GeoDms Setups

Starting from GeoDMS version 8.042, releases/setups can be found here

2022: 8.0 Series

The first half 2022 we’ve worked on a significant renovation of the GeoDMS, resulting in the 8.0 series. Management of intermediate results has become more functional, regular tiling is used by default to facilitate memory management by re-using fixed sized blocks as tile storages. Element-by-element operations are now pipelined (when S3 is set). The CalcCache is no longer used for intermediate storage. The GeoDms 8 should process almost all GeoDms 7 model configurations with the following issues:

  • formal domain and values units are checked for items that are replaced by their calculation rules in other calculation rules, resulting in new but relevant diagnostics.
  • Differences in the regular tiling of domains may result in:
    • different results for poly2grid and point_in_polygon, although now the results have become independent of the actual tiling, they did depend of the active tiling in the GeoDMS 7 series.
    • .ffs storages produced with GeoDMS 7 that store tiled attributes without their domain may result in corrupted data when read with GeoDMS 8.

Older versions

2022-10-10: GeoDms Version 8.041

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

New functionality:

  • large palettes with random colours for the unique values of categorical thematic attributes.
  • thematic attributes can now be represented by multiple aspects, work in progress.

Fixes:

  • issue 283
  • issue 291
  • issue 309
  • issue 310

2022-09-29: GeoDms Version 8.039

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Fixes:

  • Issue on Azure with 8.038
  • TableView->Sort on column issue due to inconsistent state when setting an index was interrupted by a user message.
  • minor issues and compiler warnings

2022-09-26: GeoDms Version 8.038

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Fixes:

  • issue 303: dyna_points
  • issue 305: fixed crash
  • ReadElemFlags now work

Known issue:

  • on Azure (with OS Windows Server 2019 Datacenter version 1809) starting this version may sometimes result in: “System Error: … Rtc.dll was not found.”; GeoDms 8.039 seems not to cause this behaviour.

2022-09-22: GeoDms Version 8.037

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Fixes:

  • issue 297: Diagnostic message now have a better source location indication
  • issue 304
  • point_in_ranked_polygon now works

Implements:

  • issue 291: various layout issues in Layer Control symbols

Trello

  • 61: hex numbers can now be used in dms syntax, preceded by the percent-sign, for example %FFFFFF
  • 65: null values and failure reasons have grey text in the TableView

Detail pages:

  • clean-up generic and Explore pages

2022-09-14: GeoDms Version 8.035

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

New functionality

  • issue 291 PenColor arc-layer, WIP.
  • Thread throttling

Fixes:

  • TIFF read issue

2022-09-01: GeoDms Version 8.033

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

New functions:

Fixes:

  • TIFF read error, ntroduced in 7.412 and hotfixed in 7.414.
  • combine(…, bool), required for vesta50
  • issue 294
  • number of threads in the recursive Unique function is now limited to the number of vCPUs.
  • bg_buffer_linestring and bg_buffer_multi_polygon: various quality improvements.
  • an issue with tiling SPoint data of which the last tile would pass the 2^15 boundary if not cut-off by the domain’s range, such as with the rtc_10m raster.

GUI

  • raster and feature attributes with negative values are now displayed with a more adapted classification and colour scheme, handling negative, zero, and positive as
  • Ctrl-Alt-D as hot-key for “Default View”.

Known issues:

  • explain value in detail page lacks info on the source of a value resulting from union_data.
  • S3 (pipelined tile processing) is off by default when installing the GeoDMS on a system where geoDMS was already used. I advise to enable S3 from the GeoDmsGui.exe -> Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> check ‘3: Pipelined Tile Operations’.

2022-08-29: GeoDms Version 8.031

(withdrawn, download 8.033)

Known issue, solved in 8.033:

  • tiff driver incorrectly determines if a tiff is tiled or striped, resulting in not being able to read striped tiffs. Fixed in 8.033.

2022-08-19: GeoDms Version 8.027

(withdrawn, download 8.033)

2022: 7.400 Series

We concluded 2021 with the 7.400, which is compiled with Visual Studio 2022 to comply to the most recently implemented C++20 language rules.

We started building and using GDAL 3.04 by vcpkg, which includes recent drivers for GeoPackage, netCDF, but also the openssl that we started using in 7.326. vcpkg allows us to have a completely working debug and release build of GDAL 3, which makes debugging easier. See also: GDAL update

2022-09-01: GeoDms Version 7.414

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Fixes:

  • TIFF read error, possibly introduced since 7.411 or 7.412.
  • hang on MapView:GetCaption, such as in RSL3 without label work-around.
  • issues with ArgMax and maxelem; Trello #92.

