• Better User Experience: Updates to make the process easier and more seamless to manage layers, add or update data, tile areas, and download layer subsets.
• Better Data: More high-resolution sample data, more data to support rendered maps, and more sample layers to support your MAK ONE applications.
• Better Infrastructure: Many updates to streamline the underlying software to improve performance, fix bugs, and modernize components. 

Keep reading to take a closer look at this release of VR-TheWorld 4.12, and stay tuned for more MAK ONE 2025 product announcements from me over the next few weeks.

Better User Experience

Managing tons of data is always a chore, and our goal is to make it easier for you to do that. In this release, we've:

• Added new "Safe Generate On Demand" mode that helps avoid unintended tiling processes when just trying to view the data. 
• Added ability to select multiple files when adding to local layers. 
• Improved the jobs views, enabling the users to jump from the global list to the specific layer, clear old jobs, and cancel and restart jobs. 
• Add links between layers so that you can see and jump to layers that are used in a Collection. 
• Improved support for MBTiles raster layers including ability to add to Collection layers. 
• Improved job estimation including the number of tiles to be generated and added estimated time remaining display for running jobs. 
• Fixed bugs where GUI was not updated when moving between layers.   

Better Data

We are always striving to improve and update the data that comes with VR-The World Server. The real world is always changing, and your simulated world needs too as well. In this release, we've:

• Added Hillshade MBTiles, which is used with the TopoStyle, avoiding the need for the earth file to generate hillshade from elevation layer.  
• Updated Swiss 10 cm imagery to latest versions including some 2024 data.  Updated AOIs for Sion, Schwyz, and Bern-Thun. 
• Added OSM Bright and Positron Raster layers as proxies to the corresponding TileServer GL styles. 
• Added CLCplus land cover, a 10 m Rasterized dataset from the CLCplus Backbone 2018 (vector), Europe. Currently covering areas in Switzerland, Poland, the Baltics, and the UK. 
• Added 1 m and 3 m Elevation for the island of Oahu, HI. Both added to the primary global elevation layer to support the MAK ONE Oahu views and scenarios. 
• Updated The OpenStreetMap MBTiles datasets to the latest versions. 

Better Infrastructure

Some of the improvements in this release boost performance and functionality, including: 

• Improved export job performance. 
• Improved tiling performance.   
• Now using DEFLATE compression for elevation tiles instead of LZW to significantly decrease elevation tile size, which improves download time. 
• Replaced outdated EPSG:900913 with standard EPSG:3857 SRS for Mercator layers. 
• Many bug fixes detailed in the release notes.   
• Updated to latest versions of TileServer GL, the embedded map rendering engine, and Dozzle, the embedded log monitoring tool.  

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For more details about VR-TheWorld 4.12, read the detailed product release notes.

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