{"name": "TomBio tools", "package_name": "TomBio", "version": "3.1.0", "experimental": false, "qgis_min": "3.0.0", "qgis_max": "3.99.0", "downloads": 969, "uploaded_by": "burkmarr", "upload_datetime": "2019-01-05T06:39:18.371938", "changelog": "3.1.0\n- This release made to deal with a bug that was introduced with a\nchange to the QGIS API introduced with version 3.4.3 of QGIS which\nresulted in the biological records tool hanging.\n- Also includes a minor enhancement to the OSGR tool to allow users\nto plan to grid references OR zoom to them.\n3.0.0\n- Refactored to be compatible with QGIS v3.\n- Added automatic batch map image (or PDF) generation via composer\nfor the biological records tool. (Previously this required manual\nintervention - a button click - to produce each map.)\n- Major improvements to NBN tool including exposing metadata from\nNBN downloads (e.g. data providers), adding a new species list\nfilter option and ability to filter on multiple selected taxa.\nAlso several other minor usability enhancements to this tool.\n- Added automatic saving of current style in QML style file\nwhen generating permanent shapefiles from temporary shapefiles\nin biological records tool.\n- Added help buttons on individual tools to link directly to\nrelevant help web pages.\n- Added a button on each tool to go directly to GitHub repository\nwhere issues can be raised.\n- Fixed some minor reported bugs.\n2.8.0\n- Complete replacement of NBN Tool with NBN Atlas Tool. The former\ndepended on NBN Gateway web services which were retired at the end\nMarch 2017 when the NBN switched from the Gateway to the new Atlas\narchitecture, completely replacing the web services API when they\ndid so. The new NBN Atlas Tool is modelled on the old NBN Gateway\nTool but there are a number of differences. The two main functions,\n1) quickly creating WMS layers for different taxon and 2)\ndownloading raw records, remain at the core of the new tool.\n- Fixed a problem with circle generation - from both the point and\nbuffer utility in the NBN Tool and creating atlas maps with circles\nin the Biological Recording Tool - that, under some circumstances,\ncreated circles with 'invalid' geometry.\n2.7.4\n- Fixed a bug with the handling of non-standard alphabetic\ncharacters in taxon names. See GitHub\nissue #6.\n2.7.0\n- Fixed a bug with handling of non-alphabetic characters in\ntaxon names (e.g. brackets and periods) - GitHub issue #4.\n- Added the ability to offset user-defined grids (OSGB Tool)\nand atlas maps (BioRec Tool) - GitHub issue #5. Offsets are\nspecified in the environment file (see online documentation\nwww.fscbiodiversity.uk/qgisenvoptions).\n2.6.2\n- Fixes a problem with date filters not working and causing error.\n2.6.1\n- Fixes a problem with using the NBN tool from behind a proxy\nserver. You can now set proxy-server settings in the QGIS\nnetwork options and these will be used by the tool when\nconnecting to NBN web services. Note that for downloads,\nyou should set the timeout to be something greater than\nthe default of 60 seconds, otherwise downloading of large\ndatasets will time out.\n- Adds a warning to the interface about a likely interruption\nto the availability of the NBN tool when the NBN changes\nit's architecture from NBN Gateway to NBN Atlas at the\nend of March 2017.\n2.6.0\n- Fixes a problem with the #name# tag used in composers when\nautomatically creating output for multiple TEMP_ layers\ncreated with biological records tool ('TEMP_') was left\nin the text).\n- Adds new functionality to the automatic composer output\ngeneration in biological records tool. Additional tags\n(other than '#name#') can now be used, e.g. #CommonName#.\nThe name of any special tag used must match a column header\nin a CSV file opened in QGIS. The name of the taxon (as used\nfor the #name# tag) must be specified in this CSV file under a\ncolumn called 'Taxon'. The value used to replace the special\ntag - e.g. #CommonName# - will be the values corresponding\nto the column (e.g. CommonName) and row for the taxon.\n2.5.0\n- Adds the following new functionality.\n* Added new online help system with link button from tool.\n* Ability to use existing point layers in the Biological\nRecords tool.\n* Ability to select an image for Map Mashup from anywhere\non the file system.\n* Ability to use map composers for output of altas maps\ngenerated by the Biological Records Tool.\n* Ability to batch save Biological Records Tool memory\nlayers as shapefiles or GeoJSON files.\n- The following changes were also made:\n* CSV import now handled through QGIS core functionality\nmeaning numeric attributes now preserve numeric data type.\n* Removed 'sub-layers' option from NBN grid maps generation\n(only available with V2.0 of QGIS)\n* Increased minimum QGIS requirement to version 2.8.\n* Removed auto-generate of taxon tree in Biological\nRecords Tool.\n* Explicit marking of memory layers with the 'TEMP' prefix\nin Biological Records Tool.\n* Updated Biological Records Tool to use custom QGIS widgets\nwhere appropriate.\n2.0.10\n- Same as 2.0.9 but with minimum QGIS installation corrected\nto 2.8 because it uses new custom QGIS QT widgets.\n2.0.9\n- Several updates to the Biological Records tool.\n* Temporary layer names now prefixed with 'TEMP' to make\nit clear that they are not saved by default.