Once again the Global Mapper 3D GIS mapping software is proving itself to be a very competitive player in the GIS field with this latest major v7.00 release.   

The v7.00 version rolls out with new support items added and user friendly options added for more flexibility for the most demanding projects.

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To take advantage of bugs fixed and a little tweaking from older versions you can upgrade your v6.xx To v7.xx or v5.xx To v6.xx at a significant discount over the full price.

With almost 70 new features added or corrected we have them divided into three categories for easier viewing shown below.

Global Mapper v7.00 New Support Items Added

Global Mapper v7.00 New Option Items Added

Global Mapper v7.00 Tweaks & Bugs Fixed

New Support Items Added

• Added support for grouping collections of map files together into a "map catalog". Map catalogs allow you to easily load, view, and manage large collections of data without using too much system memory. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for tracking real-time GPS locations from Garmin USB GPS devices.
• Added "Gridding" tab to most exports to allow splitting up the data into regularly spaced tiles on export if desired rather than just exporting a single file. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for calculating "cut-and-fill" volumes within area measurements and along linear measurements using the Measure Tool (right click to see the Calculate Volumes option). (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for calculating "cut-and-fill" volumes along a path profile using the 3D Path Profile/Line of Sight Tool. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for using the bounds of a loaded layer when exporting or performing other operations that require bounds in a script file. The LAYER_BOUNDS parameter has been added to several script commands to support this. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for loading data in the GPS TrackMaker (.gtm) format.
• Added support for the Bonne and Cassini-Soldner projections.
• Added support for non-zero central meridians when using the Gall Stereographic projection.
• Added support for the Hartbeesthoek94 datum.
• Added support for loading DTED files that have HDR and/or VOL records at the beginning.
• Added support for loading ASTER HDF files with .hdf0 and .hdf1 extensions as well as additional variations of ASTER SWIR data.
• Added support for finding world files with a .wld extension when loading most imagery formats (i.e. BMP, JPG, TIFF, GIF, and PNG).

New Option Items Added

• Added option to create concentric range rings (i.e. circles of a given radius) on the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.
• Added an option when editing vector features with the Digitizer Tool to add file link attributes by selecting files rather than manually typing the file names.
• Added option under the Search menu to allow searching loaded vector data on the name, description, or attribute values. The searching allows both text and numeric comparisons in the search criteria. Features can be edited and deleted directly from the search results.
• Added additional options to the 3D Path Profile dialog for controlling the from/to position display format and the coloring and style of the profile elements.
• Added additional menus to the 3D Path Profile dialog to provide easier access to some of the options. Also made the path details be copied to the clipboard when displayed.
• In the 3D viewer, added an option to the Properties dialog to allow the background color to be changed. (Registered Version Only)
• In the 3D viewer, added an option to the Properties dialog to allow the height used in the Panorama/Walk mode to be manually set and to also specify whether the height should be a constant height relative to the ground or a constant height relative to sea level. (Registered Version Only)
• Added option to the Batch Convert/Reproject dialog to allow the specification of an additional string to append to the names of the files created during the batch convert process. (Registered Version Only)
• Added option to the Batch Convert/Reproject dialog to allow some files to only be used as filler for other files. To mark files this way, simply right click on them in the source files list and select the option to just use them as filler files. (Registered Version Only)
• Added option to create 1-bit black-and-white GeoTIFF files with the Batch Converter. (Registered Version Only)
• Added ONLY_GENERATE_METADATA parameter to the EXPORT_RASTER script command to allow scripts to just create the metadata files like world files and TAB files when exporting GeoTIFF, JPG, and PNG files rather than doing a full export. (Registered Version Only)
• Added option to Terragen .ter file export to allow the creating of non-square terrain files. This files should work with Terragen 0.9.x and later. (Registered Version Only)
• Added option to create area features from the bounds of the selected layer in the Overlay Control Center by selecting and then right-clicking on the layers that you want to create the bounds from.
• Added option to contour generation to control whether or not small gaps in the data are filled (previously they always were).
• Added option to initialize sample spacing values to the current screen sample spacing from the dialog allowing specification of sample spacing in units other than the current projection units when performing raster and elevation exports.

