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Justmapzz Changelog

What's new in Justmapzz 2022.02

May 20, 2022
  • Several small improvements
  • Improved install process
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New in Justmapzz 5.7.4 (Nov 18, 2019)

  • Improved behaviour of Streetview window options
  • Removed YOURS routing service (no longer maintained)
  • Reorder categories list option
  • New: Convert a map object to a track

New in Justmapzz 5.6.0 (May 3, 2019)

  • New Map objects. Display lines and areas permanently on the map.
  • Map objects can be generated from OSM data, hand-drawn curves or from tracks or routes.
  • New Map bookmarks that replaces the 3 quick view places with an unlimited set of bookmarks.
  • New Favourite categories can now display text labels instead of icons (optional).
  • New conversions between tracks / OSM data / map objects / favourites
  • Lots of improvements.
  • Bug fixes

New in Justmapzz 5.5.4 (Dec 20, 2018)

  • Redesigned window Explore OpenStreetMap features
  • Improved window Manage category assignments
  • New OSM object detail info window with instant map edit and save as favourite buttons
  • Many additions, improvements and bugfixes in the OSM modules
  • Improved map magnifier
  • Automatic check for updates
  • Bug fixes and visual improvements

New in Justmapzz 5.5.0 (Nov 12, 2018)

  • New: OpenStreetMap menu with the following options:
  • Explore OpenStreetMap features. Here you can query the complete map
  • content of the OSM database. Use it to display things like:
  • All camp sites and restaurants within 400 m. of the GR7 hiking route.
  • All hotels in the south of France at the border of a river.
  • All Indian restaurant in London accessible by wheelchair.
  • All hotels in Rome, but at least 200 m. from a night club.
  • The possibilities are limitless...
  • Search streets: Here you can search for streets and optionally a housenumber.
  • The resulting info contains the street name (or ref.),
  • the location, the length of the street, and, if
  • available: the maximum speed, oneway info, type of street,
  • surface, quality, access restrictions and more ...
  • Search OSM objects by id. This is mostly for OSM editors.
  • Open the KeepRight website to explore issues in the OSM data.
  • Use it to improve OSM!
  • Open the TagFinder website to search for the appropriate tag(s) for the map
  • elements, you want to edit or search for.
  • Open the iD OpenStreetMap editor to edit the map at the selected map area.
  • Open the JOSM OpenStreetMap editor to edit the map at the selected map area.
  • Updated several internal program libraries for the latest Windows 10 builds.
  • Fixed a bug in the installation process, that caused some installation failures.
  • Added two new maps: Here Satellite Map and Here Hybrid Map.
  • Various improvements and bug fixes.

New in Justmapzz 5.3.0 (Sep 17, 2018)

  • Support for track colors
  • New track editor
  • New track properties window
  • New: import KML tracks
  • Flexible track conversion:
  • import KML or GPX tracks,
  • optionally edit the tracks, change points, edit name, description, add color,
  • export the tracks as GPX or KML
  • New: Map magnifier to help the exact placing of markers (route markers, waypoints, favourites etc...)
  • Improved: Hybrid Routing:
  • New dialog window
  • Map magnifier support
  • Zoom button for route overview
  • Option to snap new waypoints to the location of a favourite or POI
  • Fix: Hybrid Routing multi-routing providers mode: bug in Undo
  • New Crossmapzz option: slave maps positions follow mouse on main map
  • Improved: Crossmapzz routes and waypoints display
  • Updated several map providers
  • New: Lat/Lon in info-balloons for favourites, POIs and waypoints
  • New info boxes & question dialog boxes everywhere
  • Improved: export tracks dialog
  • Improved right toolbar panel
  • Visual improvements
  • Bug fixes

New in Justmapzz 5.1.0 (Jul 18, 2018)

  • Many usability improvements in all parts of the app, like in routing, import/export of tracks, routes and favourites, Hybrid Routing, Openstreetmap editing, keyboard shortcuts, visual appearance of all elements on the map like routes, favourites, POIs and waypoints, etc...
  • New: Save POIs as favourites
  • Improved: Preferences dialog windows
  • Improved: Generate waypoints on routes and tracks
  • Fix: In some countries (mainly European), regional Windows settings
  • blocked route calculation and elevation functions
  • Several other bug fixes

