trunk/doc/NEWS.txt

Version 2.0 of Routino released : Mon May 30 2011
-------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes:
  Fix mis-spelling with surface=asphalt tag
  Routes between two waypoints on the same segment now work.
  Fix reading of numeric entities from XML files (store as UTF-8 internally).
  Fix turn description in HTML file (angles were biased to the right).
  Fix possibility of occasionally missing turn information from output files.

Test cases:
 Added test cases for routing in slim and non-slim modes.

Documentation:
  Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage and function.
  Install the license file in the documentation directory.

OSM tagging:
  Process the tags associated with turn restriction relations.
  Remove the roundabout type from the parsing.
  Add parsing of mini-roundabouts.

Configuration Files:
  Update profiles with new options related to turn restrictions.

Web pages:
  Change to OpenLayers v2.10.
  Visualiser can display turn restrictions.
  Put the profile information into separate files and auto-generate them.

planetsplitter:
  Store information about turn restriction relations.
  Quite a large code re-organisation - now faster and uses less memory.

router:
  Take turn restriction relations into account when routing.
  Continue same direction of travel at each waypoint (unless dead-end).
  Add a new option to specify an initial direction to start travel.

filedumper:
  Print out statistics about what highways are included in the database.


Version 1.5.1 of Routino released : Sat Nov 13 2010
---------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes:
  Ensure that enough memory is allocated for filenames.
  Fix bug that sometimes causes crash when processing route relations.

Documentation:
  Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage and function.

Programs:
  Add an option to make the output more suitable for a log file.

Documentation:
  Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage.


Version 1.5 of Routino released : Sat Oct 30 2010
-------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes:
  Check that number of nodes/segments/ways doesn't exceed numerical limits.
  Allow 32-bit systems to seek within files larger than 4GB.
  Allow nearly 4G nodes to be stored instead of 2G before.
  Added rules to makefile for installation (paths specified in top-level).
  Stricter checking of UTF-8 in XML files and better UTF-8 output.
  Improve error message if parsing of command line options fail.
  Fix bugs in router's --help-profile-json and --help-profile-perl options.
  Rename heapsort function to allow compilation on Mac OS with no change.
  Reduce impact of property preferences close to 50% by using sqrt().

Documentation:
  Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage and function.

OSM tagging
  Traffic restrictions on nodes are now included in default tagging file.
  Added processing for ferry routes (as pseudo-highway type 'ferry').
  Process foot and bicycle route relations to create new properties.

Configuration Files:
  Added Dutch output translations.
  Added ferry information to profiles.
  Added foot and bicycle route relation processing.

planetsplitter
  The slim mode now includes the output data as well as the temporary data.
  The slim mode is now a separate executable and not a command line option.
  Traffic restrictions on nodes are now understood when parsing OSM files.
  Falls back to installed tagging.xml configuration file as last resort.

router:
  Added a slim mode (as a separate executable and not a command line option).
  Traffic will not be routed through a node that does not allow it.
  Falls back to installed profiles.xml & translations.xml files as last resort.

filedumper:
  Added a slim mode (as a separate executable and not a command line option).

Web pages:
  Added Dutch translation of router.html.


Version 1.4.1 of Routino released : Sat Jul 10 2010
---------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes:
  Don't crash if start and finish are the same point.
  Don't crash if several translations but --language option not used.
  Don't crash if middle part of route cannot be found.
  Don't allocate so much memory for intermediate nodes; routes much faster.
  Fix problem with finding closest segment to the specified point.

Documentation:
  Provide HTML versions of the documentation (copy to web directory at install).
  Change URL for website to http://www.routino.org/.

Configuration Files:
  Added German output translations.

planetsplitter
  Slight change to algorithm for finding super-nodes.

Web pages:
  Provide HTML versions of the documentation.
  Change URL for website to http://www.routino.org/.
  Provide updated HTML files, the same as on the website.
  Change to OpenLayers v2.9.1 and build custom version if Python available.


