Map Compare News
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Functionality:
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(for maps see below)

v2.0
- all CSS/JS are local files, Map Compare can run offline on a laptop
- upgrade JavaScript libs to latest version: jquery, jqModal, OpenLayers
- support google maps v3
- allow to display only one map
- support up to 32 maps on a page
- table with rows support. one row for <=3 maps, 2 rows for 4-10 maps,
  3 rows for 11-21 maps, and 4 rows for more than 21 maps
- noscript warning if JavaScript is disabled
- update help.html page
- center to Berlin downtown
- supported browsers: Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, IE8 or later

v2.1
- support fullscreen view
- highlight active map
- new URL parameter &fullscreen=1 to enable fullscreen mode

v2.2
- new menu for overlay maps (top right)
- location service: where am I?
- Web Accessibility: enable keyboard shortcuts: 
  for navigation: arrow left, arrow top, arrow right, arrow bottom, h/j/k/l; 
  for zoom: -/=/+; to toggle fullscreen: f; jump to geolocation: g; 
  select number of maps: 1/2/3/4/6/8

v2.3
- Map Compare admin console to configure number of maps, your own
  tile servers and the order of maps
- run JavaScript code in strict mode, HTML5
- JavaScript refactoring to avoid local variables
- Maps are sorted in pull-down menu, by name (OSM maps first) or type

v2.4
- display overlay maps with opacity in percent range 0..100%
- bing maps were off-by-one in zoom level

v2.5
- upgrade to OpenLayer v2.12, which fix the Google Map copyright bug
- patch OpenLayer v2.11, which fix the Google Map copyright bug
- move all maps left/right/top/down on key strokes, not just the first map
- map.pan(): google maps don't support animate flag 
- use stable google maps version 3.8

v2.6
- improve JS performance 
- support up to 5 rows for more than 32 maps on a page
- improve admin console design for smaller screens
- new parameter "url" to set center of map
- admin console: configure center and zoom level

v2.7
- new slider for overlay transparancy
- development: improved console logging
- support profiles for Satellite, Nokia, Google, Bing, Yahoo,
  OpenStreeMap, Public Transport, Cycle, Commercial
- profiles in fullscreen mode by default
- help page for admin console
- new class OpenLayers.Layer.Nokia

v2.8
- bugfix: adjust zoom for maps with lower zoom levels

v2.9
- map size fine tuning for full screen mode
- fix google maps in full screen mode
- ESC key: leave full screen mode
- update help page
- support multiple servers in URL config, e.g.: https://{switch:a,b}.tile.bbbike.org
- bugfix for '-' event key in Firefox 15.x or later, see https://github.com/openlayers/openlayers/issues/605

v2.10
- bugfix: unfocus select box for key arrow events on a map
- There are several ways to keep the GPS position in a string. For our
  convenience we support them all: Map Compare, Google Maps, OpenStreeMaps, e.g.
  https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/#map=17/52.58522/13.36238
  https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/#@52.5062881,13.4009077,13z
- always display lon,lat position. If the mouse pointer is outside the map, 
  display it in grey color

v2.11
- fix JS errors for Google Maps on OpenLayers on mobile devices
- responsive design: show only 2 maps on smaller screens
- resize help window for smaller devices
- improve map height calculation

v2.12
- new feature: address search with nominatim
- set cloud marker for address search
- The current visible map is the preferred area to find search results

v2.13
- replace permalink with a more flexible share button
- enable to move a marker on the map
- display map names on top of a map in full screen mode

v2.14
- with dynamic link to BBBike Extract service
- configure center for profiles
- cleanup help page
- use HTTPS for tiles if available
- console: support HTTPS tile URLs
- console: supports retina displays with @2x in URLs
- do not hide custom mouse GPS pointer info on small devices

v2.15
- group maps in <optgroup> for better readability in select menu 
- display class of search results (e.g. place, highway etc.)
- limit max. popup size for markers
- shorter maps links list
- refactor console center, with full URLs

v2.16
- refactor help page

v2.17
- support HTTPS requests for https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/

v2.20
- new section "Other map providers" (e.g. osmlab)
- maps may have their own center, e.g. for regional maps which does not cover
  the whole world

v2.21
- new external provider wikimedia (Historische Berliner Karten)
- show 3 maps by default instead 4

v2.24
- mapnik german is the first map

v2.27
- no longer use {a,b,c}.tile sub-domains for OpenStreetMap releated services (to slow for SSL)


