Today we released Cartographica 1.7. This will be the last major release for Cartographica, and I want to extend my appreciation to all Cartographica users, past and present. As I sunset Cartographica, I will be monitoring macOS 14 during Apple's beta period and if necessary, will release a bug-fix release for compatibility with macOS 14. If you run into problems with 1.7 with any of the supported operating systems (macOS 11.7+), please report bugs. Information about many of the largest changes are available in previous postings here: Formal release notes are on the macgis.com Release Notes …

Today we released Cartographica 1.6.2, which is a bug fix release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.6, released in June and provides some specific bug fixes. Cartographica 1.6.2 is available to all users with a Cartographica license for 1.6 and later. Formal release notes are on macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: fix: CPG files (as part of Shapefiles) are now correctly interpreted if they have whitespace before or after the code page or character set. fix: encoding selection in open dialog ignored [#2306] fix: formula window title drifts on resize …

Today we released Cartographica 1.6.1. This is a minor bug-fix release of Cartographica 1.6.0 and contains a number of bug fixes, feature enhancements, and performance improvements. Much of the updates have centered around keeping Cartographica up to date with the latest security improvements and bug fixes for underlying technologies that we use. Today we released Cartographica 1.6.1, which is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.6, released in June and provides some specific bug fixes. Cartographica 1.6.1 is available to all users with a Cartographica …

Today we released Cartographica 1.6. After 6 releases of version 1.5, we are now moving to the next chapter. We appreciate the support of all of you who ran development and beta versions of the software. We have a small team here at ClueTrust and we appreciate the loyalty of our customers and your continued support. Information about many of the largest changes are available in previous postings here: There were a few posts about our support for Apple Silicon: Apple Silicon Cometh Welcome to the future Formal release notes are on the macgis.com Release Notes, but …

As many of you may be aware, we have used GDAL and PROJ for many years to handle file import and export as well as coordinate reference system management in Cartographica. As such, we include a private copy of those libraries in Cartographica. Internally, I've made use of the command line tools for a number of years when necessary, but they've never been a part of what we have made available as part of Cartographica. Starting with 1.6, we are going to make those available to users with a valid Cartographica license. As with all command-line tools, there's quite …

It took a while longer than expected, but the first beta version of Cartographica 1.6 is now available in the Beta channel. You can get access by choosing Beta next to Automatically check for updates in the Preferences window, or by downloading directly from Cartographica 1.6b1. As fortold in Apple Silicon Cometh, the new version is currently 1.6b1 and includes all of the features of the previous versions of Cartographica and more. There are many changes under the hood (besides the ability to run natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs), notably some significant upgrades to the …

As indicated in Welcome to the Future, we've been making use of the new Apple Silicon Macs since they were announced at WWDC 2020. However, during that time, the impact on Cartographica has been limited because of limitations on some of our library providers. While libraries with source code (such as the venerable GDAL, without which most GIS applications would be significantly weaker) were relatively straightforward to move to Apple Silicon, some of the proprietary libraries Cartographica uses to access proprietary file formats have not been as easy. After months (stretching in to over a year since Apple shipped the …

One feature I discussed last summer in Preparing for 1.6, was the introduction of a true subscription version of Cartographica. Over the years, we've always provided the Student subscription (limited to up to 4 years and some other limits, such as one computer), but we've never offered subscription options for Cartographica to commercial customers. Since the software industry in general is moving in that direction, I'm announcing that as of today, Cartographica will also be available as a subscription. Note: if you have an existing Perpetual subscription, nothing changes for you. Perpetual licenses are just that: a perpetual license …

Today we released Cartographica 1.5.5, which is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.5, and provides some feature enhancements and specific bug fixes. Cartographica 1.5.5 is available to all users with a Cartographica license. Formal release notes are on macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: Mapbox is now the default Geocoding and Live Maps provider (details in Preparing for 1.6) Added support for creating rasters from Vector point data [CARTOMAC-1896] Added support for MapBox-based Geocoding [CARTOMAC-2049] Added support for MapBox-based Live Maps [CARTOMAC-2046] Added support …

With today's release of Cartographica 1.5.5, we are taking the final steps to move towards our future with Mapbox as our new online services provider. Bing has served us well for many years, but as mentioned in Preparing for 1.6, we are moving away from Bing as a provider in April of 2022. Here are the key changes: Beginning with this release, the default for new Live Maps and Geocoding will be the MapBox services. We have added preferences (in the Preferences… panel) for you to put in your own API keys for either Mapbox or Bing …

