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GIS Global Mapper v11.02 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 this major v11.02 release. 

Eagle Globe Software is pleased to announce the availability of Global Mapper v11.xx GIS mapping software latest release with tons, and we mean tons of added support.

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Multiple enhancements and bug fixes have been made to Global Mapper since the v11.01 release, making v11.02 the front runner in GIS mapping software!

We have listed the new features added along with all other enhancements and bug fixes implemented into Globalmapper v11.02, shown below.

What's New in Version v11.02(03/03/2010) 

Significant New Features

  • Added support to the Map Layout tool for automatically generating a map legend, either from the collection of loaded map features display styles or from a userspecified color palette.

  • Added 'Area Styles' tab to Options dialog for vector layers with area features allowing users to setup the styling of areas in a layer. Now users can use the default type-based styling, apply a single style to all area features in a layer, setup an attribute-based styling system that styles the areas based on the value of an attribute value or the display label, or randomly assign colors to the areas in a layer.

  • Added 'Line Styles' tab to Options dialog for vector layers with line features allowing users to setup the styling of lines in a layer. Now users can use the default type-based styling, apply a single style to all line features in a layer, setup an attribute-based styling system that styles the lines based on the value of an attribute value or the display label, or randomly assign colors to the lines in a layer.

  • Added support for resampling raster and elevation layers using bicubic interpolation or a box average of size 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5, in addition to the previously available options of nearest neighbor and bilinear interpolation. The "anti-alias" option on the Raster Options dialog has been replaced with one for selecting the sampling method to use.
  • Updated the option to crop lines to areas in the Digitizer Tool to allow splitting lines (i.e. keeping parts both inside and outside the crop areas).
  • Updated the option to add areas as islands in another area in the Digitizer Tool to allow removing overlapping but not enclosed areas from another area. The option was renamed to 'Cut Selected Area(s) from Another Area (Add Islands)' to reflect the new functionality.

  • Updated creation of buffer areas to allow combining overlapping buffer areas into a single combined buffer area.

  • Added option to create buffers some distance inside an area feature by specifying a negative buffer distance.

  • Updated area combine functionality in the Digitizer Tool to allow combining multiple groups of non-intersecting areas into as many combinations as are possible.

  • Added option to export GeoTIFF files to a particular scale.

  • Added new option when creating/flattening terrain from areas to taper the edges. This provides for easy simulation of non-flat areas like a sand bunker or hill while just providing a single elevation value for the area.

  • Added support for batch-converting to multi-band GeoTIFF imagery files.

New Support Formats

  • Added support for loading S-63 (encrypted S-57 charts) format files. Use File- >Create S-63 User Permit menu command to generate a user permit file to provide to S-63 data provider to obtain S-63 files encrypted for use with your Global Mapper installation.

  • Added support for loading NV Verlag encrypted marine charts (EAB/BSB format).

  • Added support for loading TOBIN .bas (TDRBM II) files.

  • Added support for loading OziExplorer OZFx2 and OZFx3 files.

  • Added support for importing GRIB I and II format data, a format commonly used for meteorological data.

  • Added support for loading COLLADA 3D models (like model.dae files referenced from KML/KMZ files).

  • Added support for loading ATS (Alberta Township System) v4.1 files.

  • Added support for GeoDXF and GeoDWG files (DXF/DWG positioned with WLD file).

  • Added support for using Adobe Color Table (.act) files for palettes.

  • Added support for TIFF files with 12-bit per sample JPEG-in-TIFF encoding.

  • Added support for 16-bit TIFF files with palettes.

  • Added support for MrSID files encoded using CMYK colors.

  • Added support for LIDAR LAS files using point format 2 or 3. This allows for coloring Lidar data sets using the RGB color specified in the LAS file rather than the elevation-based color.
  • Added support for loading Anuga Triangulated Mesh format files.
  • Renamed Platte River export to reflect that it is the same as the Whitestar/Geographix Township/Range format export.

Projection/Datum Changes

  1. Added support for providing custom datums with the conversion to WGS84 based on a set of control points from a text file. This allows you to easily create your own datum conversions when you just know a collection of lat/lon values in the source projection and the corresponding WGS84 lat/lon location.
  • Added support for getting projection information from ESRI .aux.xml files.
  • Added the La Canoa (Venezuela), PSD93 (Oman), and North Sahara 1959 (Hassi Messaoud) datums as a built-in datums.
  • Updated PRJ files saved in WKT format to use names expected by ESRI products that in general don't conform to OGC standards.
  • Made Wisconsin County Projections write out correctly to GeoTIFF files.
  • Added support for decoding Irish Grid projections from Ozi .map files.
  • Added support for Dutch Grid projections in ECW files.

