Google Earth - Release Notes

---------------------------Google Earth is an add-in for Atoll (version 2.5.2 or above)

The main functionalities of this module are:
- export sites on Google Earth application
- export transmitters and repeaters on Google Earth application
- export coverage plots on Google Earth application
1. Introduction.
When opening an Atoll's document with this add-in installed, a new button called
"Google Earth" will appear in the toolbar.
By clicking with the mouse on this button, the user can access a dialog box to s
pecify entities to export on Google Earth application.
2. Dialog box.
Entities to export on Google Earth application can by specified through a dialog
box.
"Sites":
export sites location with additional properties
"Altitudes":
choose between absolute and relative to ground altitude
"Transmitters": export transmitters geometry with additional properties
"Coverage Plots": select coverage plots to export
"File" :
specify the file that will contain entities to export (a hidde
n file by default)
Versions
-------1.0: Initial version
1.1: Customize placemarks display (icon, label, line styles)
Add of sites altitude information by reading the "Sites" table, and option
ally the DTM table:
o a relative elevation is first retrieved from the PYLON_HEIGHT field of t
he "Sites" table (Microwave only)
o if not available, a true altitude is retrieved from the ALTITUDE field o
f the "Sites" table
o if null, a true altitude is retrieved from the DTM table
o if not available, the altitude is finally set to zero relative to ground
Create of a setup program
Add of Doxygen comments in the code
Fix a problem with wrong altitude value retrieved when using DTM
1.2: Remove the check of Google Earth installation
1.3: Export transmitters geometry with beamwidth and mechanical tilt
Export coverage by signal level plots
Fix a problem with transmitter altitudes
Fix a problem with coverage plots management
Fix a problem with too large textures (limitation of Google Earth applicat
ion)
1.4: Add some transmitter descriptions
Fix a problem with interpolation method
Allow to choose the altitude type for sites (absolute or relative to groun
d)
Check the integrity of transmitters height and azimut
1.5: Generate PNG instead of BMP for transparency purpose
Split large coverage plots into small tiles

Fix a problem with disallowed HTML characters

Add application settings management
1.6: Add a field selector to display site and transmitter attributes
Use the LibKML to generate a KMZ file instead of a KML file
Incorporate raster files into archive file
Fix a problem with path of raster files when archiving
Export coverage by transmitter plots
Fix a problem with raster files indexation
Fix a problem with transmitters activity when retrieving elevation
Add integrity checks
Improve application settings management with a default storage file
Display inactive transmitters
1.7: Fix a problem with UTF-8 strings
Last update: Thursday, November 12th, 2009