What's new in TileMill 0.10.1
Oct 11, 2012
- TileMill - Fixed file handling behavior on windows to avoid symlink errors when run as non-admin
- TileMill - autostyle now works against active stylesheet
- TileMill - fixed crash when using relative paths to layers (like in open-streets-dc project)
- TileMill - Enabled interactivity display in mbtiles export preview window
- TileMill - Fixed tabs switching on plugins load
- TileMill - Fixed handling of metatile setting in exports (ce6e7fc45e7517cba34f2075442d268d2b253db4)
- Carto - Allows text-face-name properties to be unquoted
- Carto - Detects inline Format XML tags in text-name and passes such output straight to XML for advanced text names.
- Carto - Fixes bugs around concatenation of strings in expressions
- Carto - Fixes parsing of comments in between selectors
- Carto - Fixes parsing of whitespace in calls
- Carto - Improved error messages for unknown properties - advises user on the property name most closely matching the incorrect input.
- Carto - Improved errors for calls, advises user on number of arguments
- Millstone - Will now throw if files do not exist (instead of throwing on missing/unknown srs)
- Millstone - Fixed support for loading layer datasource files from alternative windows drives
- Millstone - Moved to no-symlink/no-copy behavior on all windows versions
- Millstone - Updated node-srs version
- Millstone - Improved handling of known file extensions to better support guessing extensions via headers
- Millstone - Fixed handling of sqlite attach with absolute paths
- Millstone - Fixed missing error handling when localizing Carto URIs
- Mapnik - Fixed handling of raster alpha blending with high quality resampling methods like bilinear
- Mapnik - Reduced memory allocations for reading rasters for better raster rendering performance
- Mapnik - Fixed RGB-HSV conversion used in saturation compositing operation
- Mapnik - Improved support for CSV files with mixed newlines
- Mapnik - CSV parsing speed up by avoiding adding WKT/JSON geometry data to attributes
New in TileMill 0.10.0 (Sep 19, 2012)
- Support for Mapnik compositing at style level comp-op and feature level polygon-comp-op (porter-duff plus many more custom blend modes are supported)
- Support for Mapnik image-filters like blur, emboss, and sharpen
- Ability to turn on and off geometry clipping at feature level
- Ability to smooth lines with line-smooth;
- marker-width and marker-height are now expressions
- building-height is now an expression
- Added support for regex in carto filters like #world[name =~ "A.*"]
- Added support for quotes in carto filter values like #world[name2="Sa'ad"]
- Carto parsing now provides better errors for unmatched parens
- Improved support for autodetection of geojson from the cartodb api (node-srs)
- Added support for escaped URLs to remote datasources (for cartodb)
- The raster-mode property has been renamed to raster-comp-op and now supports all SVG compositing operations (but uses dashes instead of underscores - so grain_merge is now grain-merge) (Mapnik)
- Support for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
- OS X app is now signed with Developer ID (Gatekeeper)
- Interactivity now works on features that have negative or zero primary key values
- Fixed a bug where interactivity templates broke when they ended in a number value
- Version update checking no longer blocks application startup.
- Column names in CSV datasources named ‘lng’ are now automatically recognized as the longitude column
- Added ability to zoom to layer extents
- Added ability to toggle layer visibility
- Added ability to trigger opening http links by clicking on features using ‘location’ template
- Added ability to set the metatile size in the project settings
- Added ability to set the Map buffer-size size in CartoCSS
- Added support for http proxies
- Added support for remote icons (millstone)
- Improved support for handling remote csv and kml files (millstone)
- Added more raster resampling methods like windowed filters of ‘blackman’ and ‘hanning’
- Added ability to upgrade plugins
- Fixed a bug where compatible plugin versions did not show up if there were newer incompatible versions
- TileMill now supports reading CSVs with a column named either ‘WKT’ or ‘GEOJSON’ and encoded as either Well Known Text or GeoJSON, respectively. This allows CSV files to support more geometry types than just points.
- New Verbose mode for getting more detailed information in the TileMill logs of project loading status
- Symlinks are now used on Windows Vista and above to speed up project loading and data handling efficiency
- Data now should automatically update when a project is saved on Windows (no longer a need to rename the
- SVG/PDF export with labels should work again on Windows
- Support for filtering by geometry type like #countries['mapnik::geometry_type'=polygon]. Both point, polygon, linestring, and collection are supported keywords that match geometry types. Collection means that a feature stores mixed types, like both a point and a polygon.
New in TileMill 0.9.1 (May 14, 2012)
- Better error output in logs if a crash occurs during rendering or exports
- Now using Node v0.6.17 (previous 0.9.0 release used Node v0.4.12)
- Supports PostGIS 2.0 (Mapnik)
- Interactivity UI now warns about the need for users to provide a unique key for PostGIS layers.
- Invalid fonts no longer prevent startup (Mapnik)
- Better reporting of Carto parse errors to UI
- Faster exports by detecting solid tiles and avoiding duplicate encoding and storage
- Faster refresh after saving (Mapnik)
- Fully 64-bit build on Mac OS X (dual 64/32-bit support dropped)
- Better support for GDAL rasters - larger rasters can be loaded now without hitting “bad:alloc”
- Supports zooming up to z22 (fixed by new Mapnik clipping and ModestMaps respecting project settings)
- Now supports epsg projection syntax so that “+init=epsg:4326” can be used as shorthand for “+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs” (proj epsg lookup tables now packaged)
- Doc fixes to make it clearer how to run a headless Ubuntu server
- Grid interactivity rendering faster (using async callbacks in node-mapnik)
- KML now supported in Windows build (Mapnik uses OGR built with expat support)
- PDF/SVG support now supports markers fully (Mapnik)
- Reading interlaced PNG images now works (Mapnik)
- Multigeometries are now labeled properly (Mapnik)
- Improved support for rendering svg icons from sjjb (Mapnik)
New in TileMill 0.9.0 (May 14, 2012)
- Plugin system for UI components.
- Core app & tile servers are now separate processes.
- Redesigned UI with global sidebar navigation.
- Redesigned UI for export and project settings.
- Native webkitgtk based browser window for Linux version.
- Native CEF (chromium embedded) browser window for Windows version.
- Added server commandline/config option for running TileMill without a window.
- Datasource downloads and other mapnik-intensive operations can now be cancelled.
- Upload export command for rendering and uploading at once.
- Project thumbnails are now cached at save time to a .thumb.png file local to each project.
- Improvements to full screen mode behavior on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
New in TileMill 0.8.0 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Added preference pane and about box to main app.
- Added ability to authenticate with MapBox to upload directly to your hosting account.
- Support for inverted sections in Mustache tooltip templates.
- File browser now defaults to the user’s home directory.
- No longer create a data directory in the MapBox folder.
- Centerpoint is included in exports if it is valid.
- More reasonable default zoom settings for new projects.
- Added option to update to development builds.
- Moved preferences to ~/.tilemill/config.json.
- Changed default server port to 20009.
- Better logging/error reporting from export command.