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GPSMapEdit Portable Changelog

What's new in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.18

Mar 19, 2021
  • Enhancement: Application is digitally signed.
  • Enhancement: Support of maps from mobile.here.com.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.15 (Mar 24, 2020)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Rosreestr Public Map (thanks to: TSA21432).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.14 (Dec 17, 2019)

  • The change log:
  • Fix: Periodic switching on/off of infotip under Classic and some other themes of Windows is fixed (thanks to: cornet73, Andrew Bright).
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for Slovenian is added (thanks to: Jadran Rudec).
  • Enhancement: The Automation programmatic interface of the program (for external JScript/VBScript/etc scripts) extended - the method BuildRoute is added (registered users only).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.11 (Aug 2, 2019)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Open Street Map (thanks to: Alexander Korobov).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.10 (Jul 2, 2018)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Google Maps

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.9 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • Fix:
  • Loading tiles from Yandex Maps (thanks to: TSA21432).
  • Crashes in some rare cases.
  • Enhancement:
  • New local Web map is supported - MapGeo for US Virgin Islands (thanks to: Sean Ramadhin).
  • New local Web map is supported - Gisco Map for Columbia (thanks to: John Ballesteros).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.8 Fix 16 (Feb 20, 2017)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Google Maps, Bing Maps, Navigasi.net and Yandex Maps.
  • Fix: Additional columns "StartNodID" and "EndNodID" added to polylines table for the default schema of ESRI shapefiles export.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.8 Fix 14 (Dec 12, 2016)

  • Fix: Loading ECW and MrSID files based on the coordinate systems EPSG:3785 and EPSG:3857 (thanks to: 13slonik).
  • Fix: 'Tools | Generate Routing Graph' now again works (thanks to: Jorge R. Rocca).
  • Fix: Loading routing graph from Garmin IMG files (thanks to: MapTk).
  • Fix: Export of direction kind for iGO and Navitel safety alerts (thanks to: Andronio).
  • Fix: Applying the context menu item 'Paste Here' to bookmarks.
  • Fix: Loading point type 0x0000 from map skins (thanks to: MapTk).
  • Fix: Showing some of custom types from Garmin map skins (thanks to: fancheng).
  • Fix: Parsing polylines with first transparent color of pattern from map skin Garmin TXT (thanks to: Mail4ma).
  • Enhancement: New Web map is supported - deCarta (thanks to: Сергей Тяжов).
  • Enhancement: New Web map is supported - Navigasi.net (Indonesia) (thanks to: Zeppy Shiddiq).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.8 Fix 10 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Google Maps, Bing Maps, deCarta, Navigasi.net and Yandex Maps
  • Fix: Additional columns "StartNodID" and "EndNodID" added to polylines table for the default schema of ESRI shapefiles export

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.8 Fix 9 (Dec 17, 2015)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Google Maps, Bing Maps, deCarta, Navigasi.net and Yandex Maps.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.8 Fix 8 (Aug 10, 2015)

  • Fix: Loading tiles from Google Maps, Bing, deCarta, Navigasi.net and Yandex maps.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.8 (Mar 15, 2014)

  • Fix: Loading ECW and MrSID files based on the coordinate systems EPSG:3785 and EPSG:3857 (thanks to: 13slonik).
  • Fix: 'Tools | Generate Routing Graph' now again works (thanks to: Jorge R. Rocca).
  • Fix: Loading routing graph from Garmin IMG files (thanks to: MapTk).
  • Fix: Export of direction kind for iGO and Navitel safety alerts (thanks to: Andronio).
  • Fix: Applying the context menu item 'Paste Here' to bookmarks.
  • Fix: Loading point type 0x0000 from map skins (thanks to: MapTk).
  • Fix: Showing some of custom types from Garmin map skins (thanks to: fancheng).
  • Fix: Parsing polylines with first transparent color of pattern from map skin Garmin TXT (thanks to: Mail4ma).
  • Enhancement: New Web map is supported - deCarta (thanks to: Сергей Тяжов).
  • Enhancement: New Web map is supported - Navigasi.net (Indonesia) (thanks to: Zeppy Shiddiq).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.7 (Mar 7, 2014)

