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To update your copy of OwlView, replace the OwlView application on your hard drive with the OwlView application contained in this disk image. Alternatively, you can copy the whole new OwlView folder to your hard drive and then replace the places folder with your existing places folder.
The file format of .olt files in the places folder has changed for this release. As you use basemaps which you have already downloaded, you will be prompted to update them by downloading them again. If you have not deleted the contents of your downloads folder, no actual download will occur and the contents of your places folder will be updated using previously downloaded intermediate files.
The color themes have been revised to provide greater differentiation between categories.
The Map Options dialog has been enhanced and now contains two tabs: Classification and Labels.
A Custom item has been added to the Method classification popup menu. After selecting Custom, user defined range limits for each category can be entered into the new Category Ranges list. (When the classification method is not Custom, range values in the Category Ranges list are disabled since the ranges are automatically calculated.)
Start and End color swatches have been added so that a custom color theme can be defined.
The font and font size for labels is now user selectable.
When a single data location consists of multiple areas (polygons), a label can be drawn on just the largest area or on all areas.
Outlines around data locations can be suppressed.
AppleScript recordability and scriptability has been added for major commands.
Location code validation now produces a warning instead of an error.
If the length of a location code does not match the expected length, the user is alerted but may choose to accept the code anyway. This allows such cases as choosing the 5-digit ZCTA™ boundary type to summarize a data file containing 9-digit ZIP Codes® or choosing the Census Tract boundary type (11 digit code) to summarize Census Block Group data (12 digit codes).
In this beta release, the warning always occurs when the actual length of a location code does not match the expected length. In a future release, the warning may be eliminated when the expected code is a subset of the actual code. For example, finding five or nine digits when expecting a three digit ZIP Code® will not produce a warning but finding four or six digits will.
All duplicate location code warnings are now collected into one message.
Long titles which overran the legend box now wrap to multiple lines.
Maps containing ZCTAs™ in multiple states or certain ZCTAs™ in a single state (AZ, CA, IA, MN, MS, MO, NV, NM, ND, OR, SD, TN, TX, UT, WA) quietly failed to draw without indicating an error.
Crash when selecting a menu item while the startup dialog is still visible.
Downloading a basemap to a locked volume quietly failed without indicating an error.
Missing warning when a location code in the data file is not found in the basemap.
Place popup in GetBaseMap dialog was reset when Boundary Type popup changed.
This release has not been tested with Excel 2004.
This release is not compatible with FileMaker Pro 7; it continues to work with prior releases of FileMaker Pro.
To update your copy of OwlView, replace the OwlView application on your hard drive with the OwlView application contained in this disk image. Alternatively, you can copy the whole new OwlView folder to your hard drive and then replace the places folder with your existing places folder.
The Map > New… menu command can create a map directly from an open Excel worksheet or FileMaker Pro database in addition to a CSV file opened by OwlView.
Aggregation functions (count, sum and average) have been added to the Create Map dialog. For example, OwlView can read an address list and map the count of each ZIP Code or average the value of homes using ZIP Code or some other geographic indentifier.
Double-clicking a document when the application isn't open produces a unexpected quit error.
Excessive memory used in Mac OS Classic when creating multiple maps using the same basemap.
File with valid extension does not appear in Open dialog if Mac OS Classic file type is null.
Empty second Help menu using Mac OS X 10.3 or higher.
Initial release.
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