  • Fixed bug selecting UTM zones in the Southern Hemisphere in the 64-bit version.
  • Added EPSG codes for Corregre Alegre and Nord Sahara 1959 UTM projections.

  • Corrected latitude for Japanese Grid Zone IV projection.
  • Added support for EPSG code 2056 (Swiss Grid CH1903/LV95).

  • Fixed bug in v11.01 that caused custom datum transformation parameters to be lost in some cases.

  • Fixed positioning of GeoPDF files using Southern UTM zones.

  • Updated ECW and JPEG2000 access to be much faster when sub-sampling for export or rectifying either of those types.

  • Updated option that calculates and adds elevation attributes for selected areas to also calculate and add MAX_SLOPE, AVG_SLOPE, and MODE_ELEV attributes for selected line features.
  • Made selecting a feature with a GM_LINK attribute with the Feature Info tool open the file referenced by the attribute value in the current Global Mapper instance.

  • Added option for users to choose which DWG version to create when exporting a new DWG format file.
  • Allow specifying a prefix and suffix for labels when setting up labeling using multiple attributes for a layer.

  • Added support for modifying the folder that user data is stored in by adding a registry key value with the desired path at 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\SettingsFilePath'.

  • Added option to generate 8-bit GeoTIFF files with no compression via a new compression selection list on the GeoTIFF export dialog.

  • Removed separate JPG-in-TIFF GeoTIFF export option as you can now achieve the same results with a 24-bit RGB export and the JPEG compression option selected.

  • Added option to online data source dialog to load WMS data sources from an external text file. This provides an easy way to share your list of WMS sources with other users.

  • Updated 3D view to rotate around the center of the current view rather than the center of the entire data set currently in the 3D view.

  • Updated LIDAR point clouds to display in color in the 3D view.

  • Made most point symbols display in the 3D view rather than just a dot for each point.

  • Added option to KML/KMZ export to highlight areas in Google Earth when you mouseover them.

  • Updated automatic loading of image links from attributes to support image filename values relative to the path of the data file containing the feature with the attributes.

  • When exporting Shapefiles, provide more options for splitting the data into separate files so that you can now choose to split based on the type/classification of each feature (same as the current option) or based on the feature description/layer.

  • Added support for cropping to selected area features when creating an elevation grid from loaded vector layers.

  • Updated the rectification dialog so that if you press 'Enter' with the focus in the one of the coordinate windows then focus will advance to the next coordinate field. Pressing 'Enter' with focus in the Y/northing/latitude field will just add the control point.

  • Added new right-click option to the Control Center allowing you to scale a selected layer based on a user-specified length of a selected line feature in that layer. This is useful if you know the actual length of a line feature in a vector layer and want to scale the layer so that the line length is correct without caring about where on the earth the layer is placed.

  • Added new right-click option to the Control Center to allow opening Windows Explorer to the folder that a selected map file is in.

  • Added new Combine Terrain operations to filter and keep the first layer value when it is greater than the second layer value and also less than the second layer value.

  • When selecting two vertices of a single line feature with the Digitizer Tool, the status bar will list the length of the line between the two selected vertices.

  • Made creating areas from line features maintain the per-vertex elevations of the connected lines (if there were any).

  • Fixed behavior of water level controls on the 3D view options dialog.

  • Restored old 3D view behavior of going behind main window and having separate button on Windows start bar.

  • Fixed flicker of main view when moving your cursor over a 3D path profile.

  • Improved accuracy of affine and triangulated rectification operations.

  • Significantly increased speed of contour generation.

  • Automatically treat signed 16-bit samples from imagery TIFF files with values of -32767 as void areas.

  • Fixed problems reading projection information from some newer MrSID files.

  • Added display of the target compression ratio used when creating a MrSID file to the metadata display for that layer.

  • Allowed cropping to selected areas when batch converting to vector formats.

  • Added support for controlling multi-band GeoTIFF exports from scripts using a new BAND_EXPORT_SETUP parameter for the EXPORT_RASTER command.

