MITAB Library - Revision History ================================ This is a human-readable revision history which will attempt to document required changes for users to migrate from one version of MITAB to the next. Developers are strongly encouraged to document their changes and their impacts on the users here. (Please add the most recent changes to the top of the list.) For a complete change history, please see the CVS log comments. Version 1.7.0 (2008-04-21) -------------------------- - Updated contrib/mitab_dyn.pas for new 1.7.0 object types - Added Visual Studio Project files in contrib/vcproj, contributed by Tony Wells (bug 1877) Version 1.7.0-beta1 (2008-02-29) -------------------------------- - Added support for V8.x large object types: large REGION, PLINE MULTIPLE, MULTIPOINT and COLLECTION (bug 1496) - Added support for v9.x Time and DateTime fields (based on patch from AJD, bug 1754) - Added bounds for Peruvian coordinate systems PSAD56 in mitab_bounds.cpp (came with patch from AJD sent for bug 1754) - Use %.15g instead of %.16g as number precision in .MIF output - Fixed the internal compressed coordinate range detection test to prevent possible overflow of the compressed integer coordinate values leading to some coordinate errors in very rare cases while writing to TAB (bug 1854) Version 1.6.4 (2007-12-10) -------------------------- - Upgrade of OGR and CPL libs to the version from GDAL/OGR 1.4.3 - Fixed leak of SRS in OGRGeometry (bug 1816) - Fix asDatumInfoList[] and asSpheroidInfoList[] defns/refs (bug 1826) - Added reporting access mode to error message in TABINDFile::Open() (GDAL changeset r12460, ticket 1620) - Fixed leaks in ITABFeature???::Set???FromStyleString() (GDAL ticket 1696) Version 1.6.3 (2007-10-12) -------------------------- - Remove static variables that interfere with reentrancy. http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1883 Version 1.6.3-beta2 (2007-09-18) -------------------------------- - Fixed another issue related to splitting of object blocks with the optimized spatial index. The compressed coordinate origin values were not initialized properly before being written (bug 1732) Version 1.6.3-beta1 (2007-09-14) -------------------------------- - Fixed the splitting of object blocks with the optimized spatial index mode that was producing files with misaligned bytes that confused MapInfo (bug 1732) Note that even if this bug is (hopefully) fixed, the optimized spatial index is still disabled by default in this release and we still use the quick (i.e. traditional) spatial index mode by default. - Fixed problem with MIF parser being confused by special attribute names (bug 1795) Version 1.6.2 (2007-07-12) -------------------------- *** *** *** *** *** - IMPORTANT: The optimized spatial index introduced in V1.6.0 has been disabled by default in this release after we found that the current block splitting technique often produces files that confuse MapInfo (bug 1732). The Quick Spatial Index Mode is used by default until bug 1732 is fixed. *** *** *** *** *** - Fixed error reading compressed text objects introduced in v1.6.0 (bug 1722) - Fixed memory leaks when reading multipoint objects from .MIF files - Added IMapInfoFile::SetCharset() method (bug 1734) - Added TABFile::TwoPointLineAsPolyline() to allow writing two point lines as polylines (bug 1735) - Added missing cast in isspace() calls to avoid failed assertion on Windows (MITAB bug 1737, GDAL ticket 1678)) - Fixed memory leak when writing .TAB with new (optimized) spatial index introduced in v1.6.0 (bug 1725) - Fixed another issue related to attempting to read past EOF while writing collections (bug 1657) - Fixed a problem writing collections where collection objects were trashed during object block splitting (bug 1728) - Fixed support for predefined datums with non-greenwich prime meridians per http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1416 - Updated mitab_dyn.pas to support both Delphi and Kylix (contrib by UffeK and MaximV, bug 1746) - Added support for building libmitab.so shared lib (contrib by UffeK and MaximV, bug 1746) - Avoid deprecation warnings for some common functions with VC7+ (bug 1749) Version 1.6.1 (2007-03-30) -------------------------- - Added "Quick Spatial Index Mode" which generates a non-optimal spatial index (similar to MITAB 1.5 and older) but results in faster write time than the optimized index generated by v1.6.0+ (bug 1669) (Thanks to Safe Software for funding this.) - Added mitab_c_set_quick_spatial_index_mode() to C API (bug 1669) - Fixed problem writing collections where MITAB was sometimes trying to read past EOF in write mode (bug 1657). - Fixed another problem writing collections when the header of objects part of a collection were split on multiple blocks (bug 1663) - Added missing NULL pointer checks in SetPenFromStyleString(), SetBrushFromStyleString() and SetSymbolFromStyleString() (bug 1670) Version 1.6.0 (2007-02-15) -------------------------- - Improved generation of the .map's internal spatial index and object data blocks to produce an optimal r-tree, resulting in performance improvements of up to 30 times faster on some spatial searches, matching the perfomance of files generated by MapInfo. (bug 1585) (Thanks to Aircom International (Andrew Blake) for funding this.) - Fixed problem with null brush bg color becoming black when parsing style strings (bug 1603) - Added mitab_is_field_indexed() and mitab_is_field_unique() to C API (bug 1621) Version 1.5.1 (2006-07-25) -------------------------- - Fixed initialization of MBR of TABCollection members (bug 1520) - Added mapping for datum name "North_American_Datum_1927". - Fixed problem with uninitialized affine parameters written to .MAP header, resulting in files not readable in MapInfo, introduced by bug 1155 in MITAB 1.5.0 (bug 1254, 1319) - Fixed problem writing PLINE MULTIPLE to TAB format introduced in MITAB 1.5.0 (bug 1466). - tab2tab: Set dataset bounds only after setting spatialref to prevent default coordsys bounds from taking precedence when bounds are available in source dataset (bug 1511) - Coordsys false easting and northing are in the units of the coordsys, not necessarily meters. Adjusted mitab_coordsys.cpp to reflect this. http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1113 - Similar problem in mitab_spatialref.cpp for TAB files also fixed. http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1113 Version 1.5.0 (2006-02-16) -------------------------- - Updated contrib/mitab_dyn.pas with new C API functions. Note that other definition files for VB and .NET have *not* been updated for this release. - Fixed crash when attempting to write TABPolyline object with an invalid geometry (GDAL bug 1059) - cast strstr() results as per email from Charles Savage for VC8. - Fixed build problem (link with -ldl not available) on MacOSX (bug 1167) - Fixed problem with white space parsing in mitab_miffile.cpp (bug GDAL:954) - layers with just regions can't be set as type wkbPolygon because they may have multipolygons (bug GDAL:958) http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=958 - Fixed support for multi character delimiters in .mid file (bug 1266) - Fixed reading Mills.mif (TABPoint::ReadGeometryFromMIFFFile()), the check for SYMBOL didn't check if pszLine was non-NULL. - Fixed memory leak of m_pszDelimiter in mitab_middatafile.cpp. - Fixed OGR problems with setting bounds on MIF files, and wrong bounds on tab files (bug 1198) Version 1.5.0-beta1 (2005-10-07) -------------------------------- - Added read/write support for MapInfo Collections in MIF and TAB (bug 1126) (Thanks to funding from Comcast (Andy Canfield) and an initial patch and analysis of collections by Jim Hope of Innogistic Software) - New C API methods to access collection members (bug 1126): - mitab_c_get_collection_region_ref() - mitab_c_get_collection_polyline_ref() - mitab_c_get_collection_multipoint_ref() - mitab_c_set_collection_region() - mitab_c_set_collection_polyline() - mitab_c_set_collection_multipoint() - Support for writing affine projection params in .MAP header (AJD, bug 1155) - New C API methods to get/set various projection parameters (AJD, bug 1155): - mitab_c_get_projection_info() - mitab_c_set_projection_info() - mitab_c_get_datum_info() - mitab_c_set_datum_info() - mitab_c_get_affine_params() - mitab_c_set_affine_params() - All