GIS Global Mapper v11.01 3D GPS Mapping Software

Multiple enhancements and bug fixes have been made to Global Mapper since the v11.00 release, making v11.01 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 v11.01, shown below.

What's New in Version v11.01 (11/05/2009) 

3D Viewer Improvements 

·       The 3D Viewer now supports displaying 3D vector features in space above or

below the terrain surface. You can also extrude 3D area features to create

building-like displays.

·       You can now save 3D screenshots of much higher resolution.

·       You can now get descriptive text (tooltips) about the 3D toolbar buttons by  hovering your mouse over them.

·       Added new button to toolbar to toggle wireframe display on and off.

Other Significant New Features

·        Added new GPS menu option to send any loaded data map directly to a

compatible Garmin GPS device, such as a Colorado or Oregon handheld, for

display as a raster map on the unit. This allows display of anything, including

imagery, on compatible Garmin GPS devices!

·        Added support for creating buffer areas some fixed distance around selected area

and line features. This option is available from the Advanced Feature Creation

submenu of the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.

·        Allowing sorting search results by any attribute rather than just the name.

·        Added support for controlling at what zoom levels a map layer will appear,

similar to the functionality available with a map catalog. You can configure this

by right-clicking on a layer in the Control Center and selecting the new option to

setup what zoom levels a map will display at.

·        Added support for generating multi-band GeoTIFF files with 1 and 2 bands as

well as 32-bit floating point samples.

·        Added support for generating 8-bit (256-color) GeoTIFF files with transparency.

·        Added support for importing BIL and GeoTIFF imagery files with 32-bit floating

point samples.

·        Fixed major performance issue from v11.00 with triangulating and gridding 3D

vector data. It should now be 5-10 times as fast as in v11.00.

·        Added support for generating tiled GeoTIFF files.

·        Added new Search menu option to allow finding and editing loaded vector

features with the same attribute values. This is useful for enforcing things like an

attribute that needs to be unique.

·        Made elevation statistics calculated for area features include slope statistics.

·        Added font/label scaling option when exporting (Geo)PDF files, allowing you to

easily grow or shrink labels written to the PDF file.

·        Added ability to export to a fixed scale when exporting (Geo)PDF files.

·        Added support for generating MapInfo TAB files for most raster format exports.

·        Changed behavior of drawing lines using the trace mode of the Digitizer Tool to

work while the mouse button is depressed and complete when you release it. This

makes the trace mode work much better with digitizing tablets. Also, if your

drawn feature is nearly closed, you will be prompted whether to create an area or

a line feature.

·        Improved the labeling of areas so that the area label will always be inside the area.

·        Updated KML export to allow displaying point features above the terrain surface.

·        Updated KML vector export to have option to use symbols displayed in Global

Mapper for point features rather than default push-pin.

·        Added new Lidar import option to pull in data in "preview" mode, which just

pulls in every 10th point for quick load and display. You can now also choose to

only pull in ground-shot points during a Lidar point cloud import.

·        Added option to Control Center to create a layer with a point feature at the center

of each gridded elevation layer cell center. This provides a handy way to edit

elevation layers as you can easily edit the elevation values of the created points or

remove problem points, then create a new elevation grid from the edit points.

·        When displaying a 3D path profile of a 3D line feature, show the 3D line feature

as well as the elevation profile.

·        Allow selection of the text font to use when displaying a 3D path profile rather

than just the color of the text to display.

·        Updated printing to a file to allow the full resolution of the selected printer always

be available, regardless of paper size.

·        Added new option to range ring creation to allow creating rectangles of the

specified range rather than rings.

·        Added LOAD_STYLE_FILE script command to allow loading .gm_style files

saved from the Styles tab of the Configuration dialog from scripts and also

created new custom types from scripts.

·        Updated Shapefile exports to maintain the field type and length values (if

possible) from the source data files if they are Shapefiles or DBF files.

New Supported Formats 

·        Added support for reading Idrisi Vector (VCT) format files.

·        Added support for reading side-scan sonar data from XTF (eXtended Triton

Format) files.

·        Added support for reading Italian CML (Cadastral Markup Language) format

files.

·        Added support for reading Italian TAF (Confidence) format files.

·        Added support for reading DWG 2010 format files.

Map Layout Changes

·       Allow map scale to be displayed at a fixed percentage of the output device width.

·       Updated map layout to support adding text anywhere on the map.

Projection/Datum Changes

·        Added built-in support for Bessel 1841 Ellipsoid, IGN72 Grande Terre (New Caledonia), and RGNC91-93 (New Caledonia) datums.

·        Added support for creating custom datums that use a prime meridian other than

Greenwich.

·        Fixed problems loading Touratech TTQV.cal files that use commas for decimal

delimiters rather than periods.

