GLIMSView Bugs and Wishlist

List of Bugs and Desired Features for GLIMSview 1.0. Compiled and maintained by Deborah Lee Soltesz & Bruce Raup.

5/29/2008 9:04

Issue ID

Type

Description

Date Reported

Reported by

Platform

Severity

Status

Date Fixed

Fixed by

Notes on Fix

Related URL

Relation

Notes

Bug

Tool: IP Place point. A glacier ID shows up in the glacier config tab. CTRL-Z (undo) makes the input point go away on the image, but the ID doesn't go away from the glacier config tab.

Raup

Linux

Urgent

Closed

12/6/2004

dls

adding highlighting of selected points, lines, or glacier ids in list fixed this problem

Bug

Help->About: version number is not current. Says 0.99 instead of 1.0

Raup

Linux

Urgent

Closed

4/14/2004

dls

Bug

User's Guide: There is a link to the GLIMS website, but clicking on it only makes the User's Guide window go blank, and I get the message: "QTextBrowser: no mimesource for http://www.glims.org/" in the terminal window.

Raup

Linux

Closed

4/14/2004

dls

removed link to GLIMS website - the help window is not a true web browser

Bug

Config:Image -- The image filename is not filled in.

Raup

Linux

Urgent

Closed

8/20/2005

dls

4/14/04 - There's still an issue with reading/writing data to the project file. This element has been renamed from filename to Image URL, which is what should be displayed in the dialog. 8/20/2005 - missing & caused data structure holding the data to "lose" it

Wanted Feature

Glimsview is designed to be run from the installation directory only. If it is run from somewhere else, it doesn't know where to find the pixmaps for the buttons. Should use an environment variable such as GLIMSVIEW_HOME.

Raup

Linux

Open

http://www.glims.org/glimsview/bug_report/bug005.html

Wanted Feature

Ability to export the ASTER (or whatever) image in GeoTIFF, PNG, and other formats.

G. Hamilton

Urgent

Open

Wanted Feature

When saving a project, it would be good if the stretches that had been applied to the image were also saved.

Raup

Linux

Open

relation based on need for project XML refinement and additions

Wanted Feature

Should be able to use GCPs to adjust the geolocation of the image, or, ideally, orthorectify the image.

G. Hamilton

Open

Wanted Feature

When the user tries to exit the program without first saving work, the dialog should be something like "Save before quitting?", and the buttons should say something like "yes", "no", "cancel", where "cancel" cancels the quit operation.

Raup

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

Wanted Feature

Generic shapefile import: currently, shapefiles must be in lat/lon coordinates. Need to be able to import shapefiles in projected coordinates.

Khalsa

Windows

Urgent

Open

Interface improvement

Bulk delete of polylines, e.g. shift-click to select entire line, DEL key deletes.

Khalsa

Windows

Urgent

Open

Interface improvement

Bulk nudge of points (select group of points, move them all together)

Khalsa

Windows

Urgent

Open

Wanted Feature

Autosave/recover feature

Khalsa, F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Open

Wanted Feature

Layer manager (things like toggling all lines on and off, or just certain line types on and off)

Khalsa

Windows

Open

Multiple layers with photoshop/illustrator style box would be nice, wouldn't it?

Wanted Feature

Generic shapefile import without pre-loaded image (requires redesign of program, which currently bases geolocation on a single image)

Khalsa

Windows

Open

Doubt a redesign is in order… just a couple tweaks.

Wanted Feature

Add units to form for inputting glacier params (width, length, area, etc.)

Khalsa

Windows

Urgent

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

Wanted Feature

Prompt before overwrite shapefiles (export)

Khalsa

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

More screens to supply all the metadata that is in the shapefiles it generates. Currently, it gives you the option to input only some of the parameters, but others, like whether the image was orthorectified (segments table) and what the RC_ID is (currently given arbitrary value?) would have to be supplied by editing the shapefiles.

Khalsa

Windows

Urgent

Closed

1/23/2006

dls

8/5/2005 - RC_ID and other Session stuff fixed - more fixes coming
1/23/2006 - several Image metadata fields added, fixed Image URL, and added validator button for Acquisition Date-Time

Bug

Occasional crashes; cause unknown; crashes when working on large projects also reported;

F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Closed

7/14/2005

dls

refactored undo to not save a copy of the entire line set, reducing memory usage

Probably related to the undo facility creating a full snapshot, which uses a lot of memory for large projects (see also 78)

Wanted Feature

Ability to import older Landsat imagery (TM? MSS?)