  • Added support for exporting a new raster with the same color/palette type as the file being exported using the EXPORT_RASTER command by using the PALETTE=KEEP_SOURCE parameter.

  • Corrected creation/flattening of terrain from 3D area features with islands.

  • Made Lidar files share the elevation shader with all loaded elevation and Lidar layers, making them consistently color across multiple layers.

  • Fixed problems with missing data from Italian TAF that have invalid records.

  • Made scaling of built-in custom shape symbols work properly.

  • Fixed handling of multi-line text in map layouts when saved to a workspace.

  • Fixed problem with map layout text becoming upper-case when loaded from a workspace.

  • Improved detection of datums from P190 files.

  • Corrected display of elevations on real-time cursor display for path profile display when doing a line-of-sight analysis with earth curvature enabled.

  • Changed shortcut key to toggle all vector layers on and off to Ctrl+Shift+V from just 'V' since the 'V' shortcut key was already used to enable snapping only to vertices.

  • Fixed range of elevation legend display and shader colors when the min/max elevation values are overridden for a loaded terrain layer.

  • Allowed non-integer starting number values when creating new point features spaced along selected line or area features using the Digitizer Tool.

  • Allowed naming of points sequentially or based on distance when creating new point feature spaced by distance along selected line or area features using the Digitizer Tool.

  • Made "display elevation legend on right" toggle work properly.

  • Fixed bug in PDF export that caused labels for lines with a Null drawing style to not be exported.

  • Fixed bug with road icons assigned to existing line features not being maintained when saving and restoring a workspace.

  • Corrected progress bar behavior during Vertical Mapper export.

  • Updated creation of terrain when flattening areas to flatten based on drawing order, so the top-most drawn area that is flattened will be the flattened part in the terrain (useful for nested 3D areas, like for a building).

  • Fixed crash when closing a layer that a search is active on in the vector search dialog.

  • Fixed problems in v11.xx loading some ASRP/USRP data sets.

  • Added support for additional HDF data sets.

  • Added recognition of .190 as a P-190 file extension.

  • Added option to Measure Tool to allow calculating grid distance rather than great circle distance for distance calculations.

  • Fixed DTED export sizes near latitude change boundaries in the Southern Hemisphere.

  • Fixed bug loading points from some MapInfo TAB/MAP or MIF/MID files.

  • Added option when finding features with duplicate attribute values to delete the duplicates.

  • Fixed half-pixel shift of Vertical Mapper grids from v11.01 release (v11.00 was ok).

  • Added options to the Advanced Section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to disable the automatic interpolation of reprojected or resampled raster layers on export and when zoomed way out on a layer.

  • Fixed problem with HATCH entity pattern name being saved as display label when loading DXF files.

  • Fixed added of extension to files when gridding to selected areas and the name used for an export file already has a period in it.

  • Fixed incorrect interpretation of 4th color band as an alpha channel for some ECW files.

  • Fixed display of bearings relative to magnetic north.

  • Fixed problems accessing WMS through secure (https) connections.

  • Added progress reporting to potentially lengthy transfers of features to a new layer or simplification of multiple line/area features.

  • Added support for customizing the pixel radius used when snapping to existing features using the DWORD registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\SnapToPixelRadius'. The default value is 10 pixels.

  • Significantly sped up the deletion of large numbers of vertices from the vertex dialog.

  • Added option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to 'Disable Display of Pan Arrows on Map Edge', allowing one to disable the map-edge pan arrows displayed in most tools.

  • When using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command to rectify and export images, maintain the DPI (if available) of the original image and create GeoTIFF files with an alpha channel if the source image has transparency.

  • Improved handling of layer translucency when exporting Global Mapper package files.

  • Fixed bug decoding custom point symbol names with multi-part names, like DOT_EMPTY, VERT_BAR, DIAG_CROSS, etc.

  • Updated display of most error messages to include the build version and to also copy the error text to the Windows clipboard for easy pasting.

  • Updated import of 3D face features from DXF files to automatically mark them as Tin Face areas so they will export by default as 3D Face features to new DXF files.

  • Added options to control whether or not LAYER and ELEVATION attributes are added to MapInfo MIF/MID and TAB/MAP exports.

  • Fixed option to default to exporting screen bounds work even if you don't activate the Export Bounds tab during an export.