Version 1.4 of Routino released : Mon May 31 2010
-------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes:
  Speed up start/via/stop point within segment search algorithm.
  If no segment is found don't try routing but exit with error.
  Improve the error messages by adding operating system error info to them.
  Rewrite of tagging rules fixes bug with wheelchair access allow/deny.
  Files greater than 2GB can be read/written on 32-bit systems.
  Fix bug with profile preferences when optimising a route.
  Stricter check on profile validity before starting routing.

planetsplitter
  Add --parse-only and --process-only options (for incremental parsing).
  Allow filenames to be specified on command line (default is still stdin).
  Improved the '--help' information to describe all options.
  Remove --transport, --not-highway, --not-property options (use config file).
  Use tag transformation rules in configuration file not hard-coded.

router
  Removed compiled-in profiles and use profiles loaded from XML file.
  Improved the '--help' information to describe all options.
  Change the name of the --profile-json and --profile-perl options.
  Allow selection of the outputs to generate (or none).
  Added HTML route instructions output.
  GPX route file contains instructions at each waypoint.
  Read in XML file of translated words/phrases for outputs.
  Added options to specify file of translations and language to use.
  Remove copyright.txt file and put information into translations file.

filedumper
  Improved the '--help' information to describe all options.
  Added the option to dump an OSM file containing database contents.

Web Pages
  Combined generic map CSS into one file (not copied in two).
  Much better support for IE6/7/8 with browser detection but not perfect.
  Re-organised and tidied up the Javascript.
  Added button next to waypoints to centre it on map.
  Added button next to waypoints to set as home location (uses browsser cookie).
  Create shorter URLs for custom map (ignore default values).
  Reduced and clarified the amount of editing to customise the Javascript.
  Made it easier to translate by moving text out of Javascript (not visualiser).
  Prepared for translated versions of web page (Apache Multiviews).
  Added option to select language of output.
  Use HTML output from router to get translated instructions.


Version 1.3 of Routino released : Thu Jan 21 2010
-------------------------------------------------

Bug fixes:
  Ensure output even if the distance between two adjacent route points is small.
  Correct the determination of waypoints for abbreviated output.
  Check the command line values for filedumper --dump options.
  Made the verbose output consistent between different places.

OSM tagging
  Recognise "designation" tag to determine designated paths.
  Recognise "steps" tag to determine the highway type.
  Recognise "wheelchair" tag to determine if wheelchairs are allowed on highway.
  Recognise "moped" tag to determine if mopeds are allowed on a highway.
  Recognise "surface" and "paved" tags to determine if a highway is paved.
  Recognise "lanes" tag to determine if a highway has multiple lanes.
  Recognise "bridge" tag to determine if a highway is a bridge.
  Recognise "tunnel" tag to determine if a highway is a tunnel.

New Features
  Remove "bridleway" and "footway" highway types and use "path" highway instead.
  Added "steps" as a new highway type separate from the "path" type.
  Added "wheelchair" and "moped" to the list of possible transports.
  Added "paved", "multilane", "bridge", "tunnel" to list of highway properties.

Web Pages
  Updated for new features listed above.
  Added popup to display instructions for each step in route on mouse-over.
  Added buttons next to waypoints for: add / remove / move up / move down.
  Highlight user selectable parts of form in yellow on mouse-over.
  A few small changes, improved CSS, improved Javascript.

router
  For each waypoint choose closest point on a segment and not just closest node.
  Added the ability to set preferences based on highway properties.
  Changed the text output formats to include bearing and turn information.


Version 1.2 of Routino released : Wed Oct 21 2009
-------------------------------------------------

OSM tagging
  Recognise tags "vehicle" and "motor_vehicle".
  Handle duplicate ways in the input OSM file (e.g. concatenation of 2 files).

Database
  Identical ways are combined to reduce database size (~80% fewer ways stored).

Routing
  Fix weight, height, width, length restriction routing.
  Allow up to 99 waypoints to be specified instead of 9.

Visualiser
  Don't display speed limits for tracks and paths unless a value is set.
  Draw all super-segments that cross the selected boundary.