F. Rau

Windows

Open

P. Geissler has expressed a need for this also (7/20/2005)

Wanted Feature

Ability to import imagery from ASTER L2

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Ability to import imagery from SPOT

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Ability to import imagery from ERS

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Ability to import imagery from ERDAS Imagine, IDRISI, PCI. (Should currently be able to go through GeoTIFF, though. --B. Raup)

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Should be able to view georeference system of input imagery (projection, datum)

F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Open

Interface improvement

No project information is available during an analysis session => project name in the program bar, readable session log (translation of the XML file as text or HTML for human readers?), etc. would be extremely helpful for the analyst.

F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Closed

1/23/2006

dls

8/2005 - problems getting this to work in windows

Interface improvement

Save and export options open the same pop-up window without further indication what is to be saved or exported (include specific standard file extensions?). What is the difference between PROJECT => INGEST => IMPORT and IMPORT shapefile?

F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

8/4/2005 - Changed menu wording - need to add filters to all file boxes

Interface improvement

More self-explaining menus or a context-sensitive help functions

F. Rau

Windows

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

updated a lot of the menus and icons to be a little more friendly

Interface improvement

On-line help should include GLIMS-specific glossary

F. Rau

Windows

Open

1/23/2006 - added quite a bit to the User Guide; plan to add context-sensitive help in the near future

maybe link to data dictionary?

Interface improvement

There are some items in the menus which are not explained (histogram best fit, etc.). (This should be improved in on-line help and the manual/tutorial. -B.Raup)

F. Rau

Windows

Open

would like to totally redesign the histogram functions

Interface improvement

The icons in the icon bar should be arranged in groups with spacers between (e.g. to avoid the selection of the glacier ID tool between the digitizing tools and the selection tool).

F. Rau

Windows

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

separated the tool buttons by function

need general improvement of icons (see work done by 2005 Capstone team)

Interface improvement

Imported shapefiles should be integrated as a grouped item with their arc-specific properties to facilitate a easy identification and a rapid removal of the item from the current session. (This is similar to Item 14, Layer Manager. -B.Raup)

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Interface improvement

The selection tool does not provide specific modes for selecting and it is sometimes a little bit tricky to select the different items (points, arcs, glacier Ids). In particular, the individual selection of overlapping arcs is almost impossible. Therefore, it would be great to have a type-sensitive selection tool or at least, the possibility to choose between various tools for selecting the different items. In addition, it is rather difficult to select several items (by pressing the shift button) and to group them (this is required e.g. for the preparation of two connected or neighboring glaciers sharing a common boundary line).

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Interface improvement

Determining Left/Right sides of a line needs to be automated, say, by clicking on the side of the line you mean, rather than remembering the direction of digitization.

F. Rau, F. Cawkwell, B. Raup

Windows

Urgent

Open

See series of e-mails on the subject (March 2005). Need some kind of visual feeback on line direction.

Interface improvement

Should be able to select a glacier and edit its ID, etc. by clicking on the dot associated with the glacier ID. That is, should be able to click on outline and have corresponding ID highlighted in glacier config tool. Conversely, should be able to click on glacier ID in config tool and see which outlines are associated with it. Once the user has done "Set Lines", there is currently no way to see confirmation of that association.

F. Rau, B. Raup

Windows

Urgent

Closed

12/6/2004

dls

http://www.glims.org/glimsview/bug_report/bug035.html

Interface improvement

Should be able to delete a glacier ID by selecting its ID in the Glacier Config tab of the Configuration dialog. (You can delete a glacier ID by selecting the dot on the image, then pressing the DEL key. -B.Raup)

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Tried 12/6/2004 and did not succeed, but know how to fix

See code for notes - tried to fix, but need to create a custom listview object to catch the key strokes

Interface improvement

There seems to be no access to the characteristics of a digitized feature => it would aid the analysis process if the program provides a direct possibility to extract the information (e.g. via a context sensitive info window, a status bar, or by highlighting the respective feature type in the configuration menu).

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Interface improvement

A tool for measuring length and width of the glacier could facilitate a direct determination of these parameters within an analysis session.

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Bug

Population of mandatory fields for submission to NSIDC needs to be enforced by GLIMSview. See related URL for list.

Raup

Linux

Urgent

Open

1/23/2006 - current work on "consistency" is working towards this goal

http://www.glims.org/MapsAndDocs/datatransfer/data_transfer_specification.html

Combination of GLIMSView enforcement and completed & correct Schema or DTD; 8/4/2005 - An additional cross-reference list has been compiled based on the data dictionary, the Schema updated - need to go through GV to check for inconsistencies and make sure data entry fields are the appropriate size

Bug

Image Info Tab: ?Acquisition? is misspelled.