2022-05-31: GeoDms Version 7.412

(withdrawn because of a tiff driver issue that has been resolved in 7.414)

Fixed:

  • issues with writing GeoPackage.
  • Notepad++ syntax file GeoDMS_npp_def.xml is now included in the setup. Note: last update of the keyword list is of 03/10/2019.
  • TIFF storage manager now uses LIBTIFF 4.3.0 (latest) of vcpkg with BIGTIFF support (was 4.2 )
  • AsItemName

Known issues:

  • tiff driver incorrectly determines if a tiff is tiled or striped, resulting in not being able to read striped tiffs. Fixed in 8.033.

2022-04-22: GeoDms Version 7.411

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

New in 7.411:

  • operator asitemname
  • operator readelems now has formatting flags to allow strings to contain spaces, tabs and/or comma’s.

Fixed:

GDAL 3:

  • fixed reading non-string attributes from a .CSV file.
  • fixed writing to geojson and gml
  • added reading Bool, UInt2, and UInt4 rasters
  • added reading multiple band raster-data into a composite UInt32 raster.

2022-03-11: GeoDms Version 7.410

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

New operators in 7.410:

  • outer_polygon(polygon attr(poly)); resulting in polygons without lakes
  • outer_multi_polygon(multi_polygon attr(poly)); resulting in multi_polygons without lakes

New operators in 7.409:

  • bg_simplify_linestring(linestring attr(arc), maxTolerance: Float64)
  • bg_simplify_multi_polygon(polygon attr(poly), maxTolerance: Float64)
  • bg_buffer_linestring(linestring attr(arc), distance: Float64, nrCornersInCircle: UInt8);
  • bg_buffer_multi_polygon(lpolygon attr(arc), distance: Float64, nrCornersInCircle: UInt8);
  • bg_buffer_multi_point(multi_point attr(sequence), distance: Float64, nrCornersInCircle: UInt8);

GeoDmsRun

  • additional command line option to redirect text output, such as statistics results, to a specific file

Breaking changes:

  • removed operator: bg_simplify(), introduced in 7.408
  • some layer attributes, when read from a GDAL3 vector source are read as a smaller GeoDms integer type than in 7.408

Fixed:

  • a failure to write multiple attributes to a layer with GDAL does not cause the GeoDms to not close.

2022-03-08: GeoDms Version 7.409

7.409 has been revoked because of the issue with writing multiple layers to a GeoPackage that seems to result in only the last layer containing data. This did not occur in 7.408 and is fixed in 7.410.

2022-02-18: GeoDms Version 7.408

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

New in 7.408:

  • operator bg_simplify(line or polygon attribute, maxTolerange: Float64); See Trello #50
  • statistics opvragen via GeoDmsRun en nu met Frequency count voor value types tot en bet 16 bits, Trello #19
  • AsHex werkt nu ook voor UInt4, UInt8, UInt16, UInt64

GDAL:

  • see GDAL update, especially improved support for writing to:

Fixed:

2022-01-26: GeoDms Version 7.407

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Fixes an issue with GDAL that might delete existing source data due to an unintended attribute write attempt.

GDAL:

  • storage types gdalwrite.vect and gdalwrite.grid that can be used when data is intended to be exported whereas storage managers of type gdal.grid and gdal.vect now only allow for reading data from an external source.
  • reading and writing subbyte elements: Bool, UInt2 and UInt4 are now supported.

2022-01-21: GeoDms Version 7.406

GeoDms x64 installation: revoked because of the gdal source data at risc issue, update to 7.407 or later.

Implements

  • issue 218: now SessionStartTime and CurrentTime are written into outputmetainfo.xml files
  • issue 246: generate item statistics from GeoDmsRun.exe; known issue https://geodms.nl/mantis/view.php?id=254 will be fixed in 7.407

Fixes

  • issue 248: “Check Failed Error: item->DataInMem()”
  • issue 251:
  • sporaric recursive cs-lock on operationcontext clean-up which caused program termination
  • InterestCount leak in exceptional AbstrCalculator construction

Diagnostics:

  • report “This seems to be a GeoDms internal error; …” where appropriate

gdal

  • usage of specified GDAL_Driver, GDAL_Options and GDAL_LayerCreateOptions
  • vcpkg upgrade to update to GDAL 3.4.0, released 2021/11/04

gdal.grid

  • support of reading sub-datasets as multiple rasters
  • reading multiple datasets from a netCDF file

gdal.vect

  • read/write support for int64 data
  • write support for .csv data and .dbf data; known issue: numeric output is quoted in a resulting .csv file.

