Ver. 3.8.5 ( Jan. 20, 2010 )

• Improve drawing performance to draw user route data on projection map windows.

Ver. 3.8.4 ( Jan. 11, 2010 )

• Supports an option to show kinds that user data existing only, in Show/Hide user data dialog.
• Fixed following issues
  • Cannot check checkboxes after clicking set-all buttons in Show/Hide user data dialog.
  • Search function cannot position to correct row in Edit user data dialog, when the movement goes over 1365 rows.

Ver. 3.8.3 ( Nov. 11, 2009 )

• Fixed following issues
  • Cannot draw route and area data correctly under some conditions.
  • Picture memory is not released when picture window is closed, it introduces insufficient memory error after several such operations.

Ver. 3.8.2 ( Sep. 19, 2009 )

• Fixed following issues
  • Line width specified to Equi-distant circles is ignored.
  • User route data are drawn incorrectly, if those are at the right edge of the window and map shows 180 degree meridian.
  • User route data reading from e00 files did not appear correctly at the right edge of the map window.
  • Files are opened incorrectly and not released when you read data files with selecting any folders.

Replace 3.8.1 ( Sep. 2, 2009 )

• Fix invalid scrolling. Finder Info window shows "3.8.1f"

Ver. 3.8.1 ( Sep. 1, 2009 )

• Supports more flexible format of address data for pasting to address control.
  Ex. 42° 37' 30.058'', -88° 27' 00.350''
  Lat: 42.625016, Lng: -88.450097
• Fixed following issues
  • Vacant color is invalid under MacOS X 10.6 when it is specified as sea color. Same error occurs under MacOS X 10.5 if you change the display gamma to 2.2 in the system preference.
  • "Treat sea as no data" option in the preference is not saved.

Ver. 3.8.0 ( Jul. 20, 2009 )

• Supports ASTER GDEM. ( http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/index.jsp )
• Supports GeoTiff dems. The datum should be WGS84.
• Supports reading e00 files as User Route Data.
• Drawing performance is improved when there are many lake data.
• Geo-Profile function supports float dems.
• Fixed following issues
  • Bil without nodata entry in the hdr file be shown as unknown type.

Ver. 3.7.0 ( Jun. 14, 2009 )

• Supports the function to find highest or lowest point in the specified region or whole dem.
• Supports to select a kind for saving user data.
• Supports making world files when saving pictures.
• Supports world files for texture maps.
• Fixed following issues
  • Ver. 3.6.2 and 3.6.4 used invalid file names to store texture map information and color settings. (Note)
  • Bil form dems addressing are treated incorrect way. ulxmap and ulymap should point center address of the upper-left corner cel.
  • Sometimes Antarctica is drawn in invalid color when White-Antarctica is specified.
  • User area data shows size of zero when they are loaded before any dem files.
  • Cannot recognize bil form dems correctly when hdr file has XDIM, YDIM, ULXMAP, ULYMAP specified in seconds.
  • Copy mouse point address function copies invalid address when dem is in UTM coordinate.

(Note) If you want to retain settings under 3.6.3 or 3.6.4, rename following two files in the Library/Preferences/ folder in your home.
jp.jizoh.XMapV.texture.plist => jp.jizoh.SimpleDemViewer.texture.plist
jp.jizoh.XMapV.colors.plist => jp.jizoh.SimpleDemViewer.colors.plist

Bug report ( Jun. 2, 2009 )

• Cannot recognize correctly hdr information for bil, if hdr file has ULXMAP, ULYMAP, XDIM and YDIM entries specified in seconds. ( Thanks Tom Long. )
  Remove XDIM and YDIM entries and prepare blw file for temporary workaround. blw info specified in seconds can be recognized correctly.

Ver. 3.6.4 ( May. 15, 2009 )

• Fixed following issues
  • Can't access through aliases in open file dialog.
  • Slow reading for large user data.

Ver. 3.6.3 ( Mar. 21, 2009 )

• Supports more flexible address form to pate to address control, only Japanese character form added this time.
• Fixed following issues
  • Under MacOS X 10.5, any file can be selected at read file dialog.
  • Under MacOS X 10.5, file extension is not changed when you change file type at save picture dialog.
  • Under MacOS X 10.5, window title is not changed when its content is saved as a picture file.
  • In the Edit User Data dialog, when a kind and/or a layer is selected, list is blanked after some editing done.
  • Memo data creation or update dialog shows -9999 meter in elevation field for no elevation data.

