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What's New in Version 10.0 (2008³â 11¿ù 14ÀÏ)
- Added support for loading JPG files with embedded EXIF GPS position data.
These files will be loaded as point features with picture icons. When you select
one of these with the Feature Info Tool, the JPG image will be displayed.
- Added support for tracking and managing multiple GPS devices via an input
GPS data stream including $PRAVE sentences. With a compatible receiver, you can
now use Global Mapper for fleet management. There is a new Manage GPS Devices
option under the GPS menu that provides extensive functionality for managing the
collection of GPS devices being tracked.
- Added new Color Grade tab to raster options dialog to allow complex
manipulation of color channel values and saturation for loaded raster files.
This allows 'grading' each color channel from a specified input range for a
color channel to a specified output range.
- Added support for exporting loaded data to NITF format files.
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- Added support for exporting an alpha channel to ECW and JPG2000 format
files, thus allowing creating of files in those formats with transparency
built-in.
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- Added button to the toolbar for the Search->Search by Attributes menu
command.
- Added option to add X and Y coordinate attributes to selected point features
via the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.
- Added new option to the distance/bearing/COGO input to close a path using
the 'compass rule' and to edit the start location.
- Added ability to right click on a point in the Search by Attributes dialog
and start a new distance/bearing/COGO line from that point.
- Added new batch conversion option to "Make a Single Color Transparent". This
will allow you to choose a color to make transparent when batch converting
raster format files.
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- Added support for loading PDS/Vicar format data, which is commonly used by
NASA for planetary data sets.
- Added new item to the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool when area
features are selected to populate the attributes of those areas from the
attribute tables of a single point contained within those area features.
- Added new Advanced Creation Options sub-menu to the right-click menu in the
Digitizer Tool when area and/or line features are selected. This menu now
contains the options to create lines from area, create areas from lines, create
terrain from areas, as well as a couple of new options (see below).
- Added option to the Advanced Creation Options menu of the Digitizer Tool to
create new point features at the centroid of selected area features.
- Added option to the Advanced Creation Options menu of the Digitizer Tool to
create new point features from the vertices of selected area and line features.
- Added new options to the right-click menu option of the Digitizer Tool for
creating rectangular/square area and line features by manually entering the
rectangle coordinates.
- Added new built-in point types for LIDAR point types to make it easier to
filter out different LIDAR points loaded from LAS and Terrascan LIDAR files.
- Sped up export to GeoTIFF files when a large number of input files are being
exported.
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- Added support for adding multiple custom symbols at once when adding custom
symbols on the Point Styles tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added automatic positioning of OSGB 10K grid cells in TIFF format.
- Improved generation of image-optimized palettes in cases where over 16.7
million pixels with the same color are involved in the export.
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- Added ability to select which layers to load from an ESRI personal
geodatabase (MDB) file.
- Added new palette option during batch conversion to use the same settings as
the source file. This allows you to convert a mixture of RGB and palette-based
files and maintain their original settings.
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- Added built-in support for the Double Stereographic and System 1965 (Uklad
1965) projection systems.
- Added built-in support for IRENET95, Malongo 1987, PRS92 (Philippines
Reference System 1992), and SWEREF99 datums and associated EPSG projection
codes.
- Added new EPSG codes for Swedish Grid (3021 and 2400).
- Added built-in datums for each of the custom Minnesota county ellipsoids as
well as for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
- Added more accurate 7-parameter datum transformations for Kertau 1948 and
Timbalai datums.
- Allowed use of linear units other than meters (i.e. feet) for New Zealand
projections.
- Corrected definition of Guam State Plane zone.
- Added option when shifting selected features with the Digitizer Tool and
selected control points when rectifying imagery to shift based on a distance and
bearing as well as fixed X and Y offset distances.
- Added Speed and Bearing display for each leg in the Feature Vertices dialog
when a time-stamp is present for each vertex (i.e. such as GPS tracklogs).
- Added support for getting positioning information for raster files (like
JPG, etc) from a greater variety of KML files.
- Sped up display of dense point data sets with labels. This was slower in v10
due to new automatic label placement feature.
- Added new right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow
zooming to the selected feature(s).
- Increased the size of the displayed elevation and lat/lon position on the
GPS Information dialog.
- No longer generate transparent PNG or TIFF files for KML raster exports
using the super overlay feature if vector data is being exported. This is to
prevent problems with the multiple layers of images showing through in Google
Earth when zoom in on transparent areas which are prevalent in vector exports.
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- Made filename parameters for script commands referencing loaded files (like
COMBINE_TERRAIN, UNLOAD_LAYER, etc.) also match against the description of
loaded layers in case no matching filenames are found. This allows matching
against created layers that are not backed by a filename, like the results of a
previous COMBINE_TERRAIN or GENERATE_CONTOURS command.
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- Allowed use of PROJ_EPSG_CODE parameter with LOAD_PROJECTION script command.
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- Fixed problem decoding projections from MapInfo files with units other than
meters and specified false easting/northing values.
- Added option to view shed generation to specify a receiver height above the
terrain surface to check for visibility at when use a beam with restricted
transmission angles.
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- Improved export of 3D line and area features to PLS-CADD XYZ files.
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- Update PLS-CADD export to write out a sequential ID number in the first
field for point features with no POINT_DESC attribute value.
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- Fixed problem loading some WMS data sets.
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- Added new option to the Global Mapper Package export dialog to specify that
the full style for all features should always be saved to the generated file,
even if a feature is using the default style for a type. This makes it easier to
save data sets with the same styling for sharing between users.
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- Made Feature Edit dialog resizable.
- Made types that are disabled in the type filter on the Vector Display tab of
the Configuration dialog not show up in the Feature Edit dialog.
- Updated raster/elevation export plugin architecture to add a new flag
(EP_Flags_ElevAndColor) that allows an elevation format to also have the color
callback function called for each exported sample for formats that store both
elevation and color information.
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- Added display of current data download speed to export progress dialogs that
are exporting data coming from online sources, like WMS or DigitalGlobe imagery.
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- Fixed bug in v10.00 that prevented export to some formats from a script
file.
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- Fixed bug with incorrect Z value being written out to new 3D DGN files for
3D points that have no display label.
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- Added new File menu command to the Path Profile/LOS dialog to allow saving
the path profile results to a CSV file with X, Y, elevation, and distance (both
segment and cumulative) values.
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- Added support for loading JPEG2000 files from associated .TAB files.
- Added display of target compression ratio to metadata display for ECW and
JP2 format images.
- Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that use $IN* sentences rather
than $GP* sentences.
- Corrected zone number used for GeoTIFF files for the Mississippi West State
Plane zone.
- Greatly sped up export to large ECW files from map catalogs.
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- Updated date fields imported from DBF files to use 4 digit years.
- Updated Lidar LAS export from vector data to use feet for the elevation
units if the 'Elevation Display/Export Units' setting on the Vertical Options
tab of the Configuration dialog is set to 'Statute (ft)'.
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- Fixed problem batch-converting to GeoTIFF files using a min-is-black or
min-is-white palette.
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- Added options to Erdas Imagine export to control the block size, whether or
not compression is used, and whether or not to add overview (pyramid) layers.
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- Added progress bar for lengthy area volume calculations.
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- Made Surfer BLN files be automatically detected and imported with no user
intervention.
- Made Delft 3D .ldb files be automatically detected and imported with no user
intervention.
- Added support for reading place point features from OpenStreetMap (OSM)
files.
- Fixed problem with attribute display in Search by Attributes dialog when
loading new files with the dialog open.
- Added new line drawing style, "Solid with Black Edges".
- Fixed bug in v10.00 which caused vector features to not be selectable if any
fixed screen position layers that are set to always draw on top are loaded.
- Modified the bearing display in Global Mapper to be based on the Position
Display Format selection on the General tab of the Configuration dialog. So if
you have that set to DMS, your bearings should show up that way as well.
- Added support for MPR/MPH files larger than 2GB.
- Reduce memory requirements for loading large ENVI DEM format files.
- Fixed problem in v10.00 release with users being prompted to confirm
projection for NAD83-based projections from old-style PRJ files or prj.adf
files.
- Added support for loading truncated Lidar LAS files.
- Added support for loading very large 16-bit BMP files.
- Corrected color display in the status bar as you move the cursor around the
map over loaded TIFF files.
- Added support for user-specified tile size when generating KML super
overlays.
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- Made the last palette selection be remembered for batch conversions.
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- Added support for additional flavors of MODIS data in HDF format, like the
SST (sea surface temperature) data.
- Fixed problem with some new line styles from v10.00 not drawing properly
when used as area borders.
