• It is Free software, licensed under the GNU GPL.
• It is cross-platform, known to work on Windows, GNU/Linux, MacOS X, IRIX and FreeBSD.

• Airport->Load Raw Airport (Ctrl+A) is depreciated - use File->New (Ctrl+N) instead. They both did exactly the same thing, so I decided to remove one!
• X-Plane v810 format is now supported. Additional notes on this can be found here.
• A bug where calibrated images were not reloaded with a project is now fixed (hopefully).
• Turf runways are now coloured dark green.
• An edit->select all option has been added, to allow an entire airport to be moved at once. You'll need to unlock runways first though to move everything!
• TaxiDraw has been put in CVS with a source code directory re-organisation.
• An autotools system has been added instead of the hand-written makefile for the source build.

• Runway shoulders are now preserved when exporting to X-Plane format.
• Several helipad runway codes that were not previously recognised are now recognised and preserved on export correctly.
• A spurious warning when importing airports containing lakebed surface is fixed (eg. KEDW).
• Airports that span UTM zone boundaries can now be displayed using UTM projection.
• UTM zone can be manually changed by 1 when attempting to fetch USGS photography, since when a block of colour photography spans a UTM zone it is often projected using 1 zone only.
• A bug is fixed whereby USGS photography was not displayed for airports containing 'X' in the code (eg. KLAX, KOXR).
• The runway number of end 1 is displayed in the runway dialog title bar, in order to allow similar runways and helipads to be correctly identified.
• Thanks are due to Austin Goudge for reporting many of the bugs fixed in this release, and on the TODO list for the next release.

• libcurl is used for download instead of relying on the presence of wget.
• Downloaded USGS images are used as multiple tiles instead of concatenating them. As a result, the presence of ImageMagick is no longer required.
• As a result of the above two changes, USGS image downloading is now enabled in the Windows binary.
• The USGS image downloader first checks for colour imagery, and then reverts to black and white imagery if colour is not available.
• A scrolled canvas is now used, giving a more standard feel to moving the airport around than previously.
• Seaplane bases can now be opened, edited and written.
• Stopways are now displayed.
• Threshold position is now displayed for displaced thresholds.
• Beacons can now be added and deleted.
• Windsocks and tower viewpoint position are now displayed and editable, including add/delete (maximum of 1 tower viewpoint position per airport).
• An airport properties dialog is available allowing the airport properties to be edited.
• The runways properties dialog is greatly extended allowing all runway properties to be edited.
• Insert Taxiway shortcut is changed from T to Ctrl+T.
• Cygwin fixes from Bruce Finney.
• The windows binary release now uses a proper installer (thanks to Inno-setup).
• Menu items are now greyed out when not logically available. (Most of them - some still need to be done such as undo/redo).
• Probably more stuff that I can't remember!

Development Snapshot Binaries

v0.3.2 Binaries

v0.3.1 Binaries

The open-source X-Plane and FlightGear airport and navaid database can be downloaded from Robin Peel's site at www.x-plane.org/home/robinp.

The latest development source code of the project is held in a version control system on SourceForge's servers called CVS. TaxiDraw's developers have access to write to this system when they wish to update the code. Anybody may download the latest development code from CVS by using anonymous access. Note that the CVS code may contain new, unfixed bugs, unstable code, and code that might do damage to your system (although we hope not!). It is not necessarily code that we consider ready to roll up into a release for users. With those provisos out of the way, here are the anonymous CVS instructions for checking out a copy of TaxiDraw:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@taxidraw.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/taxidraw login

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@taxidraw.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/taxidraw co TaxiDraw

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

cvs update -dPA

The author would like to thank both Microsoft Research and the United States Geological Survey for making the USGS aerial photography freely available at terraserver-usa.com.

Thanks are due to Martin Spott for making an IRIX binary available, and to James Turner and Andrew McGregor for making MacOS X packages available.

Thanks to Sourceforge for hosting the project.

Credit is also due to all those who have reported bugs, suggested fixes and sent in patches - Thank you!