3DCityDB-Tools plugin for QGIS: Changelog

Version 0.8.7 (2023-11-24)

Main changes

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