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GPSLogger Changelog Details

2010/07/26 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.9.0

What's new?

• In Direction View (when a Waypoint is present) the relative speed to the WP is shown in the lower left corner (positive speed: approaching the WP/ negative speed: departing from WP)
• GPSLogger should open now noticeable faster (OS 4.6+ Version)
• additional tweaks that I have made over the last 10 month that I could not remember :-)

What's fixed?

• For some Locales it could had happen that after a minute the duration jump to up 31 minutes - I'll hope that this is fixed with this new build.

2009/11/16 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.8.0

What's new?

• Support for DesktopManager Backup & Restore [keep the settings of GPSLogger when you update your OS or change the device]
• OS5.x Support added (text around SVG compass)
• Support for Storm2

2009/10/27 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.7

What's new?

• New Option 'AutoSave': Select between OFF, each 5min, each 15min, each hour or each 4 hours in order to avoid path data loss when your device battery dies during recordings.
• Export as EMail will now include most of the Path details like name, distance, duration, minimum & maximum altitude, etc. in the message body.
• OS4.6+ Version only: In the Storm OS 4.7.0.181 RIM fixed a bug in the SVG-Rendering - this makes a workaround of GPSlogger obsolete. Since only you as a User is able to know if the workaround is required on your device or not the new GPSLogger version have an additional Appearance option: "Use SVG position patch in Compass/Direction view". By default this option is enabled (this represents the original implementation of GPSLogger). If the text around the Compass is shifted (in Compass- & Direction View) then please uncheck this new option since you got a new OS version installed where RIM have fixed the problem (and GPSLogger does not need to correct the wrong OS behavior any longer).

2009/09/30 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.6.0

What's new?

• Lap Timer functionality - How to use the new feature:
  1. Start logging
  2. Once you are at your lap start finish line:
     • open the menu and select "Set Start/Finish Line"
  3. Switch to Timing View to see new data:
     • current lap time / distance to start finish line (linear)
  4. Once a lap is completed you will find an additional line:
     • lap length, lap time, average lap speed
     • additional previous lap information (depending on the device resoultion)
  The lap calculation depends also from your outdoor navigation settings (detection of start finish line).
  You can find all lap details of a recorded path in the PathManager Path-Details Dialog.
• New Appearance Settings "Speed in Minutes per KM/mile" (mpkm/mpm) (default OFF) - this option is useful for all runners who want to keep track of their pace. Once this option is checked, GPSLogger will display all speed information in Minutes per KM/mile/nautical mile.

What's fixed?

• Fixed export of KML/GPX locations that are close to meridian/equator

2009/09/11 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.5.0

What's new?

• Distance (in Miles or Kilometers) will be printed with two decimals (instead of just one)
• New General Settings Option "Use 'brute force' LocationProvider recovery" (default OFF): GPSLogger can start an observer process for the LocationProvider (the "thing" that is generating GPS-Antenna-signal updates) - it can happen, that for some reason GPSLoggers stops updating the location data. With this option you can enable a cyclic check if there is still a signal from the GPS-Antenna and if not the system tries a recovery.
  Please note, that a change requires an application restart to take effect.
• Option "Check for updates": allows you to check your GPSLogger Version with the latest available at emacberry.com

What's fixed?

• Hopefully all font related problems are solved *sigh*
• Import of KML-Files that only consist of a <LineString> element and that contain negative longitude or latitude values

2009/08/30 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.2.0 minor fix

What's fixed?

• 'Foolproof pause' caused hang ups (took extremely long to display the text) - changed front to none outline (solved the problem on my Storm)

2009/08/28 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.1.0 fix of the fix

What's fixed?

• My apologize - never use WHILE statements when you are not sure, if the condition ever can become false - I have put that in my pipe and smoked it - the freezes had nothing to do with "older devices" or anything like that. The problem occurred in unlucky combinations of default device font settings and the GPSLogger font selection.
  I have corrected the code and thanks to the help of Joachim the problem is fixed now.
• Logger does not stop logging anymore when distance signal is used (was reported by users in the forum)

2009/08/24 - GPSLogger release of 1.7.0.1 fix

What's fixed?

• Some older devices seams to have problems with the intensive use of the fillPath function - this causing some devices to hang up in direction/compass view (or when using the "foolproof" pause option). Hopefully with the update to v1.7.0.1 this problem is fixed.

