BBBike 3.15 review

BBBike project is an information system for cyclists in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany). Here are some key features of "BBBike":

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Slaven Rezic

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BBBike project is an information system for cyclists in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany).

Here are some key features of "BBBike":
Display a map with streets, railways, rivers, parks, altitude and other features
Find and show routes between two points. The route-finder can be customized to match the cyclists preferences (fastest or nicest route, keep wind direction and hills into account etc.)
A bike power calculator
Automatically fetch current Berlin weather data

What's New in This Release:
bbbike (ptk)
added "draw additional layers" pseudo icon
reordered "edit" menu, some new features and fixes in editing
"fragezeichen" layer accessible with -advanced
new menu item Landstra?en > Radwege im Umland
new export formats: BBD, ESRI
add custom layers for searching
fixed DnD in layer reordering for Tk804
info window: link to Google Maps, show more coordinate systems
new Plugin for accessing Luise-Berlin information (only in CVS)
using better (?) Dialog implementation and avoid some memory leaks
removed plethora of buttons in Tk::Getopt option editor
fixed problem in perl-GPS interface where only one upload could be done (Windows, Linux USB connections)
WWW click mode (for map objects with URLs)
more options in full search dialog (regexp/glob, focus handling, category/dist/normal sorting)
many bugfixes

Data
Berlin, innerer S-Bahnring: komplett! (Thanks to Andreas M?hlhausen)
new layers: freeways (Autobahnen, rather complete in Berlin/Brandenburg) and comments_scenic (with no data yet)
new map signatures: orchards, industrial, mosques, cemeteries ...

Modules
Salesman: support for tsplib files
various modules have GPX support now

Install
Bugfix for Windows installer (shortcuts did not work for installations in "C:Program files")
Support for building Debian packages (only in CVS)

CGI
links to "beta" version of bbbike.cgi
Google Maps support (only in beta)
Mapserver: Radrouten layer (with a linked list)

Misc
new documentation: HOWTO_edit_bbbike_data (only in CVS)
update of old bbbike, bbd etc. documentation