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Global Mapper v7.02 3D GIS Mapping
Software
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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 v7.02 release.
Check for the latest
version.
The v7.02 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 7.02 (12/01/2005)
- Added option on Vector Display tab of the Configuration
dialog to allow more control over the order that vector features are
drawn in. You can now select to have the layer order in the Overlay
Control Center take top priority for vector data, allowing vector layers
to be drawn under raster layers and also allowing explicit forcing of
vector layer draw order.
- Added support for searching on address in the US under
the Search menu.
- Added option to download TerraServer data near an
address.
- Made transparency and translucency in PNG files be
used.
- Added support for creating transparent PNG files (this
is now the default).
(Registered Version Only)
- Improved ease of digitizing lots of area, line, and
point features by making the Digitizer Tool stay in the creation mode
after creating a feature rather than forcing you to re-select the
feature type to create each time. You still just need to right-click to
cancel the current operation.
- Added display of the number of points digitized so far
when drawing a new line or area feature with the Digitizer Tool.
- Added option to reverse the order of the vertices in
selected line features using the Digitizer Tool.
- Added option to find unconnected endpoints in selected
lines with the Digitizer Tool. This provides an easy method of
identifying connectivity problems in loaded data.
- Fixed creation of duplicate attributes when editing
multiple features at a time with the Digitizer Tool and adding a new
attribute which already exists in some of the features being edited.
- Added option to measure cut-and-fill volumes to the
right-click menu when a single line or area feature is selected in the
Digitizer Tool.
- Added support for exporting loaded vector data to
Lowrance USR format files for use in Lowrance GPS devices. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for loading LIDAR data from TerraScan
.bin and .ts format files. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option to print to (Geo)TIFF format files. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added ability to batch convert to Global Mapper Package
files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded elevation data to
Optimi Terrain format files. (Registered Version Only)
- Vastly improved accuracy of RT90 (Sweden) datum
transformations.
- Added Indonesia 1974 and Bukit Rimpah datums.
- Added support for using the French angular unit
"grades" with the Geographic projection.
- Fixed rare problems projecting between a State Plane
projection and a Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
- Fixed loading of Erdas Imagine .img files with embedded
projection information. This was broken in the v7.01 release.
- Added support for loading and saving Southern
Transverse Mercator projections in ECW files.
- Added support for using projection and positioning
information from .TAB files for ECW files.
- Added support for decoding New Zealand Map Grid
projections from .TAB files.
- Added option to write an invalid datum code to DEM
files when exporting with a view/export datum set to one that is not
supported by the DEM format.
(Registered Version Only)
- Do not allow modifying the Origin Latitude for Mercator
projections since it is not used (the latitude origin is always the
equator for Mercator).
- Fixed saving of some projections to MapInfo TAB files.
Some projections either could not be written at all or if they had a
central meridian scale factor parameter it would always be set to 1.0. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made projection information from supplemental files
(like .prj files) be used if available for GeoTIFF files that do not
contain projection information internally rather than always asking the
user to select the projection in that case.
- Added GRS 1967 (Indonesia 1974), Sphere Radius 6378388
Meters, and War Office (McCaw 1924) as available ellipsoids for adding
custom datums.
- Fixed name of the "Everest 1830" ellipsoid in
the custom datum dialog. It was being incorrectly listed as
"Everest 1930".
- Made Ctrl+Right Click in the Zoom Tool restore the last
zoom scale.
- Made the name of the map that a vector feature is in
always be displayed in the Feature Info dialog for the feature.
- Added button on the General tab of the Configuration
dialog to allow restoring all settings to their default values.
- Added support for tracking GPS devices on COM ports up
to COM64 (previously the highest support serial port was COM16).
- Made the COM port and baud rate settings for serial GPS
devices be properly remembered between sessions.
- Added shortcut key (Ctrl+T) for starting and stopping
the tracking of a connected GPS device.
- Made font information about labeled features be saved
in Simple ASCII Text files exported with the "include
attributes" option set. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for using new font attributes when
reading generic ASCII text files. See the User's Manual section for that
menu command for details on the new supported attributes.
- Added ability to combine line features in the Search by
Attributes dialog. Just select the lines to combine, then right click on
them in the list and select the combine option that appears.
- Fixed errors loading label points from some .e00 files.
- Added support for rectifying ECW and JPG2000 files.
- Added support for loading TAB-referenced raster files
which do not have the same base name as the TAB file. You must select
the TAB file to load for this to work.
- If a color palette is specified in a TIFF header for
files with a grayscale photometric interpretation, use the color palette
rather than creating a grayscale one. Apparently some products, like
ArcGIS, will create TIFF files in this way for some reason.
- Made TEXT feature labels from MIF/MID files be read in
and used.
- Made saving a path profile to a BMP file save a
bottom-up rather than a top-down bitmap since some applications
(including Global Mapper) can't read top-down bitmaps. (Registered
Version Only)
- Fixed problems batch converting to Shapefile format and
exporting to the "source file" folder when the input files are
either archives (e.g. .zip or .tar.gz files) or the output is being
gridded. (Registered Version Only)
- When using the "Add Loaded Files" or
"Add Onscreen Files" buttons in the batch conversion dialog
and map catalog files are loaded, made the maps referenced by the map
catalog be added to the convert list if they are of the right
type.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed loading of attributes from some DBF files that
had padding bytes after the DBF header.
- Added support for decoding DMS lat/lon values which use
a hyphen as the separator.
- Sped up the export of raster and elevation files when
only a subset of a large number of files is being exported. (Registered
Version Only)
- Fixed really slow drawing of some rotated BSB files.
- Fixed vertical flip of NTF-format grid files.
- When exporting MapInfo MIF/MID format files, made area
features be fully cropped to the specified export bounds rather than
just exporting in whole any area that intersects the export bounds. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made line and area border widths be stored correctly in
MapInfo MIF/MID files. (Registered Version Only)
- When using area features with elevations as
obstructions for view shed calculations, make the tested receiver
heights inside area features just be based on the terrain and only use
the area heights as obstructions. This makes it easier to simulate
things like wooded areas blocking reception within those areas and not
just beyond them. (Registered Version Only)
- Added Landsat True Color links from resmap.com to the
File->Open ECW File from the Web menu dialog.
- Added support for reading in 3D DXF line features and
saving the separate elevations for each vertex rather than using the
elevation of the first vertex for the entire line.
- Added ability to create regularly spaced tiles of
elevation grids from 3D vector data when right-clicking on vector layers
in the Overlay Control Center and selecting the option to create an
elevation grid from the data. This makes it easier to deal with very
large data sets that cannot be gridded all at once without running out
of memory.
- Added support for Global Mapper Package files larger
than 2GB in size.
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