2022-01-10: GeoDms Version 7.404

GeoDms x64 installation: revoked because of the gdal source data at risc issue, update to 7.407 or later.

Furthermore, now also arc and polygon feature data can be written with GDAL 3.

new GDAL 3 functions, see also GDAL update:

  • using the DialogData value as values unit for all loaded geometries of tables found in a storage that contains multiple tables/layers.

2021: 7.300 Series

In 2021, we started with the 7.300 series to indicate that the GeoDMS code is now being compiled with Visual Studio 2019 (the 7.2xx series were built with VS2017) to comply to the most recently implemented C++20 language rules.

2021-07-12: GeoDms Version 7.326

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Same as 7.325 except for:

  • fix of issue 240: WMTS background layers are now (only) read from https, using openssl. This change was necessary because the Dutch nationaal georegister stopped serving tiles through http.
  • fix of issue 242: handling of a transparency channel (alpha) in WMTS tiles.

2021-03-12: GeoDms Version 7.325

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

Same as 7.324 except for:

  • a fix of an issue with the potential function results, see 241 and 239
  • a fix of an access violation in case of failure to read data for a wms background layer by http. A mechanism for utilizing htts with openTLS is expected for GeoDMS 7.326. see issue 240

2021-24-11: GeoDms Version 7.324

GeoDms x64 is withdrawn because of issues with the potential function, see 241 and 239

Fixes:

  • better implementation of deterministic parallel convolution, aka the potential-with-kernel function. See issues 232 and 239
  • sporadious deadlocks during a long chain of batch operations, specifically seen in LuisaBees sensitivity scripts, see issue 132
  • management ownership of future calculation results (aka interest count holders) which caused order of operation issues such as 141
  • code simplifications:
    • ItemLocks no longer use cs_lock_map but directly own (calculated) data, provided by realised future calculation results.
    • concurrency::unbounded_buffer replaced by std::counted_semaphore
    • made critical sections faster and simpler (and less reentrant!) by separating resource disconnection (still inside a critical section) from resource deallocation (moved outside such section) by better usage of move or swap operations. -

2021-11-11: GeoDms Version 7.321

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

  • More regular default tile sizes, update on the changes in 7.317. This fixes issue 238 where overlapping tiling was created since 7.317.
  • GeoDmsRun.exe now sends to STDOUT ( std::cout ) for display in console all output that is also sent to an optional logfile and that GeoDmsGui.exe also displays in the EventLog; one can redirect STDOUT to a logfile as alternative to the /L command line option; Fatal errors are still sent to STDERR (std::cerr ).

2021-11-08: GeoDms Version 7.320

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

  • transfer of future result ownership from a operation to its awaiters is now protected by transfering ArgRefs as optional reference count holders with RAII.
  • with /S1, thePotential operator now calculates tiles Multi Threaded again (this was stalled since 7.315) but now with a deterministic result
  • furthermore identical to 7.319.

2021-10-28: GeoDms Version 7.319

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

  • reading a limited extent from a TIF data source caused all GridData to be read, causing large memory resource usage for projects such as LUISA and 2UP where country data is read from larger TIF data.
  • furthermore identical to 7.318.

2021-10-27: GeoDms Version 7.318

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

  • sporadic halting, issues 132 and 191, is presumably fixed. The sporadic halting issue has been seen in Luisa, Land Use Scanner, LUS demo, and 2UP. Please report to us if seen still with this or later versions.
  • furthermore identical to 7.317.

2021-10-26: GeoDms Version 7.317

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

  • code signed by “Object Vision B.V.”
  • Changed tiling/segmenting for large entities; tile sizes are now more equal for different sized entities
  • With MT1 on, transformations on separable segments larger than 4096 elements are processed parallel in sub-segments of 4096 items each.
  • Point in polygon is now independent of the order and tiling of the array of points. Results were dependent on that order for points that were in multiple (overlapping) polygons.
  • the unique and rlookup operations now also work with numeric and point sequences as values.
  • now the statusflags can also be set as command line flag when starting the geodms-gui

Breaking changes:

  • Results of Point in polygon when polygons overlap
  • stored .fss results for tiled entities without decoupled entity definition and resulting segmentation need to be reproduced.