  • Sped up the load of MrSID LIDAR files when loaded in preview mode.

  • Added support for specifying area border widths as a fixed width in meters.

  • Made export of 3D area Shapefiles using loaded elevation layers work when done using the EXPORT_VECTOR command in a script file.

  • Added vertex elevation (if available) to ZMap+ XYSegID format export.

  • Made the image rectification dialog display the errors in the X and Y direction for each pixel in addition to the total error.

  • Added support for customizing the number of decimal digits written out for the X and Y coordinates for a Simple ASCII Text export through the use of a DWORD registry key
    'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\ASCIIExportCoordPrecision'. For example, set this value to 6 to get 6 decimal digits for each X and Y coordinate.

  • Made the print header and footer font selections be remembered.

  • Made Ctrl+Left Click on a photo point from an EXIF JPG file in the Feature Info tool bring up the normal Feature Info dialog rather than the image.

  • Added ELEVATION and TIMESTAMP attribute to EXIF JPG picture points if the EXIF data contains an elevation value or creation timestamp for when the picture was taken.

  • Made loading a workspace file with the File->Open Data File menu command correctly restore the zoom bounds of the workspace file.

  • Updated the 3D Shapefile and Simple ASCII Text export to obey the export elevation units selection on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog.

  • Made DGN exports that have other DGN files as the source data maintain the level numbers and names on export to the new DGN file if possible.

  • Made the Control Center remember its size between runs.

  • Added support for Idrisi Raster files with a .img extension.

  • Fixed half-pixel shift when scaling or rotating symbols.

  • Fixed issue with "always on top" fixed screen layers displaying twice in exported PDF files with non-zero margin values.

  • Fixed issue with labels marked not to display still showing up in exported PDF files.

  • Fixed issue with the scaling of the header/footer text in exported PDF files, particularly at low DPI values.

  • Fixed issues with the placement of right-aligned and centered text in exported PDF files.

  • Fixed error loading some raster KMZ files from workspace files.

  • Fixed problem with area labels not moving with the area if it is moved.

  • Fixed error loading some multi-band PDS files.

  • Changed batch conversion to Arc ASCII Grid files to use .asc extension instead of .agr.

  • Added PLAY_SOUND script command to allow playing a sound file from a script.

  • Fixed out of memory errors when working with very large numbers of JPG files.

  • Fixed issues loading DXF files with lines 256 characters in length.

  • Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to "Auto-Fake Location of Unpositioned Rasters".

  • Allowed Arc ASCII Grid files that are too large to load into memory still be loadable.

  • Made the option to 'Crop Right and Bottom to Export Bounds' on the Gridding tab of Export dialogs work when gridding to fixed pixel size tiles.

  • Significantly increased display and export speed for some very large CIB/CADRG/RPF data sets.

  • Put GPX <time> field for <wpt> features directly after <ele> field so that Garmin's MapSource can read those GPX files.

  • Fixed matching on empty name/attribute values when using the ASSIGN_TYPES script command.

  • Allowed for placement of fixed screen layers and map layout items (like scale bar and elevation legend) in centimeters (in addition to inches, degrees, and percent).

  • Made grayscale export option work properly Optimi Clutter export.

  • Sped up marking large numbers of features as deleted using the Digitizer Tool.

  • Made right-click when drawing a new line in trace mode with the Digitizer Tool cancel the operation.

  • Changed shortcut key for toggling vector layers on and off from Ctrl+Shift+V (which was already assigned for the special paste-and-keep function) to Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V.

  • Updated the 3D viewer so that extruded areas only extend to the terrain surface instead of well below it.

  • Fixed problems loading GXF files with lots of comments.

  • Made PDF exports maintain the proper paper size in Acrobat and other PDF readers.

  • Added support for pulling additional <Placemark> tags from KML files and using them as attributes for the created features, like <address> and <snippet> tags.

  • Added support for creating new area and line types with line widths that are specified as a fixed width in meters.

  • Fixed assignment of point attributes to areas when the projection of the point and area features was not the same.

  • When exporting Lidar LAS files from vector point data, use the value of an INTENSITY attribute for the intensity value exported to the LAS file.

  • Fixed export of tiled GeoTIFF elevation files.

  • Updated GPX file to use type name for <desc> element when the description is unknown.

  • Updated TerraServer-USA links to point to MSRMaps.com as Microsoft changed the name and URL.

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