ADMS Release Notes

ADMS 9.22.0 Not Released Yet Available by request.

· Print Map to Bitmap by Multiplier fixed

· Long Column Name Labels on Printouts in Merge Grid Sample Results

· Fixes GPS Mark Button Enabled Problems. Starting and stopping multiple times resulted in not being able to stop marking.

· Fixes a problem that now allows Create Topography Zones to be run from data sources that have been clipped to a boundary.

ADMS 9.2.1 August 21,2024

· Modified Merge Grid Results again, so long column names can be used on both the Short and Long Name.

It used to be that we controlled the “ShortName” in the common name database and would design our lab reports to output names less than 10 characters (the limit for a DBF in a SHP file). And then we would store the Long of “Pretty” name for the short name.

The creators of the DBF file in 1988 probably though that 10 characters was great plenty, since file names at the time could only be 8 characters long.

But with the advent of new soil labs trying to describe the entire lab process in the short name, Phosphorus (Mehlich III) Parts Per Million Zero to Six Inches (a slight exaggeration, but not much), we had to find a different way to handle these.

So now we query the long name to find the metadata about the layer and changed the process to store its output file of merged point locations and soil test results to a Geo-JSON file, which can handle long column names. Our problems with Product Names or Soil Lab columns longer than 10 characters should be behind us, at least in Merge Grid and Merge Zones.

· Modified the “Use with Pre-Merged file function to do lookups with both the long and short names. May still have problems with old SHP files with truncated column names.

ADMS 9.20.0 Aug 6, 2024

· Added cloud management tools and services for the new GK Field mapper as well as tools for syncing data with the GK Cloud.

· Added PCA (Principal Component Analysis) to the Zone Generation techniques.

· Added reading and writing of Geo-Parquet files for storing and querying vector data. This was initially added for support for the new ADAPT Standard, but we also are using it internally in ADMS to store US States and Counties for querying data based on field location.

· Added processes for creating and using “LIDAR Catalogs”

o A LIDAR Catalog is a database of LIDAR data stored on your local machine.

o Creates a properly spelled catalog of state and county folders of LIDAR Data.

o This is just the beginning, and catalogs of other datasets will be implemented to the near future to provide.

o The “LIDAR Import from Catalog” uses this catalog and the state and county GEO-Parquet file to make importing LIDAR almost a single click operation.

o Lastly this catalog needed a tool to update and adapt to changes to in the LIDAR dataset.

· We are sorry to pull a Microsoft Office trick on you and rename and move menu items, but in preparation for an entire re-work of the ADMS manual in 2025 we have changed the name of some menu items, for licenses, trial codes, settings, et. Al.

· Added KML and Geo-JSON support within the data tree as well as exports for both. Meaning you can just drop them in the folder like TIF’s or SHP’s and turn them on.

· Modifed Merge Grid Results and changed common name handling to store the “FullName” of the layer in the Merged Grid Points, rather that the “ShortName”. The “ShortName” of some soil labs was ridiculously long for the way the system was designed.

ADMS 9.18.5-Jan 30, 2024

· Changed TeamViewer from and Embedded resource to a file that is downloaded after installation.

· Fixed a Polygon and Point check in Merge Grid Results.

ADMS 9.18.3-Jan 12, 2024

· Fixed error checking for online temp folder when closing ADMS.

· Update GPS marking buttons to change colors when marking.

· Updated tile design to calculate start depth from Ideal Depth.

· New feature to save and load GeoParquet files.

ADMS 9.18.0 Rev 4

· Major Changes to the Landsat Version 2 Merge Utility. Now Merges 16-bit bands instead of down-sampling to 8-bit. ALL LANDSAT V2 IMAGERY NEEDS TO BE DELETED AND REPROCESSED

· Changes to Raster Draw to handle 48 bit per pixel Imagery

· Modified the Hillshade tool to improve functions.

· Updated to use GDAL 3.7.2

· We had 3 different methods of extracting imagery in previous versions. All of the locations in ADMS now use the best process we had, and that process has been upgraded to extract 16 bit per channel data.

· Updated Reduce Boundary Effect in the Zone Extract Tabs.
Multiple Vegetation layers can be exported without reloading the RGB Image. For example, you can extract NDVI Red, NDVI Green, and NIR with only one click on the Image Date. Hangs on to the Temp Image until a new image date is selected, or the tab is closed.

· Added an indicator to Online Data Extractor to show the name of the server the data is being sourced.

· Implemented new download procedures using streams for quicker download and less overhead on the Server and the Client.

· Implemented temporary filenames with unique ID s for preventing interference between multiple extracts at the same time.