- Corrected rotation of text labels from some DXF files.
- Fixed problem with multiple consecutive spaces being reduced to a single
space when reading in attributes from ASCII text files.
- Made the text '\n' be interpreted as a newline character in attribute values
read from ASCII text files.
- Added LEVEL_DESC attribute to features imported from DGN v8 and later files
if the file contains a text description for the level of the feature.
- Fixed problem with translucency setting not always working with TIFF files
in map catalogs.
- Added ability to use custom palettes when exporting GeoTIFF, PNG, or Erdas
Imagine files from scripts by providing the palette filename as the value of the
PALETTE parameter, like PALETTE="C:\my_palette.pal".
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- Greatly sped up the addition of JPG files to map catalogs.
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- Made NAME and LABEL fields be preferred for labeling over fields that just
start with NAME or LABEL when loading Shapefiles.
- Added support for addition font style information from attributes using
FONT_STYLE, FONT_WEIGHT, and FONT_PLACEMENT attributes.
- Changed name of automatic MODIFIED_DATE attribute to MOD_DATE to avoid
attribute name length issues with Shapefiles.
- Fixed problem when geo-coding to loaded data from a file that contains the
address number and street name in the same field.
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What's New in Version 10.0 (2008³â 8¿ù 21ÀÏ)
- Added support for importing ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) files.
- Added support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files, which allows
working with (Geo)TIFF files larger than 4GB.
- Added support for generating super overlays in raster KML/KMZ exports to
allow for the viewing of massive quantities of data in Google Earth. The
existing option to automatically grid data on the KML/KMZ raster export options
dialog enables this behavior.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for selecting/changing the layer that features are in when
editing existing features and creating new ones with the Digitizer Tool.
- Added ability to generate raster KML/KMZ files using the EXPORT_RASTER
script command.
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- Added new Coordinate Convertor option under the Tools menu to allow easily
converting a coordinate between any two supported projections/datums/units.
- Added ability to Search Vector Data dialog to limit your search to the
existing search results. This effectively allows you to query on multiple
attributes/values.
- Added support for creating new feature coordinates based on distance/bearing
and/or COGO values from a start location using the Digitizer Tool.
- Added more control over placement of labels for point features. Now when
choosing the font to use for point features, you can also choose where to place
the label for the point relative to the point location. An automatic setting
will try different locations to try and make the label fit.
- Added a large collection of new available line styles to use when rendering
line features or area feature borders.
- Added option to crop a loaded raster layer to the currently selected area
feature to the Cropping tab of the Raster Options dialog accessible from the
Overlay Control Center.
- Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the MapInfo TAB/MAP
format.
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- Added support for exporting loaded 3D line and point data to the SEGP1
format.
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- Added support for exporting loaded area features to the DeLorme Polygon Text
format that some DeLorme products can import.
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- Added support for loading IKT track files generated by MagicMaps software.
- Added support for loading Gravsoft Grid format files.
- Added option on the Gridding tab for exports to grid to the currently
selected area features. This will create a separate export file for each
selected area feature. Naming can be done using the display labels or an
attribute of the selected area feature(s).
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- Added support for generating 3D DXF and Shapefiles (including using any
loaded elevation data as a source) when batch converting to those formats.
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- Made automatic collar cropping work for BSB charts.
- Added arrow buttons to the Overlay Control Center to make it easier to
change the overlay draw order.
- Added support for loading files from web URLs using the IMPORT command in a
script file. Just pass the URL with the FILENAME parameter.
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- Alphabetized the area, line, and point type lists on the * Styles tabs of
the Configuration dialog and on the vector type options dialog.
- Added new 'Pseudo Natural Color' blend mode to combine the color channels in
a layer using a common algorithm for generating natural color imagery from CIR
imagery.
- Added option to the Digitizer Tool to select multiple area features and
right click and display measure information about each feature and the
combination of features on a dialog.
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- Added options when editing multiple features to rename attributes and also
to copy the values of one attribute to a different attribute.
- Added new option when combining terrains to filter one terrain layer based
on another by keeping the values in one terrain layer only when the other
terrain layer also has a valid value.
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- Added options to the View menu to save the current view with a name and then
restore named views from a list of the saved views with names.
- Added option to the View menu to restore the last drawn view. This allows
you to back up through up to the last 20 drawn views.
- Added option to the View menu to zoom the view to a particular sample
spacing (pixel size).
- Added support for extracting positioning information for image files from
KML files. This allows you to load KMZ files that contain embedded raster
images.
- Added option when creating an elevation grid when loading Lidar data formats
(like LAS and Terrascan files) for the user to specify options such as the grid
tightness, whether or not to fill to the entire bounds of the data, and whether
or not to only consider ground-shot points in the gridding process.
- Added new option to initialize custom elevation shaders from a palette file.
- Made the distance scale displayed on the main map view and on the path
profile dialog use the currently selected distance measure units. This allows
display of nautical and other units on the scale.
- Added option for fixed screen layers to force them to always be drawn on top
of other layers (including grid lines and user created features) regardless of
the layer order in the Control Center. This is useful for forcing things like
legends to always be display on top of other data.
- Added new option when pasting features from the clipboard to not clear the
clipboard after pasting the features (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+V).
- Added option when printing to select the area to print rather than just
always using what is on screen.
- Significantly improved the speed and reliability of accessing the Landsat7
Global Imagery Mosaic data layer through the File->Download Online Imagery
menu command.
- Added built-in access to several new aviation chart (GNC, ONC, TPC, and JNC)
layers through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.
- Made rotated line labels be exported to DXF files when exporting line labels
to DXF files 'Include Display Labels as Separate Text Layer' option.
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- Added new option to the Font selection dialog to control the label fill
background mode. Now you can force the background to be transparent, which
allows labels centered on line features to be drawn with no filler behind them
if you want.
- Added built-in support for the MSTM (Mississippi Transverse Mercator) and
New Brunswick Double Stereographic projections as well as a configurable RSO
(Rectified Skew Orthomorphic) projection.
- Added built-in support for the ED87, JAD69 (Jamaica 1969) and JAD2001
(Jamaica 2001) datums.
- Improved accuracy of datum conversions involving the Tananarive datum by
using improved conversion parameters from IGN.
- Fixed accuracy problem with ED50 (Spain and Portugal) and OSGB36 datum
conversions very close to and just east of the prime meridian.
- Improved accuracy of datum conversions involving the Bogota Observatory
(Bogota 1975) datum.
- Allow the Azimuthal Equidistant projection to cover the entire world rather
than just half the world around the projection center.
- Added support for users to add their own EPSG codes definitions or modify
the existing ones by modifying the epsg_codes.txt file in the Global Mapper
installation folder.
- Added recognition of additional EPSG codes for projections (like
MGI/Balkans).
- Updated EPSG projection definitions for State Plane Illinois zones (FIPS
1201 and 1202). New codes 3435 and 3436 are for these zones using feet units and
existing codes 26971 and 26972 now use meters as units.
- Added support for two extra false easting/northing attributes to the State
Plane projection system to support users that use a State Plane projection
system with an extra scale factor (such as for ground vs. grid coordinates) and
then apply an XY offset to the coordinates after that.
- Added zones 6-9 for Gauss Krueger Germany (3-degree zones) projection.
- Added additional S-42 (Pulkovo 1942) datum specializations and made the base
S-42 (Pulkovo 1942) datum automatically select an appropriate specialization to
use.
- Added support for easy creation of multi-line text for area and point
features by adding the text '\n' to display labels for points when
creating/editing them with the Digitizer Tool.
- Allowed the label for area features to be rotated.
- Automatically combine address ranges for Tiger 2007 line segments that have
multiple address ranges to make address searching more effective.
- Added support for additional MTFCC (feature type) codes from Tiger 2007 data
so that features like state and county boundaries can be automatically
classified on import.
- Added new selection mode to the Digitizer Tool. If you hold down the 'I' key
when dragging a box, only features that are completely contained within the box
will be selected. This is useful for things like selecting a point feature on
top of a line or area feature.
- Corrected ERS header export to be correct when exporting BIL files or files
with export units of arc degrees.
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- Fixed bug when exporting raster KML/KMZ files to a filename with a special
character not allowed in XML files, like an ampersand.
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- Fixed problem with per-vertex time-stamp values being lost in some cases
when graphically moving or deleting vertices with the Digitizer Tool.
- Added new built-in point type 'Address Label'. You can disable this type to
turn off the center address labels automatically applied to downloaded online
sources, like TerraServer-USA and DigitalGlobe.
- Added new built-in area type 'County Subdivision'.
