Via 2.1 improves many plugins

While the last two releases in 2020 brought great improvements to all Via users, the just released version 21.1 of Via includes enhancements to several of the available plugins. The OD Aggregation Layer is finally able to visualize relations between zones, movie encoding got a major speed up, and scripting allows for improved workflows.

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The OD Aggregation layer is a very powerful tool to visualize and analyze spatial data, and it just got better. Using queries, it was already possible to see the relations of a single, selected zone. The new visualization option in Via 21.1 now allows to visualize all or a filtered subset of all relations as directed lines on the map.

The relations can be filtered and styled based on various attributes. To keep the visualization clean, it is possible to only visualize e.g. the top 10% of relations, or the top 50 relations.

Encoding videos from Via visualizations is an indispensable feature for a lot of Via users. We are happy to tell you that encoding videos in the MP4 or ProRes formats is now considerably faster. And if you use Via's functionality to create movies from images produced outside of Via, we've added functionality to better support images with a transparent background.

The scripting plugin helps to automate often performed steps. In Via 21.1, scripting got even more powerful with adding script steps for user interaction. This allows to re-use scripts for different scenarios, asking e.g. for a directory, instead of required to adapt the script for the new file location. In combination with the newly introduced script parameters, this allows for Via to be used in fully automated workflows.

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And more…

As always, Via 21.1 also includes various minor improvements and bug fixes. For example, link labels are automatically hidden if links become too small for a less confusing visualization, the performance of various public transport related analyses got improved, and the map attribution for Map Backgrounds is customizable.