After more than a year of development it’s time to release the first version of Mapton.

Some of the changes since the March snapshot are:

Maps

• FIX: Removal of deprecated NASA services
• NEW: Give proper attribution to map providers
• NEW: Plot Wikipedia placemarks
• NEW: Make placemarks highlightable and clickable
• NEW: Let user add WMS sources and styles

General

• OPT: Improved startup time
• OPT: Optimized memory settings
• OPT: Updated GeoNames search engine database
• OPT: Moved from Oracle NetBeans 8.2 Platform to Apache NetBeans 11 Platform

UI

• NEW: Global Object properties window
• NEW: Notification support
• OPT: HTML styled editing in Notes

…and the usual fixes and tweaks