- Added option to maintain the map location under the cursor position when
using the mouse wheel to zoom. You can do this either by checking the option on
the Advanced list on the General tab of the Configuration dialog or holding down
the Ctrl key when scrolling the mouse wheel.
- Added new options to Google Maps export to allow easily adding additional
controls to the map displayed by the default HTML file that is generated, such
as a map type selected. Also made double-click zooming be enabled by default.
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- Added transparency slider to the Google Maps and Virtual Earth export
dialogs to allow setting the default transparency level for the exported maps.
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- When importing generic ASCII text files, make the default attribute list for
the type being assigned to a feature automatically be applied to the attribute
list for that feature.
- Added automatic type and style assignment from attribute values when loading
DBF point files.
- Updated the 'Find by Name' dialog to allow recentering on a feature without
showing the bullseye icon if you hold down the ALT key when double-clicking on
an item.
- Added new Ctrl+Alt+L shortcut key for automatically copying the current
point/cursor coordinates to the clipboard in the current selected projection
with a tab separated the X and Y coordinate values.
- Corrected placement of ECW/JPEG2000 files that use a projection code of
TMNEWYEM. They were previously very slightly shifted.
- Made the COMBINE_TERRAIN script command by default use the intersection of
the bounding box of the two layers being combined rather than the union of the
layer bounding boxes.
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- Fixed problem with elevations sometimes not being saved when recording a
tracklog for a connected GPS device.
- Made saved CSV export options be remembered during a run of Global Mapper.
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- Fixed problems loading LAS, Terrascan, and DMDF files from workspace files.
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- Added support for loading latest GNIS (USGS Geographic Names) database from
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm.
- Added option when capturing the screen contents to an image to save a text
file containing metadata about the file, like the bounds, pixel size, etc.
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- Increased precision of lat/lon coordinates displayed on the status bar.
- Improved automatic detection of alpha channels and non-standard color
channels when loading ECW and JPEG2000 (JP2) format files.
- Changed font used for elevation legend and distance scale display text so
that it can display correctly on all systems, regardless of language.
- Fixed problems loading 24-bit RGB MPR/MPH files.
- Fixed error when trying to load DBF files greater than 2GB in size.
- Made gridded elevation grid generation from loaded vector data automatically
overlap the edges during generation to generate a smooth, non-overlapped output.
- Fixed problem when gridding elevation grid generation and manually
specifying the sample spacing to use.
- Fixed problem loading SID files with corrupt world files accompanying them.
- Fixed problem with features being exported to the non-populated upper
layer(s) of MP files in some cases.
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- Made files loaded at a fixed screen position be maintained as fixed screen
location files when saved to Global Mapper Package (GMP) files.
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- When loading generic ASCII text/CSV files, keep a name/label column as both
an attribute value and the display label if multiple attributes exist to allow
easily changing what attribute(s) to display as the label.
- When exporting to the Arc Ungenerate formats, write out coordinates in the
projection selected on the Projection tab of the Configuration dialog rather
than just lat/lon values.
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- Added automatic detection of grid cell registration type (i.e.
pixel-is-point or pixel-is-area) for netCDF grids like those created using GMT.
- When generating Simple ASCII Text files from a script using the
EXPORT_VECTOR command, allow specification of attribute export except for style
attributes by using the parameter EXPORT_ATTRS=NO_STYLE.
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- When importing files from a script/workspace, warn the user if a file does
not exist.
- Improved detection of invalid (void) values for elevation GeoTIFF files that
use very large negative numbers for invalid values and the files do not contain
any valid data.
- Added support for loading palettes from Idrisi SMP files.
- Added option to make background pixels transparent when batch converting to
raster KMZ files.
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- Added option to generate 8-bit palette-based PNG files when batch converting
to raster KMZ files.
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- Added automatic detection and correction of incorrect State Plane zone
encodings in some .aux files, such as those produced by a New York imagery site.
- Fixed problem reading the timestamp for tracklog points from GPX files that
are on the 31st day of a month.
- Fixed problem with TriangulationLib.dll files sometimes not being installed
by auto-downloading them if needed.
- Fixed rare error loading some DNC data sets.
- When importing ASCII data files, automatically detect lines with a series of
999.0 values and allow the user to treat these as feature separator lines rather
than coordinates.
- Sped up import of GML files, particularly when importing lines or areas with
a lot of vertices.
- Drastically improved speed when displaying some NAIP 2008 JPEG2000 imagery.
- Added support for using TFWX files as world files for TIFF files.
- Added display of the number of grid cells being exported when doing a
gridded raster or elevation export.
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- Added display of the area covered by the screen to the View->Properties
dialog.
- Fixed crash when doing more than one export to a web-based format (like
Virtual Earth, Google Maps, etc.) from a single Global Mapper session.
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- Fixed HTML file created for Virtual Earth export when using the JPG format.
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- Added option to Download Online Imagery menu command to delete the caches
for the various sources.
- Added Alt+R as a shortcut key to save the current view.
- Improved decoding of block labels and attributes from some DXF files.
- Added support for 2 additional resolution level exports for Google Maps
exports, allowing up to 2 cm resolution imagery to be accurately represented.
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- Allowed for the specification of negative grid cell width and/or height
values when exporting and using the Gridding tab. When a negative value is
specified the grid cells will be snapped to the right and/or bottom of the
export bounds rather than the left and/or top as is normal.
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- When assigning areas to be islands in other areas with the Digitizer Tool,
allow the user to add areas as islands even if they are not completely contained
within the topmost area at the clicked location.
- Changed the cursor used when selecting features with the Digitizer Tool to a
crosshair from a pointer.
- Added new Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut key to the Digitizer Tool to activate move
mode.
- Allow 2 line features that do not share a common endpoint to be combined by
automatically adding a line segment connecting the 2 closest ends of the line
when using the Combine Selected Line Features command in the Digitizer Tool.
- Added display of some projection information on the Metadata tab of the
metadata dialog for layers and also in the output of the EXPORT_METADATA script
command.
- Added option to the batch conversion dialog when converting raster files to
disable the automatic use of contrast adjustment. This is useful when you have
files with more than 8 bits per color channel that look better with no contrast
adjustment applied.
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- Added new PROMPT_IF_TYPE_UNKNOWN parameter for the IMPORT script command to
allow disabling the type prompt when importing files for which the type could
not automatically be determined.
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- Added new option to the NASA World Wind export to allow manual specification
of the level 0 tile size to use. (Registered Version Only)
- Allowed use of the Delete key to delete ground control points from the
rectification dialog.
- Fixed problem loading some MapTech BSB charts with unusual projections (like
Polyconic).
- Fixed problem with image rectification that would occasionally cause
polynomial rectification to be used instead of triangulated even if triangulated
(piecewise-affine) should have been used.
- Corrected half-pixel shift when loading SRTM30 and SRTM30+ files.
- Added Ctrl+S as a shortcut key to the image rectifier dialog to save the GCP
list to a file.
- When loading a GCP file in the image rectifier dialog, prompt the user to
remove all of the current control points if there are any.
- Added option to the advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration
dialog to specify that when cropping to an area feature on export that any cell
that has any part in the crop area should be kept rather than just those for
which the center of the cell is inside the crop area.
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- When cropping to selected area features during batch conversion, prompt the
user to see whether they want the export files to have the bounds of the file
being converted or the selected area features.
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- Made the screen capture dialog remember the last format used and select it
by default within a single run of Global Mapper.
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- Improved display of some BSB charts that cross the anti-meridian.
- Fixed error loading some NITF imagery data sets that use JPG2000
compression.
- Improved positioning of NITF imagery that uses RPC (polynomial-based)
positioning.
- Prompt the user to specify whether 16-bit JPEG2000 and ECW files are
elevation or imagery files rather than just assuming they are elevation.
- Fixed problem with view background color not being in generated image
optimized palettes in all cases.
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- Made script exports automatically create the destination directory for the
new file being created if it doesn't already exist.
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- Added new GRID_NAMING_PREPEND_ZEROES parameter to the script export commands
to allow controlling whether or not zeroes are prepended to named grid tiles
during export.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new GRID_NAMING_SEPARATOR parameter to the script export commands to
allow users to control what separator character is used between pieces of a grid
name. The default is an underscore.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for appending column names before row names when gridding on
export from a script by using the GRID_NAMING=SEPARATE_COLS_FIRST parameter.
(Registered Version Only)
- Improved resizing of main map window so that the map data is not constantly
redrawn as you drag the window to a new size.
- Increased the size of the displayed elevation on the GPS Information dialog.
- Added option when batch converting vector data to KML/KMZ files to allow the
inclusion of displayed text labels for exported area and line features with
labels.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems reading some TIFF files larger than 2GB in size.