Maps:
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v2.0
- disable stale maps
- 3x BBBike maps: mapnik, mapnik (de), smoothness
- 3x Yahoo maps
- 3x Bing maps
- mapnik: german, black/white
- OSM Landscape, OSM Transport, OSM Hike&Bike and OSM Public Transport
- Land Shading and overlay Hillshading
- Mapquest (OSM) and Mapquest Satellite
- Esri Topo and Esri 
- MapBox (OSM)
- Apple iPhoto (OSM)
- overlay maps: ADFC Radwegenetz, Velo-Layer, MaxSpeed
- Added Toner and Watercolor maps
- Tile@Home is dead

v2.1
- OSM Wanderreitkarte

v2.2
- Skobbler
- split Mapquest into Mapquest Europe and Mapquest America

v2.3
- Yandex Maps, Yandex Sat and Yandex Hybrid maps

v2.5
- new URL for OePNV-Karte
- new maps: OSM no labels, OSM labels Russian (ru), OSM labels Japanese (ja)
- new overlays: OSM labels ru, ja, ar, zh, en, fr, de, ko, pl, es
- new overlays: Parking,  Power Map, Bicycle Network

v2.6
- new maps: Nokia Map, Terrain, Satellite, Hybrid, Public Transit, Traffic 
- new map: Soviet Military Topo, ca. 1980
- total number of maps supported on a screen: 53 (!)

v2.7
- fix overlay for google maps and Yahoo maps
- fix zoom level for bing maps (zoomMin=0)
- support 4 new google overlay maps: Bicycle, Traffic, Transit, Panoramio, and Weather
- update to google maps v3.9 (for Transit)

v2.8
- new map: Maptookit Topo (OSM) 
- new map: OSM OpenTopoMap
- new maps: Cloudmade Map, Fine Line, Midnight, Pale Dawn, Tourist, Blackout, Thin, Cycle Walk

v2.9
- new map: Waze (US), Waze (World)
- new maps: Google Map MapMaker and Google Hybrid MapMaker
- new map: OSM2World/3D
- new map: map1eu (OSM)
- new map: bvg
- new maps: OSM Roads, OSM Roads Greyscale, OSM Semitransparenti, ASTER GDEM & SRTM Hillshade, 
 	    ASTER GDEM contour lines, OSM Administrative Boundaries
- new maps: Esri gray, Esri Satellite, Esri Physical, Esri Shaded Relief, Esri Terrain, 
            Esri Boundaries & Places, Esri Reference Overlay, Esri Transportation
- new maps: Falk OSM, Falk Original
- new map: OSM Comic Sans
- new map: OSM Mapnik Retina, OSM SouthEastAsia
- new maps: OSM Waymarkedtrails for hiking, cycling, MTB and skating
- new maps: Lyrk (OSM) and Lyrk Retina
- new maps: OSM FR, OSM FR hot and OSM FR openriverboatmap
- new maps: OSM GPS
- renamed Nokia to HERE maps
- new maps: Komoot, mapquest Labels
- new maps: MapBox Satellite

v2.10
- Yahoo! maps API is dead, remove all Yahoo maps
- disable stale maps: mapnik-retina, mapbox, soviet-military

v2.11
- Bing coverage overlays: Sat & Date

v2.12, v2.13
- new bbbike layers for Berlin: green, unlit, cycle routes, cycleway, handicap
- new maps: CartoDB Positron and Dark Matter
- new map: Sputnik
- new maps: Geofabrik Standard, German and Topo
- new map: OSM OpenSnowMap
- new maps: ITO Lit (OSM), ITO Surface (OSM), ITO Max Speed (OSM)
- new map: OSM OpenRailwayMap Standard, Maxspeeds
- new map: MapBox Transport (OSM Retina), Terrain, Runkeepers
- new map: OSM Toner Retina

v2.14
- new map: Hillshading SRTM3 V2
- new profile: hillshading
- new profile: extract, night, thunderforest, uni-heidelberg, baidu
- new tile URLs for korona.geog.uni-heidelberg.de
- new tile URLs for thunderforest.com
- new maps: OSM Outdoors, OMS Transport Dark
- new map: Geofabrik night
- new map: OSM lights
- new maps: Baidu maps, labels, satellite
- new map: Relief SRTM
- new maps: LGB Brandenburg Webatlas, Satellite Color, Satellite Grey, Satellite Infrared
- new maps: LGB Brandenburg Topo 50, Topo 10, Admin. Boundaries, PLZ, 1902, 1767
- new map: OpenMap Public Transport
- new map GeoIQ Acetate Base, Terrain, Hillshading, Roads/Labels
- new map Michelin Map, Simplified, Labels
- new profile lgb, berlin, geoiq, viamichelin
- new maps: Esri Ocean, National Geographic
- new profile: yandex
- bing maps with HTTPS tiles

v2.15
- new maps: OSM Switzerland
- new maps: OSM Sweden
- new maps: Kosmosnimki, Chepetsk
- new maps: Kompass
- new maps: OSM Pioneer railroad
- new maps: Sigma Topo, Cycle
- new maps: basemap.at Standard, Retina, Grey, Satellite
- new map: Pharus
- new map: Visitnorway
- new maps: Apple Map, Hybrid, Satellite

v2.16
- new maps: MapQuest Map, Hybrid, Satellite, Dark, Light
- new maps: Skobbler Lite, Day, Outdoor, Night

