What's new in TopoFusion Basic 5.78
Jul 19, 2023
- New 2023 Splash Screens
- Fixed Elevation downloads
- Tileset 7,8,9 now public [color aerials, street, terrain]
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.76 (Sep 16, 2022)
- 20th anniversary of TopoFusion's release!! V1.0 was released 9/16/02.
- Thanks for everyone's support over the years!
- Upgraded support for US Landownership layer to PADUS_3
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.75 (Jun 3, 2022)
- Restored access to USGS Topo Map tiles
- Fixed issue when waypoints won't load in File Properties Dialog
- NMEA debugging output limited to first 1000 messages (to prevent large debug files)
- New 2022 Splash Screens
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.72 (Jan 26, 2021)
- Upgraded support for US Landownership layer to PADUS_2 - the most current data:
- Old data may become unavailable in for older versions of TopoFusion
- Fixed 'downloading' toggle not shown on 'disabled' dialog
- UTM and LL grid lines can now be disabled by setting grid width to 0 or grid alpha to 0
- New 2021 Splash Screens:
- Fixed inconsistent climbing elevation in Profile Window. Profile mouse tool was not using box filtering, vs right click - Profile and active list were
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.71 (Jun 9, 2020)
- Fixed intermittant crash when panning/downloading maps, introduced in 5.7
- Fixed swapped UTM East/North coordinates in waypoint dialog
- Returned 'D' shortcut key for Draw Tracks Tool
- Fixed about screen to display Basic version
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.7 (May 18, 2020)
- Public release of previous betas - Advanced Track tools and NZ/OZ topos
- Added USGS Topo map type ("G") key
- Fixed reading KMZ/KML with multiple linestring in multigeometry
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.6 (Mar 29, 2020)
- Fixed SSL error causing problems with US Topo and Mapquest downloads
- Swapped UTM Easting/Northing ordering to match standard ordering
- (was Northing/Easting) in File Properties, main map window and waypoint
- properties.
- Changed default for Live Tracking to NMEA
- Live tracking changes to Port/Baud now saved as defaults
- Added "Lat Lon Raw" mode for coordinate display (Preferences -> Units ->
- Coordinate Type) Displays raw coordinates.
- CTRL-A now active to select all in text boxes (Waypoint, Track and File
- Properties)
- Update to hidden tilesets
- New 2020 Splash Screens
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.57 (Nov 1, 2019)
- Restored access to Land Ownership Tiles due to server change
- Fixed Map menu shortcut for Mapquest OSM (no longer 'A' key)
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.56 (May 9, 2019)
- Added ability to toggle Land Ownership blending on/off using the 'A' shortcut key. 'A' was formerly OSM street. Now hit 'A' to turn land ownership blending on/off using current tileset. Or use the option in the Toggle menu.
- Fixed hang with new elevation data ih high latitudes
- Removed SHP export option when merging/drawing ' save as' GPX first, then use 'save as' to convert to SHP.
- Added additional digit of precision to most distance numbers when in Metric
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.55 (May 4, 2019)
- Changed servers for Elevation Data - Worldwind shutting down May 3, 2019
- New Elevation data is higher resolution
- All older Worldwind data downloaded will be deprecated (new elevation data
- will need to be downloaded everywhere)
- Removed 3d setting for interpolation - Bilinear is the only option now
- Changed server for worldwide Landsat images - due to Worldwind Shutdown
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.54 (Nov 17, 2018)
- Restored Land Ownership, added from previous beta
- Adjusted settings and consistency of "Map->Blend Land Ownership" function.
- Fixed access to deprecated MSRMaps using UseMSRMaps=1 in .INI file
- Restored access to Canadian Topos
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.53 (Nov 17, 2018)
- Added Land Ownership map type, including Map->Blend Land Ownership, which sets
- up a combo blend mode with the current map type and land ownership layer.
- Fixed hidden sat tiles
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.52 (Nov 17, 2018)
- Fixed problem with some elevation tiles not downloading
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.51 (Aug 6, 2018)
- Fixed 'no map' tiles in US Topo
- Improved Elevation server downloads
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.48 (Nov 17, 2017)
- Restored access to USGS Imagery due to server change expanded coverage
- Added support for Dark colors in gpxx:displaycolor read/write
- Fixed hang/crash in goto coordinate
- Updated hidden sat tiles
- Fixed hang in loading many photos at one time (looped linked list)
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.47 (Nov 17, 2017)
- Fixed: Runtime error in Batch Download tool
- Added: help/explanation to Batch Download tool
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.46 (Aug 14, 2017)
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.45 (Aug 14, 2017)
- Further work on SSL refcount error
- Further work on SSL through proxy server
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.44 (Aug 14, 2017)
- Added API key for Open Cycle Map tiles (removing watermark)
- Added support for ?Basic? type authenticated proxy servers
- Fixed 'divide by zero' in mercator tilesets when at extreme latitudes
- Improved error checking for lat/lon 'Goto-coordinate'
- Added "Toggle Downloading" to the Toggles menu
- Restored access to Juicy Trails maps
- Changed Tileset dropdown to always be in 'simple' mode (removing 0.003, 0.062 numbered tilesets), for easier use.
- Increased precision of track distance, in File Properties dialog only.
- Removed menu options and tileset dropdown for old style Topo/BW Aerial maps
- MSRMaps.com continues to be offline, does not seem to be coming back
- To enable on legacy copies of TopoFusion, edit TopoFusion.ini file and change UseMSRMaps=0 to UseMSRMaps=1
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.43 (Apr 18, 2017)
- Fixed elevation download (server now requires HTTPS)
- Fixed waypoint symbols in KML files with spaces
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.42 (Apr 18, 2017)
- Added waypoint icons (all 96 suported in TopoFusion's GPX format) to KML exports. Icons now import to google maps, for example.
- Added quicker reporting of Open Aerial/Mapquest over quota download errors
- Improved prompts for Open Aerial/Mapquest over quota error
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.41 (Apr 18, 2017)
- USGS Imagery restored (now using HTTPS)
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.40 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Public release of previous betas
- New 2017 Splash Screens
New in TopoFusion Basic 5.39 (Jan 25, 2017)
- Added ability to read SSL-encrypted (secure) tiles
- Restored access to the following tilesets: US Topo, Color, Open Topo Maps (which
- now works worldwide), also '7' key.
- Changed 'isMoving' to include missing time stamps and negative times, for
- better consitency in files that have bad time data (e.g. merged files)
- PhotoFusion thumbnails now scale up with ?Export View? exports, using the
- Scale fonts/etc? option.