Raup

Linux

Closed

4/14/2004

dls

Bug

Tools->Plugins: ?Threshold? is misspelled.

Raup

Linux

Closed

4/16/2004

dls

Bug

GLIMSview doesn't read geolocation information from GeoTIFF.

Raup

Linux

Urgent

Open

Bug

Null values need to be handled consistently for exporting.

Raup

Linux

Urgent

Open

1/23/2006 Need to find out what Bruce means by this

is this a related issue to storage of WGMS values? Which NULL values are inconsistent? My vote is -1 means undefined

Wanted Feature

DEM: Ability to do 3-dimensional analysis, using imagery and a DEM.

A. Racoviteanu

Open

P. Geissler has reasserted this need, along with anaglyph/stereo viewing (95)

-1

Wanted Feature

Should be able to read attribute data in from a .dbf file

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Urgent

Open

2007-06-21 fixed GLIMS shapefile import, but not regular shapefile import…

Wanted Feature

Should be able to read attribute data in from a .xls file (or .sxc file (openoffice spreadsheet format) -B.Raup)

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Ability to include area of internal rocks in glacier basin in config.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Allow line endpoints to be joined to line midpoints and snap overlapping lines to each other.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

Joining to midpoints? Is that valid?

Wanted Feature

Read shapefiles of points and lines, not just polygons

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Closed

5/29/2008

dls

2008-05-29 added points import, made both segments and points bring in attributes from DBF file and match to GLIMS project data

Wanted Feature

Read in metadata from other formats

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

Bug

In Configuration dialog, the line color selection is not always saved.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Urgent

Open

dls

4/14/04 - haven't been able to repeat problem yet

Wanted Feature

Change color of glacier ID dot when ID is selected in Config

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Closed

12/6/2004

dls

Wanted Feature

Be able to generate an ID for each polygon automatically, and enter automatically into Config.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Test

12/6/2004

dls

Not fixed, but I believe selecting a glacier ID from the config dialog makes that the default ID for new lines

Bug

Be consistent in defining longitude as +- 180 or 0-360

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Urgent

Open?

going with +/-180 (did this get fixed or not?)

Wanted Feature

Ability to change the order of glacier IDs in the Config list

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

fix will be related to making the delete key work in the lists (see Bug 36)

Wanted Feature

Ability to change the order of line types in Config list.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

fix will be related to making the delete key work in the lists (see Bug 36)

Wanted Feature

Be able to delete line types from Config list.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

fix will be related to making the delete key work in the lists (see Bug 36)

Wanted Feature

Change cursor for different functions (particularly magnifiers)

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

general usability issue

Wanted Feature

Dashed and dotted lines are unable to resolve complex lines so more colours would be helpful

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

Qt color picker oughta make this easy

Wanted Feature

Redo facility

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Closed

7/23/2005

dls

Redo of undo implemented similar to undo. Need to do a little clean-up (abstract upper classes, GID data handled the same as line data, etc.

Bug

In line definition dialog, ?vegetation? is misspelled.

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Closed

5/24/2004

dls

Plug-in

Drainage basin identification plug-in

F. Cawkwell

Windows

Open

Bug

Analyst name is not reread into Config/Session tab when reading a previously saved project. Only the "Process Desc" field is reread correctly. Same for image acquisition date in the Image/Info tab.

F. Rau, B. Raup

Urgent

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

All the fields should work correctly now - crashing caused by the "fixes" should also be resolved (8/20/2005)

Bug

When displaying a GeoTIFF image, geodetic coordinates are not (always) displayed correctly.

F. Rau, B. Raup

Windows, Linux

Urgent

Open

Bug

Southern hemisphere glacier IDs are usually (but not always!) incorrectly generated with "N" rather than "S"

F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Closed

5/7/2004

dls

5/7/04: changed GlacierIDDef::toString to use temp variables for lat/lon so mlat/mlon aren't modified in the process of generating a glacier ID string. 5/5/04: Problem was in GLIMSProject::exportGLIMSIngest - called GlacierIDDef::toString(), which converts lat/lon to postive value with N, S identifier… changed order so lat/lon are written to shape file before toString is called

Wanted Feature

Ability to edit image metadata in Config tool

F. Rau

Windows

Urgent

Closed

1/23/2006

dls

8/20/2005 - fixed issues with Image Information config, so should be easy to finish the job
1/23/2006 - Image config and Session mostly complete, but need to check for absolute correctness with data dictionary

Wanted Feature

Need general comment field for notes about the glacier

F. Rau

Windows

Open

Bug

Crash happens when trying to change viewed band combinations midstream through digitization work.

