gvSIG 1.9 (03-08-2009)

• ArcSDE Client:
  • Now integrated in the installation (view neccesary previous requirements).
• Symbology:
  • Density point legend.
  • Symbol editor.
  • Graduated symbol legend.
  • Proportional symbol legend.
  • Quantity category legend.
  • Symbology levels.
  • Load/Save SLD legend.
  • Expressions legend.
  • Basic default symbols.
  • Two differents measure systems for symbols and labels (in the paper / in the world).
• Labelling:
  • Creation of individualized annotations.
  • Overlaps labeling control.
  • Priority position labeling.
  • Range scale visualization of labeling.
  • Orientation of labeling.
  • Different location options for labeling.
  • More kind of measure units for labeling.
• Raster and remote sensing:
  • Clipping of bands and data
  • Export layers
  • Save from view to raster file
  • Color table and gradient edition
  • No data values management
  • Pixel process (filters)
  • Color interpretation management
  • Overview creation
  • Enhanced radiometric
  • Histogram
  • Geolocation
  • Raster reprojection
  • Georeferencing
  • Automatic vectorization
  • Region of Interest (ROI) definition
• Internationalitation:
  • New languages: English (USA), Portuguese-brazilian, Turkish, Russian, Greek, Swahili, Serbian.
  • Translation management extension integrated.
• Editing:
  • Matrix.
  • Scale.
  • Explode.
  • New snappings.
  • Polygon cutting.
  • Polygon autocompletation
  • Polygon joining.
  • Previous editing selection.
• Geoprocessing:
  • Geoprocessing tools can now work with line layers besides with polygon layers.
• Tables:
  • New wizard for joining tables.
• Layout:
  • Add grid to the view into Layout.
• Project:
  • Wizard for recovering layers which path has changed.
  • Online help.
• Interface:
  • Possibility of hiding toolbars.
  • New icons.
• CRS:
  • CRS management extension JCRS v.2 integrated.
• Other:
  • Improvementes in the reading of format DWG 2004
  • Improvements of the hyperlink operations.
  • Record the symbology legend path.
  • Add "GeoServeisPort" server in the Nomenclator.
  • Independent units for distances and Areas.
  • Open layer properties by double clicking.

Also the following tools of the extension made by the Consejería de Medio Ambiente of the Junta de Castilla y León have been added:

• Selection tools:
  • Selection by polyline
  • Selection by circle
  • Selection by buffer
  • Select all
• Information tools:
  • Fast information tool (informs about a geometry when the mouse stays on it)
• Hyperlink:
  • Improvement of the current hyperlink.
  • Link different actions to the same layer
  • Link properly several actions within one view.
  • Add raster or vector layers in one view.
  • Link to PDF files
  • Link to HTML files
  • Add new hyperlink actions with the help of plug-ins
• Data transformation tools:
  • Export of tables subsets to DBF and Excel format.
  • Add geographical information to the layer (for instance, add the Area, Perimeter, etc. fields to a table in a faster way).
  • Import tables fields.
  • Interactively transform points to lines or polygons, and lines to polygons.
• Open/save projects:
  • Automatic backup of the .GVP when the project is saved.
• Other:
  • Print view using a template.
  • Select the order for loading several layers (for example, it allows specifying the loading of shapes on top of the the raster data by defect).

gvSIG 1.9 alpha (27-11-2008)

• Raster analysis and remote sensing
  • Clipping of bands and data
  • Export layers
  • Save from view to raster file
  • Color table and gradient edition
  • No data values management
  • Pixel process (filters)
  • Color interpretation management
  • Overview creation
  • Enhanced radiometric
  • Histogram
  • Geolocation
  • Raster reprojection
  • Georeferencing
  • Automatic vectorization
  • Band algebra
  • Region of Interest (ROI) definition
  • Supervised classification
  • Semi-supervised classification
  • Decision tree
  • Transformations
  • Image fusion
  • Mosaic
  • Scatter diagram
  • Image profiles
• Labelling
  • Creation of individualized annotations.
  • Overlaps labeling control.
  • Priority position labeling.
  • Range scale visualization of labeling.
  • Orientation of labeling.
  • Different location options for labeling.
  • More kind of measure units for labeling.
• Symbology
  • Density point legend.
  • Symbol editor.
  • Graduated symbol legend.
  • Proportional symbol legend.
  • Quantity category legend.
  • Symbology levels.
  • Load/Save SLD legend.
  • Expressions legend.
  • Basic default symbols.
  • Two differents measure systems for symbols and labels (in the paper / in the world).
• Topology
  • Implementation of the fuzzi tolerance mechanism and dangle tolerance for vectorial layers.
  • Topology tool CLEAN.
  • Topology tool BUILD.
  • Detection of basic topology errors: undershoot, overshoot, hanging nodes, hanging lines and pseudonodes.
  • Alphanumeric visualization (as a table) of basic topology errors.
  • Graphical visualization as a new layer of basic topology errors.
  • Polygons and polylines split when linear geometries cut them.
  • Merge polygons and polylines selected.
  • Topology editing by displacement of the shared vertex  in common geometries in the same layer and between geometries of different layers.
  • Implementation of topology models based on rules.
  • Implementation of basic topology rules that allow to emulate Arc/Info model of covers.
  • Visual tool for the creation of topologies from topology layers and rules.
  • Creation of exceptions (allowed errors) for the violations of the topology rules.
  • Tool for the massive verification of the topology rules on the layers compose that it.
  • Load/Save topology tool.
  • Visual tool for the consultation and/or modification of the properties of a topology.
  • Filter in the visualization of topology errors according to different criteria (violated rule, etc...).
  • Automatic predefined corrections for the different types of topology errors.
• Network analysis
  • Distance matrix.
  • Add dialog "SetVelocities"
  • Service area.
  • Influence area.
  • Closest Facility
  • To look for nearer provider.
  • Minimum covering tree.
  • Delaunay triangulation.
  • Compact area.
  • Compact service area. VisAD triangulation algorithms.
  • Thiessen polygons (Including in Sextante)
• Geoprocessing
  • Extension of the geoprocess tools so that they can work with line layers besides with polygon layers.
• Layout
  • Add grid to the view into Layout.
• Interface
  • Possibility of hiding toolbars.
  • New icons.
• Editing
  • Manage snapping and adding different snappings.
  • Finalize a geometry by double clicking.
  • Previous editing selection.
  • Insert spline geometry.
  • Matrix CAD tool.
  • Explode CAD tool.
• Other
  • Sextante extension included.
  • Improvementes in the reading of format DWG 2004
  • Improvements of the hyperlink operations.
  • Record the symbology legend path.
  • Add "GeoServeisPort" server in the Nomenclator.
  • Independent units for distances and Areas.
  • Open layer properties by double clicking.