datum definitions in mitab_spatialref.cpp now have the correct names (Anthony D, bug 1155) - Added bounds entries for Finnish KKJ and Swedish projections (AJD, bug 1155) - mitab_ogr_datasource.cpp: avoid leak of CPLReadDirectory() result. - gcc4 related warnings in mitab_coordsys.cpp and mitab_utils.cpp avoided. - Change the way \n and \ are handled internally. Now they are stored unescaped in memory and escaped only when writing MIF files. (bug 1107) - Improved handling of Danish modified TM proj#21-24 (HSS, bugs 976,1010) - Upgraded CPL and OGR source from latest GDAL CVS (as of 2005-05-12) - Produce a fatal error if creating an index of a size that exceeds the .IND file format limitation (tree depth > 255) (OGR Bug 839) - Added mitab_c_set_symbol_angle() and mitab_c_get_symbol_angle() for point symbols of type TABFC_FontPoint (bug 1002) - Added rule in cpl/GNUmakefile to copy cpl_config.h from cpl_config.h.in. (FW) - Changed to use OGRLayers spatial filtering support. (FW) - A few fixes to support for modified TM projections #21-24 (AJD, bug 1155) - Fixed missing initialization of default .MID file delimiter ("\t") (Anthony D - bugs 1155 and 37) Version 1.4.0 (2005-04-01) -------------------------- - Added bounds entry to match datum 1011 based on MapInfo's "Svenska rikssystemet, 2,5 gon väst (RT 90 7 parametrar)" (bug 997) - Added initial version of .NET bindings, contributed by Graham Sims in mitab/contrib/dotnet directory (bug 992) - Added support for Datum Id field in .MAP header, this is new in MapInfo 7.8+ and solves problem with multiple datums with same params (bug 910) - Fixed internal integer coordinates rounding error (bug 894) - Fixed potential memory leaks in error conditions in mitab_feature.cpp and mitab_rawbinblock.cpp (bug 881) - Support pen width bigger than 7. Note that any pen bigger than 10 are considered as point, not pixel. (bug 683) - Updated list of datum parameters from data made available by Bill Wemple from MapInfo on directionsmag.com: 7 new datum defns and 1 fixed. List of ellipsoids also updated (Bug 608, patch by Uffe K.) - Do not output a BG color in style string for transparent brushes (bug 693) - mitab_tabfile.cpp: Several fixes for TABFile::Open() when loading the tabfile fails. (provided by Stephen Cheesman). - mitab_mapfile.cpp: Fixed error return value in LoadNextMatchingObjectBlock() per http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615. NFW - mitab_ogr_datasource.cpp: Modified CreateLayer() to use -1000,-1000,1000,1000 bounds for GEOGCS much like in mitab_bounds.cpp. This ensures that geographic files in the range 0-360 works as well as -180 to 180. Version 1.3.0 (2004-07-07) -------------------------- - Use tab as default delimiter (if none is explicitly specified) when reading .MIF/.MID files (Anthony D, bug 37) We still generate new files using comma as delimiter. - C API: Added mitab_c_get_feature_count() and mitab_c_get_field_as_double(), added ability to create a feature of type TABFC_NoGeom (Anthony D) - Added support for reading affine coordsys parameters in extended .map header block of v500+ (Anthony D, bug 41) - Added mitab_c_getlibversion() to C API. (Uffe K. - bug 21) - Write 3D geometries to MIF/tab as if they were 2D. NFW - Flush out .mif header on Close() if no features written. NFW - Fixed previous flushing logic to only do so for writable files. NFW - Removed obsolete mif2mif.cpp mif2tab.cpp mif2tabbatch.cpp. They are all replaced by the more up to date tab2tab.cpp - Modified the OGR creation logic to properly support creating single files sets rather than directories full of files. NFW - Fixed memory leaks with seamless tab files (bug 283) - Call CPLReadLine(NULL) in MIDDATAFile::Close() to cleanup working buffer. - Removed special bailout for m_poMAPFile == NULL in TABFile::Close(). It is important to cleanup other used memory. - mitab_coordsys.cpp: fixed small memory leak for non-earth coordinate systems. (bug supplied by Stephen Cheeseman, Geosoft). - Added mitab_c_load_coordsys_table() to C API (bug 469) - mitab_ogr_datasource.cpp: Don't report single layer that hasn't been "created" yet via