2/10/2004

T. Khromova

Windows

Open

Wanted Feature

Project title or identifier should be in GLIMSview window title bar, so that someone can easily use multiple sessions at the same time.

2/11/2004

T. Khromova

Windows

Obnoxious

Closed

1/23/2006

dls

added to status bar

Add project title to XML. If not defined, use project file name.

Wanted Feature

Indicate which metadata are optional, which are mandatory.

2/19/2004

Khalsa

Urgent

Open

Wanted Feature

Compute length (given a center line), width (also from a certain
segment, use snow line?), and area automatically.

2/19/2004

Khalsa

Open

Wanted Feature

DEM: With an input DEM, offer orthorectification

2/19/2004

Khalsa

Open

Wanted Feature

STEREO: With ASTER data, offer stereo viewing while drawing lines (using colored glasses)

2/19/2004

Khalsa

Open

Overlapping footprints or DEM?

Wanted Feature

Add comments field to segments, or at least to Glacier_Dynamic

2/19/2004

Khalsa

Open

Wanted Feature

(related to #11) Be able to select additional lines with shift-click

4/8/2004

Khalsa

Urgent

Open

Wanted Feature

(similar to #32) Importing shapefiles should allow carry-over of attributes defining line types.

4/8/2004

Khalsa

Closed

5/29/2008

dls

2008-05-29 Updated segments shapefile import and added points shapefile import, both look for GLIMS attributes in the DBF file

Wanted Feature

(similar to #33) Enhanced selection tool ? polygon bounding region rather than just rubber band box

4/8/2004

Khalsa

Open

Will need this for data->text export (92)

Wanted Feature

GLIMSview is slow with many vertices. Either speed up, or give warning about too many vertices.

4/8/2004

Khalsa

Closed

7/14/2005

dls

refactored undo to not save a copy of the entire line set, reducing memory usage

Probably related to the undo facility creating a full snapshot, which uses a lot of memory for large projects (19)

-1

Wanted Feature

If there are lines or polygons that are not associated with a glacier ID, GLIMSview should give a warning before exporting for ingest (and even before saving).

4/8/2004

Raup

Urgent

Open

Bug

Sometime, the ID dots disappear from the view, even tho' the IDs are still in the config tool list.

4/8/2004

F. Bown

Windows

Urgent

Closed

12/6/2004

dls

Bug

The glacier ID is not correctly created from the coordinates. It truncates rather than rounding. More importantly, if the coordinate is something like "43.0532", the corresponding part of the ID becomes "43532"; the algorithm to generate the ID doesn't take into account a zero right after the decimal point. (The XML file stores only the coordinates for each glacier, and doesn't explicitly store the ID.) This is related to #65.

4/14/2004

B.Raup

Urgent

Closed

4/16/2004

dls

Wanted Feature

be able to specify a default value for all points (preferably of a given line type), rather than having to enter them individually for each segment.

4/15/2004

Khalsa

Urgent

Open

Bug

General issues with saving/reading project information to/from project file, starting with "Image Info" configuration dialog - suspect bigger problem.

4/16/2004

D.Soltesz

Urgent

Open

Bug

WGMS classifications in Edit Glacier ID dialog are shifted by 1, causing wrong descriptions to be associated with the Glacier ID.

5/5/2004

B.Raup, F. Rau

Urgent

Closed (Mostly - see notes)

5/24/2004

dls

Fixed handling of values for the classifications to output WGMS standard values to the project file. Old projects will be automatically "fixed" and tagged with a version date. Schema (draft at this point) has been created. Version Date is pulled from AboutDlg.

Qt does not handle Schema - it does support DTD and insists on having a DOCTYPE in the file… one option is to suffer with it and use Schema, the other is to convert the Schema to DTD. 69 has another XML related issue

Typo

Confluent in WGMS classification

5/20/2004

J. Kargel

Annoying

Closed

5/24/2004

dls

Typo

Primary Classification "prim_class" missing underscore when exported to shapefile

5/2/2004

B.Raup, F. Rau

Annoying

Closed

5/24/2004

dls

Fixed output label on export, and check input labels on import for both "primclass" and "prim_class" for backwards compatibility

Typo

Output GlacType (again) instead of Name in LineData/LineDefSet/LineDefinition

5/18/2004

D.Soltesz

Annoying

Closed

5/24/2004

dls

No backwards fixes implemented

Wanted Feature

Secondary classifications?

5/21/2002

B.Molnia

Open

Needs to be addressed by GLIMS standards folks

Bug

lineconfig-data set: the global uncertainties values for Y (sometimes also for X) are always set to zero after importing. in the exported file the values are still proper.