· Added a better method of cleaning up temporary files in the temp extract folder.

· Updated Online Extract procedures to handle problems introduced with GDAL 3.6.2 and newer with calculations of stats with files that were empty or all black.

· Made changes to fix problems created from the changes to world file process.

· Changes to web maps to add licensing logos etc.

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· Modified world files writers to add EPSG codes.

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· Added a fix to polygon editing tools.

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· Added a fix to Dissolve tool.

ADMS 9.14.1-April 20, 2023

· The same changes as 14.0, just released on purpose this time. 😊

ADMS 9.14.0-April 19, 2023

· A routine in the CSV Data Provider was trying to grant permissions to a folder with the user, My.User.Name which returned nothing on my computer.
Changed it to grant Users full control of the folder it was writing to.

· Added support for importing Landsat Collection 2, Level 2 imagery to a 4 Band Geo-Tif.
It is adjustable as to what band to use, but we suggest letting it default to what comes up automatically.

· A fix was made to handle long column names in the vector merge tools.

· Shortened the characters allowed to 10 for a column name (which comes from the name of the surface) in Deere GRX Generator.

ADMS 9.13.0 Release Notes April 4, 2023

· GDAL 3.6.2 was released, so we have upgraded to that.
Changed the Version number of our GK_GDAL DLL to be the same version number as the version of GDAL that is targets.

· Fixed an issue loading 32-bit grayscale TIF s that had to do with inaccurate statistics calculated by GDAL approximation.

· Fixed an issue with BMP s not being saved with the filename the user had entered in the Common Dialog box.
As additional changes, fixed having temp files left over and deleted aux.xml files left over from the load process.

· Support for loading KML files directly in the tree.

· Added a new hill-shade tool located in 'Raster Tools'.

· Updated the algorithm to aspect and slope in Watershed Modeling.

· Updated a DLL called Brutile which is used for fetching web maps. Added fixes for WMS layers and made some temp file changes to provide better performance.
(This may have removed a few tile map sources that were previously available.)

· Fixed corrupting csv files when loading in UTM.
Can load them, save to SHP and be good to go. Reloading the CSV will cause an error for now.
Deleting the GKT_VAF will allow reloading the file with the wizard. Will take new file formats to fix. We have documented it for changes soon. But not this release

· Removed a ZIP file that was in the installer that contained Color Tables, Scripts, Templates, Symbology etc.
A customer s firewall was blocking all ZIP files, so we removed the ZIP and created a routine to store the individual files and copy them at startup.
This is only used to copy data for new users, or a new GKData Folder.

· Set the flag in Multiple Map Math outputs to indicate to the map control that the layers have been Saved. (IsDirty=False) and the EPSG Code and UTM Zone.

· Set the EPSG Code and UTM Zone on outputs coming out of Single Map Math.

· Made a small change to Control Point code in the AGPS Project Export to make that functional again.

· Made some adjustments to the Reproject Window to fix issues introduced with GDAL 3.5.

· Added methods to Print layout color chip legend, to allow for displaying unique values, so if you have 5 colors in your map you get 5 chips.

· Fixed an Issue with converting CSV files with Long Column Names to SHP files.

· Fixed an Issue that was causing CIR Extracts to try to Save an existing SID file to a New one.

· Added some Checks to Online data extractor to prevent users from extracting data from incomplete path names.

· More changes to threading with web map tile downloads.

· Made a change to loading of multi-resolution Geo-Tifs, a trap but in for a specific type of TIF was preventing loading TIF s from the southern hemisphere.

ADMS 9.10.2 Release Notes Feb 14, 2013

· The 3.5 Version of GDAL is having issues calculating statistics of an image. This made calculation for some process seem to hang.
The probably weren t frozen, just taking a very long time. For the time being we changed settings to allow it to use approximate

numbers since they are just being used to equalize colors. This was the problem with the Multi-Layer Band Display button that Clint reported.

· Changed to writing BMP files with GDI+ in Windows.

ADMS 9.10.1 Release Notes - Feb 11, 2023

· This release will be extracting data from a new server. We have found some corrupted SID files on this server.
Please report any counties that you have problems extracting from that report something like this.

· Some changes to the Online Extractor to be able to better judge progress on Extract All in NAIP Extraction.

· Modified location of NAIP Zip Extraction to prevent Dropbox from grabbing the temp zip file and preventing our process from deleting it.

· Updated to GDAL Version 3.52, which introduced several problems to be fixed with BMP file writing, and file close changes in GDAL.

· Fixes to Slider in the Tile Graph.

· Fixes to Print Layout.