Web Pages
  A few small changes, improved CSS, improved Javascript.
  Changed marker colour when waypoint not selected.

planetsplitter
  Optional slim mode uses minimal memory at the expense of temporary files.

router
  Less CPU time for routing (~30% less).

filedumper
  Allow dumping individual nodes, segments and ways (for debug).


Version 1.1 of Routino released : Sat Jun 13 2009
-------------------------------------------------

Inputs
  Improve parsing of OSM file (imperial units).
  Ignore nodes that are missing from the input OSM file.

Outputs
  Create GPX route files as well as GPX track files.
  Read in an optional copyright.txt file and include contents in output.
  Make better choices about what to output in the abbreviated text file.

Routing
  Allow generating a route with intermediate waypoints.
  Use preferences for highway types instead of yes/no choice.
  Choice of closest node to start/finish points ensures transport allowed.

Visualiser
  Added data extraction function for viewing routing database data.

Web Pages
  Include full set of web pages for creating customised online router.

Documentation
  Included NEWS.txt file.
  Included documentation for installation of web pages.


Version 1.0 of Routino released : Wed Apr 08 2009
-------------------------------------------------

First version.
1	amb	738	Version 2.0 of Routino released : Mon May 30 2011
2	amb	567	-------------------------------------------------
3
4			Bug fixes:
5	amb	738	Fix mis-spelling with surface=asphalt tag
6	amb	567	Routes between two waypoints on the same segment now work.
7	amb	738	Fix reading of numeric entities from XML files (store as UTF-8 internally).
8			Fix turn description in HTML file (angles were biased to the right).
9			Fix possibility of occasionally missing turn information from output files.
10	amb	567
11	amb	738	Test cases:
12			Added test cases for routing in slim and non-slim modes.
13
14			Documentation:
15			Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage and function.
16			Install the license file in the documentation directory.
17
18			OSM tagging:
19			Process the tags associated with turn restriction relations.
20			Remove the roundabout type from the parsing.
21			Add parsing of mini-roundabouts.
22
23			Configuration Files:
24			Update profiles with new options related to turn restrictions.
25
26			Web pages:
27			Change to OpenLayers v2.10.
28			Visualiser can display turn restrictions.
29			Put the profile information into separate files and auto-generate them.
30
31			planetsplitter:
32			Store information about turn restriction relations.
33			Quite a large code re-organisation - now faster and uses less memory.
34
35			router:
36			Take turn restriction relations into account when routing.
37			Continue same direction of travel at each waypoint (unless dead-end).
38			Add a new option to specify an initial direction to start travel.
39
40	amb	567	filedumper:
41			Print out statistics about what highways are included in the database.
42
43
44	amb	525	Version 1.5.1 of Routino released : Sat Nov 13 2010
45			---------------------------------------------------
46
47			Bug fixes:
48			Ensure that enough memory is allocated for filenames.
49			Fix bug that sometimes causes crash when processing route relations.
50
51			Documentation:
52			Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage and function.
53
54			Programs:
55			Add an option to make the output more suitable for a log file.
56
57			Documentation:
58			Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage.
59
60
61	amb	517	Version 1.5 of Routino released : Sat Oct 30 2010
62			-------------------------------------------------
63
64			Bug fixes:
65			Check that number of nodes/segments/ways doesn't exceed numerical limits.
66			Allow 32-bit systems to seek within files larger than 4GB.
67			Allow nearly 4G nodes to be stored instead of 2G before.
68			Added rules to makefile for installation (paths specified in top-level).
69			Stricter checking of UTF-8 in XML files and better UTF-8 output.
70			Improve error message if parsing of command line options fail.
71			Fix bugs in router's --help-profile-json and --help-profile-perl options.
72			Rename heapsort function to allow compilation on Mac OS with no change.
73			Reduce impact of property preferences close to 50% by using sqrt().
74
75			Documentation:
76			Update documentation to reflect changes in program usage and function.
77
78			OSM tagging
79			Traffic restrictions on nodes are now included in default tagging file.