  • Fix: The context menu for tracks and waypoints is restored
  • Fix: Incorrect characters in the field "Type" and title of Properties appearing in some computers
  • Enhancement: New Web map is supported - Wikimapia.
  • Enhancement: Changing type from any building-related one with the attribute "Floors" into any non-building type removes the attribute "Floors"

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.1.78.6 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • Fix: Crash while applying changes in "Extra" tab of Properties in some cases

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.0.77.1 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • New feature: Context menu item 'Location | Paste Here' pastes object from clipboard at the selected location.
  • NOTE: The feature requires license 2.0. In evaluation mode, the menu item may be selected 2 times since program restart.
  • New feature: Polygon context menu item 'Save As Template Polygon...' allows to save the shape of selected polygon as template for further pasting.
  • New feature: Context menu item 'Location | Paste Template Polygon' pastes the selected polygon template at the selected location.
  • NOTE: The feature requires license 2.0. In evaluation mode, the menu item may be selected 2 times since program restart.
  • New feature: Context menu item 'Location | Copy Position' copies coordinates of the selected location to clipboard.
  • New feature: Context menu item 'Location | Browse in' allows to run an external application or open a page in Web browser at the selected location.
  • The supported external applications are Garmin MapSource and Google Earth. The openable Web sites are Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, Here.com, WikiMapia, Rosreestr Public Map, SunCalc.net.
  • NOTE: The feature requires license 2.0. In evaluation mode, each menu item may be selected 2 times since program restart.
  • Enhancement: The support of new Web-maps - Here.com, ESRI ArcGIS, Rosreestr Public Map (Russian cadastral map), Ukraina Cadastral Map (both vector and orthophoto).
  • Enhancement: The menu of Web-maps may have up to 2 sublevels. It may be configured in the Settings.
  • Fix: Work of Bing Maps in some countries.
  • Fix: Crash while polygon or polyline points selection in some cases.
  • Fix: The scale proportions after 'File | New...'.
  • Fix: The distance threshold among routing nodes for Garmin in "Verify Map" (thanks to: popej).
  • Fix: For the both settings "Connect to Roads for Every New Road" and "Show Properties for Every New Object" turned on, initial value of routing class and speed limit is assigned before showing Properties.
  • Enhancement: Splitting map to files now fixes incorrect values of NodeIDs.
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for Swedish is added. Names of types are translated to Azerbaijani.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.0.76.9 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • Fix: Work of 'Connect to Roads' in some cases.
  • Fix: Report after 'Tools | Special | Split Roads at Nodes'.
  • Fix: Yahoo Maps tiles extension is now .png.
  • Fix: Connection to Yandex Maps from some of computers .
  • Enhancement: The new context menu item 'Web Map | Reconnect to Server' may be used for connection troubleshooting.
  • Fix: Crash at some custom Web maps.
  • Enhancement: The support of transparent .png/.gif for custom Web maps.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.0.76.7 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • Fix: License activation issues.
  • Fix: Crash while viewing ECW maps in some cases.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.0.76.6 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • Fix: Crash after re-saving MP in some cases (thanks to: spacer).
  • Fix: Building file name for cache format "EarthSlicer" at some levels of Web map

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 2.0.76.5 (Jan 17, 2014)