8/3/2004

D. Riemann (F. Rau)

Open

Bug

Certain EDC Aster products appear as "blank" image

10/8/2004

E. Lee

Urgent

Closed

10/19/2004

dls

DN range not set correctly when reading in 16-bit HDF file, resulting in bad autostretch of the data

Bug

Switch window display from normal to cascade and back causes crash

10/21/2004

E. Lee

Annoying

Open

Wanted Feature

Export selected DN's to text file for use in spreadsheet

11/1/2004

E. Lee, J. Kargel

Annoying

Open

need selection lasso metioned in 77

Wanted Feature

When reading NLAPS format, it would be nice it GLIMSview didn't care which file in a set of NLAPS file for a particular image you picked -- it should just know that if you pick a .l? file, you meant the set of files associated with that one.

11/16/2004

B. Raup

Very Annoying

Open

Barring a fix, it would at least be good to document that fact that you need to select the .H1 file.

Bug

Update glacier id list highlighting after doing a Set Line

12/6/2004

D. Soltesz

Urgent

Open

Hope to fix with other listview issues mentioned in other bug/wish list items

Wanted Feature

STEREO: Anaglyph viewing; Load same band into multiple channels; Load Aster 3B with other bands; allow view rotation to take advantage of Aster stereo pairs

7/20/2005

P. Geissler, D. Soltesz

Suggestion

Open

Similar requests already on list

Wanted Feature

Need Schema against which a project file can be validated (by GV)

5/27/2004

D. Soltesz

Open

Work started. Qt 2.3 doesn't handle Schema. Waiting for next version of Qt. May consider switching XML i/o over to use SAX libraries instead of Qt XML module

Wanted Feature

Make GV project independent instead of glacier specific; Build dialogs from XML "project description" file that sets fields, types, values, ranges, etc. from project's data dictionary;

11/1/2004

D. Soltesz, K. Mullins (Mars Dune DB project)

Need by 2007 at the earliest

Open

2005 CS Capstone Project worked on this issue, creating dialog boxes on the fly (a la Isis 3) from XML.

Bug

Prosc_desc truncated to 200 characters

7/14/2005

F. Rau

Urgent

Closed

8/4/2005

dls

3D description also fixed to save as many characters as is in the description field

Truncated in XML or shapefile? See e-mail from 7/14

Wanted Feature

In the whole view window make it so that whenever you click on the image, with any tool, it moves the red box to that area. Since no other tools can be used in the whole view this would make for less tool switching between the differnt views.

7/15/2005

D. Gaseau

Open

100

Wanted Feature

Red box... in any of the views, when the hand tool is selected, make it so that instead of moving the entire image (if the hand tool is clicked outside of the redbox). Make it so the redbox jumps to the place where the user clicked.

7/15/2005

D. Gaseau

Open

Refer to Envi for an example of this functionality

101

Wanted Feature

I am having a hard time selecting points at 2000 zoom to modify them. The selection tool only moves along the pixels and some of my points are not on a pixel boundry, making it hard to select the point that I want.

7/15/2005

D. Gaseau

Open

102

Bug

Undo doesn't deal with updating the GIDDefSet and thus the list of GIDs doesn't get properly updated on an undo/redo

8/4/2005

D.Soltesz

Urgent

Closed

8/5/2005

dls

103

Bug

Export causes crash

8/5/2005

F. Rau, I. Brown

Show Stopper

Closed

8/20/2005

dls

Prior changes to description fields caused issues

104

Bug

Export causes crash

11/1/2005

Show Stopper

Closed

12/1/2005

dls

Same bug as 104 - update to latest version fixed problem

105

Bug

RCID limited to two digits

11/29/2005

B. Raup

Annoying

Closed

1/6/2006

dls

Bad programmer missed reading the full RC ID spec. RC ID increased to 3 digits to cover all possible RC IDs.

106

Wanted Feature

GLIMSView nodes less sensitive to being moved when splitting the line segments

11/16/2005

B. Raup, F. Cawkwell

Annoying

Open

107

Bug

Importing session info from GLIMS ingest shapefile tries too fill info into analyst name and time fields

11/16/2005

B. Raup, F. Cawkwell

Urgent

Closed

1/23/2006

dls

1/6/2006 - Having issues importing GLIMS shapefiles exported from glimsview (Windows)

-1

108

Wanted Feature

Remove imported shapefiles without touching other work

11/16/2005

B. Raup, F. Cawkwell

Annoying

Open

109

Bug

Configure plug-in crash?

1/3/2006

E. Liszewski

Annoying

Open

110

Wanted Feature

User profile (automatically loads profile into session)

11/23/2005

B. Raup, Matt

Open

Would help drastically with keeping session information consistent