80			Added processing for ferry routes (as pseudo-highway type 'ferry').
81			Process foot and bicycle route relations to create new properties.
82
83			Configuration Files:
84			Added Dutch output translations.
85			Added ferry information to profiles.
86			Added foot and bicycle route relation processing.
87
88			planetsplitter
89			The slim mode now includes the output data as well as the temporary data.
90			The slim mode is now a separate executable and not a command line option.
91			Traffic restrictions on nodes are now understood when parsing OSM files.
92			Falls back to installed tagging.xml configuration file as last resort.
93
94			router:
95			Added a slim mode (as a separate executable and not a command line option).
96			Traffic will not be routed through a node that does not allow it.
97			Falls back to installed profiles.xml & translations.xml files as last resort.
98
99			filedumper:
100			Added a slim mode (as a separate executable and not a command line option).
101
102			Web pages:
103			Added Dutch translation of router.html.
104
105
106	amb	446	Version 1.4.1 of Routino released : Sat Jul 10 2010
107			---------------------------------------------------
108
109			Bug fixes:
110			Don't crash if start and finish are the same point.
111			Don't crash if several translations but --language option not used.
112			Don't crash if middle part of route cannot be found.
113			Don't allocate so much memory for intermediate nodes; routes much faster.
114			Fix problem with finding closest segment to the specified point.
115
116			Documentation:
117			Provide HTML versions of the documentation (copy to web directory at install).
118			Change URL for website to http://www.routino.org/.
119
120			Configuration Files:
121	amb	517	Added German output translations.
122	amb	446
123			planetsplitter
124			Slight change to algorithm for finding super-nodes.
125
126			Web pages:
127			Provide HTML versions of the documentation.
128			Change URL for website to http://www.routino.org/.
129			Provide updated HTML files, the same as on the website.
130			Change to OpenLayers v2.9.1 and build custom version if Python available.
131
132
133	amb	423	Version 1.4 of Routino released : Mon May 31 2010
134	amb	381	-------------------------------------------------
135
136			Bug fixes:
137	amb	423	Speed up start/via/stop point within segment search algorithm.
138			If no segment is found don't try routing but exit with error.
139	amb	381	Improve the error messages by adding operating system error info to them.
140	amb	423	Rewrite of tagging rules fixes bug with wheelchair access allow/deny.
141			Files greater than 2GB can be read/written on 32-bit systems.
142			Fix bug with profile preferences when optimising a route.
143			Stricter check on profile validity before starting routing.
144	amb	381
145			planetsplitter
146			Add --parse-only and --process-only options (for incremental parsing).
147			Allow filenames to be specified on command line (default is still stdin).
148			Improved the '--help' information to describe all options.
149	amb	423	Remove --transport, --not-highway, --not-property options (use config file).
150			Use tag transformation rules in configuration file not hard-coded.
151	amb	381
152			router
153			Removed compiled-in profiles and use profiles loaded from XML file.
154			Improved the '--help' information to describe all options.
155			Change the name of the --profile-json and --profile-perl options.
156	amb	423	Allow selection of the outputs to generate (or none).
157			Added HTML route instructions output.
158			GPX route file contains instructions at each waypoint.
159			Read in XML file of translated words/phrases for outputs.
160	amb	381	Added options to specify file of translations and language to use.
161	amb	423	Remove copyright.txt file and put information into translations file.
162	amb	381
163			filedumper
164			Improved the '--help' information to describe all options.
165	amb	423	Added the option to dump an OSM file containing database contents.
166	amb	381
167			Web Pages
168			Combined generic map CSS into one file (not copied in two).
169			Much better support for IE6/7/8 with browser detection but not perfect.
170			Re-organised and tidied up the Javascript.
171			Added button next to waypoints to centre it on map.
172			Added button next to waypoints to set as home location (uses browsser cookie).
173			Create shorter URLs for custom map (ignore default values).
174			Reduced and clarified the amount of editing to customise the Javascript.