  • New feature: New license level 2.0 is introduced - all new paid functions require the license 2.0. However license key 1.х is enough to use all the old paid functions that were available in 1.1.
  • The registered users of GPSMapEdit 1.x may upgrade the license to 2.0 with discount by purchasing the upgrade key.
  • Enhancement: The support of Web maps, as the extension of previous support of Google Maps: now Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, OpenStreetMap, Yandex Maps, Kosmosnimki are available too.
  • NOTE: Access to all the new Web maps require license 2.0, while Google Maps is available by old license 1.x.
  • If the license level is not enough, Web maps are shown with restriction of most detailed scale 240 m.
  • * Inner communication with Google Maps is fixed in some cases.
  • * All the supported Web maps as well as cache formats now are described using external editable text .dat files stored at the subfolder .\_WebMap. This allows an advanced user to define custom Web maps as well as cache formats and to share them with other users.
  • * The cache format form SAS.Planet is supported; now it is the cache format by default.
  • * Read-only secondary cache may be used too. By default, the old cache from the GPSMapEdit 1.х is used as the secondary one.
  • * The cache is now turned on by default.
  • * Changing path to the cache folder now applies immediately without restarting the application (thanks to: soldat).
  • * The format of 2nd cache may be converted using the button "Convert Format..." in Settings.
  • * The most detailed level of Web maps may be limited to diminish traffic (please see the field "Limit most detailed scale:" in Settings).
  • * For each Web map, separate setting of cache format and subfilder name is supported (please see the button "Advanced..." in Settings).
  • * Optional recording debug data concerning Web map server communications to log file for troubleshooting purposes. The logs are recorded to the folder \GPSMapEdit\Logs.
  • * Screen blinking on start with ready cached tiles is suppressed.
  • * In the list of Web map shifts, the new item "Map-specific" is introduced. Such shift is stored in MP file (thanks to: Marcelo Rodriguez Claude).
  • New feature: Export to the format SHP. NOTE: This feature requires the license 2.0.
  • New feature: Export to the format CityGuide .cgmap (menu item 'File | Export | CityGuide 7.7+ (*.cgmap) / MP2CGMAP.exe'). It is required to download external convertor MP2CGMAP.exe.
  • New feature: Menu item 'File | New...' creates new map.
  • New feature: Menu item 'Tools | Special | Split Roads at Nodes'.
  • New feature: The context menu item 'Connect to Roads' is available for road polylines. It automatically creates routing graph nodes at all road intersections.
  • New feature: The function 'Connect to Roads' is applied automatically to each newly created road. It may be disabled using the toolbar button "Create Object", drop-down menu item 'Connect to Roads for Every New Road'.
  • New feature: In context menu of the tool "Edit Points", new item 'Set as Initial Point' may be applied to polygons.
  • Enhancement: All the data previously saved at run time into subfolders of the installation folder in , now are saved into subfolders of \GPSMapEdit\. E.g., crash dumps are now saved to \GPSMapEdit\Errors.
  • Fix: "Mini-map" window working.
  • Enhancement: On right-click at "Mini-map" window, the context menu with item "Refresh" appears.
  • Enhancement: The "Options" window now opens at last opened tab.
  • Enhancement: The relative position of "Properties" window is restored (thanks to: pol).
  • Enhancement: The toolbar buttons with drop-down menus now shown pressed on their selection
