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MapBuddy 0.2, libchamplain 0.4.4 and 0.5
January 29th, 2010 by Pierre-Luc Beaudoin

What a big release week!

First, a quick update to MapBuddy:

  • Translations (French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Polish, Slovak)
  • A “Add to addressbook” button on merchant’s window (with the help of Jonathon Jongsma)
  • A precision circle is drawn around your position
  • Kinetic scrolling is turned on

Then, a bigger update for libchamplain 0.4.4:

  • API clean up (with API backward compatibility): champlain_view_set_size should have never existed
  • Fix to make Python bindings work out of the tarballs!
  • Use shared paths by all tiles consumers on Maemo devices to store tiles (saves bandwidth)
  • Load tiles in a spiral manner from the centre (thanks to Jason Woofenden)
  • Optimizations resulting in
    • Faster start-up
    • Smoother scrolling
    • Energy savings (by doing less computations)

Then, a huge update for libchamplain 0.5:

  • First development release with new APIs:
    • Local map rendering (Google Summer of Code of Simon Wenner)
    • New Map Source mechanism à la Pipe and Filter (Jiří Techet)

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