GpsPrune Changelog

What's new in GpsPrune 17.2

Feb 16, 2015
  • Performance of getting the list of sources when managing the tile cache
  • Use of photo files' exif coordinates when points were loaded from gpx
  • Translations

New in GpsPrune 17.1 (Oct 29, 2014)

  • Decimal precision of calculated coordinates (thanks Anti for the help identifying this)
  • Selection behaviour when dragging a new midpoint

New in GpsPrune 17 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • Add colour-coding options for display of track points on the map according to altitude, speed, segment etc
  • Select points to delete by date
  • Menu command to select current segment
  • Make climb and descent values less sensitive to noise using a tolerance parameter
  • Sort waypoints by name or by timestamp, and consolidate this with the same operation for rearranging photos

New in GpsPrune 16.3 (Jul 14, 2014)

  • New API key for weather forecasts
  • Improvement of 3d display including reflections

New in GpsPrune 16.2 (Apr 3, 2014)

  • Sunrise and sunset times now converted to system timezone in the weather forecast
  • Various fixes regarding character encoding (windows-1252 vs UTF-8), mainly affecting waypoint names, and indentation of exported GPX files (thanks, Alexandre)
  • Removal of Cloudmade maps

New in GpsPrune 16.1 (Mar 4, 2014)

  • Cache generated terrain models so they don't have to always be regenerated
  • For files imported through GPSBabel, remember which file type was chosen
  • Additions:
  • Caching of terrain information, so that if you repeatedly call either the POV export or the java3d view using terrain, it will try to reuse the already calculated terrain grid.
  • Stores of file types when importing through GPSBabel.

New in GpsPrune 16 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • Extend Java3D output and povray output with a 3d terrain model and/or map image using SRTM data
  • Download SRTM files to cache to avoid repeatedly downloading them
  • Automatically split a track into segments based on the distances or times between points
  • Automatically reorder and merge track segments if start/end points are identical (eg OSM exports)
  • Function to download all the tiles for a given area (just within the image export / pov export functions)
  • Weather forecasts for current area using openweathermap
  • Image export has option to draw track points or not

New in GpsPrune 15.2 (Nov 27, 2013)

  • Previously, the Douglas-Peucker compression would get confused if the start and end points of a segment were identical (thank you, Derek!)
  • Previously, if you loaded a photo into GpsPrune, then deleted the file, and then exported thumbnails to KMZ, it would export a black image (thank you, Steve!)
  • Update to libmetadata-extractor version 2.6
  • Several translation updates, especially ES, FR, PL and HU

New in GpsPrune 15.1 (Oct 4, 2013)

  • Fix for gnuplot's speed charts (thank you, habanut!)
  • Fix for dragging a mid-point within a selection
  • Fix for duplicate entries in profile popup menu
  • Fix for loading max zoom levels from custom map sources
  • Several translation updates, especially IT, ES, FR, RO and RU

New in GpsPrune 11.2 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Specifying of the GPX character encoding on systems such as ISO8859_15, so that Google Earth can read in the resulting GPX files
  • Updating of Polish and Portuguese language texts

New in GpsPrune 9 (Feb 15, 2010)

  • Major new features:
  • Ability to paste coordinates (eg from wikipedia or geocaching sites) to create
  • new points
  • Configurable colour settings
  • Function to reorganise and sort photos either by filename or time
  • Ability to load gzipped xml files
  • Preservation of unrecognised gpx tags by copying source xml
  • Improved photo handling and ability to rotate photos
  • Japanese, Portuguese and Turkish languages thanks to generous user input

New in GpsPrune 8 Build 156 (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Function to find waypoints by name
  • Language-sensitive keyboard shortcuts
  • NMEA file loading
  • Find and download tracks from gpsies.com
  • Ability to save settings to a configuration file
  • Restriction of save and export functions to track / way / photo points
  • Addition of scale bar on map (showing miles or km)
  • Configurable program paths for exiftool, gpsbabel and gnuplot
  • Configurable photo thumbnail sizes for KMZ export
  • Chinese texts thanks to Sam Chen

New in GpsPrune 6 Build 117 (Oct 8, 2008)

  • Map view using OpenStreetMap images is now integrated in the main window, with control for map transparency
  • Pov export has new option to use sphere sweeps for better appearance
  • New function to check online for a newer version of Prune
  • New function to take a section of track and cut/paste it to another position
  • New function to add or subtract a time offset from point timestamps
  • New function to call gpsbabel to load data directly from GPS receiver
  • Additional file filter options on load and save
  • Italian language thanks to generous user input