3.4.4
- Fixed bug in OSGR tool that caused error on area drag tool with version 3.36.3
(issue #73).
3.4.3
- Fixed bug in atlas tool that prevented it working with version 3.34 of QGIS
(issue #72).
- Fixed a bug found at same time which prevented clean unloading/reloading of
tool.
3.4.2
- Fixed bug in grid ref tool that prevented it working with version 3.30 of QGIS
(issue #65).
3.4.1
- Fixed bug with batch generation of layout composer images (see GitHub issue
#57).
- Replaced deprecated writeAsVectorFormat (mentioned in GitHub issue #57).
- Fixed bug with field sizes in grid square layer (see GitHub issue #56)
3.4.0
- Added feature to output atlas maps as points (see GitHub issue #44).
- Added feature (via environment options) to specify output raster format for
exported images and composer images (see GitHub issue #52).
- Added feature (via environment options) to specify output raster name for
images produced from print composer by reference to metadata file (see GitHub
issue #53).
- Addressed bug with non-printable whitespace characters around GR (see GitHub
issue #48).
- Addressed bug with handling some invalid GRs (see GitHub issue #49).
- Addressed bug with fitering on common names (see GitHub issue #50).
- Addressed bug with handling zero abundances (see GitHub issue #51).
- Addressed bug with grid references squares with lower bounding easting of zero
(see GitHub issue #55).
3.3.2
- Fixed layer order problem of batch image generation when no temp layers
initially displayed.
3.3.1
- Batch generation of images and PDFs inserts temp layers at point in layer
stack where first displayed temp image found.
3.3.0
- Added ability to send batch composer output to SVG generation.
- Added collapsible container controls to main panel of biological recording
tool so it fits better on cramped displays.
3.2.2
- Fixed bug noted in GitHub issue #37 - plugin generated error when QGIS default
CRS changed.
- Fixed bug noted in GitHub issue #38 - clearing taxon column in biological
records tool led to unexpected results when generating maps.
3.2.1
- Fixed bug noted in GitHub issue #35 - Lat and Lng headings transposed for GR
to Layer tool.
3.2.0
- Added the ability to link to Recorder 6 from Biological Records tool to
generate single-species datasources from R6 SQL Server DB.
- Added ability to handle Irish as well is British grid references. This change
has affected the Biological Records tool, the OSGR tool and the point and buffer
utility on the NBN Atlas tool. The Biological Records tool can now understand
Irish as well as British grid references and will correctly generate squares
based on them. Note that it will deal with mixed input which includes both Irish
and British grid references. It will also deal with Irish grid references which
are prefixed with the letter 'I'. The grid OSGR tool can now determine position
or locate to a position based on Irish as well as British GRs. It can also
produce grids based on Irish GRs.
- Added a new 'GR to Layer' tool that will add GRs (of user-defined precision)
to any vector layer. (If not a point layer, then the GRs are based on the
centroid of the feature). Users can also choose to add easting/northing and
lat/long to the output layer. This new tool follows the QGIS 'processing
framework' standards and can therefore be incorporated into processing models if
required.
- OSGR has a new 'paste grid squares' button which allows users to paste any
text containing recognisable grid references into the 'OS Grid Squares' layer.
- OSGR tool enhanced to include both grid square and centre point markers. The
latter are easier to see when zoomed out.
- Use of the OSGR grid generation or GR location features is no longer
restricted to Map Views with British National Grid - these features operate
regardless of the map view CRS.
- GR displayed on OSGR tool no longer disappears when 'on click' check-box
selected.
- Hitting return whilst focus is in the grid reference text box on the OSGR tool
automatically invokes the zoom to GR behaviour.
- The ability to derive 'start year' and 'end year' columns for aggregated maps
has been added to the Biological Records tool.
- A one metre aggregation option has been added to the Biological Records tool.
- The Biological Records tool progress bar has been updated so that it better
shows progression through individual layer generation operations.
- The Biological Records tool loggin has been improved to show row number of
input CSV where bad grid references are found.
- The 'download reason' drop-down on the NBN Atlas tool has been updated to
filter out deprecated reasons and to better parse the reason field.
3.1.1
- Bug fix (introduced with 3.1.0) whereby Irish GRs were causing biological
records tool to crash. (Irish GRs currently ignored, but intending to add
enhancement to deal with them in 2019.)