  • Enhancement: The toolbar button "Create object" changes its icon on context.
  • Enhancement: Export via built-in format convertors may be terminated by pressing ESC.
  • Enhancement: In some of windows with lists, pressing ENTER now is interpreted as double-click.
  • Enhancement: When entering or editing coordinates, lower case letters for "N", "E", "S", and "W" are allowed, as well as decimal comma.
  • Enhancement: In windows where input of coodinates is possible, the button inputing the degree sign is added.
  • Enhancement: In windows where input of integer value is possible, spinboxes are added.
  • Enhancement: In "Numbers" tab of point's Properties, additional fields to show parity from previous road segment are provided.
  • Enhancement: In "Address" tab of object's Properties, the button "X" clears the field "Street", and button "Clear All" resets all the fields.
  • Enhancement: The context menu item 'Reverese Polyline' is renamed to 'Reverse Order of Points', and it is now avialable for polygons also.
  • Enhancement: In object's Properties, the button "Last" is provided for attributes "Type:" and "Floors:".
  • Enhancement: In the attribute editor openable from the context menu for "Label", "Street" and "Floors", the button "Last" is added.
  • Enhancement: In the "Postal Address Items" window, last selected city is restored.
  • Fix: In the "Find by Address" window, unexpected reset of selected "City" in some cases.
  • Enhancement: In the "Find by Address" window, selected "Street" is restored after application restart.
  • Enhancement: In the "Find by Address" window, streets without house numbers are highlighted as red.
  • Enhancement: The "3D" tab of object's Properties now is available only for polygons able to have "Floors" attribute (the categories "Buildings", "Man made" etc).
  • Enhancement: In the context menu of the tool "Select Objects", the item "Rectify Polygon Angles" is added. It may be applied to multiple selection.
  • Fix: While export to Lowrance LCM format, feet to meters conversion in some cases.
  • Enhancement: While export to Lowrance LCM format, better processing of inner errors in lcmBuilder.dll.
  • Enhancement: For the type set "Lowrance", colors of polygons are made identical to the ones used in GPSr. Icons and names of POIs 0x1601-0x1617 are revised.
  • Fix: Conversion of POI types to the type set "Lowrance".
  • Enhancement: The type set "Universal" is now used as default one.
  • Enhancement: The skins in Garmin TXT/TYP format now are enabled for maps with type sets "Universal" and "Navitel", but any custom types and names are hidden for them.
  • Enhancement: The skins in Navitel NS2 format now are enabled for maps with type sets "Garmin", but Navitel-specific types are hidden for them.
  • Enhancement: Skins from Navitel 7 are supported.
  • Enhancement: JPG/EXIF headers ver.2.3.0.0 are supported.
  • Fix: Damage of POI icons from Garmin TXT/TYP skins under Windows 7/8 configured for font size 125% and 150%.
  • Fix: Work of the button "Copy from Nearest Address" in some cases.
  • Fix: Colours distribution in "Highlight Addresses" mode in some cases.
  • Fix: The attribute "No transit traffic" is enabled for maps with the type set "Universal".
  • Fix: The tab "Source" in map's and object's Properties now takes into account the code page of the map.
  • Fix: In the degree grid, the parallels beyound 90°, and meridians beyound 360° are no more drawn.
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for Germain (thanks to: Michael Schlenstedt) and Persian is updated.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.1.75.2 (Jan 25, 2013)

