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Global Mapper v7.01 3D GIS Mapping
Software
New Features
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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 v7.01 release.
The v7.01 version rolls out with new support items added and user friendly
options added for more flexibility for the most demanding projects.
Try the new Global Mapper v7.xx mapping software yourself with our Free
Download.
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 60 new features added or
corrected we
have them shown below.
What's New in Global Mapper Version 7.01 (10/11/2005)
- Made the middle mouse button drag the map in all of
the tools and not just the Zoom tool.
- Added option to use an elevation shader other than
the shared elevation shader selected on the toolbar for rendering an
elevation layer. This option is available from the Options button in
the Overlay Control Center.
- Added option to grid (i.e. tile) data during batch
conversion.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made decimal digit fields exported to Shapefiles
display as decimal numbers by default when loaded into other
applications rather than displaying just as whole numbers. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added and/or improved metadata display from the
Overlay Control Center for most file types. The improved metadata
display allows copying the metadata to the clipboard and easy
viewing of projection information.
- Added support for the NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums.
- Improved accuracy of NAD27 Alaska, Old Hawaiian
Mean, and Puerto Rico datums by adding support for using the NADCON
datum conversion methods for those datums.
- Improved accuracy of NTF France datums by adding
support for using variable grid shifts depending on the location
within France.
- Added support for creating custom datums that use
the 7-parameter Bursa-Wolfe datum transformation method (previously
only the 3-parameter Molodensky method was supported).
- Added built-in support for the Irish Grid
projection.
- Added support for yards as a linear unit.
- Added support for millimeters as an elevation unit.
- Corrected detection of UTM zones in the Southern
Hemisphere from old-format ESRI PRJ files.
- Improved decoding of some projections from
OziExplorer .map files.
- Added support for loading NTF-format grid files,
such as those used for elevation data in Great Britain.
- Added support for loading some FAST format imagery
files, such as those used for L7A Landsat data in some parts of the
world.
- Made holding the X and Y keys when moving vertices
or features with the Digitizer Tool, clamp the move horizontally or
vertically.
- When creating new line or area features with the
Digitizer Tool, the length and enclosed area (if applicable) will be
displayed in the status bar as the new feature is drawn.
- When moving or joining vertices of line or area
features with the Digitizer Tool, the length and enclosed area (if
applicable) will be displayed in the status bar as the vertices are
moved.
- When creating a new line feature from a measurement
in the Measure Tool, set the length of the measurement to also be
the default display label.
- When displaying length and other measurement
strings, such as with the Measure Tool, remove any trailing zeroes
from the length to make it more compact.
- Added new hotkeys to the image rectification
dialog. Now Alt+R will act like pressing the "Update Selected
GCP" button, Alt+Q will move the GCP list selection up, and
Alt+Z will move the GCP list selection down.
- Improved the crosshair cursor used in the Zoomed
and Reference views of the Image Rectification dialog.
- Improved the symbols used in the image
rectification dialog for displaying ground control points to make it
easier to see the data behind the control point.
- Added the ability to display metadata about maps in
a map catalog by right-clicking on the map in the map list in the
Map Catalog dialog and selecting a popup menu option to display
metadata about them. (Registered Version Only)
- Added the ability to have map catalogs be displayed
within a range of map scales. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems using files with Oblique Mercator
projections in map catalogs. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems with some files, particular packages
with multiple data layer, being included in map catalogs. (Registered
Version Only)
- Corrected placement of Erdas Imagine .img files
with a UTM projection in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Added support for getting projection information
for MrSID files from .aux files.
- Added option to generate world files when exporting
to BIL/BIP/BSQ format files. While the information in the world
files is also in the .HDR file generated, some software only checks
for a world file. By default, both will be generated.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading JPG files directly from
.zip and .tar.gz archives.
- Fixed loading of some Raster Product Format (RPF)
data, like CADRG/CIB data, that had odd security descriptor values
in the frame files.
- Display a progress dialog when printing to show the
progress of generating the high-resolution image to send to the
printer.
- Drastically sped up the export of BMP files when
capturing the screen to one or printing to one. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made zooming the main map view with the mouse wheel
only zoom half as far as the zoom buttons on the toolbar.
- Fixed problems introduced in the v7.00 release with
calculating view sheds when the global projection units are either
arc seconds or radians.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made the feature type lists on the Generic ASCII
Import dialog be sorted alphabetically.
- If the datum can not be determined from a GeoTIFF
file, ask the user to confirm it if we can't determine the datum
from some other source rather than just assuming the datum is WGS84.
- Added ability to generate black-and-white GeoTIFF
files that use black for the minimum value rather than white. To do
this, select the Grayscale - Min Is Black palette option when
exporting a black-and-white GeoTIFF file.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made auto-collar cropping work correctly for 1:63K
scale Alaska DRGs.
- Improved dialog that appears when TerraServer
connections fail.
- Made point features with labels be exported as TEXT
entities to DXF files rather than either being split up into
separate POINT and TEXT entities or being created as a POINT entity
with attributes. (Registered Version Only)
- Improved display of elevation lines in the path
profile dialog when the elevation range is small.
- Fixed problems with the wrong font being displayed
when editing custom area, line, and point types from the
Configuration dialog.
- Corrected datum used for VPF (e.g. VMAP, DNC) data.
NAD83 was being used when it should have been WGS84. There was no
position error however as those datums are the same positionally.
- Fixed problem with the zoom scale changing after a
print preview.
- Fixed problem with grid lines not being saved to
raster files or printed if no other vector data is loaded.
- Allowed correct loading of elevation TIFF files
that don't correctly specify their min/max elevation range.
- Added option to clamp values outside the valid
elevation range to the specified elevation range when modifying the
valid elevation range of a layer from the Options button in the
Overlay Control Center.
- Added support for loading large TIFF files with
YCBCR-encoding (usually JPEG-in-TIFF files).
- When loading ECW and JPEG2000 files with apparently
flipped Y coordinates, made it optional to flip the image vertically
since it some cases that is not correct.
- Added new red and yellow diagonal crosshair
symbols.
- When saving PRJ and world file names (e.g. .tfw, .jgw),
use lower case to make it easier to use these files on platforms
that are case-sensitive, like Linux.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made true 3D DXF polylines be generated when
exported 3D line features (such as those from XYZ files) to DXF
files. (Registered Version Only)
- Made features from Tiger/Line files include the
CFCC (census feature class code) as an attribute of the feature if
available.
- Improved generation of range rings to always use a
great-circle distance method if possible, even if the current
projection is not Geographic.
- Added support for automatically positioning imagery
using ASTER browse .meta files.
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