·        Updated Robinson projection to properly crop to world edges by default.

·        Added the text NADCON to any datums that use NADCON datum

transformation tables.

·        Corrected definition of EPSG code 3057 (ISN93 / Lambert93).

·        Corrected Swiss Grid definition (azimuth should be 90 instead of 0).

·        Made longitude/meridian parameters be displayed and entered relative to the prime meridian associated with the selected datum rather than always relative to Greenwich.

·        Allowed cropping DWG, DXF, and several other exports to a selected crop area.

·        Added right-click option to 3D path profile dialog to create a new point feature at the current cursor location.

·        Made 3D path profile CSV export include slope value for each segment.

·        Added Vertices button to feature edit dialog when editing an existing line or area

allowing you to edit the vertices for that feature.

·        Greatly improved appearance of most loaded EMF files by making them come is as a raster layer rather than a vectorized one.

·        Added new button to the view shed options dialog to allow having ground-relative

transmitter and receiver heights calculated based on just a subset of the loaded elevation layers. This is useful if for example you have a layer with the bare ground elevations, then another gridded elevation layer that includes buildings that you want to use for lineof-sight purposes. With this new option you can choose to have the transmitter and receiver heights relative to the bare ground layer.

·        Added display of calculated scatter angle for the active line of sight when showing path details for the path profile/LOS.

·        Greatly improved initial display of OS Mastermap data from GML files. Most areas will now automatically be displayed using the OSGB-recommended colors.

·        Made fill of small gaps during raster export work even at 'T' intersections of no data lines.

·        The average of colors across the diagonals will be used at those intersections if available.

·        When gridding exports to selected area features and not cropping to the area boundaries, use the full bounding box of the area for each export rather than the intersection of the area bounding box with the specified export bounding box.

·         Made custom shader dialog resizable.

·        Added new option when batch converting to Simple ASCII Text files to control whether or not a blank line is used to separate features.

·        Added new option when batch converting the CSV files to allow using a space separator rather than a comma.

·        Fixed problems loading TIF files created by AutoCAD Raster Design that specify they

both have strips and tiles (they really have tiles).

·        When digitizing a line with the stream mode, delay any simplification until the feature completes and also don't remove quite as many vertices when simplifying.

·        Added new keyboard shortcut (Shift+T) to go into line trace mode in the Digitizer Tool.

·        Added new ASCII import option to skip a fixed number of lines at the start of a file.

·        Fixed problem saving new measure areas and lines to new layers.

·        Fixed problem with small red rectangle displaying for new point features using the 'No Symbol' symbol type.

·        Improved loading of Shapefiles with overlapping island areas within a parent.

·        Fixed bug cropping to selected areas during batch conversion. This bug was introduced in the v11.00 release.

·        Drastically reduced memory requirement for Surfer Grid exports, allowing basically

unlimited size exports.

·        Made generated contour lines be oriented such that the higher elevations are to the left of the line.

·        Fixed error saving workspace files with a GeoPDF loaded.

·        Updated the ETA reporting on progress dialogs to add a completion date if the operation is estimated to take more than 12 hours.

·        Fixed problem getting DigitalGlobe imagery in some locations.

·        Added option to PDF export to control whether or not fonts are embedded.

·        Fixed problem with background values stored for exporting multi-band GeoTIFF files.

·        Added option to BIL export to allow exporting shorter ESRI/Arc format .hdr file.

·        Improved import of HATCH entities from DXF files to maintain islands/holes inside

areas.

·        Reduced simplification threshold used when saving active GPS tracklogs from 1.5 m to 0.5 m so more detail will be kept from recorded track logs.

·        Added new GPS menu option allowing you to disable the simplification of track logs.

·        Fixed crash loading some large Erdas Imagine .img files.

·        Added support for import and exporting DGN v8 files in 64-bit builds.

·        Added support for interrupting the draw of a large raster layer by pressing the ESC key.

·        Updated KML "super overlay" export to work better with transparent layers.

·        Removed warnings about unknown attributes during S-57 imports.

·        Fixed problem importing some S-57 files resulting in crossing lines and lines with gaps.

·        Fixed problems in v11.00 connecting to online data sources through some proxy servers.

·        Made map catalog loads report any files that cannot be found.

·        Updated Lowrance LCM export to include water label points for any labeled water areas.

·        Updated the ECW 64-bit export to multiply your target compression ratio by 0.6 so that the end results are comparable to the 32-bit ECW export with the same target

compression ratio.

·        Fixed one half sample spacing shift of raster/elevation layers when exporting them to a new raster format with vector data included.

·        Fixed error when doing Lowrance USR export (this started with v11.00 release).

