diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 1aae459d..7beeac1f 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -1,13 +1,36 @@ 2017-10-15: 4.0.0 -- Many thanks to the over 50 people who contributed to the v4 release of Natural Earth, we couldn't do it without you! Jeremy, @raffam, @pnorman, @mojodna, @imresamu, Hannes, Axel, @pinakographo, @CaucasusandMercury, @jschleuss, Martha, Kuba, Jesús, Arkadiy, Philip, Benedikt, Ivor, @almccon, Jacob, Alice, Geoffrey, @ajmas, @instantdelay, Matt, Daniel, Felix, @karimbahgat, @migurski, Olaf, @mvexel, @yaph, Jessica, @kernc, Quentin, Peter, @xangregg, Roland, Rob, @teahan36, @dgddgd, @dkerkow, Graham, Michel, @dshorthouse, @pinakographos, Alain, Aileen, Daniel, Charles, Martin, Aaron, MattA, StephenE, NathanielD, and others. +- Many thanks to the over 50 people who contributed to the v4 release of Natural Earth, + we couldn't do it without you! Jeremy, @raffam, @pnorman, @mojodna, @imresamu, Hannes, + Axel, @pinakographo, @CaucasusandMercury, @jschleuss, Martha, Kuba, Jesús, Arkadiy, + Philip, Benedikt, Ivor, @almccon, Jacob, Alice, Geoffrey, @ajmas, @instantdelay, Matt, + Daniel, Felix, @karimbahgat, @migurski, Olaf, @mvexel, @yaph, Jessica, @kernc, Quentin, + Peter, @xangregg, Roland, Rob, @teahan36, @dgddgd, @dkerkow, Graham, Michel, + @dshorthouse, @pinakographos, Alain, Aileen, Daniel, Charles, Martin, Aaron, MattA, + StephenE, NathanielD, Aron, Lou, and others. GENERAL -1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook). -2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202. -3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile, and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks Jeremy and @pnorman. -4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es, name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80 or so that were garbled in the v3 series). +1) The v4 series introduces significant changes to admin-0 country shapes to account for + the disputed area of Crimea, and several important admin-0 country name changes like + Czechia renamed from Czech Republic. Admin-0 population and GDP values have also been + updated to 2016/2017 vintage (primarily from CIA World Factbook). +2) The v4 series introduces web map optimized min_zoom, min_label, max_label properties + that compliment the existing scalerank property that was originally curated for print + cartography in proper projection glory. The min_zoom property is optimized for the web + Mercator projection we are collectively hallucinating, and the min_label and max_label + properties are optional on some themes when the label should be displayed later than + the feature's geometry (or should stop showing). Fixes: #200, #202. +3) While the v3 series went full UTF-8 unicode (character encoding) language support a few + errors were made along the way. v4 fixes bad Windows-1252 to UTF-8 conversion bugs. We + also better document with the character encoding by adding a .cpg file to shapefile, + and on the Natural Earth website documentation. Fixes #89, #186, 4RUN1M5S75; thanks + Jeremy and @pnorman. +4) We added French names for marine areas way back in v1.4.0, and v4 adds many thousand + more for populated places in the following languages: name_en, name_de, name_es, + name_fr, name_pt, name_ru, name_zh. The existing name, name_alt, and nameascii fields + have been updated, and name features over 600 labels with accent marks (versus the 80 + or so that were garbled in the v3 series). PACKAGES @@ -1470,4 +1493,4 @@ HOUSEKEEPING 2009-10-00: 0.0.0 -- NOTE: Announced and demo'd at NACIS mapping conference in Sacramento, CA \ No newline at end of file +- NOTE: Announced and demo'd at NACIS mapping conference in Sacramento, CA