Version 0.6.1 (16-05-2006)

• The program has been adapted for accepting an argument defining GVP project filename. So, it is possible to load a project by double-clicking on a gvp file.
• New feature to save position of windows in the project has been added. So now, when the project is opened again, the windows will be displayed in the same position and size that they were in the last time the project was opened.

Version 0.6 (29-03-2006)

• Web Services (OGC)
  • The clients of two new web services are integrated:
    • Catalogue Service: In a Spatial Data Infrastructure, this is a basic service that helps to search and find cartographic data.
    • Nomenclature Service (Gazetteer): Helps to localise positions on the basis of toponymy and geographic names.
  • Several features of the WMS client have been improved:
    • More user-friendly interface
    • Complete information about every layer of the WMS server
    • Style formatting
    • Support of temporal dimensions
    • Possibility to configure the intern order of the layer rendering process
    • Layers of the table of contents are manageable from the context menu
• Supported data formats
  • The feature “Export to raster” supports two new data formats:
  • jpeg (georeferenced)
  • jpeg2000 (georeferenced)
• Raster layers
  • The pansharpening tool helps to increase the resolution of satellite images, if they are panchromatic.
• Type of data sources
  • It is possible to create layers on the basis of a table that contains coordinates. The resulting layer will contain a point for every pair of coordinates. Furthermore, any change of the table coordinates will modify automatically the position of the points.
• Internationalization:
  • The Gallego language has been added to the application's interface.

Version 0.6.1 (16-05-2006)

The following problems have been fixed in this release:

• When accessing to a net drive (local net) to load a layer and the associated data files have no write permissions, the application can open neither the data table nor the layer properties. Now, the application now opens will open these files as read-only mode.

Version 0.6 (29-03-2006)

• Area measurement:
  • The area measuring tool gives wrong values for distinct visualization scales (up to the zoom that is being applied onto the view).

Version 0.6 rc2 unstables (28-02-2006)

The following problems have been fixed in this release:

• Connecting to files
  • When an error connecting to a data source of a layer occurs, sometimes the layer disappears from the view with no warning.
• WMS service
  • When opening a previously saved project that contains views with wms layers, if you open those views the wms layers are not refreshed. So, the info does not appear until a zoom, pan or resize is performed.
  • When zooming to extension it does not consider wms layers.
  • When setting transparency to a wms layer in GIF format, the background color is colored to blue with the transparency that has been assigned.
  • When printing a project with a wms layer, this layer appears cutted.
• Opening projects
  • When opening a saved project that contains a MySQL layer, an error is thrown
• Raster files
  • In some machines with special conditions raster files can't be loaded
• Area measurements
  • The area measuring tool gives wrong values for distinct visualization scales (up to the zoom that is being applied onto the view)

Version 0.6 (29-03-2006)

• jpeg2000 files:
  • When opening jpeg2000 files in windows 98, the program exits.
• dwg Files:
  • Some graphical entities topologies can't be loaded (see FAQ section).
  • If the legend properties are switched to Unique Symbol, then the graphical elements disappear from the view and only text are displayed.
• dgn files:
  • The MicroStation element Multi-Line will not be visualized.
  • If the legend properties are switched to Unique Symbol, then the graphical elements disappear from the view and only text are displayed.
• dxf files:
  • When opening a dxf file containing polygons with filling, those polygons are shown without filling and a vertex is droped, so the polygon is incompletely visualized.
  • If the legend properties are switched to Unique Symbol, then the graphical elements disappear from the view and only text are displayed.
• Units of measurement:
  • It does not measure properly areas in the views with system of geodesic projection.
• WMS Servers:
  • Since TIFF is an uncompressed image format, layers loaded from these servers can produce errors due to their size.
• Export selection tool:
  • It only works with shape elements as source.
  • When exporting a selection from a shapefile in Linux the program crashes and the console pops up. The .shp file is created an can be visualized but with errors in its attribute table.
• Map:
  • When modifying the size of an inserted image, this is distorted.
  • When zooming to the sheet area some errors can occur such as the program crash or the deletion of a layer in the view.
  • Sometimes the scale associated to a view is not updated when a zoom is applied.
• Projections:
  • Small displacement errors when changing datum due to the system of reprojection used (GT2 v2.0), it will be solved when we use version 2.1.
  • When changing the projection of a view, the existing layers within that view are not reprojected.
• Internationalization:
  • Some translations on the GUI strings still pending.
• Printing:
  • With dgn and dxf files it may fail when the polygons have assigned a pattern symbol that is not a solid color or transparent (vertical, horizontal, oblique lines, etc), which will slow down printing.
  • It is not possible to define correctly a custom size. When selecting landscape page orientation (horizontal) the width parameter is ignored and, if the orientation is set to portrait orientation (vertical) the height parameter is ignored.
  • When printing a Map, the cursor is set to wait and stills in this state even when the application has finished all the tasks.
• Opening/Saving projects:
  • When opening a Table associated to a Layer, if you delete the View where that Layer is located but the Table is not deleted, an error appears when saving the project. It is necessary to also delete the Table.
  • In a recovered project it is only possible to have an open map. The name of the maps can also be source of problems.
  • When opening a previously saved project containing united tables and the layer which contains the union has been labelled using any of the fields used to make the union, then an error occurs.
• Labeling:
  • Layers reprojected to geodesic coords can not be labelled.
  • "Text height", "Rotation", "Draw text only" options in the Labelling dialog only work when the legend is defined to Unique Symbol.
  • On occassions, refreshment problems when activating and deactivating may appear.
  • It does not draw the labels in the side margins of the graphic area.
• Locator:
  • When changing the Projection System of a View the reprojection does not apply to those layers added to de locator. The layer reprojection in the locator only works when the View is using the EPSG:23030 coordinate reference system (UTM Projection, Huse 30, Datum ED5050).
• Export to pdf:
  • When changing page properties, export to PDF fails recalculating the position of some elements.
  • When exporting a Map to PDF the cursor remains in wait mode, even all the tasks have been finished.
• JDBC layers:
  • If we do a union between two tables of a JDBC layer, if we select the properties of the layer and we set the legend using one of the fields of the merged table the JDBC layer disappears from the View, but it still in the TOC.
• Save to raster:
  • The option "Don't gereference" of the "Save to raster" dialog does not work.