- Added new shortcut key (Ctrl+1) to zoom the map to the full detail for the
raster/elevation map at the center of the screen.
- Fixed error when trying to export vector-only data to a raster BIL file.
(Registered Version Only)
- When exporting Polish MP files using an image ID from a template file and
also gridding the export into multiple pieces, automatically increment the image
ID of the output files to prevent duplicate image ID values.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new option to always display line labels on the center of the longest
segment of the line to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. This
prevents line labels from jumping around as you zoom and pan around.
- Added new option to only snap to area and line vertices by default when
drawing new features to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.
Holding the 'V' key when drawing the new features will toggle this behavior.
- Enable snapping to existing features when inserting vertices into existing
area and line features using the Digitizer Tool. The shortcut key to stay in
"insert vertex" mode was changed to the 'I' key from ALT since the ALT key is
used to disable snapping behavior.
- Added option to crop Shapefile exports to selected area features. This will
only include point features inside the selected area features and line and area
features that intersect the bounding box of the selected area features.
(Registered Version Only)
- Updated GeoTIFF export to always write out all projection information and
parameters even when an EPSG code is matched and written.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for additional parameters for recommended route (0x0108) and
marine contour (0x0105) lines when exporting vector data to Polish MP files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed memory leak when running a script file with EXPORT_RASTER commands
that includes vector data from the command line.
(Registered Version Only)
What's New in Version 9.03 (2008³â 4¿ù 28ÀÏ)
- Added support for loading Tiger 2007 Shapefiles with full attribution and
automatic styling and type assignment from
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html.
- Added support for loading Vulcan3D triangulation files.
- Added support for exported loaded gridded elevation data to Vulcan 3D
triangulation (.00t) files.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading OpenStreetMap (OSM) format vector maps.
- Added support for loading NITF data sets using JPEG2000 compression.
- Added option to directly export the results of the triangulation and
gridding of loaded vector layers from the Overlay Control Center to Global
Mapper Grid files rather than loading them in the main map view, thus allowing
larger areas to be triangulated and gridded at once without memory issues.(Registered Version Only)
- Added ability to add per-vertex elevations to features that don't already
have them.
- Made the vertex display dialog automatically highlight all vertices that are
selected in the dialog on the map.
- Made the Search by Attributes/Name dialog automatically highlight all of the
result features that are selected on the map.
- Added support for exporting loaded point features to TomTom OV2 format files
for creating new point databases for loading onto TomTom GPS devices.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loading vector data to Delft 3D (.ldb) format
files.(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to KML/KMZ vector export to make labels for line and area
features display on the map in Google Earth.(Registered Version Only)
- Added option when generating elevation grids from vector data to ignore zero
elevation values.
- Added automatic recognition of potentially iconized road names when editing
road features. This allows you to do things like enter a road name of 'I-35' and
have it automatically be recognized as an interstate highway iconized road name.
- Added new option to the File menu of the rectification dialog to allow
easily saving a world file that represents (if possible) the transformation
defined by the currently provided control points.
- Added option to the vector filter dialogs to save and restore a filter to a
file.
- Added yards and chains as available units of measure when using the Measure
Tool.
- Added built-in support for the MGA (Map Grid of Australia) projection.
- Added built-in support for the Aratu and Camacupa datums.
- Improved accuracy of OSGB36 datum conversions by using the OSTN02 tables.
- Made Bonne projection work properly when the origin latitude is in the
Southern Hemisphere.
- Added support for decoding Albers Conic projections from Ozi .map files.
- Added support for correcting the projection of multiple raster files at once
(only if all of the raster files being corrected have the same projection to
start with).
- Fixed problem with displaying the equator grid line when using the Van der
Grinten projection.
- Fixed problems encoding and decoding Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area
projection to/from GeoTIFF files.
- Added option to the Shader Options tab of the Configuration dialog to
reverse the color order of the selected shader (previously only the HSV shader
was reversible).
- Added support for reading the track style information written to GPX files
by the ExpertGPS software application.
- Added new right-click option to the Feature Info dialog to allowing easily
zooming to the extents of the selected feature.
- When an elevation legend is displayed, make selecting the View->Full View
menu command zoom the map so that the elevation legend does not obscure any of
the loaded data.
- When editing existing elevation values on the custom shader dialog, edit the
value in the selected elevation units rather than always in meters.
- When digitizing new point features, display the distance from the last
digitized point to the current cursor position in the status bar.
- Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow
drawing dots at line endpoint locations (this is a subset of the existing option
to display all area and line vertices).
- Fixed problem that prevented the description of the 'User Created Features'
layer from being modified in some situations.
- Fixed bug with enabling transparent colors for gridded elevation maps that
made them disappear in some cases.
- Added support for parsing coordinate values that use commas rather than
periods for the decimal separator character.
- When exporting new Polish MP format files, check the default attribute list
for the type of a feature if the feature does not have a particular attribute in
its own attribute list (this was already being done for the MP_TYPE attribute,
but has now been extended to all supported MP attributes, like PERIOD for light
points).(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with icon symbols not being correctly exported to Polish MP
files if the export was based on a MP template file using a LBLCoding value
other than 9.(Registered Version Only)
- Sped up exports to ECW and JPEG2000 files from map catalogs.
- Fixed snapping to existing line and area feature boundaries when the data
being snapped to is in a different projection than the current view projection.
- Made the display label for selected area features be displayed if the option
to only highlight the border of selected areas is selected.
- Improved default elevation unit selection when loading multiple files so
that it doesn't always default back to meters.
- Fixed problem with some grid line labels being drawn at strange angles.
- Added new SPLIT_BY_LAYER parameter to the EXPORT_VECTOR command in the
scripting language to allow splitting Shapefile exports into files based on the
layer/type of each feature.(Registered Version Only)
- When drawing new line and area features with the Digitizer Tool, render the
vertices if we are displaying the vertices for other line and area features.
- Made the Feature Info dialog display the enclosed area in addition to the
length in the Geometry field for closed line features.
- Allowed band selection for NITF imagery with 3 or more bands of data.
- Made the bit depth be displayed in the metadata list for MrSID and NITF
imagery.
- Added support for WMS servers using secure HTTP (i.e. https:// addresses).
- Improved accuracy of area calculations when using the Mercator projection.
- Updated WASP .map area export to support roughness values in a RV attribute
in addition to ROUGH_L and ROUGH_R.(Registered Version Only)
- Write out LOCAL as the projection name when exporting ECW files using a
projection that is not recognized for storage in ECW files.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for per-vertex elevations for area features from Shapefiles in
all cases (previously only simple areas with no holes were supported).
- Made the calculated error at each control point in a rectification be saved
in a GCP file saved through the File menu on the rectification dialog. It will
be the last column for each control point.
- Improved great circle distance calculations by using the more accurate
Vincenty algorithm.
- Fixed remaining problems loading portions of some Erdas Imagine .img grid
files with floating point samples.
- Fixed bug with image-optimized palette selection generating 24-bit RGB PNG
and Erdas Imagine files when batch converting to those formats.(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with gap showing up between lines that end at the same
location.
- Added built-in point types for bank and restaurant.
- Added built-in line type for invisible boundaries (such as those commonly
found in Tiger/Line files).
- Fixed rare problem with very long vector lines or large area features not
printing correctly.
- When loading KML/KMZ files, use the folder names from the files to
automatically assign Global Mapper types if possible (i.e. if a matching type
name exists).
- Added ability to specify water level in feet in addition to meters in the 3D
viewer.(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems loading some complex entities from DXF and DWG files.
- Fixed problems adding package files with multiple layers to map catalogs.(Registered Version Only)
- Made default attribute lists be applied when changing the feature
classification of multiple features at a time.
- Corrected placement of image files positioned using world files with
rotation.
What's New in Version 9.02 (2008³â 2¿ù 22ÀÏ Ãâ½Ã)
- Added support for exporting any loaded data into tiles for use in Microsoft
Virtual Earth. In addition, an HTML file will also be created allowing immediate
viewing of the maps. The menu option for creating the tiles is under the new
File->Export to Web Formats menu.
- Moved web mapping formats, like Google Maps, World Wind, etc., to a new
File->Export to Web Formats menu from existing export menus.
- Added ability to batch convert to DTED and raster KMZ formats.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added Vertices button to the Feature Info dialog to allow displaying and
editing the location and per-vertex elevations for line and area features and
displaying per-vertex time stamps for line features.
- Added ability to apply elevation values from loaded terrain data to point
features using a right-click option in the Digitizer/Edit tool.
- Added new right-click menu option in the Digitizer Tool to allow easily
shifting (offsetting) selecting features by some distance.