2021-10-12: GeoDms Version 7.315

(withdrawn)

2021-10-08: GeoDms Version 7.314

GeoDms x64 installation, click here

  • code signed by “Open Source Developer, Martinus Hilferink”

New calculation rule syntax:

  • arrow operator (->) to index an attribute in the namespace of the values-unit of that index, i.e.: classifications/x/name[x_rel] can now be written as x_rel->name.
  • and and or as binary infix operators as alternative for && and ||.

New functions:

  • EXEC_EC that executes an external process and returns its ExitCode, which enables a modeller to use that result in for example the construction of a storage name of a source that can only be read after completion of that process.

Fixed:

  • issues related to WMTS support for LambertEA europe and LatLong
  • hanging threads with MT2 on
  • with /S1, the results of potential were not exactly deterministic as it incorrectly relied on the associativity of floating point addition of the overlapping tile results.

Performance improvements:

  • ShadowTile generation (used in indexed lookup) and Union data are now done in parallel when /S1 is on and the element type is separable (i.e. fixed size, thus not string or sequence, and not sharing bits in the same byte, thus not Bool, UInt2 nor UInt4).

BREAKING CHANGE:

explicitsuppliers can no longer be used to control the execution of external processes such as with Exec(‘dir >> filelist’) to prepare for internal value calculations. For this, now use EXEC_EC, which returns 0 on success or an errorcode in order to guarantee its derivation before usage.

This affects for example the BAG Toolkit; Use version 7.326 or later for the BAG Toolkit.

2021-07-20: GeoDms Version 7.313

GeoDms x64 installation code-signed by “Open Source Developer, Martinus Hilferink”

Implemented:

- issue 59: writing available projection info to a .PRJ file when writing a .SHP file

- issues 198 and 217: take the current Clipboard contents and scroll in TableView to the specified row-number (Ctrl-G) or search-key (Ctrl-F) and in MapView to the specified coordinate.

Fixed:

- issue 219: use GridLayer with basegrid for raster subset domains.

2021-06-10: GeoDms Version 7.312 for x64

Implemented connect_info and dist_info functions that divide the tiles of points over different worker threads and that can take a maximum square distance per point to avoid connecting remote locations.

Fixed issue 213 that gave error to the result of a unique(float32(round(some attribute with values with a metric))).

2021-05-13: GeoDms Version 7.311 for x64

Implemented join_equal_values functions , see https://geodms.nl/mantis/view.php?id=107

Fixed Help url issue https://geodms.nl/mantis/view.php?id=199

2021-05-06: GeoDms Version 7.310 for x64

Fixed: issue https://geodms.nl/mantis/view.php?id=195

2021-02-24: GeoDms Version 7.308 for x64

Fixed issue 141: MT issues with Stored Properties, such as DialogData, StorageReadOnly, SqlString.

Now all Stored Properties are read from the main thread and kept private as task related context.

2021-02-23: GeoDms Version 7.307 for x64

Architecture

  • argmin, argmax, min_elem, max_elem are now implemented with internal operators (and no longer depend on RewriteExpr.lsp)

New operators:

  • argmin_uint8, agmax_uint8, argmin_uint16, argmax_uint16

Fixed issues:

  • argmin, argmax with 1 argument now results in the correct domain

2021-02-01: GeoDms Version 7.306 for x64

Fixed issues:

  • issue 174: connect_info with a uint8 domain for the arc/polygon set to connect to now works.

2021-02-01: GeoDms Version 7.305 for x64

New operations:

  • subset operations that avoid the creation of nr_OrgEntity:
    • select_unit(condition),
    • select_data(select_unit(condition: D->bool) orgData: D->V) which runs through condition and picks-up the orgData elements that correspond with condition elements that are true without the use of an intermediate org_rel (formerly known as nr_OrgEntity).
  • subset operations that result in org_rel as a replacement of nr_OrgEntity: select_orgrel(condition)
  • subset operations that optimize for expected limitation of the cardinality and ordinals of the result set:
    • select_unit_uint8(condition), select_unit_uint16(condition), select_unit_uint32(condition)
    • select_orgrel_uint8(condition), select_orgrel_uint16(condition), select_orgrel_uint32(condition)
  • (partitioned) summation operations with specified value types:
    • sum_(|u)int(8|16|32|64)(values: D->V[, partition: D->P]),
    • sum_float64(...),
    • sum_(i|u|d)point(...),
  • partitioned counting operations that optimize for expected limitation of the cardinality and ordinals of the results:
    • pcount_uint(8|16|32)(partition: D->P): P->uint(8|16|32),