175			Made it easier to translate by moving text out of Javascript (not visualiser).
176			Prepared for translated versions of web page (Apache Multiviews).
177			Added option to select language of output.
178			Use HTML output from router to get translated instructions.
179
180
181	amb	319	Version 1.3 of Routino released : Thu Jan 21 2010
182			-------------------------------------------------
183
184			Bug fixes:
185			Ensure output even if the distance between two adjacent route points is small.
186			Correct the determination of waypoints for abbreviated output.
187			Check the command line values for filedumper --dump options.
188			Made the verbose output consistent between different places.
189
190			OSM tagging
191			Recognise "designation" tag to determine designated paths.
192			Recognise "steps" tag to determine the highway type.
193			Recognise "wheelchair" tag to determine if wheelchairs are allowed on highway.
194			Recognise "moped" tag to determine if mopeds are allowed on a highway.
195			Recognise "surface" and "paved" tags to determine if a highway is paved.
196			Recognise "lanes" tag to determine if a highway has multiple lanes.
197			Recognise "bridge" tag to determine if a highway is a bridge.
198			Recognise "tunnel" tag to determine if a highway is a tunnel.
199
200			New Features
201			Remove "bridleway" and "footway" highway types and use "path" highway instead.
202			Added "steps" as a new highway type separate from the "path" type.
203			Added "wheelchair" and "moped" to the list of possible transports.
204			Added "paved", "multilane", "bridge", "tunnel" to list of highway properties.
205
206	amb	381	Web Pages
207			Updated for new features listed above.
208			Added popup to display instructions for each step in route on mouse-over.
209			Added buttons next to waypoints for: add / remove / move up / move down.
210			Highlight user selectable parts of form in yellow on mouse-over.
211			A few small changes, improved CSS, improved Javascript.
212
213	amb	319	router
214			For each waypoint choose closest point on a segment and not just closest node.
215			Added the ability to set preferences based on highway properties.
216			Changed the text output formats to include bearing and turn information.
217
218
219	amb	288	Version 1.2 of Routino released : Wed Oct 21 2009
220			-------------------------------------------------
221
222	amb	319	OSM tagging
223	amb	288	Recognise tags "vehicle" and "motor_vehicle".
224			Handle duplicate ways in the input OSM file (e.g. concatenation of 2 files).
225
226			Database
227			Identical ways are combined to reduce database size (~80% fewer ways stored).
228
229			Routing
230			Fix weight, height, width, length restriction routing.
231			Allow up to 99 waypoints to be specified instead of 9.
232
233			Visualiser
234			Don't display speed limits for tracks and paths unless a value is set.
235			Draw all super-segments that cross the selected boundary.
236
237	amb	381	Web Pages
238			A few small changes, improved CSS, improved Javascript.
239			Changed marker colour when waypoint not selected.
240
241	amb	288	planetsplitter
242			Optional slim mode uses minimal memory at the expense of temporary files.
243
244			router
245			Less CPU time for routing (~30% less).
246
247			filedumper
248			Allow dumping individual nodes, segments and ways (for debug).
249
250
251	amb	193	Version 1.1 of Routino released : Sat Jun 13 2009
252			-------------------------------------------------
253
254			Inputs
255			Improve parsing of OSM file (imperial units).
256	amb	288	Ignore nodes that are missing from the input OSM file.
257	amb	193
258			Outputs
259			Create GPX route files as well as GPX track files.
260			Read in an optional copyright.txt file and include contents in output.
261			Make better choices about what to output in the abbreviated text file.
262
263			Routing
264			Allow generating a route with intermediate waypoints.
265			Use preferences for highway types instead of yes/no choice.
266			Choice of closest node to start/finish points ensures transport allowed.
267
268			Visualiser
269			Added data extraction function for viewing routing database data.
270
271			Web Pages
272			Include full set of web pages for creating customised online router.
273
274			Documentation
275			Included NEWS.txt file.
276			Included documentation for installation of web pages.
277
278
279			Version 1.0 of Routino released : Wed Apr 08 2009
280			-------------------------------------------------
281
282			First version.