GetLayerCount(). Fixes up single file generation issues. Version 1.2.4 (2003-07-23) -------------------------- - Added 'indexed' and 'unique' parameters to mitab_c_add_field(). Applications written for older versions of the C API will have to be updated to pass these two new parameters. - Ensure that a blank line in a mid file is treated as one field containing an empty string instead of being zero fields. NFW - Fixes to support mif/mid files produced by Geomedia V5 (bug 1631): - Do not produce an error if .mid data records end with a stray ',' - Treat tabs (\t) as a blank space delimiter when reading coordinate values in .mif file - Fixed sign of rotation parameters in TOWGS84 parameters in WKT. MapInfo uses EPSG 9607's 7 parameter datum shift method, but TOWGS84 is defined to hold EPSG 9606 style parameters. Only the rotational signs differ. NFW - Fixed spelling of Provisional_South_American_Datum_1956 in datum list. NFW - Fixed bug parsing ellipsoid out of CoordSys strings for coordinate systems with datum 999 or 9999. NFW - Fixed leak of TABMAPObjHdr when writing NONE geometries in SetFeature(). - Increased MIF reader line buffer size to 10000 chars - Added support for writing TABFC_NoGeom (NONE) geometries via the C API. - Fixed crash when reading .mif file that doesn't contain a DATA line (Thanks to Riccardo Cohen for the fix). - Implement DeleteDataSource() method on the driver object. NFW - mitab_spatialref.cpp, mitab_coodsys.cpp: Fixed up regional mercator logic. It was screwing up transverse mercator with non-zero latitude when writing to tab, and wasn't being written properly to .mif. NFW - mitab_feature.cpp: fixed C++ style true/false where TRUE/FALSE required. As per GDAL bugzilla 311. NFW - Fixed problem scanning node in TABINDNode::FindNext() - bug 2176, FW Version 1.2.3 - (2002-10-15) ---------------------------- - Support auto-addition of a dummy "FID" column if TAB files are created with no fields, instead of producing an error. A corresponding change has not yet been applied to the MIF driver. NFW - Fixed lots of places that check for errors by examining CPLGetLastErrorNo(). A warning will trigger all these places as an error. Changed to check that the last error type was CE_Failure and add a CPLErrorReset() at the beginning of many affected sections. NFW - Modified TABGetBasename() (in mitab_utils.cpp) to stop at the first forward or backslash otherwise "C:/warmerda/mi\can_caps.tab" will result in a basename of "mi\can_caps.tab". NFW - Modified datum list in mitab_spatialref.cpp with a bunch of new EPSG/OGC datum names provided by Siro Martello from Cadcorp. NFW - Fix memory leak of m_pszIndex in mitab_miffile.cpp, the poSpatialRef in TABFile::SetMIFCoordSys(), and a leak in MITABExtractCoordSysBounds(). NFW - Added untested support in mitab_spatialref.cpp, and mitab_coordsys.cpp for projections Regional Mercator (26), Polyconic (27), Azimuthal Equidistant - All origin latitudes (28), and Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area - any aspect (29). NFW Version 1.2.2 - (2002-07-06) ---------------------------- - Added a validation in TABMAPFile::GetFeatureId(). When there's no .map file or no spatial indexes or no geometry, the function return -1 like an Eof. This prevent the reading of a file set to NULL. (bug 169 (MapServer)) - Treat Region as MultiPolygon in mitab_c_set_point() to support Regions with multiple islands and holes. Passing a part number <= 0 (second parameter in mitab_c_set_point()) will result in adding a new island (i.e. polygon). By default, parts > 1 are treated as holes in the last island (polygon) that was created. - Added IsInteriorRing() function in the TABRegion class to validate if a ring in a polygon is an external or an internal ring. The function returns true if the specified ring is an interior ring. The function mitab_c_is_interior_ring() in mitab_capi.c has been created too to call IsInteriorRing() if the feature is a region. - In mitab_mapheaderblock.cpp, the Coordsys2Int() function used integer values to check for overflow. However, in some case, integer was to small and caused problems with applications that called SetSpatialFilter() with a