0.7.1
- Removed the "Google Maps (JS)" provider and the "Stamen Terrain"
basemap tile layer (and their associated API key settings/menu
actions), since neither could be tested locally. Plain "Google Maps"
(no API key needed) and the other basemap/provider options are
unaffected.
0.7.0
- Added a vertical Swipe Compare mode: clicking a viewport's "Add to
Swipe Compare" icon now cycles off -> horizontal (left/right, the
original behavior) -> vertical (top/bottom, a new draggable horizontal
divider) -> off, instead of a plain on/off toggle.
- Fixed Swipe Compare showing the *previously* armed viewport the
first time S is pressed after switching to a different one:
QgsMapCanvas renders asynchronously in a background job, so grabbing
immediately after refresh() could catch it before the new layer had
actually finished rendering. Now waits for rendering to complete
before grabbing.
0.6.2
- Fixed Swipe Compare always showing the picked viewport zoomed in: on
a HiDPI/Retina screen, QWidget.grab() returns a pixmap whose raw pixel
size is scaled by the display's device pixel ratio, but the swipe
overlay was slicing it with a source rect sized in logical pixels --
sampling only a shrunk corner of the image, which looked like a
zoomed-in crop. It now lets Qt draw the pixmap at its natural size
(DPI-aware) and clips to the divider position instead of cropping the
source.
0.6.1
- Fixed two Swipe Compare bugs: the divider didn't track mouse
movement while S was held, and the two sides weren't pixel-aligned.
Root cause of both: QgsMapCanvas is a QGraphicsView, whose actual
mouse-event surface is its internal viewport() child, not the canvas
widget itself -- the swipe overlay and its mirror rendering now use
the viewport's own size/coordinate space (where key events still
target the canvas, since that's where keyboard focus actually lives).
0.6.0
- Reworked Swipe Compare from a separate dialog into an on-canvas
gesture: each layer/basemap viewport tile now has an "Add to Swipe
Compare" icon in its overlay bar. Arm one, then hold S and move the
mouse over the main QGIS canvas to swipe between the live canvas and
that viewport, composited directly onto the canvas itself. Web map
provider viewports don't offer the icon -- there's no reliable way to
composite an external web page's rendering onto the live canvas at
interactive speed, so rather than offer something flaky they're
excluded.
0.5.3
- Fixed the viewport (right) side of Swipe Compare still rendering
blank the second time the dialog opens: reusing the previous mirror
widget across a hide/show cycle could leave it stuck showing
stale/blank content (the WebView mirror in particular suspends its
Chromium renderer while its window is hidden). Both mirror widgets are
now rebuilt fresh every time the dialog is opened rather than reused.
0.5.2
- Fixed Swipe Compare rendering blank the second time it's opened:
closing it via its window-close button doesn't destroy the dialog (the
plugin caches and reuses the same instance), but its cleanup code was
tearing down the mirror canvases as if it did. That cleanup now only
runs once, when the plugin itself unloads.
0.5.1
- Fixed Swipe Compare misalignment: it previously grabbed snapshots of
the already-existing main canvas and viewport tile (each a different
size/aspect ratio) and independently stretched both to fit the dialog,
which threw features out of alignment between the two sides. It now
renders both sides from dedicated off-screen QgsMapCanvas/WebView
"mirrors" resized to exactly match the swipe widget and driven from
the same requested extent, so both sides are pixel-aligned with no
extra scaling at composite time.
0.5.0
- Added "Swipe Compare...": a separate dialog (Plugins menu or
toolbar) that composites the main QGIS canvas against any currently
open viewport (layer, basemap, or web map provider), split by a
divider you click-and-drag directly on the image.
0.4.2
- Refactored: moved all map-source logic (provider/basemap
definitions, URL builders, the XYZ tile basemap layer builder, API key
storage, and coordinate/zoom helpers) out of quick_map_compare.py into
a new sources.py module. No behavior change.
0.4.1
- Moved CyclOSM from a webview provider to a native XYZ basemap tile
layer: cyclosm.org's own demo site pops up a recurring "About" modal
on every load, which reappeared on every sync since that's a page
reload. CyclOSM's public tile service (tile-cyclosm.openstreetmap.fr)
sidesteps that entirely.
- Added OpenStreetMap back as a native XYZ basemap tile layer
(tile.openstreetmap.org) rather than the previously-removed webview
provider, for the same reason -- no page/site chrome to pop up.
0.4.0
- Added a "Basemap tile layer" viewport source: built-in XYZ terrain
basemaps (Esri World Hillshade, Esri World Topographic, USGS Topo,
Stamen Terrain) rendered natively via QgsMapCanvas, same pixel-perfect
sync as QGIS-layer viewports, no webview/GPU crash risk. Stamen
Terrain needs a Stadia Maps API key, set via Plugins > QuickMapCompare
> Set Stadia Maps API Key.
- Added specialized OSM-family map providers: OpenSeaMap,
OpenRailwayMap (with Standard/Max Speed/Signals/Electrification
styles), OpenSnowMap, CyclOSM, and Waymarked Trails (Hiking).
- Added weather map providers: RainViewer and Windy (with
Wind/Rain/Temperature/Clouds/Pressure overlay choices) -- both work
with no API key.
0.3.1
- Removed OpenStreetMap as a viewport provider.
0.3.0
- Added a "Google Maps (JS)" provider that drives the Google Maps
JavaScript API directly with all UI chrome disabled, instead of
embedding the ordinary maps.google.com page -- avoids the search bar,
sign-in prompt, and "Heavy traffic" popups the URL-embedded Google
Maps provider shows, which can't be suppressed since that one is just
a normal page load. Requires a Google Maps JavaScript API key, set via
Plugins > QuickMapCompare > Set Google Maps API Key.
0.2.0
- Floating, semi-transparent overlay topbar per tile (Sync / Change
source / Style settings at top-left, Close at top-right) instead of a
fixed header row.
- Mouse-cursor crosshair in every viewport, pixel-perfect for layer
tiles and web-mercator-based for provider tiles.
- Resizable viewports: tiles now live in nested QSplitters instead of
a fixed grid, so dividers can be dragged.
- Per-tile style settings moved into a small dialog opened from a
settings (gear) icon, shown only for providers with more than one
basemap/overlay choice.
0.1.0
- Initial release: dockable comparison panel, grid of viewports (QGIS
layers or web map providers), per-viewport Sync toggle,
per-provider-tile basemap/overlay style pickers, adaptive grid reflow
as tiles are added/removed.