·        Made workspace and script files show up in the normal File->Open Data File dialog.

·        Made "Select From" checkbox options on the Vector Display tab of the Configuration

dialog always reset to checked when you start a new instance of Global Mapper rather than being remembered.

·        Added new option to Google Maps and Bing Maps (Virtual Earth) exports to allow

skipping empty tiles.

·        Added option to map catalog dialog to allow using a non-default drawing style.

·        Added option to DigitalGlobe export to allow using premium un-watermarked access

only when exporting and just browsing using free watermarked imagery.

·        When creating a new line with distance/bearing/COGO input, display a bullseye at the line start location.

·        When creating a new line with distance/bearing/COGO input and a single point feature of line/area vertex is selected, give the user the option to start the line at the selected point/vertex.

·        Fixed problem with creation of distance/bearing/COGO line by right-clicking in the

Feature Info dialog not working.

·        Made elevation display units setting from Vertical Options tab of the Configuration

dialog be remembered between runs.

·        Fixed bug in Lidar LAS export with the wrong sentinel value being written for variable length records used to store projection information.

·        Fixed problems loading 3D polyface meshes from DXF files.

·       Added support for transparency (i.e. alpha channel) from tiled TIFF files and TIFF files with something other than 3 bands of data.

·       Made 3D path profile remember sample count setting if changed.

·       Added new option to not get elevation values from any attribute on the vector type

options dialog. This will allow elevation requests on export to fall through to underlying elevation data for data sets that already have elevation attributes.

·       Fixed error in calculating cut-and-fill volumes along a line feature.

·       Added 'V' shortcut key to toggle the display of vector layers on and off.

·       Updated 'Save Workspace As' option to default the filename to the existing workspace filename.

·       Fixed bug with auto-cropping of collars from some file types when those files are

displayed from a map catalog.

·       Improved recognition of elevation values from generic ASCII import. Now values

without a space between the elevation value and units will be allowed for an elevation column.

·        Make sure improperly formatted <time> values are not exported to GPX files.

·        Fixed blending of online layers (i.e. TerraServer-USA, WMS layers, etc.) with

underlying DigitalGlobe layers.

·        Fixed error loading OCAD files with bad offsets in their header.

·        Fixed problems loading some MapTech PCX charts.

·        Added support for reading annotation and traffic line features from S-57 (ENC) files.

·        Added 'nautical miles' as an available distance unit when creating

distance/bearing/COGO lines.

·        Added new option to allow disabling the automatic snapping behavior of the Digitizer Tool. This option is in the general option list on the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.

·        Updated creation of point features sampled along a line or area boundary with a fixed distance between samples to allow a start label to be used and to label with the distance rather than an incremented number.

·        Updated the Digitizer Tool option to assign area attributes to lines in those areas to not replace existing values in the line attribute list but only add new attributes.

·        Added support for creating 24-bit TIFF files when batch converting to raster KMZ files.

·        Made double-clicking on a line type on the Line Styles tab of the Configuration dialog bring up the default attribute list for that type.

·        Made double-clicking on an attribute on the default attribute list dialog for a type

automatically bring up the edit dialog for the selected attribute.

·        When creating point features from selected line vertices and the line has per-vertex

timestamp values, add a TIMESTAMP attribute to each new point.

·        Allowed selection of only vertices from already selected line or area features by holding down the 'S' key when left-clicking or dragging a box in the Digitizer Tool.

·        Write more precision for sample sizes in exported Gravsoft Grid files to prevent

problems with large files exported with degree units.

·        Made Configuration dialog remember the tab it was on when last closed.

·        Fixed bug in placement of TerraScan LIDAR files with non-default origin or units.

·        Made import of marine features from MP files using extended type notation

(0x01XXXX) correctly have MARINE=Y attribute added.

·        Fixed smoothing of area features to behave the same as smoothing a line feature with the same boundary.

·        Added support for specifying prefix text when creating points spaced along a selected line or area feature with the Digitizer Tool.

·        Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that don't separate the NMEA sentences with newline characters.

·        Made area features created from lines in the Digitizer Tool automatically have measure attributes added to them.

·        Fixed error from v11.00 with some polynomial (4-point) image rectifications.

·        Corrected DXF imports and exports to treat color index 0 as black, not white.

·        Added option to disable the alpha channel for raster layers on the Band Setup tab of the Options dialog for the layer. This is useful for layers with bad alpha channel values.

·        Added support for loading KML files with multiple alternate names for the <Placemark> tag.

·        Added support for disabling automatic export of BigTIFF formatted files when exporting to very large GeoTIFF files from a script by adding a DISABLE_GEOTIFF=YES parameter.

·         Added support for 16-bit Vertical Mapper clutter (.grc) files.

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