3DCityDB-Tools plugin for QGIS: Changelog
Version 0.8.7 (2023-11-24)
Main changes
- Client-side
- Minor improvements to the behaviour of the dialogs
- Fixed: Error when adding a new connection but not storing it
- Fixed: Error in qml form file for Tunnel thematic surfaces
- Fixed: Renamed qml forms file for Building/Bridge/Tunnel Furniture
- Fixed: Error when uninstalling QGIS Package
- QGIS Package (version 0.10.4)
- Adjusted behaviour of function to compute the 3DCityDB extents
- Fixed: Error in delete trigger function for Solitary Vegetation Object and Plant Cover
- Fixed: Error in delete and update trigger functions for WaterSurface
- Documentation
- Added install guide for PostgreSQL on macOS
- Code refectoring and clean-up
Version 0.8.6 (2023-11-15)
Main changes
- Client-side
- Added support for QGIS v. 3.34 (soon to become LTR)
- Added plug-in About dialog (NEW)
- Added shortcut to open Installation and User manual (as PDF)
- Added check whether QGIS version is supported upon first run of a dialog
- Layer Loader: Dropping layers forces now automatic removal of corresponding layers loaded in QGIS Layer tab
- Fixed: Users without password can now connect and store connection parameters
- Fixed: Button to import selected layers in Layer Loader is now properly activated/deactivated
- QGIS Package (version 0.10.3)
- Fixed bug in function to set privileges
- Other minor bug fixes, code clean-up, added/reworked Python type hints
Version 0.8.5 (2023-09-06)
Main changes
- Layer Loader
- Fixed: Option to force creation of all layers would not work
- Fixed: Settings tab should be activated as soon as connection to citydb is successful
- Minor bug fixes and code clean-up
Version 0.8.4 (2023-08-28)
Main changes
- Layer Loader
- Corrected new connections not being updated in Layer Loader dialog
- QGIS Package (version 0.10.2)
- WaterBody module: Added support for MultiCurve LoD0 1 layers
- Transportation and Vegetation modules: Corrected minor bugs
- Added CityGML 2.0 Codelists for WaterBody module
- Some code refactoring
- Test datasets
- Updated Railway dataset to contain WaterBody LoD1 MultiCurve
- Installation and user guide
- QGIS Package: Corrected/enhanced examples with functions to set user's privileges
- Minor bug fixes
Version 0.8.3 (2023-08-11)
Notes
- The plug-in status is not "experimental" anymore: now it can be installed by anybody from within QGIS
Main changes
- Minor edits to the Layer Loader dialog GUI
- Moved Codelist selection combo box from Settings tab to Layers tab
- Installation and user guide
- Added installation from QGIS Plugins repository
- Updated figures with new Layer Loader dialog GUI
- Corrected some typos and other minor errors
- QGIS Package: Corrected SQL examples to refresh views
- QGIS Package: Added SQL examples for detail views
- QGIS Package: Added SQL examples to upsert the user defined bounding box extents
- Some code refactoring
Version 0.8.2 (2023-06-05)
Main changes
- Minor internal changes to comply with the QGIS Plugin online repository
Version 0.8.1 (2023-03-29)
Main changes
- Layer Loader: Detail View layers are now ro rw depending on user privileges
- QGIS Package: New version 0.10.1
- QGIS Package: Fixed bug to set user privileges
Version 0.8.0 (2023-03-21)
Client side: Layer Loader
- Added support for Address features as layers
- Added support for LoD independent layers (i.e., "LoDx")
- Redesigned and extended attribute forms to support:
- External References (per type)
- Generic Attributes (per type)
- Addresses
- All subforms allow insert, update and delete operations
- Added support for CodeLists selection via GUI
- Improved support of datasets with geographic coordinates (bbox)
Client side: Bulk Deleter
- Improved support of datasets with geographic coordinates (bbox)
- Renamed root-class to top-level features
Client side: QGIS Package Administration
- Renamed root-class to top-level features
- Minor bug fixes and code clean-up
Server side: QGIS Package
- New version 0.10
- Renamed root-class to top-level features
- Updates to layer_metadata table
- Updates to layer creation functions
- Added support for (updatable) Detail Views
- Added support for look up tables metadata
- Improved support to datasets with geographic coordinates (bbox precision)
- Improved speed to compute the bbox and list cdb_schemas
- Minor bug fixes and code clean-up
Version 0.7.1 (2023-02-20)
Main changes
- Code restructuring to allow for better modularization of current (and future) modules
- Allow for concurrent dialogs, but added logic to:
- Prevent having user dialogs (and connections) open when using the "QGIS Package Administration"
- Prevent having user dialogs connected to the same database and citydb schema at the same time
- QGIS Package: new version 0.9.1
- Fixed: When cleaning up the database, sequences are now correctly restarted
Version 0.7.0 (2023-02-13)
Notes
- The 3DCityDB Loader is growing and gets therefore a new name: "3DCityDB Tools"!