- Added ability to combine multiple attribute values into the display label
for features on the vector layer options dialog available from the Overlay
Control Center.
- Added new external control interface to allow external applications to
control the view of Global Mapper and also display point features on the map
loaded in Global Mapper. See the Developers page at http://www.globalmapper.com
for details.
- Added option to the path profile/line of sight dialog to allow matching the
elevation scale to the distance scale.
- Added support for selecting multiple colors as transparent for palette-based
raster files.
- Added new Palette tab to Options dialog for raster layers with palettes to
allow easy display and modification of the palette used for loaded raster
layers.
- Added support for loading PCI Geomatics RAW files with AUX headers.
- Added support for loading German Topo map files in MPR/MPH format.
- Added support for loading block polygon ASCII data files from the Minerals
Management Service department of the US Department of Interior (DOI).
- Added support for loading TMC Location Database files from (point.dat and
poffset.dat files).
- Added support for loading Lowrance USR v3 files with depth data.
- Added support for automatic detection and loading of PLS-CADD XYZ files.
- Made the dialog for drawing a box around the area to export be resizable and
also allow zooming and panning the map.
- Added support for having lines a fixed width in meters based on attribute
values named WIDTH_M or LINE_WIDTH_METERS.
- Added new GENERATE_ELEV_GRID script command to allow generating an elevation
grid from loaded 3D vector data.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made time stamps for each vertex in a GPS tracklog be saved if available
when tracking a connected GPS device or when loading a tracklog from a GPX file.
- Made tracklogs exported to GPX files contain time stamps if the tracklog had
time information for each vertex.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new options to hide all offscreen layers and close all hidden layers
to the right-click popup menu in the Overlay Control Center.
- Added built-in support for the Belge 1972 (Belgian Lambert 1972) grid
system, Laborde (Madagascar) projection, and Transverse Mercator
(South-Orientated) projection.
- Added built-in support for the NGO 1948 datum based on the Oslo prime
meridian vs. Greenwich.
- Added built-in support for the Tananarive 1925 datum based on the Paris
prime meridian vs. Greenwich.
- Added decoding support for some Polar Stereographic, Austrian Grid, and
Norwegian grid EPSG projection codes.
- Fixed Oblique Stereographic and Dutch Grid projections (they were broken in
v9.00).
- Fixed Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection to work properly with all
datums. This fixes problems with the CORINE land cover data not lining up
properly.
- Fixed problems using New Zealand Map Grid with any datum other than NZGDA49.
- Renamed some datums (i.e. ED50 and OSGB36) to make them shorter and reflect
their more common usage.
- Fixed problem loading new format (WKT) PRJ files with a datum using a
meridian other than Greenwich (i.e. the NTF Paris datum).
- Added support for decoding Vertical Near-Sided Perspective projections from
OziExplorer .map files.
- Fixed bug using the Aitoff-Wagner projection.
- Added centifeet (hundredths of feet) as an elevation unit for export.
- Made further improvements to triangulation and gridding to allow even larger
data sets to be gridded.
- When gridding 3D point data sets using the File->Open Generic ASCII Data
File menu command, made the elevation specific options (like tightness threshold
and grid spacing) appear on a separate dialog after selecting the ASCII options.
- Added option to make specified export bounds be exactly maintained at the
expense of the specified sample spacing (the reverse is the default) to the
Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Allowed map catalog files to be added to existing map catalog files. In
these cases, all files referenced in the map catalog being added will simply be
added to the map catalog they are being added to.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added "Save As" button on the map catalog options dialog to allow changing
the filename associated with a map catalog.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new 'SPOT Natural Color' blend mode to combine the color channels in a
layer using the common algorithm for generating natural color imagery from the
SPOT HRV multi-spectral sensor.
- Fixed bug writing out 3D area features to DGN files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the 'Copy to Clipboard' button on the Feature Info dialog copy the
actual feature to the clipboard for pasting into Global Mapper in addition to
copying the text attribution for the feature to the Windows clipboard for
pasting in a text application.
- Added new option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to
allow auto-iconizing road feature names on import if they are recognizable icon
names (like I-70, US63, etc.).
- Made holding down the 'P' key when left clicking with the Feature Info tool
only select area features (i.e. nearby lines and points will be ignored).
- Fixed problem generating image-optimized palettes during export when the
input files are all palette-based files whose combined palette has over 256
colors.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed for the generation of .tab files for ECW and JPEG2000 exports.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made results on Search by Attributes dialog not include features in hidden
layers or features with the types disabled for display.
- Allowed splitting of selected area features at selected vertices with the
Digitizer Tool when more than one feature is selected.
- Added option to several raster export formats (like ECW, JPG, JPEG2000) to
fill small gaps between valid data samples.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems loading some projections from ECW and JPEG2000 files.
- Made additional speed-ups to ECW and JPEG2000 exports when exporting from
large numbers of loaded files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to feathering to just crop to the specified feather boundary
rather than actually feather-blending.
- Added option to palette-based exports to use a custom palette from a .pal
file (such as one saved from the transparency dialog in Global Mapper).
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new Option menu command on the rectification dialog to allow
displaying the transformation equations used for the specified control points.
- Added new option to the Advanced Selection menu in the Digitizer Tool for
easily selecting all of the island areas associated with a parent area and
deselecting the parent.
- Prompt for the type of 16-bit Erdas Imagine .img files (i.e. are they
elevation data or imagery).
- Improved loading of HATCH entities from DXF files.
- Improved loading of text from MTEXT entities in DXF files.
- Added option to Google Maps export to select the default Google Maps
background layer that is displayed (i.e. street maps, imagery, or terrain).
- Made the last searched address be remembered on the Find Data Online and
Find Address dialogs.
- Made point classification and intensity be available for Lidar points from
Terrascan format files.
- Made the Search by Name and Search by Attributes dialogs show a bullseye on
the map when you double click on a search result.
- Made running script files that make changes to the main view automatically
update the main view window when they complete in all cases.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the 'Run in Context of the Main Map View' setting on the Run Script
dialog be remembered between runs.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allow selection of elevation units when batch converting to the Lidar LAS
format.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed bug with color intensity values not being used in some cases for some
raster files.
- Added option to the elevation grid generation dialog to allow the user to
specify that they want the generated elevation grid to fill the entire bounding
box of the input data rather than stopping at the convex hull of the data set.
This should really only be used for data sets that very nearly fill the bounding
box but have corners cut off or something.
- Added support for reading raster layout information from .glcf data files.
- Fixed problems loading portions of some Erdas Imagine .img grid files with
floating point samples.
- Added support for auto-detecting connected NMEA GPS devices running at 9600
baud (in addition to the standard 4800 baud).
- Fixed error exporting vector data to SHP file if there are more than 100
attributes with the same name to 10 characters associated with a single feature.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for getting positioning information for JPG files from JGC
files.
- Fixed problems loading CDF files where the pen goes up and down within a
single string of coordinates.
- Added new RP_RenderStarted and RP_RenderFinished functions to
raster/elevation import plugin API to allow plugin DLLs to be notified of raster
begin and end operations with the bounding box being rendered.
- Significantly sped up the loading of line and area features with a lot of
vertices from KML/KMZ files.
- Fixed problems loading some new MicroDEM DEM format files.
- Fixed problems converting some Erdas Imagine elevation files with void areas
to Arc ASCII Grid format files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made elevation values from loaded terrain data be used when batch converting
to Simple ASCII Text files and selecting to include elevation data.
- Ignore duplicate point features in DXF BLOCK sections.
- Fixed error in some cases when generating view sheds while checking Fresnel
zone clearance.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made cut-and-fill volume calculation operations for areas report the 3D
surface area of the calculation area in addition to the 2D surface area.
(Registered Version Only)
- Slightly increased the precision reported for some measurements.
- Added option to the right-click menu on the Overlay Control Center to allow
disabling selection of vector features from a layer.
- Added support for using a MP_BIT_LEVEL attribute value to specify the
maximum zoom bit level that a particular feature (or feature type for default
attribute lists) should be visible at in exported Polish MP files.
(Registered Version Only)
What's New in Version 9.01 (2007³â 11¿ù 30ÀÏ)
- Added support for exporting any loaded data into tiles for use in Google
Maps. In addition, an HTML file will also be created allowing immediate viewing
of the maps.
- Made significant improvements to the triangulation and gridding of 3D point,
line, and area data. Not only is the process now MUCH faster (especially for
large triangulations), but it also now supports treating lines as constraints
(i.e. breaklines), saving the generated triangulation as a separate vector
layer, and making elevations for source vector features be relative to the
elevation from loaded terrain data. You now also grid a much larger number of
points at once (well over 10 million points have been tested with no problems).
