.
· Supports to select a kind for saving user data.
· Supports making world files when saving pictures.
· Supports world files for texture maps.
Fixed following issues:
· Ver. 3.6.2 and 3.6.4 used invalid file names to store texture map information and color settings. (Note)
· Bil form dems addressing are treated incorrect way. ulxmap and ulymap should point center address of the upper-left corner cel.
· Sometimes Antarctica is drawn in invalid color when White-Antarctica is specified.
· User area data shows size of zero when they are loaded before any dem files.
· Cannot recognize bil form dems correctly when hdr file has XDIM, YDIM, ULXMAP, ULYMAP specified in seconds.
· Copy mouse point address function copies invalid address when dem is in UTM coordinate.
May 15th, 2009Fixed following issues:
· Can't access through aliases in open file dialog.
· Slow reading for large user data.
May 15th, 2009· Supports more flexible address form to pate to address control, only Japanese character form added this time.
Fixed following issues:
· Under MacOS X 10.5, any file can be selected at read file dialog.
· Under MacOS X 10.5, file extension is not changed when you change file type at save picture dialog.
· Under MacOS X 10.5, window title is not changed when its content is saved as a picture file.
· In the Edit User Data dialog, when a kind and/or a layer is selected, list is blanked after some editing done.
· Memo data creation or update dialog shows -9999 meter in elevation field for no elevation data.
February 17th, 2009· Supports "srtm dted level 0" and "srtm30 plus".
· "Treat sea as no data" option is available without etopo2.
· Show/hide settings of user data will be saved automatically.
Fixed following issues:
· gtopo30 is treated as bil form data.
· West hemisphere disappear when extending etopo5.
· Any texture map its west end is in west hemisphere can not mapped to etopo5.
· May not create and draw lakes for 32 bits bil data.
· 1/2 data pitch offset appears when two kind of dems ( those have different data pitch ) are read.
· If user data sequence is changed in preferences, invalid kind names are shown in the user data list for editing.
· Hidden names are selectable for memo data.
January 8th, 2009· Supports more formats to paste to address control.
· Fixed - Cannot draw correctly when main window width covers 360 degrees using dems other than etopo2 and etopo5.
· Fixed - Cannot [aste adress that is between 1 degree north and 1 degree south.
· Includes an utility "AscConv". It converts ArcAscii dem files to bil form dem files.
December 22nd, 2008· Supports Arc Ascii DEM file, both geo and utm addressing.
· Elevation value should be in meter.
· Supports fraction and milage to pixels or centimeters on screen in the other scale dialog.
· Supports shading for gray scale pictures.
· Supports free contour interval, minimum 1 meter or 1 foot.
· Supports feet for contour interval unit.
· Supports contour in saving map picture for all cases.
· Supports contour in projection maps.
· Memorize default folder for each open and save. System standard in MacOS X 10.4(Tiger).
· Save options for pdf are ignored. (Leopard only)
Fixed following issues:
· May crash after reading files with selecting a folder.
· May crash after contour dialog displayed.
· Clicking button to draw contour is ignored in case.
November 19th, 2008Fixed followings:
· Cannot read 32-bit float bil correctly if its byte-order is differ from executing cpu.
· invalid information appear in info-window for bird-eye view and stereographs.
November 6th, 2008· Supports 32-bit float bil form data.
· Supports setting rectangle region by address.
· Supports to drag selected rectangle region on each side.
· Add "Auto(fewer)" into interval menu of latitude and lpngitude lines.
· Better extended drawing for dem file edge area.
· [FIX] Sometimes crash when saving whole data region as a picture.
· [FIX] Base latitude adjustment illeagaly applied to saving map pictures when using utm dems.
· [FIX] No cancel button for caution dialog to remove custom colors.
October 14th, 2008· White rectangle for string selection was drawing illegal position when whole data is smaller than window, or shrink enough to fit window.
· If no 'NODATA' is specified in hdr file of bil form dems, default value was 0 meter, ( changed to -9999 meters. )
· Program uses 100 % of cpu time in sub task when all elevation data are sea in a dem file.
· Some error messages are displayed to console when reading topological map of Japan as a texture map.
July 21st, 2008· More smooth mouse-wheel scrolling.
· Fixed followings: Cannot draw texture correctly when utm and geo dem mixed. Cannot select rectangle when utm and geo dem mixed.
· LSMixer utility attached. LSMixer composites three Landsat band data (8-bit grayscale image) to one full color image as a texture for SimpleDEMViewer.
July 12th, 2008· Support texture mapping.
· Correct following issues: Inaccurate alert message is displayed when quitting without saving updated user data, if system is MacOS X 10.5 ( Leopard ). Could not select files its name length is less than 3 letters without extension. Could not save lake data correctly for GSI's 50 meter mesh dems.
June 12th, 2008· No more restrictions for srtm dted file name and folder name except file extesion.
· Corrections to 3.3.0
· String search crashed when title of user route data is set to no show.
· String selection frame does not match with string when both utm and geo dems are read.
· String search failed when both utm and geo dems are read.
January 11th, 2008· Support creating grayscale image.
· Support coloring map by slope degrees.
· Support creating Azimuthal Equi-Area projection map.
· Provides one dialog for creating all projection map image, including Corn projection map.
· The maximum size of projection map image is extended to 32767 pixels.
· Change the destination to save the Preference settings to jp.jizoh.SimpleDEMViewer.plist and jp.jizoh.SimpleDEMViewer.colors.plist files.
· Support copy address function at the context menu on the map.
Corrections to 3.2.x:
· Crashed frequently on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard).
· Map is drawn abnormaly near the seashore when map is extended.
· Crashing isue when map is extended with utm dems.
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