2009/08/23 - GPSLogger release of 1.7 β

What's new?

• Layout of Direction View reorganized: Now the information will be displayed in the four corners around the compass:
  • lower left: Course to waypoint
  • lower right: Distance to waypoint (above the distance you see the ETA at the waypoint)
  • upper left: distance to target (Navigation mode) / current Latitude & Longitude (Geocaching mode)
  • upper right: ETA at target (Navigation mode) / waypoint Latitude & Longitude (Geocaching mode)
  A preview of this new layout can be found in the forum.
• New 'Appearance & Startup' Option: "Display foolproof paused info" toggle the large 'paused' display on/off (default: OFF)
• New keyboard short cut: [Q|W]: Mark current location
• Sort order will be saved between GPSLogger sessions

What's fixed?

• Sort by Distance will list nearest Location first
• Sort by Name is case insensitive

2009/08/20 - GPSLogger release of 1.6.5 public β

What's new?

• When recording is 'paused' a large info will be displayed on all views
• New key short cut [O] in Path & Location Manager: Change Sort order [Time|Name|Distance]
• Mark Locations of loaded paths - this allows you to mark locations of a previously recorded path.
• New Option "Confirm Pause and Stop while recording" (default OFF): In order to avoid unwanted breaks in your logging session.
• New Option "Automatic name for 'pause'" (default ON): When pause your recording the location will get automatically the name 'pause'.
• Additional textual course information in Compass View(lower left corner)

What's fixed?

• Improved visibility of text information in direction view (none outline)
• Improved visibility of marked locations along the path (thicker dot)
• Compass View Menu Entry for OS 4.2.1+ (was missing before)
• Compass pointing now really to NORTH for OS 4.2.1+ version (*shame*)

2009/08/16 - GPSLogger release of 1.6 public β

What's new?

• Uploading a recorded path to the GPSies.com website* [accessible via the Path-Manager]
• Search the GPSies.com database for tracks that are nearby your current location* [accessible via the Main Menu]
• Compass View for OS 4.2+
• Complete new rendering of the Compass for OS 4.2+
• Outdoor Navigation Key shortcuts (Main Window)
  • [SPACE]: Next Waypoint
  • [DEL]: Previous Waypoint
  • [SHIFT]+[R]: Reset Navigation
  • [SHIFT]+[I]: Reverse (invert) Navigation Path
• New Option: Record only GPS-locations with Speed (logging will only record a point if the current speed is > 0.01 m/s)

What's fixed?

• LocationManager: Enter a location in raw mode will accept again '.' chars (not numeric anymore)
• LocationManager: Create a new Location: Degree-Input-Field will accept 3 digits
• Import: Support for <wpt> tag for GPX import
• Outdoor Navigation: Waypoint(+) [SPACE] will select the NEXT waypoint (that comes after the one that is currently ahead) - You can't step more forward then the "next" WP (similar to "back")

2009/08/01 - GPSLogger release of 1.5 public β

What's new?

• Outdoor Navigation! - All Details about this new feature (and the corresponding new options) can be found at the Outdoor Navigation documentation.
• When logging a new MenuItem called 'Bring me Back (route)' is available:
  See Special function in logging mode: 'Bring me Back (route)'.
• Logging status indicated by [L] (logging), [P] (paused) in the upper left corner
• New Shortcut [SHIFT]+[A|S]: (S)tart logging
• New Shortcut [SHIFT]+[Q|W]: (Q)uit logging
• New Shortcut [SHIFT]+[O|P]: Toggle (P)ause
• New Function: Clear all paths data/reset GPSLogger (key shortcut [SHIFT]+[Y|X|Z])
• Changes between Imperial and Metric units will automatically update unit dependent option values ('Distance signal', 'When Waypoint is reached' & 'Distance to next Waypoint')
• New symbol for 'location to reach' in the Path-View
• Reorganized main menu structure
• Additional menu entries (e.g. zoom in/out) for Storm Users (can be used instead of key shortcuts)
• All lines will rendered with anti-aliasing-effect

What's fixed?

• Checking GPS-Location for '0' as latitude or longitude values
• Import of large (0.5 MiB+) KML & GPX files

2009/07/25 - GPSLogger release of 1.0

What's new?

