Planito versions

Planito is your browser for planet Earth (and others).
1.2
May 22, 2012
Review

What's new

v1.2 [May 22, 2012]
UI
* New modern UI
* World now wraps horizontally
* Two types of grids: coordinate-based and distance-based
* Better detection and rendering of selected feature (under mouse pointer)
 * Overall progress of all Tile Downloader operations now is shown in dock icon
 * In layers panel number of currently active layers is shown for each active layer set
* New search field, support for multiple search services (use search field menu to switch services)
* Info about selected feature will now open on left click too
 * Chinese (Simplified) localization
Functionality
* Option to copy links to locations with http:// protocol prefix instead of planito:// so that they will be recognized as links on forums, etc.
* Support for loading data in JSON format
* Ability to select and show info about features with 3D mouse
* Option to show marker/accuracy circle for current user location and center on current location (Alt+click location button)
* List of web mapping services to open selected location in is now loaded from datasource configuration
 * Support for loading compressed datasource configuration
Under the hood
* Many optimizations and bug fixes
* Number of displayed placemarks/polygons/strings is not limited anymore (was 20000 limit), large number of placemarks now renders faster
* Better support for links from various services in Paste & Go feature
* Fixed minor problems with 3D mouse

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