This release was made on 18th October 2021 and is based on mainline revision 10121.

The previous release, 7.4, was made on 27th July 2021 and was based on mainline revision 9961.

A new routing system with compact data

There is a new routing system, Turn-Expanded Compact. Use the option /route=tc in makemap. It requires much less run-time memory, but, unlike the contraction hierarchy systems, allows arbitrary route profiles to be set at run time. It is suitable for large areas such as the whole of the UK on mobile platforms like iOS and Android.

Map file metadata

There are new framework functions called MapMetaData, getMapMetaData, etc., in all APIs, to retrieve metadata from loaded maps. To get metadata for the first CTM1 file, call MapMetaData(0). The information returned includes the version of CartoType used to build the map, the type of route data it contains, its extent in degrees, and the projection name and parameters. The Maps App now displays metadata in its About dialog.

Labelling improvements (already merged into 7.4)

• Fixed case 5909: not all labels are displayed in graphics accelerated mode.
• Many more islands and polygons are now labelled.
• Sea areas (bays and straits) are now imported and labelled.
• Icons without labels are now displayed if the label position in the style sheet is 'icon'.

Improvements to tiled routing

Tiled routing now works even if an individual tile may be greater than 4Gb in size. If you get an error message like
'file position 0x1003be20b is too big to be stored in 4 bytes; try again using /largefile=yes', you can now act on the error
message and makemap will create both the main map and the tiles with 5-byte file positions.

Changes during the lifetime of 7.6

--- 7.6.0 ---
fixed case 5948: z-level adjustment not working for tiled NavStreets data
fixed case 5949: set_roundabout sets the one-way flag in XML input scripts (.makemap files) but not in ChaiScript; it no longer sets the one-way flag
implemented case 1361: pushpins that combine into one
--- 7.6.22 ---
fixed case 5953: crash in TileBitmap; parsing error in a style sheet caused write to a null pointer when assembling the error code
fixed case 5956: SetStyleSheet should parse style sheet at all zoom levels before installing it
fixed case 5957: segment fault when loading TIFF file; added default projection (Web Mercator) for images lacking a PRJ file or projection information in a TIFF table and new makemap command-line option /imageprojection=<EPSG code>
implemented case 5959: show parking icon only where parking is public; private car parks are no longer imported
implemented case 5960: suppress all duplicate strings in labels so that buildings and cities are not named twice
--- 7.6.30 ---
fixed case 5961: setting night mode does not work properly with the tile server
text drawing failed when a box formatting character (a Unicode private use character) was encountered
fixed case 5931: island label is duplicated
speeded up address finding by restricting the layers searched for nearby and surrounding items
CMapObject::VerboseDescription now reports the driving side
MPath::OffsetPath no longer smooths the offset path because parts of routes where the path goes back on itself disappear
fixed case 5964: extra turns around waypoints with CH routing
--- 7.6.39 ---
fixed regression: the Linux SDK no longer built the Qt map rendering library
fixed case 5965: two 15 weight turns at intersection to avoid one 20 weight traffic light turn for the turn-expanded router; turn delays should have been imposed even at junctions with no choice
fixed case 5964: extra turns around waypoints, for the other routing systems
fixed failure to create correct route data or use it correctly if route data was larger than 4Gb
--- 7.6.50 ---
CNavigator::Range did not restore the routing profile after changing it
the TECH routing data was written with many duplicate shortcut arcs; the new version of makemap writes TECH data that is half the size
--- 7.6.55 ---
fixed case 5969: horizontal bands flipped vertically in TIFF file
code to remove heading vector segment was wrong in turn expanded router
insertMapObject in the Android API was mistakenly private, not public
the turn-expanded router set the position in lat/long for backward roads incorrectly
retargeted the C# demo to use .NET 4.8 because earlier versions are no longer supported or will soon reach end of life
changed the Windows and .Net build scripts to use vs2022
an arc connected at both ends to the same node caused a crash in makemap when creating CH data for Latvia
--- 7.6.66 ---
CGeometry objects containing off-curve points were not converted into COutline objects correctly: the off-curve points were converted to on-curve points
setting traffic info now uses the current route profile, not a default car profile
fixed a possible crash in the tc router when adding traffic restrictions
fixes case 5978: polygon traffic restrictions defined by roads do not work in the A-star router
FindAddress did not obey the aMaxObjectCount argument
printing didn't work in the Windows maps app because the Windows printer support DLL wasn't distributed with the app
--- 7.6.73 ---
the turn-expanded router did not create turn information correctly at the start and end of routes
the delay-at-junction flag was not serialised in the turn-expanded router data
turn-expanded compact data now uses less RAM when being read, making it more likely for low-memory platforms to be able to load map data
fixed case 5984: shortest route option doesn't work
--- 7.6.81 ---