filter much larger than the file's bounds. So, this function now uses doubles internally for comparison, but still returns and receives integers. - Add SetSpatialFilter function in the TABSeamless class, to use seamless layer in the right way. Now, the filter is applied on each data file and on the index file. (Bug 164 (MapServer)) Version 1.2.1 - (2002-05-08) ---------------------------- - Implement SetMIFCoordSys in the MIFFile class. The coordsys was not written when calling mitab_c_create for MIF files because MIFFile::SetMIFCoordSys always returned -1 (Bug 984). - Added support for TABFC_FontPoint and TABFC_CustomPoint in mitab_c_create_feature(), mitab_c_set_points(), mitab_c_set_font() and mitab_c_get_font(). - mitab_capi.h: Use stdcall by default for all public mitab.dll functions instead of cdecl. Should still work fine for C/C++ users, and will allow VB/Delphi users to use the same DLL with Bo T.'s interface files. Version 1.2.0 - (2002-05-03) ---------------------------- - Made changes in TABRelation to avoid an infinite loop. The m_poCurFeature object have been deleted and the function GetFeatureRef() have been replace by GetFeature(). This new function return a TABFeature object that must be control by the calling method. (bug 706) - Made important changes in order to support writing objects in 16 bits coordinate format. New TABMAPObjHdr-derived classes are used to hold object info in memory until block is full. This was required in order to fix a problem when very small regions were written in 32 bits coordinates when 16 bits should have been used because MBR < 65536. In this case MapInfo would attempt to rewrite the modified object info in 16 bits format while the coordinates blocks are still in 32 bits format... resulting in a corrupted the file. Note that at this point only feature types that use separate coordinate blocks can be saved in 16 bits format (PLINE, MULTIPLINE and REGION). - Prevent writing of coordinates outside of the +/-1e9 integer bounds. If coordinates outside of that range are written then the values are written as +/-1e9 instead and a warning (ERROR 503) is produced when the file is closed. Coordinates outside of the +/-1e9 bounds limits seemed to confuse MapInfo. - Disabled the warning (ERROR 503) when coordinates outside of the +/-1e9 integer bounds in SetCoordFilter(). - Modified the conversion of double to integer coordinates to fix an old problem where coordinates written by MITAB would be a little bit off sometimes compared with the same values written by MapInfo. - Modified mitab_capi.cpp to correctly produce "point" style arcs from mitab_c_set_arc(). It now sets a point geometry ensuring that the TABArc::ValidateMapInfoType() method will succeed. As per DMSG Bug 644. NFW - Fixed some TABView issues (bug 703): - Support "select * ..." syntax - Accept source table names with or without the .tab extension - Avoid crash if .IND file for related table is missing (i.e. deleted) - The OGRDriver Create method will now accept the FORMAT=MIF option to create a dataset of mif files instead of tab files. NFW - Prevent an infinite loop of calls to LoadNextMatchingObjectBlock() in GetNextFeatureId() if no objects found in spatial index when using a spatial filter. - False Easting/Northing should be in the linear units of measure in MapInfo, but in OGRSpatialReference/WKT they are always in meters. Convert accordingly in mitab_coordsys.cpp and mitab_spatialref.cpp. NFW - Added support for reading and writing new V650 Multipoint for both TAB and MIF. - Added support for Cassini Soldner projection (projection 30). NFW - Add EOF validation in MIDDATAFile::GetLastLine() to fix EOF problems while reading some MIF/MID files (Bug 819, JSL) - New VB, Pascal, and MapBasic interfaces contributed by Bo Thomsen. See contrib/README_VB.TXT - Added to C API: mitab_c_get_field_width(), mitab_c_get_field_precision() Version 1.1.3 - (2001-11-02) ---------------------------- - mitab_tabview.cpp: Use VSIUnlink() instead of unlink(). NFW. - mitab_utils.cpp: Don't use multi-byte support if _WIN32 and unix are defined to try and preserve cygwin support. NFW - C API: Added mitab_c_get_text(). Added