- Added option to Shapefile export to split the export into separate files by
layer. This allows you to easily break your data up into separate Shapefiles
based on the layer/description of the features being exported. The layer name
for each file will be appended to the end of the selected export filename.(Registered Version Only)
- Added fuzzy transparency support to allow for transparency for a raster
layer to be set up so that all colors near a selected transparent color can be
marked as transparent. This is useful for removing collars from lossy formats,
like JPG, ECW, and MrSID.
- Allowed 3D area features to be created in Shapefile export.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading RIK (Swedish Topo) format raster files.
- Added support for loading OCAD format files.
- Added support for loading MapTech PCX charts. Load these from the MapTech
.hdr file in the ChartHdr folder.
- Added support for loading OziExplorer .rte format files.
- Added support for loading Garmin PCX5 .rte format files.
- Added support for loading UKOOA format post plot data files. They are listed
under the format SEGP1/UKOOA.
- Added support for loading HF2/HFZ format elevation grid files.
- Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data to HF2/HFZ format
files.(Registered Version Only)
- Added new item to the Options menu on the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog
to allow specification of how many sample points (either by number or by a
spacing distance) to use when generating the path profile.
- Allowed feather blending to use multiple polygons.
- Added several new built-in symbols for different well types used in the
petroleum industry.
- Made minor improvements to Polish MP export, including option to keep ID
value from [IMG ID] section during templated exports, to copy the [FILES] and
[MAP] sections from template files, to allow Text attributes longer than 80
characters, and to automatically remove the labels from marine spot depth and
height points.(Registered Version Only)
- Added new option to JPG export to allow specification of a DPI value to
store in the exported JPG file.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added DXF vector export option to use the filename for the input feature as
the layer name in addition to the default of the feature description or the
feature label.(Registered Version Only)
- Added new COMBINE_TERRAIN command to the scripting language to allow
combining terrain layers to generate a new layer using a script file.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new ADD_MEASURE_ATTRS command to the scripting language to allow
adding measure attributes to loaded vector layers from a script.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the OVERWRITE_EXISTING=NO parameter work properly when gridding an
export from a script.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new PIXEL_SIZE parameter for use with the EXPORT_RASTER script
command. This parameter allows you to specify the desired pixel size of your
export result. The format is PIXEL_SIZE="widthxheight", or PIXEL_SIZE="1024x768"
as an example.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the value of the INC_VECTOR_DATA parameter default to YES with the
EXPORT_RASTER command if only vector data is loaded.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed use of SPATIAL_RES parameter with the IMPORT_ASCII script command to
manually specify the grid resolution to use when generating a gridded elevation
layer.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new LAYER_BOUNDS_EXPAND parameter to script commands taking a bounding
box so allow using an expanded version of a bounding box obtained using a
LAYER_BOUNDS parameter.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new DGN_GLOBAL_ORIGIN_LL, DGN_REPLACE_DARK_COLORS, and
DGN_UNIT_RESOLUTION parameters to the EXPORT_VECTOR script command to allow
specifying additional options for DGN export.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made GEN_WORLD_FILE parameter work for ECW and JPEG2000 exports from script
files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed easy movement of view sheds by moving the transmitter point feature
at the center of the view shed using the Digitizer/Edit Tool. When this is done,
the user will now be prompted to recalculate the view shed at the new location
if they want.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to lock the current active workspace file while you are working
with it to prevent other users from opening and using that same workspace file.
This is useful in network environments where you don't want one persons work to
accidentally overwrite another's. This option is in the Advanced section of the
General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to have cells from DGN v8 and later files to be imported as
point features at the cell's origin rather than be exploded into the features
referenced by the cell. This option is in the Advanced section of the General
Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added option to have the color number for lines from DGN v8 and later files
to be add to the feature description text in addition to the level number. This
option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the
Configuration dialog.
- Added option to generate world files and PRJ files during Terragen terrain
export.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for getting depth values from a connected GPS device that
embeds $STDBT or $IIDBT NMEA sentences containing the depth values. For GPS
devices that provide depth, the depth will be used as the Z coordinate for track
logs rather than the elevation value.
- Added option to Options menu on rectification dialog to automatically add
control points at the image corners.
- Fixed creation of attribute list when marking new waypoints from a connected
GPS device. Previously the elevation and time stamp attributes were no longer
being saved.
- Fixed problem with elevation units other than meters not being usable for
Lidar LAS and Terrascan files loaded as point cloud data sets.
- When loading TIFF files with 4 color channels and the 4th color channel is
of unspecified type, prompt the user to see if this should be treated as an
alpha channel or an additional data channel (like infrared). This allows TIFF
files created with Photoshop with an incorrectly marked alpha channel to be
loaded and displayed properly.
- Added new option to the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the
Configuration dialog to automatically save backup copies of the current
workspace every so often. These backup copies will be created in the same folder
as the workspace file and have the suffix "auto_backupX", where X is a number
from 0 to 9.
(Registered Version Only)
- When generating new area features from the bounds of layers in the Overlay
Control Center, make those new areas have an attribute list consisting of the
metadata from the layer.
- Made the last selected file type be remembered between sessions on the
GeoTIFF export dialog.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the last selected export target compression ratio be remembered between
sessions on the ECW and JPG2000 export dialogs.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the last selected quality setting be remembered between session on the
JPG export dialogs.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added the Winkel Tripel projection as a built-in projection.
- Added built-in support for the BD72 (Belgium 1972), M'Poraloko (Gabon) and
Google Maps datums.
- Improved the accuracy of the ED50 - Spain and Portugal datum transformation
by having it use a NTv2 transformation file.
- Improved the accuracy of the MGI Austria and Potsdam (DHDN) datum
transformations.
- Added Indian Yard as an available unit for projections.
- Allowed EPSG datum codes to be used to specify a datum on the projection
selection dialog using the 'Init From EPSG' button.
- Added support for decoding Polyconic (American) projections from OziExplorer
.map files.
- Made the map/chart type for CADRG maps (i.e. TPC, ONC, etc.) be included in
the layer description and metadata for those maps.
- Fixed problem with elevation override data not being applied to elevation
WMS layers (like SRTM and NED) loaded from a script or workspace file.
- Made the Vertical Units control actually work when combining terrain layers.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the addition operation work when combining terrain layers in areas
where only one of the two input layers has a valid elevation.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made Surfer CLR files saved from the custom shader dialog actually be
compatible with Surfer.
- Added support for correctly importing line and point features in Polish MP
format files that have multiple Data0 coordinate records.
- Added option to PNG export options dialog to easily specify the sample
spacing in units other than the current export projection units.
(Registered Version Only)
- Improved performance of raster exports from map catalogs when one or more
files referenced by the map catalog are missing.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for automatically cropping the collar of Canadian topographic
maps with CanMatrix XML metadata files.
- When exporting filled area features to DXF files, write out the fill color
of the area to the DXF file.
(Registered Version Only)
- When exporting raster layers to Global Mapper Package files, make those
layers support transparency so that they will overlay properly on other layers
when re-loaded.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made feather-blended elevation layers visually feather blend better in to
underlying layers rather than just smoothly blending the elevation values.
- When loading files from workspace, script, and map catalog files, if the
file exists at the full path specified, don't check for a new location relative
to the metafile location.
- When rectifying imagery, allowed new control point values to be entered as
lat/lon coordinates regardless of the native projection of the layer.
- Fixed problem with manually specified grid spacing being ignored when
flattening areas using the Digitizer Tool.
- Added option to World Wind export to allow generating the filenames required
by the Java edition of World Wind.
- Updated area calculations to be done in the native units for a layer rather
than always be done in lat/lon coordinates. This can make area calculations from
Global Mapper for large areas more consistent with what you see in other
applications.
- Fixed bug with fill style not being read from generic ASCII files properly.
- Fixed errors rendering ECW and JPEG2000 files to monitors with extremely
high resolutions (typically multi-monitor setups).
- Added option to Help menu to disable the automatic check for updates at
application startup.
- Made it possible to batch convert from ASCII text files (like XYZ) to
gridded elevation formats.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed bug in batch conversion that caused the horizontal extents of raster
or gridded elevation data exported using a custom spacing to be incorrect in
some situations. Also fixed problem with an extra column and or row being
exported when the custom spacing option was used.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added attributes for database linkages to loaded DGN files.
- Improved the handling of break lines imported from DMDF format files.
- Fixed problems loading some Garmin PCX5 files.
- Added new File menu commands to the rectification dialog to allow loading
control points and projection information from CompeGPS .imp and Touratech TTQV
.cal files.
