GIS Global Mapper v9.02 3D GPS Mapping Software

Once again the Global Mapper 3D GIS mapping software is proving itself to be a very competitive player in the GIS field with the latest major release. 

Eagle Globe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of Global Mapper v9.02 GIS mapping software which you may experience via our Free Download page.

Multiple enhancements and bug fixes have been made to Global Mapper since the v9.01 release, making the v9.xx another exciting release in Globalmapper history!

We have listed the latest features added in Global Mapper 9.02 along with other enhancements and bug fixes implemented since the Globalmapper v9.01 release.

• 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
• 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.
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• 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. 
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• 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.
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• 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. 
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• 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). 
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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. 
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• 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.
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