• Options reorganized - on BlackBerry® devices it's quite common to separate the application options into various screens - this makes the options way more organized and easiert to understand.
• Distance Signal - new 'Special Options' to specify 'Vibrate Time' and 'Audio Volume'
• The specified 'Path directory' will be checked at each startup (if writable) - if not the Options dialog will be opened
• New General Option: 'Start in NightMode'
• New General Option: 'Confirm deletion of Paths and Points'
• New General Option: 'Allow start without GPS-Signal'
• New dialog to enter locations in the Degree, Minutes (decimal) format (like: 47° 56.112 N)
• Export (KML, GPX and CVS) of single Locations (from the Location Manager) - Key shortcut: [Z|X]
• GPX-Import will support files that contain location information in <rtept> elements

What's fixed?

• Input fields for new location coordinates only accept numeric values
• When in logging mode: a loaded location (via the LocationManager) will not be overwritten by the start location of your current path
• Fixed rounding problem for lon & lat values [if ending with 00 milli seconds]

2009/06/17 - GPSLogger update to 0.6.4.1 (HOTFIX)

What's new?

• Renamed Option 'Use absolute elevation values' in 'Use inverted elevation values' (and adjusted the internal implementation)

What's fixed?

• Logging will record altitude again

2009/06/16 - GPSLogger update to 0.6.4

What's new?

• Option 'Use absolute elevation values': for some reason some devices (like Storm and Bold) seams to return "inverted" altitude value. Even if it's possible in WGS84 to have a negative altitude there are sample logs of users showing negative elevation values > ~250m - this is for sure not correct.
  The data in the $GPGGA NMEA sentence is also negative - so there is no easy way to fix this inside GPSLogger [since all available data sources shows the same (false) value]. So if your BlackBerry® device is creating negative elevation values only, then please be so kind and enable the 'Use absolute Elevation values' checkbox in the options. When you toggle this option you have to reload current visible data in GPSLogger.
  My apologize that this was not discovered earlier - but I am living in a very flat area where min and max elevation have only a difference of 20m
• Location Manager will always show distance to current location in the location list (requires a current location gps signal)
• Export format: CSV (incl. double quotes as value encloser)
• Export option: Only marked locations (= with name) will be included in the export (default OFF)
• Predefined location marking names - when you have a file called names.txt in your path directory, then GPSLogger will use the content of this file when mark a location on your path (while recording). The names.txt should countain one predefined location name per line. Your names.txt file should look like this (and can be created e.g. with BBFileScout):
  
   your predefined name 001
   your predefined name 002
   ...
   your predefined name xxx
  This will make GPSLogger quite usefull for wildlife tracking/recording, since this allows you quickly to pick the animal/plant you just have spotted at the current location.

What's fixed?

• KML Export: Marking of Max Speed when at the same location then with Max/Min Elevation
• Added [BACKSPACE] as key shortcut for deleting a path or location in the corresponding manager screens

2009/06/12 - GPSLogger update to 0.6.3

What's new?

• If a location was loaded it will be always shown in the 'Path View'
• New dialog to enter locations in the Degree, Minutes, Seconds (Milliseconds) format
• Alignment of speed & elevation views based on relative (and not on absolute) time - this allows you to compare different recorded paths even if they are recorded at a different date.
• Website: Documentation started [read more]
• Website: New Sceenshots of GPSLogger in action [click here]

What's fixed?

• When using large fonts the path & location details could not be fully read - now you can scroll up/down
• Zoom works again when you are actually logging (or have loaded a path into the background) [was broken in 0.6.2]
• After deleting the last location or path the list will now be empty (refreshing issues solved)
• Multiple 'Background Path' should be rendered in different shades of grey

2009/06/09 - GPSLogger update to 0.6.2

What's new?

• "Distance Alerts/Signal" - Peep & vibrate after a user specified distance (in Meter or Feet) was traveled (specially useful for runners & biker)
  E.g. specify (in the options) a distance of 1000m, then GPSLogger will give you a audio signal & your BlackBerry® Device will vibrate every km. So you get informed, that you have completed the user specified distance. Of course the signal comes again after an additional km. So you have the signal at 1km, 2km, 3km... When you want the signal every mile, then please enter 5280 ft.
• In the KML export the "Max Elevation", "Min Elevation" and "Max Speed" Locations will be marked with a special symbol and an additional Text
• You can now load a Path into the background and can follow this background path without the requirement to start logging.
• New Option: Specify the "distance signal" (in Meter or Feet depending on your Units Setting) - Enter a '0' to disable this feature.

