New stable version of gvSIG Desktop available: gvSIG 1.9

[alvaro...@gmail.com]

A new stable version of gvSIG Desktop has been released: gvSIG Desktop
1.9.

It's available on the Downloads section of the gvSIG website:
http://www.gvsig.gva.es/eng/gvsig-desktop/all-versions/download/gvsig-19/downloading-the-program/.

This new version has many new features which are listed next.

* Symbology:
o Density point legend.
o Symbol editor.
o Graduated symbol legend.
o Proportional symbol legend.
o Quantity category legend.
o Symbology levels.
o Load/Save SLD legend.
o Expressions legend.
o Basic default symbols.
o Two differents measure systems for symbols and labels
(in
the paper / in the world).

* Labelling:
o Creation of individualized annotations.
o Overlaps labeling control.
o Priority position labeling.
o Range scale visualization of labeling.
o Orientation of labeling.
o Different location options for labeling.
o More kind of measure units for labeling.

* Raster and remote sensing:
o Clipping of bands and data
o Export layers
o Save from view to raster file
o Color table and gradient edition
o No data values management
o Pixel process (filters)
o Color interpretation management
o Overview creation
o Enhanced radiometric
o Histogram
o Geolocation
o Raster reprojection
o Georeferencing
o Automatic vectorization
o Region of Interest (ROI) definition

* Internationalitation:
o New languages: English (USA), Portuguesebrazilian,
Turkish, Russian, Greek, Swahili, Serbian.
o Translation management extension integrated.

* Editing:
o Matrix.
o Scale.
o Explode.
o New snappings.
o Polygon cutting.
o Polygon autocompletation
o Polygon joining.
o Previous editing selection.

* Geoprocessing:
o Geoprocessing tools can now work with line layers
besides
with polygon layers.

* Tables:
o New wizard for joining tables.

* Layout:
o Add grid to the view into Layout.

* Project:
o Wizard for recovering layers which path has changed.
o Online help.

* Interface:
o Possibility of hiding toolbars.
o New icons.

* CRS:
o CRS management extension JCRS v.2 integrated.

* Other:
o Improvementes in the reading of format DWG 2004
o Improvements of the hyperlink operations.
o Record the symbology legend path.
o Add "GeoServeisPort" server in the Nomenclator.
o Independent units for distances and Areas.
o 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:
o Selection by polyline
o Selection by circle
o Selection by buffer
o Select all

* Information tools:
o Fast information tool (informs about a geometry when
the
mouse stays on it)
o Multicoordinates tool: allows to visualize the view
coordinates simultaneously in geographic and UTM coordinates, even
for
a different Zone from the one selected for the current view.

* Hyperlink:
o Improvement of the current hyperlink.
o Link different actions to the same layer
o Link properly several actions within one view.
o Add raster or vector layers in one view.
o Link to PDF files
o Link to HTML files
o Add new hyperlink actions with the help of plugins

* Data transformation tools:
o Export of tables subsets to DBF and Excel format.
o Add geographical information to the layer (for
instance,
add the Area,
o Perimeter, etc. fields to a table in a faster way).
o Import tables fields.
o Interactively transform points to lines or polygons,
and
lines to polygons.
* Open/save projects:
o Automatic backup of the .GVP when the project is saved.

* Other:
o Print view using a template.
o 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).