3.1.0
- This release made to deal with a bug that was introduced with a change to the
QGIS API introduced with version 3.4.3 of QGIS which resulted in the biological
records tool hanging.
- Also includes a minor enhancement to the OSGR tool to allow users to plan to
grid references OR zoom to them.
3.0.0
- Refactored to be compatible with QGIS v3.
- Added automatic batch map image (or PDF) generation via composer for the
biological records tool. (Previously this required manual intervention - a
button click - to produce each map.)
- Major improvements to NBN tool including exposing metadata from NBN downloads
(e.g. data providers), adding a new species list filter option and ability to
filter on multiple selected taxa. Also several other minor usability
enhancements to this tool.
- Added automatic saving of current style in QML style file when generating
permanent shapefiles from temporary shapefiles in biological records tool.
- Added help buttons on individual tools to link directly to relevant help web
pages.
- Added a button on each tool to go directly to GitHub repository where issues
can be raised.
- Fixed some minor reported bugs.
2.8.0
- Complete replacement of NBN Tool with NBN Atlas Tool. The former depended on
NBN Gateway web services which were retired at the end March 2017 when the NBN
switched from the Gateway to the new Atlas architecture, completely replacing
the web services API when they did so. The new NBN Atlas Tool is modelled on the
old NBN Gateway Tool but there are a number of differences. The two main
functions, 1) quickly creating WMS layers for different taxon and 2) downloading
raw records, remain at the core of the new tool.
- Fixed a problem with circle generation - from both the point and buffer
utility in the NBN Tool and creating atlas maps with circles in the Biological
Recording Tool - that, under some circumstances, created circles with 'invalid'
geometry.
2.7.4
- Fixed a bug with the handling of non-standard alphabetic characters in taxon
names. See GitHub issue #6.
2.7.0
- Fixed a bug with handling of non-alphabetic characters in taxon names (e.g.
brackets and periods) - GitHub issue #4.
- Added the ability to offset user-defined grids (OSGB Tool) and atlas maps
(BioRec Tool) - GitHub issue #5. Offsets are specified in the environment file
(see www.fscbiodiversity.uk/qgisenvoptions).
2.6.2
- Fixes a problem with date filters not working and causing error.
2.6.1
- Fixes a problem with using the NBN tool from behind a proxy server. You can
now set proxy-server settings in the QGIS network options and these will be used
by the tool when connecting to NBN web services. Note that for downloads, you
should set the timeout to be something greater than the default of 60 seconds,
otherwise downloading of large datasets will time out.
- Adds a warning to the interface about a likely interruption to the
availability of the NBN tool when the NBN changes it's architecture from NBN
Gateway to NBN Atlas at the end of March 2017.
2.6.0
- Fixes a problem with the #name# tag used in composers when automatically
creating output for multiple TEMP_ layers created with biological records tool
('TEMP_') was left in the text).
- Adds new functionality to the automatic composer output generation in
biological records tool. Additional tags (other than '#name#') can now be used,
e.g. #CommonName#. The name of any special tag used must match a column header
in a CSV file opened in QGIS. The name of the taxon (as used for the #name# tag)
must be specified in this CSV file under a column called 'Taxon'. The value used
to replace the special tag - e.g. #CommonName# - will be the values
corresponding to the column (e.g. CommonName) and row for the taxon.
2.5.0
- Adds the following new functionality.
* Added new online help system with link button from tool.
* Ability to use existing point layers in the Biological Records tool.
* Ability to select an image for Map Mashup from anywhere on the file system.
* Ability to use map composers for output of altas maps generated by the
Biological Records Tool.
* Ability to batch save Biological Records Tool memorylayers as shapefiles or
GeoJSON files.
- The following changes were also made:
* CSV import now handled through QGIS core functionality meaning numeric
attributes now preserve numeric data type.
* Removed 'sub-layers' option from NBN grid maps generation (only available with
V2.0 of QGIS)
* Increased minimum QGIS requirement to version 2.8.
* Removed auto-generate of taxon tree in Biological Records Tool.
* Explicit marking of memory layers with the 'TEMP' prefix in Biological Records
Tool.
* Updated Biological Records Tool to use custom QGIS widgets where appropriate.
2.0.10
- Same as 2.0.9 but with minimum QGIS installation corrected
to 2.8 because it uses new custom QGIS QT widgets.
2.0.9
- Several updates to the Biological Records tool.
* Temporary layer names now prefixed with 'TEMP' to make it clear that they are
not saved by default.
