- 03/03/2004 Version 2.09
Fixed wrong non-decimal display.
added German Expedia map server (expedia.de),
this should be used for european users
added new gpsfetchmap.pl (works again with Expedia)
added sound settings in settings menu
max serial device string is now 40 char
- 02/23/2004 Version 2.08
Added user defined icons (see manpage).
Disabled gpsfetchmap.pl (it is not functional anymore), watch website for update.
USB receivers now works with direct serial connection.
Replaced all sprintf, strcpy and strcat with "safe"
functions to protect against bufferoverflows.
Disabled mapblast server, manpage updated.
Better night mode.
GpsDrive now can handle satellite images of the wourld
(from NASA). Read http://www.gpsdrive.cc/nasamaps/index.shtml for details.
Entries in the "Search" and the "Send message" button can
now be sorted by clicking on the column labels.
The baudrate is now selectable in settings menu, changed sat level display.
GpsDrive now connects to the GPS receiver in following order:
Try to connect to gpsd; try to find Garble-mode Garmin (if enabled);
try to read data directly from serial port.
You don't need to start gpsd now, serial connection is
handled by GpsDrive directly
You have to enable this feature in the settings menu.
New compass and satslevel layout, fixed compass letters
in translation (unicode related bug).
Friendsd now sends read-reports for messages, new compass.
A lot of bugfixes and small changes I forgot to mention.
- 01/18/2004 Version 2.07
Fixed memory leak which caused slow gpsdrive after 5 hours
You can send messages to other targets using the friends
server
Fine tuning on layout
New "Goto" button in find-target popup: in simulation mode
your position immediatly jumps to selected position
New script "gpssmswatch": sends pos to the phone number
which sends a SMS with the content "PLSSENDPOS", needs a
working "gnokii" installation
You can change the "track" and "big-display" color in
settings menu
Added support for Topo-maps (USA maps only)
New icon for your desktop: gpsicon.png
Added OpenBSD patches
Better "Waypoints" status display
".dsc" file support works again, see manpage for details
Friendsmode shows now selected unit instead of km/h, it
also respect your timezone correctly now
Display now has "etched" frames, you can turn this off in
settings menu
A lot of bugfixes
- 01/01/2004 Version 2.06
Build in limits to 180/90 degree positions, so silly values should not
appear now.
acpi-temperature support
added tooltips for battery level and temperature display
tripinfo values are now updated
added new program "gpsreplay" which replays stored tracks
(thanks to Tim Witham for this nice program)
some bug fixes
- 12/21/2003 Version 2.05
Bugfixes
Timezone will be stored now
ACPI battery status works now with newer ACPI (tested with
2.4.22ac4)
now CPU load is reduced heavily through removing alpha
channel from image
changes for cygwin
fixed malloc problem in friends server
force name in friendsmode to replace space with underscore
- 08/31/2003 Version 2.04.
Better Kismet support (see end of README.kismet)
- 06/26/2003 Version 2.01.
This version is based in GTK-+2.x with a nicer GUI. You
have to use at least this version to download maps from the
mapserver (Mapblast and Expedia) with GpsDrive.
To see your friends position, you have to run friendsd2,
which uses UDP instead of TCP. With this new server, you
can use GpsDrive in a mobile enviroment.
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- 01/26/2003 Version 1.32.
The MySQL client library is now linked at runtime, so there
is no need for 2 different rpms anymore.
Added scripts and icon for geocaching.
Added greek translation.
- 12/08/2002 Version 1.31.
Support (only) new 'kismet' (>=2.8.0).
Remove of waypoints in SQL-mode is now possible. Added some
icons (see README.SQL) works also without SQL
support. Bugfix for 'speedtrap' warning. New key "y" to set
a waypoint at the current mouse position (same as CTRL and
LEFT-mouse-click).
Updated manpages (german and english).
Waypoint type can now be choosen from a list.
-c parameter is now case insensitive.
- 11/16/2002 Version 1.30.
Added support for 'kismet', a WLAN detection tool. See
README.kismet in the documentation section of the website.
Added icons for some waypoint types in SQL mode (see README.SQL).
- 11/03/2002 Version 1.29.
Added SQL support. Currently it supports MySQL. A script to
feed the MySQL database with waypointfile is provided
(wp2sql). Its not possible to delete waypoints from the SQL
database in the GpsDrive GUI. Please read README.SQL.
- 09/24/2002 Version 1.28:
Fixed changed URL for map download. Fixed crash in position mode.
Updated translations. Gpsd now can read from file.
- 09/17/2002 Version 1.27:
Bugfix for GPS receivers sending GGA instead of RMC
sentences. Bugfix for very large track files.
- 08/31/2002 Version 1.26:
Mapblast server works again (they changed the URL).
Bugfix for -a option.
Added -i option to ignore NMEA checksum (for broken GPS receivers).
Added "j" key to switch to next waypoint on route mode.
Added support for festival lite (flite) speech output.
- 07/17/2002 Version 1.25:
Switching maps in position mode works again. Area to
download is now marked as yellow colored area. Added script
gpspoint2gpsdrive.pl
- 07/02/2002 Version 1.24:
Some bugfixes: ACPI, broken GPS-receivers
New position pointer.
- 06/30/2002 Version 1.23:
Now Linux PDAs (iPAQ, Gmate Yopy) are fully supported and binaries
are provided.
Battery display now supports ACPI (old and new
version). Added compass, changed bearing pointer. Added
more scripts for multiple maps and route fetching. Battery
display also works on FreeBSD now.
- 05/20/2002 Version 1.22:
Added info about sunrise, sunset etc.
New settings menu. Changed english and german manpage.
- 05/12/2002 Version 1.21:
Added night mode (see settings menu). Display latitude and
logitude is now switchable between degrees/minuts/seconds
and decimal form. Some bugfixes.
- 05/05/2002 Version 1.20:
Added display of the satellite position. Simply click on
the satellite level area. Now you can add a description to
the waypoints in a seperate file. This description will be
spoken by the speech system and also written on the map
window by a scrolling text. Please look at the english
manpage for usage of this feature.
Added hungarian translation and french README.
- 04/29/2002 Version 1.19:
Added button to delete waypoint, fixed miles distance on
startup in miles mode, new sat level display colors.
Added map coverage display in download window.
- Older changes are in Changelog.
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