New in Justmapzz 4.4.3 (May 22, 2018)

  • Changed the installation folders to prevent issues with Windows UAC (User Account Control)
  • Improved the favourite editor for new installations
  • Fixed a bug in the new Places Search for use in various regions

New in Justmapzz 4.2.2 (Dec 27, 2017)

  • Fix: Search location fixed for all culture settings
  • Minor improvements

New in Justmapzz 4.0.2 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Added a check for a valid installation folder
  • Fix: Waypoints delete & generate
  • Fix: route analyzer
  • Improved streetview
  • New integration of JOSM OpenStreetMap editor
  • Improved waypoints system + save to GPX

New in Justmapzz 3.4.0 (Jul 28, 2017)

  • New: Manage category assignments:
  • remove a category from multiple favourites
  • merge categories
  • reassign categories to multiple favourites
  • Some interface improvements
  • Fixed some minor bugs

New in Justmapzz 3.3.3 (Jul 3, 2017)

  • New: Favourites database maintenance. Compresses the database to minimize the file size.
  • Improved: Visual changes to accommodate for smaller displays.
  • Improved: Hybrid Routing: If you drop a HR waypoint over a favourite or normal waypoint, it hoovers up the name and description of the underlying point.
  • Improved: editing of HR waypoints
  • Improved: exported HR routes now can include a long description.
  • Fixed some bugs

New in Justmapzz 3.3.1 (Jun 21, 2017)

  • Improved: The streetview picture shows view angle and tilt angle (click to reset)
  • Improved: If you reverse the direction of a route with waypoints, you can (optionally) reverse the waypoints too
  • Fix: Hybrid routing also used "normal" waypoints (if present)
  • Several interface improvements
  • Some bug fixes

New in Justmapzz 3.0.1 (2017-01-09) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • Improved: Elevation chart:
  • It is interactive now: click a point on the chart to see it on the map (and vice versa)
  • Detailed point info: covered distance, to go distance, elevation, step length, lat/lon
  • X-axis scales now are by distance, not points.
  • Various interface improvements
  • Fix: Some minor bugs

New in Justmapzz 2.9.4 (2016-12-20) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • New: Elevation chart for routes
  • Improved: Streetview window interface
  • Improved: a lomg-click on the map now opens Streetview
  • Improved: automatic elevation retrieval for tracks without elevation info
  • Improved: Favourite window options
  • Fix: Track elevation chart length always showed length of first track
  • New: main windows menu item: Routes: (analyse routes, elevation chart, convert to track)
  • Several interface improvements

New in Justmapzz 2.9.0 (2016-11-16) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • The streetview window position and the map pane and the picture pane are now sizeable (and persistent between sessions).
  • The streetview map-provider now follows the main window map-provider, when changed

New in Justmapzz 2.8.7 (2016-11-05) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • Improved: Street view window:
  • Long-click the map to open the streetview window (pressing S also works)
  • No more fixed camera directions, right-click the map to tell the camera where to look
  • Opening a streetview window now closes the previous one (only one active)
  • Improved: import tracks dialog
  • Fix: Searching for favourites with a single quote in the favourite name or description gave an error

New in Justmapzz 2.8.4 (2016-10-15) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • New: 3 Home buttons in the top bar: these are presets to jump to your 3 most used map positions in one click
  • Improved: tracks and favourites export: improved file naming
  • New: in tracks import/export: support for hdop, vdop and speed tags
  • New: Pressing "T" on the map displays all favourite tooltips
  • New: Favourite categories now have their own icon size (from 12x12 to 64x64 pixels) to accentuate certain categories and to better adjust to your display resolution
  • New: Option to keep the Streetview window always on top

New in Justmapzz 2.8.0 (2016-09-14) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • Fix: Openstreetmap did not show maps anymore because of changes in the OSM server
  • Fix: The "change output folder" for exporting favourites and tracks did not work