  • New feature: Menu item 'View | Highlight Floors' as well as the corresponding button in toolbar, switches the mode of highlighting number of floors of polygon with colors. This mode is available only for the type set "Universal".
  • Fix: Changing number of floors using context menu item (thanks to: vad47).
  • Fix: Translation of Navitel-specific type names in the type set "Universal" (thanks to: Zauber).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.1.75.1 (Jan 25, 2013)

  • New feature: Export to format Navikey 7 Ways .7W using the external convertor 7WaysConvC.exe (please see menu item 'File | Export | Navikey 7 Ways map (*.7w) / 7WaysConvC.exe').
  • New feature: Export to format CityGuide .DCM using the external convertor GeoConstructor.exe (please see menu item 'File | Export | CityGuide map (*.dcm) / GeoConstructor').
  • Enhancement: The type set "Navitel and Garmin" has been renamed to "Universal (Navitel, Garmin etc)". Now this type set is fully available in demo mode.
  • New feature: For the type set "Universal", new "3D" tab is available in the Properties window for polygons. It allows to define the number of floors of a building. This new feature corresponds to the non-standard attribute "Floors=", which one is supported by some of the format convertors (except cgpsmapper.exe).
  • In addition, the number of floors may be modified using corresponding item of the context menu.
  • Enhancement: The context menu item 'Show in 3D' is enabled for the type set "Universal" for polygons having floors.
  • The window "3D View" takes the floors into account on buildind 3D-scene.
  • Enhancement: In the "Map Properties" window, changing of the type set and pressing "Apply" button causes change of available tabs, if necessary.
  • Enhancement: In the "Map Properties" window, new tab for type set "Lowrance" and for "Navitel" is provided.
  • Enhancement: For the type set "Lowrance", the new non-standard attribute "LcmDivDepths=Y" is supported in the MP file header.
  • It may be turned on/off using the new tab "lcmBuilder" of the "Map Properties" window.
  • If the attribute is presented, all depth and elevation values are divided by 3.28084 (feet per meter) before exporting to Lowrance .LCM.
  • Enhancement: Export to Lowrance .LCM now supports the labels of water polygons 0x10, 0x12, 0x15 (thanks to: Roger Yost).
  • Fix: For the type set "Lowrance", the correct Lowrance grid is supported to round a coordinates. The step of the grid depends on latitude: it is equal to 1 meter at the equator, and diminishes onward to the poles, while the step along latitude and one along longitude are equal each other everywhere.
  • Fix: For the type set "Lowrance" and "ALAN/Holux", the drop-down list of special characters in "Object Properties" is disabled for the "Label" attribute.
  • Enhancement: For the type set "Lowrance" and "ALAN/Holux", merging of zoom levels now ignores "Bits" attribute while pasting objects and while map adding (thanks to: AlexSidorov).
  • Enhancement: On "File | Add...", zoom levels of added maps are compared with the target ones. Non-coincidence is reported to the "Message Log" (thanks to: AlexSidorov).
  • Enhancement: The precision of the distance measurement tool is increased for short distances.
  • Fix: Loss of precision while editing position as text (thanks to: Albert Semenov).
  • Fix: In "Verify Map...", false detection of polygon intersection in some cases is fixed (thanks to: Albert Semenov).
  • Fix: In "Split Map to Files...", splitting a routing node (thanks to: Andrzej Popowski).
  • Fix: Crash while editing huge number of points as text (thanks to: ???????? ??????).
  • Fix: Opening multiple shortcuts in 'File | Add...' (thanks to: Gary Turner).
  • Enhancement: Shortcuts may be dropped from Explorer to GPSMapEdit window.
  • Enhancement: Export to formats of maps, whose support is discontinued by the developers of corresponding navigation systems (Holux/ALAN .CRD and .ARD, RUSSA .RUS, Navitel .NTM and .NM2), has been moved to the new sub-menu 'File | Export | Obsolete Formats'.
  • Enhancement: Export to formats of tracks, waypoints and routes, whose support is discontinued by the developers of corresponding navigation systems, has been moved to the new sub-menu 'File | Export | Attached Waypoints/Track Logs/Routes to | Obsolete Formats'.
  • Fix: Loading of some waypoints from MapSource .GDB files (thanks to: Carlos E. Solorzano Landa).
  • Fix: Crash while saving very huge section "[DICTIONARY]" to MP file (thanks to: Wagner Kobayashi).
  • Enhancement: The attributes of MP header "POIZipFirst=" and "POINumberFirst=" are now saved regardless their value, provided that the attribute "POIIndex=Y" is on (thanks to: Andrzej Popowski).
  • Fix: The system setting "Don't save encrypted pages to disk" now does not cause the message "(Failed)" appearance in "Google Maps".
  • Enhancement: In the context menu 'Google Maps', the item 'Refresh All Visible Tiles' is added (thanks to: Gary Turner).
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for German is made more comprehensive.
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for Armenian is added (thanks to: Hrant Ohanyan). NOTE: if your Windows is not Armenian, please install the font "Tahoma Armenian" into the system.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.1.74.3 (Jan 25, 2013)

  • Fix: Arithmetic problems after "Show in 3D"

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.1.74.2 (Jan 25, 2013)

