Release date: 2014-06-27
Ændringslog for den næste version af QGIS 2.4.0. Vægten på denne version har meget været på polering og ydeevne - vi har tilføjet mange nye funktioner, justeringer og forbedringer for at gøre brugergrænsefladen mere ensartet med professionelt udseende (og forhåbentligt nemmere at bruge). Der er lavet meget på Layout (som bruges til at udskrive kort), for at gøre det til en bedre platform til at danne flotte kartografiske udtryk.
Når der tilføjes nye funktioner til software, er der mulighed for, at der kan komme nye fejl - hvis du støder på problemer med denne version, opret venligst en indberetning på QGIS Bug Tracker <http://hub.qgis.org>`_.
Vi vil gerne takke udviklerne, dokumentatorerne, testerne og alle de andre derude, som frivilligt bruger deres tid og kræfter (eller betaler for at folk kan gøre det).
From the QGIS community we hope you enjoy this release! If you wish to donate time, money or otherwise get involved in making QGIS more awesome, please wander along to qgis.org and lend a hand!
Til slut ønsker vi at takke vores officielle sponsorer, for deres uvurderlige finansielle støtte de giver til dette projekt:
GULD Sponsor: Asia Air Survey, Japan
Sølv Sponsor: G.A.I.A. mbH, Tyskland
Sølv Sponsor: State of Vorarlberg, Østrig
BRONCE Sponsor: www.molitec.it, Italien
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A current list of donors who have made financial contributions large and small to the project can be seen on our donors list.
If you would like to make a donation or sponsor our project, please visit our sponsorship page for details. QGIS is Free software and you are under no obligation to do so. Sponsoring QGIS helps us to fund our six monthly developer meetings, maintain project infrastructure and fund bug fixing efforts.
The NetCDF provided extra dimensional information. This information provides metadata on each band. These metadata can be used to explain the name of each band. For example, the bands of a NetCDF file represents the temperature at a given depth. For the user, it is easier to select a band with depth information, rather than only the band number.
In some raster datasources, data are stored as interger with a scale and an offset in the metadata. The scale and offset can be used to get the right data. QGIS applies its to raster data to provider to users right information for legend, histogram and identify.
We have a great new feature for those working with calculated fields in vector attribute tables. The new quick calculation bar lets you update the values in a column in the attribute table quickly and easily.
A really innovative feature that has been added to 2.4 is support for grayscale and colour blindness previews. This allows you to visualise how people with colour blindness will perceive your cartography and map layout, or how your map will look if it’s printed in grayscale. You can read more about this new feature here.
Added support for QGIS Layer Definition files or simply QLR (see http://nathanw.net/2014/03/12/qgis-qlr/). QLR file is a file that points to the data, contains all the styling, and other information. You can then just add this file and it will do all the other magic for you. QLR makes it easy to add same layer to multiple map documents, inheriting all of the properties which have been set and works with any layer supported in QGIS, expect special plugin layers.
Vi har nogle nye funktioner tilgængelige i udtryksbyggeren.
bounding box (grænser)
bounding box bredde & højde (bounds_width/bounds_height)
min/max x/y koordinater (xmin/xmax/ymin/ymax)
new wordwrap function that returns a string wrapped to a maximum/minimum number of characters
You can now copy, paste, drag and drop colours between any colour input widget in QGIS. See this article for more information on how this new feature works. Hex color codes and rgb strings can also be pasted on to colour buttons to allow importing colours from outside of QGIS.
This is one feature we simply cannot do justice to with a screenshot - QGIS now supports multi-threaded rendering! What this means is that when drawing the map, QGIS will split the drawing work between all of the cores in your CPU, making the process more efficient and responsive. By responsive we mean that you no longer need to wait for the map view to update before you can pan or zoom again. Also the map display updates incrementally allowing you to see if the map is positioned correctly early on in the drawing process. Take a look at this article for a more detailed overview of the multi-threaded rendering system. You will find some options in the QGIS settings dialog that allow you to manage the behaviour of multi-threaded rendering.
Long lines (such as contour lines or roads) can now be repeatedly labeled at regular intervals. One can choose between mm and map units for specifying the repetition interval. At the time of the release there is still an issue with »merge connected lines to avoid duplicate« setting.
The image item in composer is now ›atlas friendly‹ - you can use an expression to define which image should be shown for each atlas page. You can also now set the resize mode (zoom, clip, stretch etc.) for the image in relation to its frame size and dimensions. You can also specify the placement of the image relative to its frame using the new placement item property.
When working with atlas map items, you can now specify a predefined scale mode for the map. It will use the best fitting option from the list of predefined scales in you your project properties settings (see Project -> Project Properties -> General -> Project Scales to configure these predefined scales).
We have made a number of improvements to the ability to display tables in your composer layouts:
Support has been added for reordering columns within a table
Added support for expression based columns
You can now set the alignment of individual table columns, and also specify the alignment for the table’s header cells
Table contents can be filtered by an expression
There are a number of additions to the map composer to make life easier while working in map composition mode:
Added button to view current map item extent in main map canvas
Ability to export SVG images from composer with layers
Set line join and cap style for scalebars
Support for setting the line join style for item frames
HTML rammer i Layout er blevet forbedret. Der er en ny tilføj ramme knap som kan bruges til manuelt at lave flere linkede rammer. Vi har også forbedret vores sidedelings logik, så det er mindre sandsynligt at der vil komme siddelinger som går midt gennem tekstlinjer når der bruges HTML rammer.
MetaSearch is a QGIS plugin to interact with metadata catalogue services, supporting the OGC Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW) standard. This plugin provides an easy and intuitive approach and user-friendly interface to searching metadata catalogues within QGIS and now ships by default with the QGIS core product.
We have a great new render in QGIS 2.4. The shapeburst renderer will allow you to fill polygons with a gradient extending from the line edge towards the polygon interior. You can read more about shapeburst here.
When using a marker line along a line or polygon edge, you can now specify an offset so that the marker line starts a set distance from the beginning of the line. If a marker line is set to »first vertex« or »last vertex« mode, than this offset will control how far along the line from the vertex the marker is placed.
A new renderer has been added for polygon features, allowing you to style everything outside your polygons. This can be useful for highlighting areas, or for creating cartographic masks. When used with new shapeburst style, you can now produce output as shown in the image for this entry.
Note: The new version of plugin mask helps to easily create mask layers from the current selection, label features only in those areas, and generate an automatic mask in Atlas map generation.
In the previous version was possible to save style with postgres layers, now will be possible for Spatialite layers too. This functions allow to embed different styles inside a spatialite container simplifying sharing data and their presentation. A video tutorial of this funcionality can be found here http://pvanb.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/saving-layer-styles-to-your-spatialite-database/