New in Justmapzz 2.7.6 (2016-08-22) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • New: Option to keep the Crossmapzz viewer always on top
  • New: Search favourites by web link
  • Changed the method of placing pushpin markers and routing marker on the map from "click & drop" to "drag & drop". (see help file)
  • The undo and redo buttons for the location search now also undo/redo the searched favourites positions
  • Several internal changes for better performance

New in Justmapzz 2.7.1 (2016-03-29) (Jan 10, 2017)

  • Fixed the broken link to the weather forecast server
  • Improved: Increased maximum zoom in Street view

New in Justmapzz 2.7.0 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • New: Street view. This feature offers all Google Street view images, but enhanced with better camera control (view direction, tilt, zoom), orientation map to see your location and camera behaviour.
  • Fixed some bugs for the GPX tracks database, upload and download fixes
  • Fixed an installation issue on Windows 10/64 bit computers
  • Several interface improvements

New in Justmapzz 2.6.0 (Jan 12, 2016)

  • Change: Justmapzz now comes with another installer (CreateInstall) which allows better control for portable apps. See file "portable apps.html" in the installation folder.
  • New: support for long descriptions in tracks.
  • New: support for a web link in favourites.
  • New: spacebar toggles showing favourites: none / filtered / all
  • Improved: several interface improvements
  • Fix: Keyboard shortcuts did not work if routes were displayed.

New in Justmapzz 2.5.0 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • New: Show gradients (descends / ascends) on tracks (coloured arrows)
  • Improved track visualization
  • Several usability improvements for favourites:
  • Shortcut for editing (long click)
  • The Show/Hide button now always opens the selection dialog
  • Better placement of search window and show/hide window
  • New: A dialog to add or remove favourites to and from the weather locations list.
  • New: spacebar shows all favourite tooltips
  • Some bug fixes

New in Justmapzz 2.4.1 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • Improved: Undo/Redo to support multi-point track edits
  • Some visual improvements
  • Fix: When editing multiple tracks, one of the tracks did not show correctly
  • Fix: The "Analyze routes" button was shown when drawing or editing tracks

New in Justmapzz 2.4.0 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • New: Google bicycle routing.
  • New: route analyzer: compares the curviness and climbs of all routes, indicating optimals
  • New: elevation support for favourites. Can also be imported and exported
  • Several usability improvements
  • Bug fixes

New in Justmapzz 2.3.0 (Sep 3, 2015)

  • New: draw tracks by dragging.
  • New: track optimizer. Can reduce the track filesize without quality loss.
  • Fix: The Windows gpx file association with Justmapzz did not work for all Windows versions

New in Justmapzz 2.2.2 (May 18, 2015)

  • New:
  • GPX file analyzer to import favourites, waypoints, tracks and routes in a .GPX file from one window
  • Option to associate .GPX files with Justmapzz (open these files by a doubleclick in explorer)
  • Set a category colour (for lossless exchange of favourites with OsmAnd)
  • Delete a "not empty" favourite category (deletes all favourites in the category)
  • Add multiple tracks, favourites, routes and waypoints to an existing .GPX file
  • Improved:
  • Double click a gpx file in explorer can now open all types of contents
  • Route to track conversion and Save routes
  • Fix:
  • The "Remove routing markers" button did not work since version 2.2.0
  • If the mouse cursor was over a favourite, the mouse wheel zoom did not work
  • Many interface improvements
  • Several bugfixes

New in Justmapzz 2.2.0 (May 18, 2015)

  • New:
  • Completely redesigned all track features to allow multiple track edit & management. Edit multiple tracks on the map, save multiple tracks in one file, open multiple tracks from a file
  • New windows for track import, export, merge
  • Updated the map provider list, added some new providers, removed some obsolete (now 16 map types)
  • Improved:
  • Merge tracks, split track, extend track
  • JustTrackzz database:
  • Now you can edit tracks from other users
  • Added maximum track length (as a result of adding "circular tracks")
  • Improved:
  • Support for entering position coordinates in degrees, minutes, seconds
  • Protect accidental moving of favourites (now move with Ctrl-drag)
  • Many interface improvements
  • Bug fixes
  • Free version:
  • Added favourites and more map providers