  • Fix: The support of Google Maps is updated.
  • Enhancement: To avoid the precision loss for big position values (e.g. longitudes over 90 degrees) caused by imperfect intrinsic format of real numbers used to store operated data in RAM in earlier versions of GPSMapEdit, that intrinsic format is replaced by fixed-point number representation with enhanced accuracy.
  • NOTE: due to this removal of data distortion, re-saving MP file generated by a previous version of GPSMapEdit may change some of least significant digits inside MP in certain cases.
  • Enhancement: To simplify migration to the new version of GPSMapEdit in collective projects based on SVN or CVS systems, a simulation of the former precision loss may be turned on to minimize changes inside .MP files (please see menu 'Tools | Options...', "Load & Save" tab, the button "Settings for Polish format...", the switch "Simulate incorrect inner precision loss for positions (like in pre-1.1.74.x)").
  • Enhancement: "Snap to grid" is now applied for 25- and 26-bit zoom levels.
  • Enhancement: In the status bar, the cursor position is displayed with from 4 to 7 digits after the decimal point, depending on the zoom scale.
  • Enhancement: In the import wizard of .SHP and MapInfo MIF/MID, the coordinate system selection page is greatly redesigned:
  • the embedded library of over 1200 coordinate systems used in various countries, with displaying their parameters and EPSG code;
  • automatic zone selection for SK-42, SK-95, DHDN and some other coordinate systems;
  • new projections are supported: Albers Equal Area, Cassini-Soldner, Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area, Lambert Conformal Conic, Mercator, Oblique Stereographic, Polar Stereographic, Oblique Mercator, Hotine Oblique Mercator, Sinusoidal, Cylindrical Equal-Area, Azimuthal Equidistant, Equidistant Conic, Polyconic, Miller Cylindrical, Mollweide, Eckert IV, Eckert VI, Krovak, NZMG;
  • international feet, survey feet, yards, links, chains, kilometers, statute and nautical miles are supported as units for coordinate systems;
  • 3-degree Gauss-Kruger is supported;
  • custom coordinate systems are supported (the corresponding data are saved in text file .\_CoordinateSystems\CustomCoordSys.wkt);
  • import of coordinate systems from files in OGC WKT (.WKT) and ESRI .PRJ formats;
  • new window for datum selection, with displaying their parameters in list;
  • the embedded library of datums is updated and extended (over 300 datums total);
  • it is possible to add, delete and edit custom datums (the corresponding data are saved in text file .\_CoordinateSystems\CustomDatums.wkt);
  • import of datums from files in OGC WKT (.WKT) and ESRI .PRJ formats;
  • grid shift tables of datums in formats NTv2 (.GSB) and NADCON (.las/.los) are supported.
  • Enhancement: The import of MapInfo MIF/MID with certain kinds of headers is enhanced:
  • the list of supported projections is extended by Albers Equal Area, Cassini-Soldner, Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area, Lambert Conformal Conic, Mercator, Stereographic, Hotine Oblique Mercator, Swiss Oblique Mercator, Sinusoidal, Cylindrical Equal-Area, Azimuthal Equidistant, Equidistant Conic, Polyconic, Miller Cylindrical, Mollweide, Eckert IV, Eckert VI, Gall, Krovak, NZMG;
  • automatic using of datum specified in the MIF header.
  • Enhancement: The file .PRJ (coordinate system description), if any, accompanying .SHP one is used while importing shapefile.
  • New feature: For attached raster map, the context menu item 'Lock Correction' disables/enables dragging of the map.
  • New feature: For attached raster map, the context menu item 'Zoom to Basic Scale' is added (thanks to: Constantino Grosse).
  • New feature: For road nodes, the context menu item 'Split Numbering' is added (thanks to: Gary Turner).
  • Fix: Resolved visual overlapping of numbering along roads about crossroads in some cases (thanks to: Javier Postiglione).
  • Fix: Splitting numbering along roads while splitting roads with numbers over 65 000 (thanks to: Brett Hodgson).
  • Enhancement: On pasting data with different code page, the corresponding warning message appears (thanks to: Dr.B).
  • Fix: Loading GPS EXIF header for big endian case (thanks to: Buyung Akram).
  • Fix: Crash on undoing "Extract All Elements" for non-road (thanks to: Serge V Reznikov).
  • Fix: The message about opening attacned file from detached disk is improved (thanks to: Peter Hendricks).
  • Enhancement: The buttons DEL and INSERT are supported in the list-style windows to delete or add corresponding items of lists.
  • Fix: Crash while splitting map with low step (thanks to: Dr.B).
  • Fix: The behaviour of map infotip (thanks to: Camilo Barreto).
  • Fix: Converting labels ('Tools | Convert Labels...') from meters to feet and vice versa for maps with type set "Lowrance" (thanks to: Jon Roberts).
  • Enhancement: On exporting map to the format Lowrance LCM, inner crashes of lcmBuilder.dll are handled to provide better error reports.
  • Enhancement: On exporting map to the format Lowrance LCM, Garmin-specific special codes are removed automatically.
  • Fix: For maps with type sets "Lowrance" and "ALAN/Holux", the elevation/depth units convertion is no more applied for labels visualization. In "Map Properties", the setting for elevation units is hidden.
  • Fix: Crash while saving to format .MP after two exports to Lowrance LCM (thanks to: AlexSidorov).
  • Fix: Loading of files in the format .GDB saved by Basecamp (thanks to: Marcelo Rodriguez Claude).
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for Finnish (thanks to: Jarkko Makineva).
  • Names of Garmin and Navitel types are partially translated to Sinhalese (thanks to: D.L.R. Shyamal).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.1.73.2 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Fix: Crash while label of new object inputing with simultaneous map saving (thanks to: Alexey, Дмитрий). The toolbar is now disabled during label is edited in-place.
  • Fix: Crash while loading .MP file with bookmarks imported earlier from POIs without icon file (thanks to: Gary Turner).