v2.17
- new maps: Berlin Historical (Aerial 2016, 2016i, 2014, 2010, 2004, 1928),
            (1650, 1690, 1750, 1800, 1850, 1880, 1910, 1940, 1986, Geo 1874-1937, Hobrechtplan 1862, Gebäudeschäden 194)
- cleanup stale maps 
- support HTTPS requests for BBBike maps
- new maps: TomTom (basic, hybrid, labels), main and night
- new map: maplink (Brazil)
- new map: OpenSeaMap, Carto
- new map: Carto basemaps
- new maps: Thunderforest Spinal Map, Neighbourhood
- new maps: f4map
- new maps: OpenInfraMap Telecoms, Power, Water, Microwave, Petroleum 
- Google Panoramio is dead
- new maps: DigitalGlobe Satellite

v2.18
- new maps: Bergfex OSM, OEK
- new map: Thunderforest Mobile Atlas
- new map: Kartogiraffe
- new map: OSM IE Gaelic
- new map: AllRailMap (OSM)
- new maps: DigitalGlobe Street Map, Terrain Map
- new maps: Mapy Base, Satellite, Historical map of Bohemia, etc.
- new map: Freemap Slovakia
- new map: DigitalGlobe Transparent StreetMap

v2.19
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 2017
- new map: WikiData Intl (OSM)
- new map: Google Street View
- new map: Mapillary Coverage
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 1953
- new maps: Outdooractive Summer, Winter, Topo
- new maps: MapTiler Streets, Basic, Topo, Bright, Positron, Darkmatter
- new map: Serbiamap (latin, cyrillic)
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 2007, 2015, 2018
- new map: Imagico satellite and aerial photos
- new map: MetaGer

v2.20
- new map: mappy

v2.21
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 2019
- new map: OSM CyclOSM
- new map: WhereGroup Lyrk
- migrate DigitalGlobe to Maxar tile server
- new overlay map: OSM OpenSnowMap ski pistes
- new map: Lightningmaps

v2.22
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 2020 (Aug 2020)
- the map soviet-military is back!
- new map: UMP-pcPL
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 2021 (Feb 2021)
- new map: BalticMaps
- new map: OSM China
- new map: Tracestrack
- new map: OSM Cymru/Welsh
- new map: Tracestrack Bus, Subway, English, Default language

v2.23
- cleanup a lot of stale maps
- new map: HeiGIT / SRTM
- new map: S-Bahn Berlin (OSM)
- new map: BVG (OSM)
- new map: VBB (OSM)
- new map: BVG 20, 50
- new map: OSM FR breton

v2.24
- update LGB Brandenburg setup (open data)
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 2016-2018 4m
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 2013-2015
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 2009-2012 4m
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 2005-2010 4m
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 2001-2009 grey
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 2001-2005 grey
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 1992-1997 grey
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial 1953
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Topo DTK100, DTK25
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Webatlas grey
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Aerial Color Sentinel
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Topo DTK10v (Vorläufer der Digitalen Topographischen Karte)
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Topo DTK25v (Vorläufer der Digitalen Topographischen Karte)
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Kataster Flurst.
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Kataster Boden
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Sentinel2 RGB
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Sentinel2 Nir
- new map: LGB Brandenburg Sentinel2 NirRER

v2.25
- new map: Stamen Terrain (OSM)
- new map: HistoMap Berlin: Kartenblatt 4236 (Mitte), 1935, 1946, 1966 Ost, 1984 Ost, 1988 Ost/West
- new map: HistoMap Berlin: Kartenblatt 4338 (Reinickendorf), 1935, 1938, 1948, 1954, 1967 Ost, 1974 West, 1979 Ost, 1986 Ost
- new map: GSI Japan tPale, Aerial, GSI Japan Std, English
- new map: MapFan Road (Japan)
- new map: Berlin Historical Aerial 2022 (March 2022)
- new map: Mapnik 2012, 2009, 2008
- new map: LGB Brandenburg DGM (digitales Gelaendemodell)
- new map: Mapy Aerial, Outdoor, Traffic, Tourist, Winter

v2.26
- new map: OpenRailwayMap Signal., Electrif., Track Gauge
- new map: Clockwork Micro Streets, Terrain (Hillshade, Aspect, Slope, Raw)
- new map: Optitool Truck (OSM)
- new map: Hausnummern Berlin TS (OSM)
- new map: sorbian
- new map: Geodatenzentrum Color, Grey, Hillshading, ColorDEM, Combshade
- new map: Geofabrik Basic Color, Basic Greys, Basic Pastels

v2.27
- update map: Stadia Maps × Stamen Design
- remove stale maps
- new map: HistoMap Berlin 4223 1928-1990 (Friedrichshain)
- new map: Berlin Aerial 2023
- new map: Safecast, Safecast Cosmic
- new map: MTB map

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Wolfram Schneider, March 2024, Map Compare v2.27, https://mc.bbbike.org/mc