Ver. 3.6.2 ( Feb. 15, 2009 )

• Supports "srtm dted level 0" and "srtm30 plus".
• "Treat sea as no data" option is available without etopo2.
• Show/hide settings of user data will be saved automatically.
• Fixed following issues
  • gtopo30 is treated as bil form data.
  • West hemisphere disappear when extending etopo5.
  • Any texture map its west end is in west hemisphere can not mapped to etopo5.
  • May not create and draw lakes for 32 bits bil data.
  • 1/2 data pitch offset appears when two kind of dems ( those have different data pitch ) are read.
  • If user data sequence is changed in preferences, invalid kind names are shown in the user data list for editing.
  • Hidden names are selectable for memo data.

Ver. 3.6.1 ( Jan. 8, 2009 )

• Supports more formats to paste to address control.
• Fixed following issues
  • Cannot draw correctly when main window width covers 360 degrees using dems other than etopo2 and etopo5.
  • Cannot paste address that is between 1 degree north and 1 degree south.
• Includes an utility "AscConv". It converts ArcAscii dem files to bil form dem files.

Ver. 3.6.0 ( Dec. 20, 2008 )

• Supports ArcAscii DEM file, both geo and utm addressing.
  Elevation value should be in meter.
• Supports fraction and mileage to pixels or centimeters on screen in the other scale dialog.
• Supports shading for gray scale pictures.
• Supports free contour interval, minimum 1 meter or 1 foot.
• Supports feet for contour interval unit.
• Supports contour in saving map picture for all cases.
• Supports contour in projection maps.
• Memorize default folder for each open and save. System standard in MacOS X 10.4(Tiger).
• Save options for pdf are ignored. (Leopard only)
• Fixed following issues
  • May crash after reading files with selecting a folder.
  • May crash after contour dialog displayed.
  • Clicking button to draw contour is ignored in case.

Ver. 3.5.1 ( Nov. 19, 2008 )

• Fixed followings
  • Cannot read 32-bit float bil correctly if its byte-order is differ from executing cpu.
  • Invalid information appear in info-window for bird-eye view and stereographs.

Ver. 3.5.0 ( Nov. 6, 2008 )

• Supports 32-bit float bil form data.
• Supports setting rectangle region by address.
• Supports to drag selected rectangle region on each side.
• Add "Auto(fewer)" into interval menu of latitude and longitude lines.
• Better extended drawing for dem file edge area.
• Fixed followings
  • Sometimes crash when saving whole data region as a picture.
  • Base latitude adjustment illegally applied to saving map pictures when using utm dems.
  • No cancel button for caution dialog to remove custom colors.

Ver. 3.4.2 ( Oct. 16, 2008 )

• Suppress messages for debugging to console.
  ( Build No. is 3.4.2(R081016) )

Ver. 3.4.2 ( Oct. 14, 2008 )

• Fixed followings
  • White rectangle for string selection was drawing illegal position when whole data is smaller than window, or shrink enough to fit window.
  • If no 'NODATA' is specified in hdr file of bil form dems, default value was 0 meter, ( changed to -9999 meters. )
  • Program uses 100 % of cpu time in sub task when all elevation data are sea in a dem file.
  • Some error messages are displayed to console when reading topological map of Japan as a texture map.

Ver. 3.4.1 ( Jul. 21, 2008 )

• More smooth mouse-wheel scrolling.
• Fixed followings
  • Cannot draw texture correctly when utm and geo dem mixed.
  • Cannot select rectangle when utm and geo dem mixed.
• LSMixer utility attached.
  LSMixer composites three Landsat band data ( 8-bit grayscale image ) to one full color image as a texture for SimpleDEMViewer.

Ver. 3.4.0 ( Jul. 10, 2008 )

• Support texture mapping.
• Correct following issues.
  • Inaccurate alert message is displayed when quitting without saving updated user data, if system is MacOS X 10.5 ( Leopard ).
  • Could not select files its name length is less than 3 letters without extension.
  • Could not save lake data correctly for GSI's 50 meter mesh dems.

Ver. 3.3.1 ( Jan. 30, 2008 )

• No more restrictions for srtm dted file name and folder name except file extension.
• Corrections to 3.3.0
  • String search crashed when title of user route data is set to no show.
  • String selection frame does not match with string when both utm and geo dems are read.
  • String search failed when both utm and geo dems are read.

Ver. 3.3.0 ( Jan. 10, 2008 )

• Support creating grayscale image.
• Support coloring map by slope degrees.
• Support creating Azimuthal Equi-Area projection map.
• Provides one dialog for creating all projection map image, including Corn projection map.
• The maximum size of projection map image is extended to 32767 pixels.
• Change the destination to save the Preference settings to jp.jizoh.SimpleDEMViewer.plist and jp.jizoh.SimpleDEMViewer.colors.plist files.
• Support copy address function at the context menu on the map.
• Corrections to 3.2.x
  • Crashed frequently on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard).
  • Map is drawn abnormally near the seashore when map is extended.
  • Crashing issue when map is extended with utm dems.