- Added option to specify offset and scale values to apply to coordinates
loaded from EMF format files.
- No longer save the 'Render Areas', 'Render Lines', 'Render Points', and
'Render Area and Line Vertices' options from the Vector Display tab of the
Configuration dialog between runs as this tends to cause confusion. The first
three will always be enabled by default when you start Global Mapper and the
vertex display will now always be disabled by default.
- Corrected positioning of ENVI files that don't use the top left coordinate
as their reference point.
- Fixed problems exporting attributes with special characters like # and - in
their name to MapInfo MIF/MID format files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading ERS files with missing cell sizes. These are
apparently defined as having a cell size of 1.0.
- Made the last exported bounds be available between runs of Global Mapper.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the full path to files be displayed in the Overlay Control Center for
layers that do not have any description other than the filename.
- Allowed selection of which bands are used from multi-spectral FAST-L7A
Landsat imagery layers.
- Added support for loading 16-color (4-bit per pixel) PCX files.
- Made holding down the 'P' key when selecting a new location in the Reference
View of the rectification dialog or when using the Measure or Digitizer Tools,
cause the new location to be snapped to the nearby point features.
- Made the default attribute list for a feature type be applied when changing
the classification of an existing feature through the single feature edit
dialog.
- Fixed problem with missing start row and column of DTED tiles in some cases
when exporting to DTED format.
(Registered Version Only)
- When cropping to selected area features during a batch conversion operation,
made the bounds of the exported data also be cropped to the selected area
features.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading Ozi .map files with grid coordinates in multiple
UTM zones.
- Significantly sped up export of large number of files to ECW and JPEG2000
format files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for modifying the default projection used when rectifying
imagery by supplying a default_rectification.prj file in the Global Mapper
installation folder containing the desired default projection.
- Added Ctrl+R as shortcut key to restore last saved view.
- Made the compression type used for TIFF files be displayed in the metadata
for the file available from the Overlay Control Center.
- Made the image collar specified in the "MainPolygonBitmap" section of
CompeGPS IMP files be used when automatically cropping the collar of imagery
loaded with positioning information from the IMP file.
- Fixed problem with the 'Update GCP' button on the rectification dialog
causing the name of the control point being updated to be lost.
- Added ability to automatically add/update a MODIFIED_DATE parameter to
vector features when they are modified. This option is found in the options list
at the bottom of the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added control of the JPEG-in-TIFF quality setting with a new DWORD registry
setting at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\JpegInTiffQuality" to
control the JPEG-n-TIFF quality. The default value is 75.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added control of the default search string used in the Search by Attributes
dialog with a new string registry setting at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global
Mapper\DefaultVectorSearchStr". The default value is '*'.
- Made it possible to batch rectify ECW and JPEG2000 format files using the
File->Rectify Imagery menu command.
- Made LiDAR LAS export write out the point count for each number of returns
in the header.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made LiDAR LAS support reading and writing projection information.
- Added an 'Invert Selection' option to the popup menu when you right click on
the search results list on the Search by Attributes dialog.
- Made the Add/Update Feature Measures option in the Digitizer Tool report the
combined length of all selected line features and the combined enclosed area of
all selected area features at the end of the operation.
- Added new 'Deleted Line' and 'Selected Line' line classifications so that
users could modify the drawing style used for deleted and selected line
features.
- Fixed saving of Lambert Conformal Conic projections to MapInfo MIF/MID files
(this was broken in v9.00).
(Registered Version Only)
What's New in Version 9.00 (2007³â 8¿ù 28ÀÏ)
- Added direct access to high resolution Digital Globe, GlobeXplorer, and
AirPhotoUSA imagery for the entire world through the File->Download Online
Imagery menu command. Free access is provided to watermarked imagery for
reference only, with access to un-watermarked imagery that can be exported to
new files can be purchased.
- Added support for exporting ECW files of unlimited size. Previously there
was a limit of 500 MB of uncompressed data for ECW exports.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded data to JPEG2000 format files.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded raster/elevation data to KML/KMZ file for
display in Google Earth (use File->Export Raster and Elevation
Data->Export KML/KMZ menu command).(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data to DTED format
files.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data and 3D vector data
(including LIDAR point clouds) to LIDAR .LAS format files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added ability to make area features partially transparent. Everywhere that
you can edit an area style now has a transparency slider allowing you to adjust
how translucent a solid filled area will be.
- Added new File->Combine Terrains menu command to allow combining loaded
terrain layers with a variety of operations, including differencing terrains,
averaging terrains, and using the min and/or max elevations from two terrains.(Registered Version Only)
- Added new option to the Color/Contrast Adjust option dialog for raster
layers to allow specification that the contrast adjustment should be shared
between multiple layers. This allows a consistent contrast adjustment to be
applied to all images with that option checked.
- Added option to view shed calculation to generate area features for the
covered areas. These generated area features could then be exported to vector
formats like Shapefiles.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for feather-blending elevation layers in order to smoothly
blend the elevation values of one layer with an underlying one near some edge
(either a polygon or the rectangular edges of the top file).
- Added support for loading DMDF (Digital Map Data Format) files, such as
those used for Alberta DEM files.
- Added support for loading vector data from EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile)
files.
- Added support for loading Erdas .LAN format files.
- Added support for loading PCX format image files.
- Added support for loading point Arc Vector Coverage files (lab.adf).
- Added option to the Vector Options dialog to allow selecting the attribute
to use for elevation values for vector features. This is useful if you want to
get elevation values from something other than the default elevation field for a
layer.
- Added option to the Digitizer Tool to split an area feature into 2 pieces
along the segment connecting 2 selected vertices.
- Made the Search->Search by Attributes/Name/Desc dialog be "modeless" so
that you can interact with the map underneath the dialog without closing the
dialog.
- Added new "Select All" option under the Edit menu to allow easily selecting
all loaded vector features.
- Added support for loading files in a fixed location relative to the screen
with the position of the file being specified in width or height percentage
values or relative to an absolute latitude/longitude value in addition to the
previously available inches from edge values.
- When specify custom crop bounds for a raster layer, allow control of which
sides will be cropped through check boxes activating which edges to actually
crop. The default is all edges.
- Added a new "Hill Shading Shadow Darkness" control to the Vertical Options
tab of the Configuration dialog. This control allows you to control the maximum
darkness of shadows (the default is black). With this setting you can cause the
shadowing to be capped in high relief areas, thus allowing the use of other
controls to better bring out detail in low-relief areas.
- Added support for drawing the location for a connected GPS device as a
circle or transparent triangle with a dot at the center for the GPS location.
This support is provided by the new GPS->Vessel Shape submenu.
- Added option to DXF vector export to allow elevation values from loaded
elevation layers to be used as the Z coordinate for exported vertices if
available.(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to DXF vector export to allow coordinate values to be written
out as ECEF (earth-centered earth-fixed) coordinates rather than in the current
selected projection.(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for performing batch geocode operations from data files using
currently loaded road data. Previously batch geocoding was limited to the US
using an online geocoder. With this new feature, geocoding can be done using
load and properly attributed road data along with input address data split into
appropriate fields.(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed drawing of rectangle, square, circle, and ellipse shapes anchored at
the top left rather than center with the Digitizer Tool by holding down the 'T'
key when left clicking to start the shape.
- Added option to the projection selection dialog to allow a projection to be
initialized from an EPSG projection system code.
- Made the parameters used for most grid system and zoned projections, like
British Grid and UTM, be displayed in the attribute section of the projection
selection dialog (which will be disabled for those projections).
- Added support for the India Zoned Grid, Korean Grid, Krovak, Lambert
(Marta), Lambert (NOAA), Marta Satellite, and Winkel I projections.
- Added built-in support for the Dealul Piscului 1970, Ireland 1965 (with 1975
Adjustment), Korean Geodetic (KGD), Lisbon (DLx), S-JTSK, Solomon 1968 (GUX1
Astro) datums as well as a generic GRS80 ellipsoid datum.
- Improved accuracy of the Beijing 1954, Hungarian Datum 1972 (HD72), NGO1948,
and Portugese 1973 (Datum 73) datums.
- Added Bessel (Modified) as a new built-in ellipsoid.
- Added support for adding new ellipsoids to create custom datums from on the
custom datums dialog.
- Fixed crash when exporting to some formats with the Old Israel Grid or New
Israel Grid projections selected.(Registered Version Only)
- Made the extra scale factor for State Plane projections be applied AFTER any
false easting and northing values for the underlying projection for the State
Plane zone, rather than before the false easting/northing values as before.
