OpenOrienteering is a project developing a collection of tools which help with the creation of orienteering maps and the organization of orienteering events.
Posted on 16 December 2015 by Kai Pastor
Version 0.5.97 seems to work quite well. Some issues were reported and fixed, so the current unstable packages (for Windows and Linux) are even more mature than this preview release. The documentation finally got some updates, too. It now lives in its own repository on Github, which is also the base of the online manual.
The implementation of the template setup window was heavily modified. Now this dialog is used in the Android version, too. In the next release of the mobile version, it will be possible to change the stacking order of the templates and also to adjust the opacity.
Posted on 23 November 2015 by Kai Pastor
OpenOrienteering Mapper Release 0.5.97 is now available for download. It contains a lot of changes over the previous version. Most of the work was internal restructuring which shall improve maintainability but remain invisible. But there are also interesting new features since 0.5.96:
For Windows, OS X, and Android, the updated Qt library (version 5.5.1) improves the support for the newer version of these operating systems.
Find all resoved issues on Github.
Known issues in 0.5.97 will be collected there, too.
Downloads for Windows are built and hosted on openSUSE build service (OBS).
Installer for 64 bit Windows (x64)
Installer for 32 bit Windows (x86)
Self-extracting archive for 64 bit Windows
Self-extracting archive for 32 bit Windows
Downloads for OS X are hosted on Github.
DMG for drag-and-drop installation
Downloads for Linux are built and hosted on openSUSE build service (OBS).
It is sufficient to download the single binary packages directly. You don’t need to add the repository. The Linux “-prerelease” packages may be installed in addition to “-stable” and “-unstable” packages.
Downloads for Android are hosted on Github.
APK for armeabi-v7a
APK for x86
The Mapper source code from OpenOrienteering is available on the release page. Source code of 3rd-party components is provided in the OpenOrienteering/3rd-party repository on Github and in the repositories on OBS.
Posted on 18 November 2015 by Kai Pastor
Other than announced, release 0.5.97 - more than one year after 0.5.96 - will bring a lot of changes. Most of the work was internal restructuring which shall improve maintainability but remain invisible. But there are also interesting new features since 0.5.96:
For Windows, OS X, and Android, the updated Qt library (version 5.5.1) improves the support for the newer version of these operating systems.
Until 0.5.97 release packages are ready for all systems (Windows, OS X, Android, Linux), Windows and Linux users are encouraged to test the packages from the unstable series on openSUSE build service (OBS):
Please take care (i.e. backups) of your map files when working with the unstable packages. See the known issues for unstable.
These unstable packages on OBS are available for a while now and updated frequently. At lot more has happened silently since the last release: Bugs were reported, and some patches were contributed directly, to Qt. Our project hosting was changed from Sourceforge to Github (with some parts still on Sourceforge).
Posted on 03 November 2014 by Kai Pastor
Beta release packages for the coming release are available as Mapper 0.5.96 from our downloads. It is almost a release candidate, i.e. no major changes to the program are planned. However, for the final release the documentation and the translations need an update, and a comprehensive release announcement needs to be written.
This is an beta quality release. It is recommended to make regular backups of original files. However, we believe that this release will be running very stable, and we will do our best to fix major bugs quickly in follow-up releases.
This version contains a lot of changes from 0.5.3, and a small number of bugs were fixed since 0.5.95. Depending on the features used in the new version, maps might no longer be readable in Mapper version 0.5.3 or older. We introduced a setting which allows to retain compatibility of files with older versions of Mapper.
For the first time, we offer 64-bit Windows packages (x64). These packages are required to make full use of more than 2 GB of RAM, e.g. when loading many or large templates. For Windows, the build tools were updated to a GCC 4.9.2. The installer package for Windows now deals more cleanly with file extensions, and it even adds Mapper as an alternative editor for .ocd files.
The Linux link is now pointing to the “openorienteering-mapper” repository which is meant for stable packages. The past packages from openSUSE Build Service were named “openorienteering-mapper-unstable” and have to be removed explicitly if you don’t want to have them both installed (which is possible, due to different file names).
To get started with the Android app, please read the manual page in the user wiki first! To install the .apk, you may need to (temporarily) enable app installation from unknown sources first. The location of this setting depends on the Android version; e.g. Settings -> Security -> Unknown sources.
Provided packages:
New: 64-bit Windows Installer (x64): openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Windows-x64-Installer.exe
New: 64-bit Windows Portable (x64): openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Windows-x64.zip
Windows Installer (x86): openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Windows-x86-Installer.exe
Windows Portable (x86): openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Windows-x86.zip
OS X (10.7 or later): openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Darwin-x64.dmg
Android armeabi_v7a: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Android-armv7.apk
Android x86: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-Android-x86.apk
Linux packages for current OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu: Download from openSUSE Build Service
Source code: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.96-src.tgz
For getting a stable 0.6.0 we could need some help with:
testing for new bugs
revising documentation
updating translations.
We are looking forward to your feedback on bugs, annoyances or missing features.
Posted on 13 October 2014 by Kai Pastor
Remark: 0.5.94 was withdrawn due to an issue which made it hardly usable.
Binary preview packages for the coming release are available as Mapper 0.5.95 from our downloads. This version contains a lot of changes from 0.5.3, and a number of bugs were fixed since 0.5.93. Depending on the features used in the new version, maps might no longer be readable in older versions of Mapper. We introduced a setting which allows to retain compatibility of files with older versions of Mapper. This preview has good quality and should not show serious issues. The underlying Qt framework was updated to version 5.3.2. However, Linux packages are built on openSUSE Build Service and use the distributions’ library versions.
Provided packages:
Windows Installer: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.95-Windows-x86-Installer.exe
Windows Portable: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.95-Windows-x86.zip
Linux packages for current OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu: Download from openSUSE Build Service
OS X (10.7 or later): openorienteering-mapper_0.5.95-Darwin-x64.dmg [link updated]
Android armeabi_v7a: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.95-Android-armv7.apk
Android x86: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.95-Android-x86.apk
Source code: openorienteering-mapper_0.5.95-src.tgz
For getting a stable 0.6.0 we could need some help with:
testing for new bugs (not on production data, of course…)
revising documentation
updating translations.
We are looking forward to your feedback on bugs, annoyances or missing features. When you create trouble tickets, please select milestone 0.5.95.