New in Justmapzz 2.0.1 (May 18, 2015)

  • Added a track property "circular track", available in upload and as a selection criterion in download track
  • Fix:
  • Download track - Error message if all transport modes or all grades were unchecked
  • Download track - The "Only uploaded by me" button did not fill the textbox

New in Justmapzz 2.0.0 (May 18, 2015)

  • New:
  • JustTrackzz, a worldwide GPX tracks database to share tracks between users. Track properties include a track name, long description, transport mode (hiking, bicycle, boat, car, etc...), grade (easy, difficult etc...), track length, uploader name...
  • You can upload your own tracks and search for tracks from all users in many ways:
  • -- Globally or only in visible map area
  • -- By name or description (full text search)
  • -- By transport mode
  • -- By grade
  • -- By minimum length
  • -- By uploader alias (So you can easily select all the tracks of one user)
  • -- By ref.nr.
  • -- Downloaded tracks are fully editable
  • -- Users can correct / update their own tracks after upload
  • Added a fourth map preset.
  • Several interface improvements
  • Many improvements under the hood
  • Fix:
  • System integration for .gpx files (double click on a .gpx file in explorer) did not work
  • When moving a favourite, the new position was not always persistent

New in Justmapzz 1.5.0 (May 18, 2015)

  • New installation software, which avoids some warnings during installation
  • Improved:
  • Longer timeout for route calculations to prevent "0 km." results on slow routing services
  • GPX import dialogs
  • New:
  • Combine 2 tracks into 1 with connect options

New in Justmapzz 1.4.5 (May 18, 2015)

  • New:
  • Elevation chart and speed chart for tracks
  • Reverse track
  • Draw new tracks
  • Add new points to existing tracks (before or after)
  • Prune a track before or after a trackpoint
  • Unlimited undo for trackpoint editing
  • Protect/Unprotect imported tracks to prevent unwanted changes
  • Split a track with 3 options: 2 tracks in 1 file, tracks in 2 files or split into 2 segments
  • Improved:
  • New and changed trackpoints get different colors
  • If you close the app while a track is displayed, you are prompted to save the track
  • Check internet connection before actions, that require a connection
  • Show message for internet-dependant actions, that take some time
  • Fix:
  • Export track did not take the track name.
  • Several changes in menus and some cosmetic changes.

New in Justmapzz 1.4.0 (May 18, 2015)

  • Improved:
  • Convert route to track now has the option to add elevation data
  • Better info for "Add elevation data"
  • The app is now added to several whitelists of anti-virus providers to avoid "false positives" of the scanners.
  • Fix:
  • The map context menu did not show all options
  • Exported tracks were not always readable in other software
  • New:
  • Imported tracks retain their elevation and time info
  • Imported tracks are now editable. You can move, add and remove trackpoints
  • Calculated routes can be converted to (editable) tracks
  • Tracks without elevation info can be supplied with elevation data
  • The elevation tag of moved or added trackpoints is calculated automatically (optional)
  • Hovering over trackpoints shows all point information
  • Show an elevation chart for the current track
  • Change:
  • The minimum and maximum map zoom levels are extended from 5-21 to 4-23, mainly for a more precise placement of trackpoints
  • Moving markers, favourites and routing points is now done by drag & drop instead of click,move,click
  • Several other improvements and bugfixes

New in Justmapzz 1.3.2 (May 18, 2015)

  • New:
  • A 2-day weather report for pre-selected favourites
  • A right-click on one of the routing markers in the right panel centers the map to the position of that marker
  • Change:
  • The context menu of the map is now activated by a right-click (Was: long-click)
  • Fix:
  • The context menu option "Set favourite as destination / starting point" moved the position of the favourite.

New in Justmapzz 1.3.1 (May 18, 2015)

  • Change:
  • Several cosmetic changes for consistent colours in all Windows versions
  • The installer is now packed in a zip file to avoid false positives
  • Fix:
  • On some Windows versions, the license key was not accepted.