- Allowed exports cropped to a polygon from a file be cropped to multiple
polygons with the new POLYGON_CROP_USE_ALL parameter for the export commands.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added CLIP_COLLAR_FLAGS parameter to IMPORT script command to allow saving
of per-edge collar cropping flags.(Registered Version Only)
- Added COLOR_INTENSITY_FULL parameter to IMPORT script command to allow
specification of higher resolution color intensity for raster layers (from 0 to
512 rather than 0 to 20).(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed the polygon to use when feather blending to be specified from a file
using a FEATHER_BLEND_POLY_FILE parameter with an IMPORT command in a script
file.(Registered Version Only)
- When using the EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with a polygon
crop file, only use the bounds of the crop polygon for the export as the export
bounds if the export bounds are not explicitly specified. In addition, for
gridded exports with a crop polygon, don't export grid cells that are completely
outside of the crop polygon.(Registered Version Only)
- Fix error with some layers not showing up in the output when using the
EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with gridding.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new parameters to the EXPORT_* script commands to allow specifying how
gridded tiles should be named.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed FEATURE_SEP values for exporting simple ASCII text files with the
EXPORT_VECTOR script command to specify feature separators other than just none
or a blank line.(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem using SET_BG_COLOR in scripts called from the command line.(Registered Version Only)
- Made the area covered by the bounding box of a layer be reported as part of
the metadata for that layer.
- For BIL and Erdas Imagine elevation exports, if all of the input files use
the same NODATA value use that rather than the default of -9999.0 for the NODATA
value for the export.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem loading complex shapes from older (pre-v8) DGN files. This
problem was introduced in the v7.04 release.
- Improved decoding and encoding of some Lambert-based projections with
default units of feet with ECW files.
- Fixed garbled display of some rare ASRP/ADRG/USRP format maps.
- Fixed problem with features being duplicating when copying and pasting
selected features from multiple data layers at a time.
- Made blending and translucency between layers within a map catalog work
properly.
- Fixed display of selected features when dragging a map to pan.
- Made nearby point locations be snapped to when selecting the transmitter
location for view shed analysis.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with scale bar being cut off when printing to scale with a
footer string.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem in v8.03 with some features in the a User Created Features
layer not responding to the show/hide checkbox in the Overlay Control Center.
- Fixed problems loading area and line features with more than about 200,000
vertices from Polish MP format files.
- Increased precision of angular coordinates (like arc degrees) written to
text file formats, like Simple ASCII Text export, to support approximately the
same level of ground truth precision as linear coordinates (like meters).
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with offscreen islands not being exported when exporting
simple ASCII text format files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems loading uncompressed CIB imagery.
- Fixed problems with edited labels for Shapefile features not being saved to
workspaces.
- Split line features with more than 5,000 vertices into multiple pieces on
export to DGN files as some applications (like Microstation) do not support
lines with more than 5,000 vertices.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to DGN export for converting dark line colors (like black) to
white. This is useful as many DGN viewers automatically use black as the
background color, making dark colors very difficult to see.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to the GPS Status dialog to copy the current GPS location to
the clipboard.
- Added support for loading polyface mesh features from DXF files.
- Added support for loading DXF files with nested BLOCK references.
- Fixed problems handling some SPLINE entities in DXF files.
- Added new View->Properties menu command to allow displaying properties
about the current view, including bounds, scale, and resolution.
- Made ERS files be used for positioning information if needed for additional
formats, like JPG, ECW, TIFF, and PNG.
- Increased the resolution of the color intensity slider on the raster options
dialog and also made the current intensity value be displayed.
- Made filenames in the Overlay Control Center be displayed with the same
casing as they have on disk rather than always being all upper case.
- Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the
Configuration dialog to allow users to specify that the default export folder
should be the folder of the first loaded file rather than the last exported-to
folder.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the
Configuration dialog to specify that lines in generated world files should be
separated with CR/LF (carriage return and line feed) characters rather than just
a LF (line feed) character.
(Registered Version Only)
- Updated GNIS files to use the NAD83 datum as the USGS switched to that in
2005. In addition, GNIS files that use meters for elevation values will also
handle those correctly and less error messages will be shown for GNIS files.
- Allowed clearances greater than 100% of the first Fresnel zone to be checked
when performing line of sight and view shed analysis.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the minimum clearance display for line-of-sight analysis display in the
currently selected 'Position Display Format' if the From and To locations are
also displayed using it.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with the per-vertex elevation list for 3D area and line
features not being maintained when copying and pasting those features.
- Fixed problems with loaded data from some VPF data sets with only one tile
of data, namely UVMAP3 data.
- Fixed memory leak when generating an elevation grid from some loaded 3D
vector data sets. This problem was introduced in the v8.02 release.
- Added a new right-click option to the Overlay Control Center to allow you to
save a workspace file containing just the selected layers and their settings.
- Changed export of transparent areas to new 24-bit RGB PNG files to use an
alpha channel rather than a single color transparency as some applications only
support the alpha channel method.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed error loading some RPF (i.e. CADRG/CIB) data sets.
- Fixed file size error loading some Geosoft Grid files.
- Made Global Mapper workspace (.gmw) files be loaded from archive files
(.zip, .tar.gz, etc.). If any .gmw files are encountered and loaded from a
workspace file, no other data files will be loaded from the archive file.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made it possible to rectify MrSID files with the File->Rectify Imagery
menu command.
- Fixed error loading some DGN v7 or older files with tags in them.
- When digitizing new area, line, and point features, notify the user if their
features will not be displayed immediately after creating it due to vector
display settings.
- Make the default attribute list for the default classification be properly
initialized when digitizing new features.
- Make sure that the user wants to switch away from the Digitizer Tool if
doing so would result in the loss of a significant number of digitized points.
- Display progress while saving workspace files.
- Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use multiple
Schema directives to change the name of Placemarks.
- Fixed rare problem with a handful of iso-height areas not generating
properly during contour generation.
- No longer break lines over 256 vertices into smaller pieces on export to the
Polish MP format as cGPSMapper can now properly handle lines of any length.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made double-clicking on layers in the Overlay Control Center bring up the
Options dialog for that layer. If you hold down the 'M' key when double-clicking
the Metadata dialog will appear instead.
- Added support for the Swiss Grid projection in ECW files.
- Fixed problems batch converting Lidar LAS format files to some other
formats, like Shapefiles.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made automatic DRG-style collar cropping work for high latitude Canadian
topo maps.
- Added support for loading MSI Planet files with a .dat extension.
- Made GML files from the UK Ordnance Survey load.
- Allowed border and line widths up to 30 pixels wide (up from 10) to be
selected.
- Updated raster/elevation import plugin API to allow the plugin DLL to notify
Global Mapper that the data in a layer has changed and needs to be redrawn, thus
allowing for dynamically updating layers.
- Updated raster/elevation export plugin API to add an EP_ExportEvent function
that is called whenever an entire export operation is started and ends.
(Registered Version Only)
- Reduced memory requirements for loading and displaying CMYK TIFF files.
- Dramatically sped up the process of moving overlays to the top and bottom of
the draw order when there are a lot of layers loaded.
- Don't attempt to load DBF files from archive (.zip, etc.) files if they
don't have obvious positioning fields in them.
- In the location selection dialog, made the Latitude and Longitude fields
initialize with the coordinates formatted according to the currently selected
position display format. Also swapped the fields so that the Latitude is on top.
- Made the elevation readout on the status bar display up to 3 digits beyond
the decimal rather than just 1.
- Made DEM files exported with the Geographic (Lat/Lon) projection write out
full elevation profiles for every column, even if there are invalid data values
at the beginning and/or end of the profile. This is to ensure compatibility with
other software.
- Added support for the user providing an explicit format and/or projection to
use in the service name string when adding a new WMS data source. For example,
if a data source is available in both JPG and PNG formats and you want to get
the JPG data, use a service name of 'WMS&format=image/jpeg' when adding the
data source. Use the SRS parameter to explicitly select a projection to use.
- Added new right-click option to the Measure Tool to specify that no unit
labels (like 'm' or 'ft') should be appended to the measure attributes added to
new line and area features.
- Added new advanced selection option to the Digitizer Tool to allow selecting
all line features contained within a selected area feature.
- Made the false easting/northing values for UTM projections in units other
than meters be stored correctly when saved to WKT format PRJ files.
- Made the list of user-provided web-based ECW links be stored in a text
format in the user_web_files.wfl file rather than a hard to edit binary format.
What's New in Version 8.03 (2007³â 4¿ù 29ÀÏ)
- Added support for loading GML format files.
- Modified the Overlay Control Center to display a checkbox next to each layer
for controlling the displayed state of the layer. This replace the previous text
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