What's fixed?

• Export for of ultra long Path (39500+ Locations) supported (even if I do not recommend to log longer then 1 day in a single GPSLogger session)
  Please note, that ultra long paths can't be send via eMail since it simply blows the device RAM! (A log with 39500+ Locations will generate a KML or GPX file of 18+ MB!)

2009/06/05 - GPSLogger update to 0.6.1

What's new?

• We have a new domain! 'www.emacberry.com'
  That's also the reason, that you will get an Information when updating to the new Version [a module with the same name (GPSLogger) exist] - simply continue by pressing "OK".
• Progress bar when exporting paths

What's fixed?

• Path, Elevation & Speed Views will show always all named Locations
• KML-Import fixed (negative values)
• Possible HangUp fix when exporting long paths

2009/05/29 - GPSLogger update to 0.6

What's new?

• Specify your custom path names when start logging (can be enabled by 'Specify own Path names' in the options)
• Editing path names (via Path Manager)
  There is a single issue with editing Path names: Renaming an Path created by any previous GPSLogger version (before 0.6) will cause in a duplication of the Path - one with the old name - one with the new name - simply delete the path with the old name afterwards - there is no way around that - please excuse this inconvenience. Once the file is renamed for the first time, the overwriting when changing the name again will work smooth like silk.
• Create a new location (via Location Manager) - specify name, lat & lon value [the first step into a GeoCache app]
• Edit name of existing locations (via Location Manager)
• Direction View for OS4.2.1+ will show heading to 'N' (beside the direction to go)
• Direction View will show "estimated time of arrival" (depends from the current speed)
• Location details dialog will show the distance to your current location
• Import of KML Path (additional to GPX import)
• Import of a KML/GPX location [unzip your Google KMZ files (e.g. with BBFileScout) to a KML]
• New Shortcut [SHIFT]+[M]: Open Path Manager
• New Shortcut [SHIFT]+[L]: Open Location Manager
• New Icons in GoogleEarth (the KML-Export)
• New Shortcuts in Path Manager:
  • [I|U]: (I)nformation/Details about path
  • [E|R]: (E)dit Path name
  • [Z|X]: E(x)port path
  • [M]: Export as e(M)ail
  • [DEL]: (DEL)ete path
  • [L]: (L)oad path
  • [A|S]: Load as (s)hadow path
• New Shortcuts in Location Manager:
  • [I|U]: (I)nformation/Details about location
  • [E|R]: (E)dit location name
  • [B|N]: (N)ew location
  • [DEL]: (DEL)ete location
  • [L]: (L)oad Location

What's fixed?

• no bugs where reported in the last days...

2009/05/24 - GPSLogger update to 0.5.7

What's fixed?

• display of durations longer then 1 hour corrected
• correct timestamp information for GPX & KML-Export files (all GMT)

2009/05/23 - GPSLogger update to 0.5.6

What's new?

• Timing View: Display elapsed time, current speed and ? speed in a large font (e.g. for runners and cyclists)
• Path details popup will show ? speed
• Details popup for location (in location loading screen)
• Import of GPX-XML files from 3'rd party logging applications
• KML-Export contain extra info for each location

What's fixed?

• Display of 'NW' heading

2009/05/21 - GPSLogger update to 0.5.4

What's new?

• Direction View:
  Load a previously stored Location (Point) and let you guide to that direction ("Guide Me Home" function). This can become quite useful when you have to locate your car at a big parking lot - or when you are in the wilderness and have lost the orientation. Please Note: This is not a any kind of street navigation function! - it's just gives you a direction & distance.
• Key short cut [D|F] to toggle display forward
• Key short cut [SHIFT]+[D|F] to toggle display backwards
• Key short cut [L] to toggle night mode

What's fixed?

• KML-Export

2009/05/17 - GPSLogger update to 0.5.3

What's new?

• Key short cut [D|F] to toggle display

What's fixed?

• correct N|S and W|E values for Lon&Lat
• GPS & Compass-View will display content without being in Logging-Mode
• 4.6+ only: Compass centred

2009/05/15 - GPSLogger update to 0.5.2

What's fixed?

• New Icon
• Zoom IN|OUT for Path-, Elevation- and Speed View (working while recording or when opening previous recorded path)
• Zoom IN with KeyShortCut: [U|I]
• Zoom OUT with KeyShortCut: [O|P]