upoints

User-visible changes

0.11.0 - 2008-05-20

  • This is likely to be the final non-bugfix release before v1.0.0 is cut, if you don't like how something works now is the time to speak up!
  • This package has been renamed upoints from earth_distance to better reflect its usage, and as a bonus it is more compliant with PEP-8's naming guidelines
  • Added support for a generic Point object container type
  • Support for reading OpenCellID exports
  • Can now use lxml for XML processing on systems where cElementTree isn't available
  • Python "egg" packages can now be built if setuptools is installed

0.10.0 - 2008-03-27

  • Support for reading and writing GPX v1.0 files
  • Support for GPX trkpt elements

0.9.0 - 2008-01-25

  • Support for reading OpenStreetMap exports
  • Support for reading configuration file in edist.py for enable simple named location support.

0.8.0 - 2008-01-09

0.7.0 - 2008-01-08

  • Support for reading NMEA 0183 formatted data

0.6.0 - 2007-12-14

  • Support for importing KML data files
  • Support for importing zoneinfo zone descriptions
  • Latitude and longitude values are now managed attributes, and can be updated in place(as can Baken Maidenhead locators)
  • Locations now support a much prettier Unicode output mode
  • edist.py a new user script that allows one to manipulate locations in various ways from the command line
  • Package no longer requires make for development functions
  • Tests no longer span network boundaries, and should run on any default Python install once initially seeded

0.5.0 - 2007-01-01

  • All Point children now have dictionary-based collection objects, named <base>s
  • Import and export routines of Point objects have now moved in to their respective collection objects

0.4.0 - 2007-10-02

  • Support for baken data files in baken

0.3.0 - 2007-10-01

  • Support for geonames database exports in geonames
  • Support for ISO 6709 coordinate strings in utils.from_iso6709 and utils.to_iso6709
  • Support for Maidenhead locator strings in utils.from_grid_locator and utils.to_grid_locator
  • Support for creating Xearth markers files with any Point-compatible objects using utils.dump_xearth_markers