Roadmap

Warning: this is partly out of date. For more current information, have a look at the issues.

Milestone 1:
Make basic map drawing possible using Mapper on the desktop

• Main drawing tools:
  • Circles
  • Ellipses
  • Rectangles
  • Text
• View tools:
  • Center view on map
  • Set custom zoom factor
• Important editing tools:
  • Cut, Copy, Paste
  • Add / remove points on paths
  • Snapping for editing tools
    • Following existing paths and appending to existing paths with the path draw tool
  • Cut objects
  • Connect lines
  • Cut holes into objects
  • Rotate objects
  • Close / connect paths
  • Measure distances
• Important map operations:
  • Rotate map
  • Import other map
  • Exchange symbol set
• Symbol browser operations:
  • Sort symbols
  • Hiding and protecting symbols
  • Copy, Paste
  • Select unused symbols
• “Problem widget” showing
  • Templates which are not found
  • Objects which do not meet the minimum size determined by their symbol
• Build ISSOM symbol set
• OC*D file import
  • Version 8
  • Version 10
• OC*D file export, version 8

Milestone 2:
Provide an Android version of Mapper with an adapted user interface to support surveying

• Evaluate the Necessitas (Qt on Android) project, determine if it supports everything the application needs and works stable
• Design the mobile user interface
• Implement the mobile user interface
• Implement surveying features
  • Enable rotating the map based on a digital compass sensor and determine if its precision is sufficient
  • Read values from the internal GPS unit
    • Display the current position on the map
    • Center the map on the current position
    • Draw helper lines (e.g. in 10m steps around the current position, a circle displaying the GPS positioning certainty, straight forward line, …)
  • Read values from an external GPS unit connected via bluetooth
  • Average current position and set point object there
  • Definition and use of template configurations to quickly switch between multiple templates
  • Implement taking georeferenced photos

Milestone 3:
Add less important features and polishing and release a stable version 1.0

• Fixed angles for editing tools
• Scale and rotate arrows for the move tool
• Color correction (plus, add an option for export to image to include it there or not)
• Layer management
• Object grouping
• Multiple viewport support
• Helper grid
• Hiding all templates
• Make shortcuts adjustable, implement program settings
• GPS window for the desktop version
• Advanced template types
  • Map templates
  • Sketch templates
  • Laserscan templates
• Template grouping
• “Move by hand” for templates
• Numeric transformation window for templates
• Numeric transformation window for objects
• Image template operations: trace lines, make color transparent
• Less important drawing tool:
  • Numeric object creation tool
• Less important editing tools:
  • Change all symbols of one type to another
  • Change layer of objects
  • Round corners of rectangle
  • Grow/Shrink object based on curve normals
  • Union of objects
  • Intersection of objects
  • Difference of objects
  • Distribute object on path
  • Interpolate paths
  • Subdivide path
  • Get GPS coordinates for location
• Less important map operations:
  • Create excerpt
• Make a legend object type to simplify the creation of legends and give a warning for objects where a legend entry is required but does not exist
• Write documentation and create in-application help