mitab_c_get_mif_coordsys() Added mitab_c_get_projinfo() and mitab_c_set_projinfo() Changed mitab_c_create() to make bounds optional and allow using default projection bounds if available - GetLabelStyleString(): take line spacing and num. of lines into account when calculating text height. - Test for NULL geometries if spatial filter enabled in GetNextFeature() (objects with NONE geometry would have caused a crash when a spatial filter was set). - Fixed a few memory leaks in mitab_miffile.cpp. NFW. - Fixed mitab_capi.c to not delete the spatial ref unless dereferencing it drops the count to 0. NFW. - Modified TABFile::SetSpatialRef() to clone the passed in OGRSpatialReference instead of taking a reference to it, so it will work with stack allocated OGRSpatialReferences or in cases where the caller doesn't check ref counts. NFW. - TABPolyline::ValidateMapInfoType(): return TAB_GEOM_NONE if numpoints < 2 - Substantial additions to lots of files adding support for efficient spatial queries by utilizing the spatial indexes when reading. NFW. - TABText should not produce an error if reading a 0-length text. - Seamless files: when reading on Unix, replace '\\' with '/' in file path read from the index table. - Modified mitab_miffile.cpp to keep track of the feature id of the preloaded text line in m_nPreloadedId instead of m_nCurFeatureId to fix serious problems with access through IMapInfo::GetNextFeature() - this affects applications using the pure OGRLayer API to access mif files. NFW - mitab_middatafile.cpp: Use VSIRewind() instead of rewind() to ensure that IO remains virtualized. NFW - mitab_miffile.cpp: modified to return extents collected by PreParse. Made distinction between extents and projection bounds explicit. NFW - mitab_spatialref.cpp: added OGC name for datum 12. Version 1.1.2 - (2001-06-24) ---------------------------- - Support reading and writing TEXT objects with strings longer than 512 bytes. MITABMAPCoordBlock's Read/WriteBytes() had to be fixed to allow reading/writing data split over more than 2 blocks. - StyleString fixes: include font name in text style string, and placed brush before pen in region style strings. - C API: added get methods for all pen, brush, font and symbol properties. - Fixed MIF Text object output: negative text angles were lost. Also use TABText::SetTextAngle() when reading MIF instead of setting class members directly so that negative angles get converted to the [0..360] range. Version 1.1.1 - (2001-05-01) ---------------------------- - Added implementation for OGRLayer::GetExtent() that returns extents of the data, which is differents from the bounds of the projection. - Added code to set TOWGS84 values for mitab_coordsys.cpp and mitab_spatialref.cpp. See http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41 - Fixed serious bug in TABFile::SetSpatialRef() (mitab_spatialref.cpp). A core dump could occur for type 999 and 9999 datums. Thanks to Stephen Cheesman of Geosoft for finding and pointing this out. (NFW) - Modified TABINDFile/TABINDNode to support update (i.e. read/write) access and created 'tabindex' program to test creation of indexes on existing datasets. - Modified reading of TABRegion to maintain outside/inside ring relationship when it's available in the source file. - Fixed default for BRUSH when brush index=0 in the source file. It should be BRUSH(1,0,16777215) and not BRUSH(2,16777215,16777215). Version 1.1.0 - (2001-03-08) ---------------------------- - Modified mitab_imapinfofile.cpp so that variable width fields (nWidth=0) is translated to 254 characters, instead of 255 so it will actually be a legal field width in TAB. (NFW) - Make default and max char field with 254 chars in TABFile::AddFieldNative() - Added a warning (TAB_WarningBoundsOverflow) on close of .MAP file if any object was written with coordinates outside of the file's predefined bounds. (Causing an overflow of the +/-1e9 integer coord. range) - Use MI defaults for Pen, Brush, Font, Symbol when creating new objects and when reading objects with no Pen, Brush, etc. set (used to just set everything to zero which was inconsistent with MI's behavior) New defaults are: PEN(1,2,0), BRUSH(2,16777215,16777215), FONT("Arial",0,0,0), SYMBOL(35,0,12) - Accept "TABLE TYPE LINKED" and handle them the same way as type NATIVE i.e. the link to the RDBMS is simply ignored. - Added support for Swiss Oblique Mercator/Cylindrical. (NFW) - Expand tabs (NFW) - Added projection bounds lookup tables, automatically called by TABFile::SetProjInfo() (and SetSpatialRef() by the same way). TABFile::IsBoundsSet() can be used after setting projection to establish if some default bounds were found or not for the projection. - Fixed IMapInfoFile::CreateFeature(), was leaking feature memory. (NFW) - Fixed small memory leak in OGRTABDataSource::CreateLayer() (NFW) - Support SpatialFilter inside IMapInfoFile::GetNextFeature(). TAB files should support spatial filter via their spatial index for optimal performance. - Avoid unnecessary cloning of features in IMapInfoFile::GetNextFeature() and IMapInfoFile::GetFeature(). - Added TABText::Get/SetTextLineEndPoint() and properly read/write label line end point in TAB files. - Fixed writing MIF header: for decimal fields, an extra field of type logical with same name was always added because of a missing break; (Kieron) - Added support for reading seamless TAB files (TABSeamless class) - Fixed problem creating new files with mixed case extensions (e.g. ".Tab") Version 1.0.4 - (2000-11-14) ---------------------------- - Fixed a problem writing indexes - When a new entry was inserted at the beginning of an index node (changing this node's key) then the parent was not properly updated and some records were not queriable through that index. - Handle '\t' just like a space when parsing mif files. - Fixed MIFFile::GotoFeature() to avoid calling ResetReading() before moving forward. - Fixed writing of drawing tool blocks - when more than 512 bytes worth of drawing tool info had to be written, an error was produced instead of automatically allocating a new block, resulting in a truncated file. Version 1.0.3 - (2000-10-19) ---------------------------- - Fixed reading of MAPCoordBlocks to accept text strings that overlap on 2 data blocks. - Added graceful recovery from NULL OGRSpatialReference pointers in mitab_capi.cpp, and mitab_spatialref.cpp (NFW). - Added what I hope to be working support for NonEarth translation (into LOCAL_CS in WKT format) (NFW). - Initialize m_dWidth to 0 in TABText constructor. (NFW) - Made TABFile::GetBounds() return bounds corresponding to the +/- 1e9 integer coordinate limits instead of using min/max int. coord. from header Version 1.0.2 - (2000-10-03) ---------------------------- - Avoid warnings building with gcc -Wall -O2 (NFW). - Modified generation of .MAP spatial index to generate a balanced tree instead of the old 'chained list of nodes' that exceeded the 255 levels limit on the tree depth with files with > 100,000 objects. There would still be room for improvement by implementing splitting of object data blocks. - Handle m_nOriginQuadrant value of 0 the same way as quadrant 3 - Added bDeletedFlag to TABFeature with get/set methods - Maintain and/or compute values of regions and polyline center/label point (Used to always use the center of the MBR and this was not correct) - Fixes for old Version 100 files: - Set valid Scale/displacement when reading V100 .map header. Use m_nCoordPrecision to define scale since scale in header is 0. - Accept "FORMAT: DBF" in .tab header file. - Made all open() methods completely case-insensitive on filenames on Unix (added TABAdjustCaseSensitiveFilename()) - Added new MapInfo 6.0 datums in datum list. - Added OGR Feature Style String support when reading - Added support for writing arcs, ellipses and rectangles using the C API - Flushed tab2mif.cpp and mif2tab.cpp. There is now a single tab2tab.cpp conversion program that can generate both TAB or MIF output, depending on output filename extension - Added #define MITAB_VERSION for apps that want to report library version. Version 1.0.1 - (2000-04-21) ---------------------------- - Added C API documentation (mitab_capi.cpp) + functions to read vertices and field information and included C API in public release. - Modified fltering of new table field name to accept extended