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.1.73.1 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • New feature: Unicode is supported.
  • The program is distributed as Unicode build, as marked by incrementing of version number - 1.1.
  • Note: all previous license keys continue to work both for 1.0 and for 1.1.
  • New feature: File .MP may be saved in UTF-8 (please see "Map Properties", the field "Code page:").
  • Note: UTF-8 is not supported by cgpsmapper and Garmin IMG format, as well as by Lowrance LCM, Holux/ALAN CRD/ARD. Unicode map may be used only for Navitel .NM2.
  • New feature: Before saving to .MP, all string attributes in the map are automatically verified for selected code page. If there are characters not savable in the code page, the corresponding warning message is provided to user, and map is saved using UTF-8.
  • New feature: In "Map Properties" window, the button [Detect] is added for "Code page:" field.
  • New feature: 'File | Open...' and 'File | Import' provide dropdown list with code pages.
  • Shapefile import wizard and also POI table import wizard provides additional national code pages: Armenian ArmSCII-8, Georgian Academia and PS, Devanagari Indian SCII (for Hindi), Tatar CP1251, Chuvash CP1251, Kazakh KazWin, Cyrillic Asian (PT 154).
  • Enhancement: 'Tools | Verify Map...': additional checking of all string attributes for code page.
  • Enhancement: User is notified about entering characters not allowed by code page of map.
  • Enhancement: Additional transliteration tables for Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Greek, Devanagari (Hindi), Hebrew, Thai to Latin.
  • Enhancement: Waypoints, routes and tracks are now exported to Garmin .GDB format version 3 (since this format stores all strings in UTF-8).
  • Fix: Out of memory while changing type of all routable roads to non-roads (thanks to: Михаил).
  • Fix: 'Tools | Slice All Objects' and "Tools | Split Map to Files...": splitting numbering along roads is fixed, automatic removal of repeating points in splitted roads, pre-rounding of positions for splitting lines (thanks to: Andrzej Popowski).
  • Fix: The support of map skins in .NS2 format for non-standard screen resolutions (thanks to: Michael Schlenstedt).
  • Fix: Removal of former random lines appearing on the screen while points dragging (thanks to: Doozer).
  • Fix: Right-clicking while unintended mouse moving (thanks to: topograf).
  • Enhancement: GUI localization for Tatar (thanks to: Ирек Хазиев).
  • Enhancement: Names of Garmin and Navitel types are translated to Armenian (thanks to: Tigran Apikyan, Vika Martirosyan).
  • Names of Navitel types are translated to Finnish.
  • Names of Garmin and Navitel types in Bulgarian are fixed.

New in GPSMapEdit Portable 1.0.72.0 (Jan 6, 2012)

  • Enhancement: 'View | Show Google Maps': in demo mode, showing satellite images from Google Maps is enabled for low-detail scales up to 14-th level (resolution is limited to 10 m/pixel).
  • Enhancement: Dragging map by right button of mouse (thanks to: Buyung Akram).
  • Enhancement: Menu item 'Tools | Create Objects | Show Properties for Every New Object' enables showing "Properties" window for every new object.
  • Fix: Multiple removal of polygon elements with holes in some cases (thanks to: Gary Turner).
  • Enhancement: While exporting map to .NM2 format, for roads with assigned "City", the attribute "Label" is automaticaly copied to empty "Street" one (this is necessary for street search in Navitel).
  • Enhancement: Beta version of GUI localization for German (thanks to: Michael Schlenstedt).
  • Names of Garmin types are translated to Armenian (thanks to: Tigran Apikyan).