Ver. 3.2.1 ( Oct. 23, 2007 ) ( update Oct. 26, 2007 )

• In user data reference dialogs, the order of attribute names can be changed by drag.
• Under Japanese system environment, if specified font can't show Japanese letters, sample string will be changed to English words.
• Correct that initial value of scale menu in the save map dialog is invalid, when map scale is not standard.
• Correct that program failed in the open file dialog at the beginning under MacOS X 10.5 ( Leopard ).
  ( Ver. 3.2.1f Oct.26, 2007 )

Ver. 3.2.0 ( Oct. 10, 2007 )

• Can read different format dems at the same time, and layouts them in the map.
• Can draw etopo2's sea for other dem's sea area.
• Feet is supported for Bil form dems.
• UTM zone number can be specified in header file for bil form dems.
• Support "Font Panel" to set user data string attributes.
• Longitude and latitude lines can be drawn on utm map.
• Corrections to 3.1.x
  • If you click close box of preference dialog during option key pressed, main window also closed.
  • NODATA entry in hdr file for bill form dems are ignored if NBITS is 8.

Ver. 3.1.3 ( Sep. 5, 2007 )

• Data area will not be drawn on index window when using etopo2 or etopo5.
• Corrections to 3.1.2
  • Some lakes are not drawn when the map is extended.
  • When using utm data and total data width is smaller than window width, map will be broken after scrolling by mouse wheel.
  • In the dialog "Change attributes of all selected route data", Set-up button will not enable even when change_name_attributes is checked.

Ver. 3.1.2 ( Jul. 27, 2007 )

• Show kinds menu in the Edit User data dialog shows kinds those data exist.
• Corrections to 3.1.1
  • Crash when you update individual user data from Edit USer Data dialog, when no DEM data exists.
  • The map is shifted to south-west half of dem data dot pitch when extending.
  • Some dem data may be mapped to invalid position, when using utm data.
  • Can't select rectangle region extends over the meridian 180 degrees.
  • Can't show correct name for GSI's 2m mesh dem.

Ver. 3.1.1 ( Jul. 15, 2007 )

• Color set menu in the Preference dialog always shows current status.
• Corrections to 3.1
  • Can't paste address to address-controls in all dialogs.
  • In Jump-to function, can't save new address to existing name.
  • In the Preferences dialog, custom color set failed to save lake color.

Bugs ( Jul. 1, 2007 )

• Can't paste address to address-controls.

Ver. 3.1 ( Jun. 18, 2007 )

• Supports making profile charts.
• Supports drawing lakes.
• Supports drawing contour lines.
• Supports GSI's 2m mesh DEMs.
• Provides easy way to set base latitude for current window.
• Shows calculated height at mouse point when map is extended.
• Address controls support two digits sub-seconds in all dialogs.
• "Refresh" redraw map always.
• Light direction for shading can be selected from eight directions ( vs. Four previous ).
• Enhance drawings for water surface levels in bird-eye view and stereogrphs when using GSI's 5m mesh DEMs.
• Corrections to 3.0.x
  • Can't cancel reading files in some situations.
  • Sea was drawn with vacant color instead of sea color for bird-eye view, stereographs and projection maps.
  • Can't show elevations for west hemisphere for etopo5.
  • Projection maps always do shading even if preference is set to no shading.
  • Can't read GSI's 5m and 10m mesh DEMs under English environment.
  • Can't change elevation colors individually.
  • Show / Hide user data depending on scale does not work when UTM DEMs used.
  • Elevation field is not set when creating memo data.
  • After canceling reading DEMs, cannot read other type dems.
  • Even if vacant color is set to "White", "Black" is used when starting up.
  • Other minor bugs.

Ver. 3.0.5 (Mar. 28, 2007)

• Correct following issues.
  • The check box, for drawing user data in projection map, is not active when only area data are available.
  • Can't show scale window for dems with no addresses.
  • Can't select rectangle region for dems with no addresses.
  • Can't draw some portion of bird's-eye view and stereographs when width of dem is longer than height for dems with no addresses.

Ver. 3.0.4 (Mar. 22, 2007)

• Correct that user memo data file is corrupted when some of the memo data use custom marks.

Ver. 3.0.3 (Mar. 9, 2007)

• Correct that route and area data could not save fonts in data file.