Fixed issues:

  • issue 182: a domain with a single tile that didn’t cover the defined range resulted in inconsistent data size handling. Now, if NrTiles = 1 and tile[0] strictly smaller than range then GetCount() = #range, but GetTileCount(0) is #tile, and data is only calculated and used for the non-covering tile.
  • issue 183: using unknown_item

2021-01-25: GeoDms Version 7.304 for x64

Upgrades:

  • build environment: MSVC 2019 (was: MSVC 2019)
  • compiler: C++ 14.2 (was 14.1)
  • platformtoolset: v142
  • LanguageStandard: stdcpplast
  • boost: 1.75.0 (was: 1.69.0)

Code clean-up:

  • the use of boost::mpl and type_traits have been replaced by equivalent elements of namespace std
  • fixes related to the more strict C++20 language rules.

Feature request:

  • issue 172: GUI MapView controls: Panning and feature-info have become the default mouse actions; the related Buttons in the toolbar have been removed.

Fixed issues:

  • issue 176: Synchronisation of data read from .fss with reading domain cardinality from the same .fss
  • issue 181: not operator (issue introduced in 7.300 as a result of new aggregation operations

Versions of 2020

2020-12-03: GeoDms Version 7.238 for x64

2020-10-23: GeoDms Version 7.234 for x64

2020-10-05: GeoDms Version 7.229 for x64

Fixes issues related to processing many red items and ExplainValue tooling: 1429, 1433 GUI issues: 1326, 1429

MapView Toolbar: now default mouse functions:

  • LeftButtonClick -> SetFocus in active layer and all raster layers, information on focus item is presented in legend
  • Drag -> Map Panning,
  • LeftButtonDoubleClick -> ExplainValue of focus element in active layer, see Detailpage
  • InfoTool is now removed.
  • ZoomIn, ZoomOut and most selection Tools replace the Drag function, but leave LeftButtonClick and LeftButtonDoubleClick unchanged. The SelectObject Tool does disable the SetFocus function when active.

TableView Toolbar:

  • InfoTool now works as a command to ExplainValue on the Focus element.

Fixed issues for Vesta.

2020-09-04: GeoDms Version 7.222 for x64

Fixes issues 1414, 1415, 1416, 1417, 1419, Fixed issues for Vesta.

2020-08-04: GeoDms Version 7.220 for x64

Fixes issues 1411, 1413

Fixes issues with cancel working thread, GetLabelAttr values and Value Info Detail Page.

Warning: we’re working on a found issue in the Vesta Regression test causing an Access Violation. Do not use 7.220 for Vesta for now.

2020-04-08: GeoDms Version 7.215 for x64

Contains various fixes of GeoDMS 7.213: Fixes issues 1380, 1382, 1325, 1360 Fixes Progress Messaging

2020-03-16: GeoDms Version 7.213 for x64

Contains various fixes of GeoDMS 7.212.

2020-03-11: GeoDms Version 7.212 for x64

New features:

  • Gui: F2 helps to trace the source of errors
  • dijkstra_m for Network travel time matricices: a logit based decay function can now be specified for intermediate aggregation

Regression tests

  • includes Vesta and different Multi Threading setttings.

Dataset size:

  • better support for datasets with more than 2^32 rows, more specifically, rowset size issues were solved for merge, raster_merge, dijkstra_m, and aggregations with more than 2^32 partitions.

Diagnostics

  • better detection and reporting when values or row-counts unexpectedly exceed 2^32.

Fixes many MT2 and dijkstra issues …

  • Fixed GeoDmsGui crashes, see: issues 1347, 1348,
  • Fixed Delphi error in GeoDmsGui crashes, see: issues 1347 348
  • Fixed “Failed to generate’ en ‘access violation’ error, see: issue 1373
  • Dijkstra issues: various changes and fixes have been made in the GeoDMS to accommodate OD pair sets with more than 2^32 rows,

see: issue 1362

The boost::polygon library is now included in our subversion repository and some initiary investigations and updates were made as preparation of work as discussed at issue 1208.

2020-01-08: GeoDms Version 7.207 for x64

Added operators: subset_uint8, subset_uint16, subset_uint32

Fixes minor issues 1319, 1329.

Archive 2016..2019

Some documented versions of earlier years can be found on the page with Older GeoDMS versions