Tweaks & Bugs Fixed

• Made the bearing from the start to the end of line features be added when creating new lines using either the Measure tool or the Digitizer tool.
• Added ability to easily create rectangular, square, circular, elliptical, circular arc, and elliptical arc area and line feature using the Digitizer Tool. There are additional items on the right click popup menu for drawing these shapes.
• Made area features selected with the Digitizer Tool be drawn in their normal style during exports cropped to the selected area feature(s).
• Made point feature labels be displayed even if the points are selected with the Digitizer Tool.
• Fixed problems with the path profile tool when the loaded data is not correctly projected (i.e. the lat/lon readout in the status bar reads that the coordinates could not be determined).
• Made elevation values saved to XYZ files from the path profile dialog have 2 digits after the decimal place rather than 1. (Registered Version Only)
• In the 3D viewer, allow the vertical exaggeration to be increased all the way to a factor of 100.0 rather than just 20.0. (Registered Version Only)
• In the 3D viewer, made the Panorama/Walk mode toolbar button act as a mode just like the Rotate, Move, and Zoom buttons since that is how it behaves. (Registered Version Only)
• In the 3D viewer, made the vertical exaggeration and background color settings be remembered between instances of running the software. (Registered Version Only)
• Reduced memory requirements during batch conversion when using all loaded files as filler data and there are lots of files being converted. (Registered Version Only)
• When shift-clicking in the Reference pane of the image rectification dialog, made the selected coordinates be rounded to the nearest minute for lat/lon values and the nearest 1000 units for other projections.
• Made the image rectification dialog start out maximized if the dialog was maximized the last time the user closed the dialog.
• Made the Latitude and Longitude coordinate values in the ground control point list of the image rectification dialog be displayed using the current Position Display Format selection in the Configuration dialog.
• When double clicking on a control point in the control point list in the image rectification dialog and the rectify coordinates are lat/lon values, format the projected X and Y coordinate fields using the current Position Display Format from the Configuration dialog.
• While Shift-clicking in the Zoomed view in the image rectification dialog, automatically add the control point to the control point list use the clicked location.
• When Ctrl clicking in the Entire Image view in the image rectification dialog, automatically recenter the Reference view if there are enough control points entered to convert the clicked coordinates to a ground coordinate.
• Make layers that are hidden in the Overlay Control Center still be rendered in the rectify window when re-positioning that layer.
• Made workspace files support relative filenames, allowing data referenced by workspace files to be moved so long as the workspace file is moved as well. (Registered Version Only)
• Fixed export of high-color (24-bit and above) and 8-bit grayscale TIFF files to image-optimized palette-based TIFF and PNG formats when the TIFF file incorrectly specifies that it is grayscale and not RGB. (Registered Version Only)
• Sped up display of TerraServer data that crosses UTM zone boundaries.
• Corrected placement of Hawaiian data loaded from Tiger files (the NAD83 datum was being used rather than Old Hawaiian Mean).
• Made the size of the feature info dialog be saved between sessions.
• Fixed decoding of State Plane projections from new format PRJ files. The problem was introduced in the v6.09 release and made some PRJ files with State Plane projections decode the projection into the core projection rather than keeping it as State Plane. This should not have affected any coordinates.
• Corrected incorrect interpretation of "Foot" string from new format PRJ files. Previously this was interpreted as US Survey Feet when it should have been interpreted as International Feet.
• Fixed application crash loading some slightly odd .zip files.
• Made additional digits of precision be stored for settings like custom grid spacing.
• Manually compute the min/max sample values for USGS DEMs that have a non-unity Z resolution since they are often stored incorrectly, resulting in odd shading in Global Mapper. This will apply to things like decimeter and centimeter DEMs.
• Made full extents of polar data reprojected from a polar stereographic projection to another projection be displayed whenever possible (previously the part nearest the pole and near the anti-meridian could get clipped off).
• Increased the maximum number of grid lines that could be displayed when using the custom grid spacing setting.
• Made TIFF files that use a transformation matrix for position information be automatically positioned rather than requiring rectification.
• Made degree symbols display correctly on Asian versions of Windows.
• Corrected drawing and zooming in on ECW and JPEG2000 files that have flipped Y coordinate values in the header.
• Improved the speed of exporting downloaded TerraServer data to new raster files. (Registered Version Only)
• Corrected display of zone numbers for Gauss Krueger Germany projection.
• Only show the warning message about user-defined datums in GeoTIFF files being interpreted as WGS84 once each session.
• When changing the current view projection, maintain the current view window if possible rather than zooming out to all loaded data.
• Added red, blue, green, and white dot symbols.