Thomas F. Sturm submitted an update to the

mercatormap

package.

Version: 1.1.0 2024-08-01
License: lppl1.3

Summary description: Spherical Mercator coordinate systems and Web Mercator tile integration

Announcement text:
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### Added
- New supply sources (web tile servers):
- `thunderforest atlas`
- `topplusopen web light`
- `topplusopen web light grau`
- Needed LaTeX version 2023-11-01
- Point definitions on an orthodrome:
- Command `mrcNPfromOrthoFraction`
- Command `mrcNPfromOrthoFractionNamed`
- Command `mrcNPfromOrthoDistance`
- Command `mrcNPfromOrthoDistanceNamed`
- Animation support:
- Environment `mrcAnimation`
- Command `\mrcTimewarpIdentity`
- Command `\mrcTimewarpSlowStart`
- Command `\mrcTimewarpSlowFinal`
- Command `\mrcTimewarpSlowStartFinal`
- Command `\mrcAnimFrame`
- Command `\l_mermap_anim_frame_int`
- Command `\mrcAnimTime`
- Command `\l_mermap_anim_time_fp`
- Command `\mrcAnimScaleDenom`
- Command `\l_mermap_anim_scaledenom_fp`
- Command `\mrcAnimLatitude`
- Command `\l_mermap_anim_lat_fp`
- Command `\mrcAnimLongitude`
- Command `\l_mermap_anim_lon_fp`
- Option `start-position`
- Option `named-start-position`
- Option `final-position`
- Option `named-final-position`
- Option `position`
- Option `named-position`
- Option `frames`
- Option `drop-first-frame`
- Option `drop-last-frame`
- Option `drop-no-frame`
- Option `scale-denominators`
- Option `common-scale-denominator`
- Option `timewarp`
- Option `timewarp-identity`
- Option `timewarp-slow-start`
- Option `timewarp-slow-final`
- Option `timewarp-slow-start-final`

### Changed
- Version history moved from documentation Chapter 11 to this changelog
- Versioning changed to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html)
starting with 1.1.0
- `README` changed to `README.md`
- Key names start with `mermap` instead of `/mermap` now
- All common scratch variables like `\l_tmpa_tl` replaced by package variables
- Orthodrome code
- Several code further revisions

### Deprecated
- Stamen Design has discontinued to server map tiles since 2023-07-31.
Therefore, all `supply/source` options based on Stamen Design are
deprecated now, namely
- `stamen terrain`
- `stamen terrain-background`
- `stamen terrain-labels`
- `stamen terrain-lines`
- `stamen toner`
- `stamen toner-lite`
- `stamen toner-hybrid`
- `stamen toner-background`
- `stamen toner-labels`
- `stamen toner-lines`
- `stamen watercolor`
All these options are now not documented any more, but for some time
are still available for old documents with cached map tiles.

### Removed
- Requirement for packages `expl3`, `xparse`, and `pdftexcmds`

### Fixed
- Links to the WMS maps of Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie changed
- Overwrite warning while generating `maptiles.texpy`
- Orthodrome drawing with identical starting and final point is now silently ignored

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https://ctan.org/pkg/mercatormap

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https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mercatormap/

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For the CTAN Team
Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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