NavTable - gvSIG extension

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is a gvSIG's extension to view in a agile way the records of vectorial geographical information layers. Its main characteristic is that allows to see the element's attributes one by one and in vertical direction. Some of its features are: edit alphanumeric values and navigate among the elements of an information layer.

NavTable is a simple tool that was thought to get a more confortable user experience in GIS. In spite of beeing a very recent development it is very useful in order to work with data everyday.

The extension NavTable has been developed by the Cartography Engineering Laboratory of University of A Coruña, CartoLab and it has been released under the terms of the version 3 of the GNU General Public License. We encourage to any user to let us know any suggest, comment, bug reports, etc...

Roadmap

Roadmap of future NavTable releases.

Downloads

Current version of NavTable is 0.6.2 (August 18, 2010). It works with gvSIG 1.9 and 1.10 versions only.

Linux installer:	Linux installer (BIN)
Windows installer:	Windows installer (EXE)
User manual:	Manual NavTable (PDF in Spanish) (Italian version 0.4)
Binaries:	Manual installation
Source code:	Source Code (ZIP)

     Old released available here
 

Release changes: NEWS

Features

• Visualization of vectorial layers data in records one by one and in vertical direction
• Edition of alphanumeric values (tested with ESRI Shapefile and PostGIS). It also supports non-geographical tables.
• Direct access to contiguous records, first, last or even to a specifc one; cursor keys supported
• Navigation using selection filters
• Zoom automatic and manual to the elements
• Zoom to the elements with fixed scale
• Allow to select and unselect elements
• Direct copy of attributes of a selected record
• Calculation area and length of the geometry
• Available in English, Galician, Portuguese, French and Spanish

Requirements

NavTable is a gvSIG extension, so it is necessary to have previously a gvSIG installation. It is compatible with versions 1.9 of gvSIG that can be obtained from http://www.gvsig.org

NavTable and gvSIG are cross-plaftform so can be installed in GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS enviroments.

More informaticon about gvSIG requirements:

Minimum: Pentium III (or equivalent) / 256 MB RAM
Recommended: Pentium IV (or equivalent) / 512 MB RAM

Installation

Once gvSIG version 1.9 is installed in the system, NavTable can be installed by means of the next ways:

Automatic installation by means the assistant:
Download the correspondent installer , execute it and follow the instructions.

Manual installation:
If you want to install NavTable manually you can download the binary files navTable_0.6.zip and unzip the folder 'es.udc.cartolab.gvsig.navtable' into: [gvSIG_installation_path]/bin/gvSIG/extensiones/

Linux example:
/home/user/gvSIG_1.9/bin/gvSIG/extensiones/es.udc.cartolab.gvsig.navtable

Mac example:
/Applications/gvSIG/sextante/gvSIG1.9build1045sex20090521.app/Contents/Resources/gvSIG/gvSIG\ 1.9\ build\ 1045.app/Contents/Resources/Java/gvSIG/extensiones/es.udc.cartolab.gvsig.navtable

Windows example:
C:\Program Files\gvSIG_1_9\bin\gvSIG\extensiones\es.udc.cartolab.gvsig.navtable

How to use

In order to use NavTable, first we must select a layer into the gvSIG's TOC and press the button . This will open the NavTable window and from now on it will be possible to deal with using its buttons and checkboxes.

There is more information available in the user manual (in Spanish and also in Italian). You can watch a screencast showing how to use the NavTable features:

Links

NavTable is hosted into the OSOR forge. In this link you can find useful information about the proyect such as documentation, mailing lists, bug tracker system, etc...

SVN repository of the source code are available in this link.

You can also visit the CartoLab's web where you can know more proyects and activities.

How to participate

NavTable is under continuos development, incorporating new features, fixing bugs, etc. That's why all the suggestions, ideas, comments, bug reports will be welcome.

• CartoLab mail: cartolab (at) udc (dot) es
• Mailing List: gvSIG's mailing lists (gSvIG distribution lists).
• Bug reports: bug tracker system
• Translations: user manual is only available in Spanish and Italian. Some volunteer?

Help us to make NavTable better!

Credits

Copyright (c) CartoLab - Universidade da Coruña, 2010. http://www.cartolab.es/

License GNU GPL v3. You can find the terms of this license in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

CartoLab is managed by: Fco. Alberto Varela García.

Development team:

• Juan Ignacio Varela García (lead developer)
• Pablo Sanxiao Roca
• Javier Estévez Valiñas
• Francisco Puga Alonso

Contributors:

• Francisco Alberto Varela García
• Daniel Díaz Grandío
• Gonzalo Martinez Crespo
• Adrián Eiris Torres
• Jorge Ocampo
• Carmen Molejón
• Agustín Diez Castillo (Valencia)
• Benjamin Ducke (Oxford Archaeology)
• Silvio Grosso
• Antonio Falciano

Special thanks to:

• Francisco José Peñarrubia (Valencia)
• Jordi Torres Fabra (Valencia)

Translations:

• Spanish, Galician, English: CartoLab
• French: Gonzalo Martinez Crespo
• Portuguese: Joaquim Rocha
• German: Artur Juen
• Italian: Silvio Grosso and Antonio Falciano

All development and related works with NavTable have been made using exclusively FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).

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Last Review: Mayo 2010.