Today we released Cartographica 1.5.4, which is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.5, and provides some feature enhancements and specific bug fixes. Cartographica 1.5.4 is available to all users with a Cartographica license. Formal release notes are on macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: Cartographica now has default preferences for both area and length measurements. Existing per-document settings are retained, but these settings will be used for each new document [CARTOMAC-1573] Map Layout scales now use the default preferences for length measurements to determine the …

As we move toward the beginning of the summer of 2021, we're looking at the early stages of the Cartographica 1.6 release. This release will contain a number of significant changes which should help move the product forward and maintain compatibility while also evolving the internals to keep up with best practices in the industry. This will also usher in some changes to both our support and service offerings and supported formats. Service & Support changes Heading into late 2021, we're implementing some changes for Cartographica's licensing and services: Versions from 1.6 are going to require an active maintenance …

Today we released Cartographica 1.5.3, which is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.5, released in June and provides some specific bug fixes. Cartographica 1.5.3 is available to all users with a Cartographica license. Formal release notes are on macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: Fixed error message truncation on ODBC Drivers [CARTOMAC-1954] Improved raster image printing on 11 (Big Sur) [CARTOMAC-1947] Updated creation control in MapLayout Fixed crash in calculating nearest distance Restored functioning centroid for Z points in calculated columns [CARTOMAC-1950] Fixed crash when …

Today we released Cartographica 1.5.2, which is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.5, released in June and provides some specific bug fixes. Cartographica 1.5.2 is available to all users with a Cartographica license. Formal release notes are on macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: Moved PostgreSQL driver internal to the GDAL system to fix a problem in macOS 11/10.16 [CARTOMAC-1918] Fixed bug in KDM that could cause a crash when representative samples were too close to the border [CARTOMAC-1920] Fixed crash when changing …

Today we released Cartographica 1.5.1, which is a bug fix and feature enhancement release. This version builds on Cartographica 1.5, released in June and provides some specific bug fixes and some feature enhancements. Cartographica 1.5.1. is available to all users with a Cartographica license. Formal release notes are on macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: Support for importing data in Irish Grid and British National Grid reference formats Improved status information and cancel capabilities when exporting maps Improved status information and cancel capabilities when acquiring data from databases Fixed a bug involving …

Today we released Cartographica 1.5 to everyone. We appreciate your patience over the last year, and the support of all of you who ran development and beta versions of the software. We have a small team here at ClueTrust and we appreciate the loyalty of our customers and your continued support. Information about many of the largest changes are available in previous postings here: Cartographica 1.5: Improved format support Cartographica 1.5: New Georeferencing Model Cartographica 1.5: Formula changes Formal release notes are on the macgis.com Release Notes, but here are the highlights: Support for Dark …

Updated Raster and Vector format support With version 1.5 moving to a newer (2.4.4) version of the GDAL libraries, Cartographica is now supporting a variety of new Raster and Vector formats. Note that there are some file formats which we haven't been able to test, due to lack of example files. GDAL writers have tested previously (presumably), but if you can help us out with example files for these formats, please contact Support. New Vector Formats OpenStreetMap OSM and PBF files (no tests) Geomedia MDB EDI Geo SVG IDRISI Vector ARC/Info Generate files SEG-P1 / UKOOA P1 …

TL;DR - if you're using formulas, read the Practical Changes section. Background Although it's been called out in our documentation for years, many people don't realize that the underlying system behind Cartographica's calculated columns is actually a full Python interpreter. This has allowed us to provide a full-featured function/method interpretation system, with sophisticated math and date calculation capabilities without having to build and maintain such a thing ourselves. Along with the many internal changes in Cartographica 1.5, we are preparing for Apple's announced deprecation of the Python libraries in macOS by moving to using our own internal Python …

This is the seventh follow-up to Onward to 1.5 documenting the move to the 1.5 release. It's been a quick few weeks since the last update. We're refining some new testing processes (yet more automated testing) and that exposed some issues that we needed to take care of in the UI. As an added bonus, we've got yet more modern code in the system. A few of the changes for this release, besides a number of bug fixes and visual tweaks: Updated our internal version of Python which is used for Column Formulas. Previously, we'd used the OS …

This is the sixth follow-up to Onward to 1.5 documenting the move to the 1.5 release. The last month or so has been a head's-down push to remove all bugs we could find and get Cartographica 1.5 to beta so that we can release it before the end of the year. It's been a busy fall, and there was some delay due to some iOS 13-induced emergency work on CartoMobile, but Cartographica is looking very strong going into version 1.5, and a lot of the work that we've done in automation and code clean up should …