Client side: Layer Loader
- Connection tab:
- Added Feature Type selection in layer generation
- Added Geocoding function (based on Nominatim API)
- Creating and dropping layers is now faster
- Minor redesign of the GUI
- Settings tab (NEW)
- Editing of layers from read-only citydb schemas is now blocked in QGIS
- QML files are split and loaded separately for forms, 2D styles and (optionally) 3D styles, respectively
- Rewritten all SQL queries to follow psycopg2 syntax
- Major code refactoring and clean-up
Client side: Bulk Deleter (NEW)
- A user with rw privileges can delete features selecting them:
- via a spatial filter
- and/or via a Feature Type/Root-class feature filters
- A user with rw privileges can delete ALL DATA from the selected citydb schema (i.e., truncate all tables)
- Geocoding function (based on Nominatim API)
Client side: QGIS Package Administration
- QGIS Package Installation tab: Major rework, added user management
- Installation settings tab (NEW)
- Minor GUI improvements to the New connection dialog
- QGIS Package uninstall procedure is now much faster
- User schema uninstall procedure is now much faster
- Rewritten all SQL queries to follow psycopg2 syntax
- Minor code refactoring and clean-up
Server side: QGIS Package
- New version 0.9.0
- Each 3DCityDB instance gets not its own database group
- Added support for new client-side functionalities:
- Refactored layer_metadata table
- Added functions to manage groups
- Added functions to check Feature Types availability
- Minor bug fixes and code clean-up
Version 0.6.0 (2022-11-24)
Client side: Layer Loader
- Added support for QGIS v. 3.28 LTR
- Reworked the series of checks carried out upon connection:
- Added check and warning for outdated QGIS Package versions
- Added check and warning in case there are no accessible citydb schemas
- Added check and warning in case there are only empty citydb schemas
- Added functionality to update the cdb_extents in case data are added/removed to/from the citydb schemas
- Fixed: bboxes being wrongly resized (enlarged) after canvases are set/changed
- Improved function to import layers
- Drop QGIS spatial filter if QGIS bbox = Layers bbox
- Added check to avoid loading multiple times the same layer
- Changes to the GUI dialog, forms, etc.
- Reshaped connection buttons
- Added button "Refresh {sch} extents"
- In the "Layer" tab, the Feature types in the combo box are now ordered alphabetically
- Minor other visual improvements (labels, tooltips, etc.)
- Added forms for new Relief Features, etc.
- Further major code refactoring and clean-up
Client side: QGIS Package Administration
- Reworked the series of checks carried out upon connection
- Added check and warning if PostgreSQL < 10
- Added check and warning if QGIS Package < 0.8.0
- Changes to the GUI dialog
- Reshaped connection buttons
- Minor other visual improvements (labels, tooltips, etc.)
- Minor code refactoring and clean-up
Server side: QGIS Package
- New version 0.8.0
- Fixed bug in delete trigger functions to extract the name of the cdb_schema
- Rewritten functions to compute and upsert the extents
- Added support for:
- Terrain Intersection Curve geometries (bridge, building, tunnel, generics, city_furniture
- MultiCurve geometries (bridge, building, tunnel)
- MasspointRelief, BreaklinesRelief Features
- Minor bug fixes and code clean-up
Version 0.5.0 (2022-09-02)
Notes
- First public release of the 3DCityDB Loader plug-in for QGIS
Main changes
- Switched to TUD GitHub repository
- Added user guide
- Major code refactoring and clean-up
Version 0.4.0 (2022-06-29)
Notes
- Konstantinos' MSc thesis code release