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+--- Thread: PolarView 0.6 is out (/thread-759.html)
- brak - May 25, 2009
It's been over a month since the last release of PolarView. We've been hard at work making it slightly more useful.
A new "unofficial" release is currently available in download section on www.polarnavy.com. The release is primarily aimed at making PolarView a proper "chart planning" application.
Main new features include:
- Support for routes and waypoints (manager, visual editing)
- Great circle or rhumb line routing
- Distance/bearing measurement in true or magnetic degrees
- Import/export route and waypoint data to GPX and CSV files
- Improved chart scaling
We have also restored Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) compatibility which was lost somewhere along the way
Because this release brings so much new functionality, you are pretty much guaranteed to encounter bugs. Please let us know - your feedback makes this product work! We hope to collect user reports and have a maintenance release out relatively soon.
With all the new functionality online help is still lacking. Until it is available, please consider this our own test of usability. Shift and Command keys, as well as right click "do things"
Feedback on usability is particularly important to us.Cheers!
- brak - May 28, 2009
Quiet, very quiet
We got some private feedback - but don't be shy. If you don't like something - tell us, we accept all constructive (and non-constructive) suggestions
- brak - June 25, 2009
Tough crowd
A small update is out - primarily improvements to GRIB viewer.
- Isobaric pressure
- Wave area contours
- Temperature/wave height & direction/pressure/wind direct display