Here are some of the changes in uDig since 1.0.5:
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The old editing tools have been scrapped and new tools with better feedback have been added. In addition to a better user experience there is a complete framework to allow new tools to be created in minutes.
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A tutorial on creating custom tools is publically available at Edit Tool Tutorial.
You can define and create a new layer by selecting the Layer > Create menu item. How ever it is "In-Memory" and is not saved.
Once you have a Service imported into the catalog you can select the service and select Operations > Edit > Create Feature Type to define a new feature type in that service. For example: Import a Shapefile. select the service in the catalog. Select Operations > Edit > Create Feature Type and define the feature type. When you select "OK" a new Shapefile will be created that you can open and paste features into from other layers or define new features using the edit tools.
A dialog has been created for style modifications, including the ability to create a theme for a layer based on attribute values. Penn State's ColorBrewer research has been integrated too!
The traditional use of Mylar in a concept familar to the GIS community, uDig will feature the ability to "fade out" information to reveal the layer being worked with.
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A Table Feature View has been added for viewing the features in the current selection. In the default perspective it is one of the views hiding behind the CatalogView at the bottom.
Validation operations have been added too. Now you can validate a layer to conform to a series of tests you customize, and the failed features are displayed in an issues list.
More dragging and dropping is now possible. Try some of the following tricks:
Here are a few tricks you can try:
You can now import OWS Context as well as export existing maps as OWS Context documents.
A new view has been added that has a browser embedded within it. Clicking on a link or dragging and dropping the link will load the linked layers in the current map or open a new map.
A "location" view has been added. The view allows an address to be entered and will show a list of matches. Clicking on a match will center the map on that address and flash a point at that location.
A new Perspective has been added for those who like to be different. The new Perspective can be opened by selecting the Window > Open Perspective > Alternate Map Perspective menu item.
A handy view has been added that allows locations to be bookmarked so that one can easily return to the locations at a later date. (Thanks Cole)
Some of the major bugs with on macintosh computers have been fixed. The most notable are the problems restarting uDig and dragging and dropping work. There are a couple caveats on Macintosh; you cannot drop into the editor area when a map is not open. You can however drop on to empty or non-empty maps and onto the Layers View for the same effect.
Some new preferences have been added for default map creation. For preferences choose the menu item: Window > Preferences. Some of the new preferences are:
The printing API has been updated so that extenders no longer are required to understand the complexities of EMF. A second change is an extension point for creating editing tools for Printing boxes.