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.