In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

The past week OpenJUMP team has released OpenJUMP 1.5.1. As usual we added functionality and fixed bugs - since our last release. However, we made a hopefully user friendly decision: we will distribute a CORE and a PLUS version.

The CORE version is the usual OpenJUMP version. The PLUS version will contain OpenJUMP plus a number of useful plugins. For instance Sextante for raster analysis (still Version 0.6), CadPlans PrintingPlugin for… well.. printing,  DXF driver, PostGIS connector (for writing to PostGIS), Graph Analysis and Topology tools - that can be used for Quality Assurance, the Chart Plugin for creating charts, Beanshell editor etc.

Both versions come as handy zip (all platforms), install exe (Win) or jar-based installer (for Mac and Linux).

For the MacOSX users, we finally fixed a long pending bug, and saving layers is now possible again, without cumbersome procedures.

to download directly check here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/OpenJUMP/1.5.1/
if you just want to know more: www.openjump.org
(and don't forget our wiki… for documentation etc.)

Please note that some of the additional plugins are not yet translated and that we renamed some menu functions and moved some into other menus. Save as SVG is   now only available in PLUS as it required some special other functions. Currently we are working on documentation so you can more easily find them again.

some more highlights since OpenJUMP 1.4.1:
- new Fill-Polygon-Tool, an editing tool to create a polygon from a closed area
- new Noder Plugin : nodes/splits lines and polygons
- lots of new icons
- new Buffer Plugin including all options of JTS API
- more Attribute Calculator buttons/functions
- new Geometry Conversion tool
- added new options to the BlendLineStrings tool
- new AdvancedMeasurePlugin with more capabilities
- when closing OpenJUMP and non-saved in-memory layers exist a dialog pops up and data can be saved in shapefile or jml format
- SQL queries: saving, refreshing, editing, and max features
- a new Union/Dissolve/Merge plugin unifying old Union and Dissolve
- reworked and improved Auto-Assign PlugIn (takes now negative numbers and decimals)
- … more can be found in the changes.txt file