Version 0.6 - rc1 unstables (14-02-2006)

• Project opening:
  • When opening a previously saved project, MySQL spatial database layers disappear.
  • When opening a gvSIG 0.5 previously saved project, the WMS layers are not visualized, but if the project is stored again as version 0.6, these layers work fine.

Version 0.6.1

Installation / uninstallation

gvSIG 0.6.1 is a partial update to be applied over the 0.6 version, so gvSIG 0.6 must be already and correctly installed in the computer.

To install, follow these steps:

• Download the file from the webpage.
• Unzip it.
• Run the file installer.bat/installer.sh

The installation will attempt to automatically find the directory where the previous installation is. If it does not, then the directory have to be manually indicated.

Version 0.6

Installation

• Prerequisites [JVM 1.4.2 (06 or above), JAI (Java Advanced Imaging), JAI Image I/O]
  • Note: The JAI and JAI Image I/O must be installed into the same Java VM that runs gvSIG. If a new JVM is installed in the system and this JVM is the one used to run gvSIG it will be required to install these libraries into the new JVM (gvSIG is executed on the default JVM in the operating system; to know which JVM is being used, please type “java -version” from the comand line or console).
• Download and unzip the installation package appropiate to the operating system.
• Run the install.bat file (Windows) or install.sh (Linux) and follow the instructions.
• Run the program by doing one of the following:
  • From the Desktop shortcut.
  • From the Start/Programs menu.
  • From the command line:
    • Step into the application directory (it is the one choosed at the installation time)
    • Type “gvSIG” (Windows) or “./gvSIG.sh” (Linux)

gvSIG language defaults to the system language, if it matches with one of those supported (valencian, spanish, gallego, english, czech, german, basque, french, italian and portuguese). Otherwise, english language is used.

• There are two ways to change the language:

1. From the General tab in the Windows/Config and selecting the desired language. To apply the changes exit and run again gvSIG.
2. From the command-line or the console

• Type “gvSIG [language]” (Windows) or “./gvSIG.sh [language]” (Linux)
• The values currently supported by the language variable are:
  • es: Spanish
  • va: Valencian
  • gl: Gallego
  • en: English
  • cs: Czech
  • de: German
  • eu: Basque
  • fr: French
  • it: Italian
  • pt: Portuguese

Uninstall

To uninstall gvSIG v0.6, execute gvSIG Uninstall icon from the Start/Programs Menu.
 

Obligatory requirements

These requirements must be installed in order to execute the application.

• Virtual java machine 1.4.2 (06 or higher)
  • Linux: j2re-1_4_2_06-linux-i586.bin 
  • Windows: j2re-1_4_2_06-windows-i586-p.exe 
• JAI (Java Advanced Imaging): Install it in the same virtual machine with which you will run the program
  • Linux: jai-1_1_2-lib-linux-i586-jre.bin 
  • Windows: jai-1_1_2_01-lib-windows-i586-jre.exe
• JAI Image I/O: Install it in the same virtual machine with which you will run the program
  • Linux: jai_imageio-1_0_01-lib-linux-i586-jre.bin
  • Windows: jai_imageio-1_0_01-lib-windows-i586-jre.exe
    

     

The gvSIG ArcIMS Client extension allows users to easily add web image services (ImageServer) as well as geometry services (FeatureServer) using an interface similar to other remote services in gvSIG. The image service supports the addition to the view of a selected set of layers from the service. The geometry service allows the addition of remote vector layers published through a feature service.

The following organizations have participated in the ArcIMS Client extension for gvSIG:

• Sponsor:
  • Regional Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport of Valencia (Spain)
• Developer:
  • Prodevelop S.L.
• Collaborator:
  • Regional Ministry of Territory and Housing of Valencia (Spain)

The ArcIMS extension must be installed on the gvSIG version it was developed, which is indicated in the download table of the extension. This version of gvSIG must be correctly installed in the PC.

The installation steps are:

• Download the file from the web.
• Uncompress the downloaded file.
• Execute the “install.bat” or “install.sh” file depending on whether the OS is Windows or Linux.

If the installation process doesn’t automatically find the folder where the correct version of the gvSIG application is installed, it has to be manually indicated. For instance, in the case of an ArcIMS Client for gvSIG 0.6.2 in Windows XP, the folder could be C:\Program Files\gvSIG_0.6.2