\n* Added options to allow the saving of layers created by\nthe tool as Shapefiles or GeoJSON as well as the default\nimage option.\n* Improved the generation of point layers so that the field\ntypes for imported CSV files are retained in layer\n(previously they were all converted to text).\n2.0.8\n- Accounted for minor bug in image generation with biorec\nthat affected Linux OS. Thanks to Paul Tyers for assisting\nwith this. Also dealt with a minor NBN login bug.\n2.0.7\n- Dealt with an introduced bug preventing NBN login.\n2.0.6\n- Re-packaged missing info file for NBN tool.\n2.0.5\n- Bug fixes. Stopped crash on atlas map without taxa. Cope\nwith grid references with trailing spaces.\n2.0.4\n- Added ability to store environment options in a file that\nis external to the plugin folder. The 'internal' environment\noptions folder gets deleted/replaced whenever the plugin is\nupdated, so this is to overcome that problem. Added support\nfor NBN username and password environment options. Fixed a\nbug with generation of values for 'taxa' column of atlas\nmaps.\n2.0.3\n- Added facility for the Biological Records tool to generate\ntwo extra attributes for atlas layers - 'richness' and 'taxa'.\nRichness is a count of the number of taxa which contribute to\nthe records and 'taxa' is a string of all taxa names separated\nby the hash symbol. The latter allows you to use QGIS categorical\nstyling to create coincidence maps for biological records.\n2.0.2\n- Accounted for a problem that caused new layers from biological\nrecords tool to fail to load if a previous layer generated\nby the tool is manually removed from the map. This can be\nfixed clearing all layers using tool's button, so a new\nerror trap and associated message added to indicate this.\n2.0.1\n- Fixed bug which prevented NBN data download if a data\nprovider could not be located. Incorporated a warning to\nuser if style file applied by biological recording tool\nwhen a point layer is generated.\n2.0.0\n- Added comprehensive NBN record download facilities which\ninclude the ability to select records based on a taxon,\ndataset, known site (e.g. LRC, VC or NNR boundary),\nuser-defined polygon or grid reference. Also includes a\nconvenience tool for generating a polygon\nfrom a point and buffer (user specifies grid reference or\neasting/northing plus a buffer radius) which can then\nbe used to select records for download.\n1.6.0\n- Added functionality to display NBN grid maps showing\nspecies density distribution by dataset and designation.\nAlso modified various elements of the NBN tool interface\nto accommodate these changes.\n1.5.0\n- Added filtering by dataset, date and presence/absence to\nNBN mapping tool.\n1.4.4\n- Modified the environment options dialog so that users can\nsee example environment option values. The example option\nvalues file is updated whenever new options are added to the\nplugin. So now users can always easily check if new options\nhave been added whenever the tool is updated.\n1.4.3\n- Now able to provide access to NBN maps via the NBN WMS\nas a logged in user so NBN-registered users with greater\nthan public access can see all the data they have access\nto. Many thanks to Chris Johnson (CEH) and Matt Debont (NBN)\nfor their help in sorting this out.\n1.4.2\n- Enhancement to Map Mashup to allow image to be pasted from\na file instead of the clipboard. Also to allow the application\nof a style file to the registered raster image.\n1.4.1\n- Bug-fix to improve processing for CSV files with many taxa.\n1.4.0\n- Updated the Biological Records tool with two main enhancements.\n1. Allows maps to be generated from X & Y values stored in any\nCRS. Specify grid sizes directly - must be specified in the map\nunits used by the output CRS.\n2. Improved internal handling of Comma Separated Value records\nfiles which means performance improvements and ability to handle\nmuch larger files.\n1.3.4\n- Updated the OSGR tool so that it supports non-UK based coordinate\nreference systems and allows generation of grids at user-specified sizes,\nwhatever coordinate reference system is used (including OSGB).\n1.3.3\n- Incorporated changes to make better use of the new multi-threaded\nrendering (MTR) model. This should improve the performance of batch\natlas map layer and image generation in most circumstances.\n1.3.2\n- Made changes to speed up generation of layers and batch images when\nlarge rasters or WMS are used for a backdrop.\n- Updated tool info files and tool metadata.\n1.3.1\n- Fixed issue with backward compatibility with version 2.\n1.3.0\n- Incorporates major change to Biological Records tool to cope with the new\nrendering mechanism (MTS) introduced with version 2.4 of QGIS. This\nreplaces the workarounds introduced in version 1.2.0. The information\nfile (invoked from the options tab) gives a bit of information on using\nthe new interface.\n1.2.1\n- Incorporates a few bug fixes, better information for problems and workarounds.\n1.2.0\n- Workaround for issue with batch map image generation in Biological Records tool.\n1.1.0\n- Workaround for issue with 'auto' layer in NBN tool in newer versions of QGIS.\n1.0.2\n- Addresses problems with initialising environment variables.", "external_deps": "", "download_url": "https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/TomBio/version/3.1.0/download/"}