chars with accents. Version 1.0 - (2000-03-26) -------------------------- - Changed to use same MIT/X-Consortium license as other CPL + OGR libs. - Fixed problem opening datasets with 0 features in them. - Added support for reading TAB datasets with "Table Type DBF"... only type "NATIVE" was supported until now. - Produce only a warning when unsupported feature types encountered in the .MAP file, and return a valid feature with a NONE geometry. - Done more tests (and required changes) to fix the way the quadrant setting affects the way to read arc angles... hopefully it's right this time! - TABText objects now return their text string with any "\n" escaped on 2 chars (i.e. "\"+"n"). TABText::SetText() also expects newlines to be escaped in the string it receives. - Fixed some projection problems, including possible crashes with some 9999 datums with big parameter values or with some unrecognized projections. - Outside/inside ring relationship from a TABRegion's OGRPolygon is now properly written to the .MAP file's coord block section header. Prior to MapInfo 5.0, this info was ignored, but now it has to be valid otherwise some parts of a region won't be displayed properly in MI5.0 - Added support to write indexed fields and create joined tables (TABView). - Added validation on field names (no special chars) on write and produce a warning if name had to be fixed. - Added support for V450 object types with num_points > 32767 and for pen width in points. This also resulted in changes to the ITABFeaturePen methods, mainly the Get/SetPenStyle() method has been removed since this style value was actually a part of the point width value. Finally, the 'style' parameter was also removed in the mitab_c_set_pen() C API method. - Support for Version 450 objects forced creation of version 500 .MAP files with 1024 bytes header (.MAP version 400 were produced before). - MIF format now reads and writes bounds in coordsys (used to ignore them) Version 0.2 - (1999-12-20) -------------------------- - Added TABView class to support views on pairs of .TAB files (read-only) - Currently supports only 2 tables with a many-to-1 relation through an integer field. - Added GetFeatureCountByType() method. Current implementation does not work (returns all zeros) for MIF files - Added static ImapInfoFile::SmartOpen() to automatically detect file type, open a new file for read and return a new object of the appropriate type (TABFile/TABView/MIFFile) to handle it. - Changed TABFile::Open(), MIFFile::Open() to use a bTestOpenNoError flag - OGRMIDDataSource/OGRMIDDriver were removed. Now all file types handled by MITAB go through the OGRTABDataSource/OGRTABDriver interface - Fixed problem reading/writing dates (bytes were reversed) Also, Dates are now returned as "YYYYMMDD", and accepted as one of "YYYY/MM/DD", "DD/MM/YYYY", or "YYYYMMDD" - Fixed TABFile::GetBounds() that could sometimes return Min values > Max - Rounded rectangles with radius bigger than MBR: we used to return a corrected radius value, but it's now changed to return the real radius value (even if it's too big) since this is what MapInfo appears to do when exporting from TAB to MIF - Fixed some problems that had appeared following a change in OGR's addGeometry()... use the new addGeometryDirectly() + more error checking. - TABRegions geometry now returned as OGRMultiPolygon instead of OGRPolygon with multiple rings. This change had to be done because OGRPolygons MUST have only one outer ring with a set of inner rings, and this cannot be guaranteed to be the case with a MapInfo file. Also added TABRegion::GetNumRings() and TABRegion::GetRing() to make it simpler to manipulate the complex geometry as if it was a simple collection of rings which is actually what we have in the MapInfo model. - Fixed some problems with MIF generation of Float fields and PLINE MULTIPLE - Run a bunch of read/write tests for both .TAB and .MIF through Purify... fixed all memory leaks found. Version 0.1 - (1999-12-04) -------------------------- - First official pre-release version - Still lacks good API docs. ------------ $Id: HISTORY.TXT,v 1.207.2.3 2008/04/21 19:57:28 dmorissette Exp $ ------------