* Added options to allow the saving of layers created by the tool as Shapefiles
or GeoJSON as well as the default image option.
* Improved the generation of point layers so that the field types for imported
CSV files are retained in layer (previously they were all converted to text).
2.0.8
- Accounted for minor bug in image generation with biorec that affected Linux
OS. Thanks to Paul Tyers for assisting with this. Also dealt with a minor NBN
login bug.
2.0.7
- Dealt with an introduced bug preventing NBN login.
2.0.6
- Re-packaged missing info file for NBN tool.
2.0.5
- Bug fixes. Stopped crash on atlas map without taxa. Cope with grid references
with trailing spaces.
2.0.4
- Added ability to store environment options in a file that is external to the
plugin folder. The 'internal' environment options folder gets deleted/replaced
whenever the plugin is updated, so this is to overcome that problem. Added
support for NBN username and password environment options. Fixed a bug with
generation of values for 'taxa' column of atlas maps.
2.0.3
- Added facility for the Biological Records tool to generate two extra
attributes for atlas layers - 'richness' and 'taxa'. Richness is a count of the
number of taxa which contribute to the records and 'taxa' is a string of all
taxa names separated by the hash symbol. The latter allows you to use QGIS
categorical styling to create coincidence maps for biological records.
2.0.2
- Accounted for a problem that caused new layers from biological records tool to
fail to load if a previous layer generated by the tool is manually removed from
the map. This can be fixed clearing all layers using tool's button, so a new
error trap and associated message added to indicate this.
2.0.1
- Fixed bug which prevented NBN data download if a data provider could not be
located. Incorporated a warning to user if style file applied by biological
recording tool when a point layer is generated.
2.0.0
- Added comprehensive NBN record download facilities which include the ability
to select records based on a taxon, dataset, known site (e.g. LRC, VC or NNR
boundary), user-defined polygon or grid reference. Also includes a convenience
tool for generating a polygon from a point and buffer (user specifies grid
reference or easting/northing plus a buffer radius) which can then be used to
select records for download.
1.6.0
- Added functionality to display NBN grid maps showing species density
distribution by dataset and designation. Also modified various elements of the
NBN tool interface to accommodate these changes.
1.5.0
- Added filtering by dataset, date and presence/absence to NBN mapping tool.
1.4.4
- Modified the environment options dialog so that users can see example
environment option values. The example option values file is updated whenever
new options are added to the plugin. So now users can always easily check if new
options have been added whenever the tool is updated.
1.4.3
- Now able to provide access to NBN maps via the NBN WMS as a logged in user so
NBN-registered users with greater than public access can see all the data they
have access to. Many thanks to Chris Johnson (CEH) and Matt Debont (NBN) for
their help in sorting this out.
1.4.2
- Enhancement to Map Mashup to allow image to be pasted from a file instead of
the clipboard. Also to allow the application of a style file to the registered
raster image.
1.4.1
- Bug-fix to improve processing for CSV files with many taxa.
1.4.0
- Updated the Biological Records tool with two main enhancements.
1. Allows maps to be generated from X & Y values stored in any CRS. Specify grid
sizes directly - must be specified in the map units used by the output CRS.
2. Improved internal handling of Comma Separated Value records files which means
performance improvements and ability to handle much larger files.
1.3.4
- Updated the OSGR tool so that it supports non-UK based coordinate reference
systems and allows generation of grids at user-specified sizes, whatever
coordinate reference system is used (including OSGB).
1.3.3
- Incorporated changes to make better use of the new multi-threaded rendering
(MTR) model. This should improve the performance of batch atlas map layer and
image generation in most circumstances.
1.3.2
- Made changes to speed up generation of layers and batch images when large
rasters or WMS are used for a backdrop.
- Updated tool info files and tool metadata.
1.3.1
- Fixed issue with backward compatibility with version 2.
1.3.0
- Incorporates major change to Biological Records tool to cope with the new
rendering mechanism (MTS) introduced with version 2.4 of QGIS. This replaces the
workarounds introduced in version 1.2.0. The information file (invoked from the
options tab) gives a bit of information on using the new interface.
1.2.1
- Incorporates a few bug fixes, better information for problems and
workarounds.
1.2.0
- Workaround for issue with batch map image generation in Biological Records
tool.
1.1.0
- Workaround for issue with 'auto' layer in NBN tool in newer versions of QGIS.
1.0.2
- Addresses problems with initialising environment variables.