Display the shortest distance between two points on the map: Why is a curve the shortest route? Why not just draw a straight line? The answer is this: The earth is not a flat map, but a complicated body that can be described to the best approximation as a flattened sphere, a so-called rotational ellipsoid…
Problems with Apple’s World
We have just released the new bugfix version 3.0.3. Actually, it’s nothing spectacular: we find a bug or get one reported, we search and find a solution. Anger, developing ambition, childish joy. The normal emotional life of a software developer. The world could actually be so beautifully simple: develop, create a new version, press a…
Release Version 3.0!
Wow, I have to say first of all: I am really glad that this milestone has (almost) reached its end. It’s not visible to the outside world, we’ve always tried to touch on the issue through (admittedly relatively infrequent) reports, but the truth is: It was an incredible mammoth task that was initially completely underestimated…
GCW 3.0 Beta Version Released
As described in detail in the last posts, we are working feverishly on the changeover of the software to version 3. Especially the internal update to the new version 3 of the programming language Dart turned out to be a very long and nasty process. There were a lot of code changes to be made….
The Road To Version 3: Upgrade Of The Programming Language
We are now basically done with the restructuring and we are very happy with the result. I actually can’t stop scrolling back and forth in the new file structure, because I love so much 🙂 Unfortunately, this was only the first step before a much bigger one. The “New” Language The programming language used for…
The Road To Version 3: Web API
So far, the web version has been treated rather neglectfully by us. Some features don’t work, some look a bit strange. For some features, it’s absolutely unclear to us why they don’t work, and partly due to lack of time, but often also due to lack of technical competence, these things are simply ignored. If…
The Road To Version 3: Software Architecture
The last version is a version 2.x. Apart from possible urgently needed bugfix releases – let’s hope that won’t be necessary – there won’t be another version 2. A version change in the so-called major version usually only occurs when there is a very fundamental change to the software product. With the version change from…
Release Version 2.3.0
It has now really taken a long time again. There are many reasons for this. Primarily, our team was directly affected by the health and world political crises of our time. Then, of course, it was summer and thus not the right time to sit in front of a computer and program tools that are…
Release Version 2.2.0
First of all, I would like to thank all users who again diligently reported error messages or provided ideas. This time many really good hints arrived our support team. Keep up this! Did you know that everyone who reports a bug for the first time gets a permanent place in our “Tester” section App? (Click…
Writing Search Strings
Over there, on Crowdin, we now have a large number of people helping us translate the app. Many thanks for that! However, as some have already noticed, the mere translation of the app’s user interface is not enough. The search still does not work in all languages. This is because the texts for the search…
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