Development Diary

GPSDash Version 1.2 (03/04/15)

• New: Support for several Coordinate Notations - With this new release, it is possible to choose from three different coordinate notations as they are: DD.DDDDDD, DDMM.MMMM and DDMMSS.SS
  To select your preferred notation or to switch between them, select the corresponding entry from the "Tools" menu
• New: Support for Track Overlays - If you want to see the way you have already made, select the "Show->Track" switch from the MapView context menu. You may also load a track from a previously saved log-file to visualize the way you've taken. The color of the overlay track is dtermined by the current marker color.
• New: GPS "Hot Start" support - This new feature enables you to radically shorten the time, your GPS-Receiver needs to get it's first fix. This is especially usefull if you haven't used your receiver for a couple of days, travel a lot by plane or any similar situation which enforces your receiver into a "Cold-Start". Just stub the marker in the MapView to your current position on the worldmap (or any other) and select "Hot Connect" from the GPS menu. GPSDash calculates the correct time and position dependend initialization parameters for you ;).
• New: GPS initialization support - If you have a SIRF based receiver, you may now initialize/program your receiver to output all the standard NMEA sentences. Just connect to your receiver and select the new "Program CS" command from the GPS menu to prepare your receiver to output GGA, RMC, GSA and GSV sentences. If you think that not all gauges of GPSDash work, select this command to resolve the configuration issue.
• New: Chipset Option in Configuration - You may now specify the chipset of your receiver in the GPS Configuration dialog. This setting is important for the new "Hot Connect" and the Chipset initialization features. Important: If you do not know the chipset of your receiver, select "unspecifed" or just leave this setting untouched. At the moment, only SIRF based receivers are supported. Suport for EVERMORE and CMC will follow soon.
• New: Altimeter Correction Value - To correct the geoid based altitude reported by your GPS receiver to values which are appropriate for your current position, you may now specify a offset value for the altimeter gauge (see context menu of the gauge).
• New: Tap Gauge for Exclusive Mode - Beside using the zooming tools, you may now switch to exclusive mode by just tapping on the main gauge. Leave Exclusive Mode by tapping the gauge agin.
• New: Show Map Name - If you want, the name of the current map is displayed in the lower right corner of the MapView.
• Enhancements:various bugfixes, some cleanups in the menus, overall better stability

GPSDash Version 1.1 (03/04/09)

• New: Support for Waypoints - With this new release, it is possible to define and manage userdefined waypoints or destinations. The coordinates for a waypoint may be overtaken from the GPS-Receiver, selected by tapping on the map or entered manually. Beside a standard description data, also a radius is associated with the each waypoint. The radius determines the visibility of a waypoint on a map (wps with a small radius does not show up on worldmap) and when a waypoint should be considered as reached (entering the circle). The waypoints are "map-clickable" to get acces to the description data.
• New: Bearing Info in Mapview - When you select a waypoint while connected to GPS or replaying a log, very helpful bearing information is displayed if you select the new "Show Bearing" switch in the mapview context dialog. The bearing data, which is shown in the upper left corner of the mapview, informs you about the absolute bearing of the selected waypoint relative to your current position, the deviation of your actual heading direction to the optiml bearing (0° means you are heading directly towards the waypoint - 180° means you are moving directly away from it) and the current distance to the destination point.
• New: Bearing Mark in Compass - The optimal bearing towards a waypoint is also marked in the compass gauge. If the mark is in the compass "house", you are heading directly towards the waypoint.

Information about changes in previous versions...