Ver. 3.0.2 (Mar. 6, 2007)

• Correct that memo data can not maintain custom mark between different custom mark environment. Re-save memo data files are required to solve this problem.
• Correct that user data preferences and each user data can not maintain font if the font name is shown in other than English or native language. E.g. Chinese and Korean font in Japanese system environment.
• Correct that Invalid slit is appear in the map window when scrolling by mouse wheel.
• Correct that invalid warning message appears when you delete user data in "Edit user data" dialog.
• In the Bird-eye-view dialog, "Target" filed is dimmed when no rectangular region is selected on the map.
• In the "Orthographic Projection map" and "Azimuthal EquiDistant Projection map" dialog, "Diameter of the earth" field is invalid.

Ver. 3.0.1 (Feb. 23, 2007)

• Correct that program terminated abnormally after reading some dem files.
• Show center address of map window on the info dialog when using utm dems.
• Correct string attributes dialog issue.

Ver. 3.0 (Feb. 20, 2007)

• Supports 5m and 10m mesh dem from GSI of Japan.
• Supports scale between 2000% and 5% for map and pictures.
• Supports multi cpu / core to draw map and pictures.
• Supports user route data and area data.
• Supports an option to control user data visibility depending on map scale.
• Supports Azimuthal EquiDistant projection map.
• Supports an option to draw white Antarctica.
• Supports a function to read files in a folder automatically when program begins.
• Supports drag copy of color box in the preference dialog and others.
• Show or Hide Index window can be done by menu.
• Horizontal scroll bar is available even when whole world is smaller than window.
• Supports displaying address and user data when using utm dems.

Ver. 2.3.1 (Jun. 20, 2006)

• Change the dialog when user tried to quit the program without saving new or updated memos.
• Correct following issues.
  • Opaque background of Memo data string did not match with the string.
  • Map picture is invalid at east side of each block for SRTM DTED elevation data, when this program runs on Intel Mac.

Ver. 2.3.0 (Feb. 05, 2006)

• Supports Intel cpu Mac. ( Universal Binary )
• MacOS X 10.4.0 or newer is required.
• Supports 200% scale for map and pictures.
• Memo data refer gps information if picture file is dropped on the memo creation dialog.
• Supports options to select destination for displaying memo content when memo content points a file or web page. You can select to use web browser or SimpleDEMViewer's window.
• Map window size can be specified by pixels.
• Corrects following issues.
  • Background of bird's-eye-view was always black.
  • Map was broken when scrolling vertically.

Intel cpu Macs (Jan. 17, 2006)

• SimpleDEMViewer 2.2.x may works on Intel cpu Macs, but saved pictures have invalid colors. It may fix in next version.

Ver. 2.2.1 (Oct. 10, 2005)

• Supports UTM based bil form DEMs.
• Corrects following issues.
  • Can't save a correct map picture when data is UTM base.
  • Didn't write latitude and longitude lines and memos when saving map pictures.

Ver. 2.2.0 ( Sep. 25, 2005 )

• Supports USGS ascii dem files. File extension should be "dem" or "DEM".
  UTM type dem can be arranged, but treated as no address data.
• Supports Elevation data (1km/250m/50m) files from GSI of Japan.
• If memo has no mark, its title is drawn as below-center of the first line points the address.
• Font size can be decimal fraction.
• Memo can have no elevation data.
  Specify -19999 or less in the elevation field.
• Proxy-icon attached to window title when picture window is saved.
• Correct following issues.
  • User marks of memo can't show on Orthographic / Mercator / Conical projection maps.
  • If more than one DEM files are dropped on the map window, program terminates abnormally.
  • Program terminates abnormally when memo is double-clicked, if memo contents point picture or web page and system version is older than MacOS X 10.3.9. In such a case, contents will be showed by web browser.
  • Selected rectangle occasionally disappear, when the rectangle lay across 180 degree meridian.
  • Bird's view and stereograph can't draw when selected rectangle lay across 180 degree meridian.
  • Unintentional quit from Bird's view dialog when full keyboard access is on.

Ver. 2.1.0 ( Aug. 2, 2005)

• Supports pdf for saving map and pictures.
• Supports line width for latitude and longitude lines.
• Minimum scale unit is changed to 0.2km( or 0.2 mile ).
• Correct following issues.
  • Memo's mark may be changed after restart program if it specifies user mark.
  • In several dialogs, clicking other than controls may leads invalid result.
  • Memos are not written on projection maps when latitude and longitude lines are omitted.
  • Can't find memo in the no DEM region.
  • Map is not refreshed even if found memo is outside of window.
  • Invisible memo can be selected by clicking.