What's New in 4.9.3

Release date: December 27th, 2014
The last commit number in this release is 75410; full commit history can be found at https://mapwingis.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets

General

This version has some huge enhancements, made by Sergei Leschinsky:

• Added support for variety of vector datasources through GDAL/OGR drivers. More info at http://www.mapwindow.org/documentation/mapwingis4.9/class_ogr_datasource.html#details
• Support for File-based vector formats using GDAL/OGR, like MapInfo TAB, KML, etc.
• Interactive creation and editing of vector shapes (shapefile editor). More info at http://www.mapwindow.org/documentation/mapwingis4.9/class_shape_editor.html#details
• Comprehensive memory leak hunting and solving, using Deleaker: http://www.deleaker.com/
• Improved selection tool
• New tool to display shapefile attributes
• Improved API to handle projection mismatch for layers
• Improved error reporting
• Fixes for a number of issues reported by users

More info can be found at http://www.mapwindow.org/documentation/mapwingis4.9/version_history.html

Demo

This version also has a demo application written in C#. It doesn't have the full functionality of MapWindow v4.8.8 (https://mapwindow4.codeplex.com/). For example the toolbox is not available and plug-ins are not supported. But the demo does support the new Shapefile editor and the new option to connect with a GeoDatabase, like PostGIS.

Updated API

See http://www.mapwindow.org/documentation/mapwingis4.9/newpage493.html

Supporting libraries

• Updated to GDAL v2.0.0 (downloaded 19 Dec. 2014) with GEOS v3.4, PROJ4 v4.8, NetCDF v4.3, LizardTech (MrSID) v9.0, Intergraph/ERDAS (ECW) v5.0 using the pre-build binaries from http://www.gisinternals.com.