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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 v7.04 release.
The v7.04 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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significant discount over the full price.
With over 100 new features added or
corrected we have them shown below.
What's New in Global Mapper Version 7.04 (5/05/2006)
- Added KML/KMZ export function. This allows any loaded
vector data to be exported to a KML/KMZ format file for use in Google
Earth. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem on some systems that would cause the
application to disappear or crash when attempting to select a new file
for loading or saving. This problem occurred on Windows XP SP2 systems
which also had Adobe Acrobat Reader v7 installed. Apparently the
installation of Acrobat Reader changed some built-in Windows behavior
in a way that broke Global Mapper (and several other applications).
- Allowed batch conversion of vector data to DGN format
files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed export of DGN format files from Global Mapper
scripts using the EXPORT_VECTOR command. (Registered Version Only)
- Made tag values be read in from DGN files and stored
as attributes.
- Made point features stored as 0-dimensional lines in
DGN v7 files load correctly.
- When exporting DGN files, made the current view
background color be saved as the DGN background color. (Registered
Version Only)
- When exporting DGN files, made the correct unit
conversion and type values be used rather than reporting all units as
meters. (Registered Version Only)
- When exporting DGN files, made the level number used
for exported features that originally came from a DGN file be
maintained.
- When exporting DGN files, made text features be
exported for line and area features that have labels. (Registered
Version Only)
- When exporting DGN files, made text labels be sized
proportionally to the font size used for the label in Global Mapper.
The export options dialog also has an option to scale the text to make
it larger or smaller and still maintain the proportionality.
(Registered Version Only)
- When exporting DGN files, made generation of a 3D DGN
file optional.
(Registered Version Only)
- When exporting DGN files, added an option to also
generate a PRJ file containing the native projection of the
coordinates in the DGN file. (Registered Version Only)
- When exporting DGN files, added an option to specify
the unit resolution to use, such as 100 to use centimeters when the
export ground units are meters.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed saving of the 3D view to images of a size
other than the 3D view window size on systems that support this
operation. Many older or underpowered video cards will not support
this operation, but newer video cards with the latest drivers should
be ok. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading Japanese DEM (JDEM) .mem
files.
- Added support for loading SEGP1 seismic shotpoint
format data files.
- Added support for loading CompeGPS RTE, TRK, and WPT
format files.
- Added option when batch converting to a zoned
projection, like UTM or Gauss Krueger, to "Automatically Select
the Best Zone" for each file being converted, allowing easy
conversion of files that span multiple zones. The auto-selection
option will be at the top of the zone list for those zones where it is
available. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export into
adjacent tiles to make those tiles overlap by some percentage of the
tile size. This is to allow more easily overlaying the data in other
non-mapping applications, like Photoshop. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export and
separately naming tile rows and columns to specify the start number or
letter for the rows and/or columns rather than just using 1 and 'A'. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export into a
specified number of rows and columns to crop the right and bottom grid
cells to the specified export bounds. This may make the grid cells not
all have the same size, but will prevent extraneous data from
appearing on the right and bottom edges. (Registered Version Only)
- Changed naming of numeric rows/columns when gridding
data on export to make the numeric name for every tile be padded with
0's to the maximum length of the numeric label for any row/column. For
example, if 100 columns of tiles were being exported, the columns
names would go 001, 002, ..., 100 rather than 1, 2, ..., 100.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made most settings on the Gridding tab of exports be
remembered between runs. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export to not
export grid tiles where the destination file already exists. This is
useful for continuing a canceled export, or re-exporting just some
tiles that you want different data in. Simply delete the tiles that
you want to re-export, then do the export again with the option to
skip existing files checked. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export to specify
a prefix to apply to the column and row names when separately naming
rows and columns. (Registered Version Only)
- When loading Shapefile, MapInfo, and DXF format
files, use the layer name/attributes to try and auto-classify
features.
- When exporting Shapefile and MapInfo MIF/MID features
and including the description as an attribute, also include the
classification as a GM_TYPE attribute if the description for any of
the feature being exported is not the default of the classification
name. (Registered Version Only)
- Added built-in support for the Quebec MTM projection.
- Added support for western hemisphere zones when using
the Gauss Krueger 6-degree zone projection.
- Added built-in support for the LUREF (Luxembourg)
datum.
- Improved accuracy of the Dutch Grid projection and
the Dutch (RD) datum.
- When performing cut-and-fill volume calculations,
also calculate and display the surface area that needs cut and filled
respectively. (Registered Version Only)
- Made the "Path Details" dialog for a 3D
path profile display the along-ground distance (i.e. distance with
elevation changes taken into account) as well as the minimum and
maximum elevation values along the path.
- Added support for loading USRP data sets (ASRP data
with UTM coordinates).
- Made all appropriate border pixels be marked as
transparent in ADRG, ASRP, and USRP data sets.
- Added option to Simple ASCII Export to make style
attribute export be controlled separately from data attribute export. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added button to the custom shader edit dialog
allowing the elevation value for an existing elevation/color range be
changed.
- Added option to the Digitizer Tool when multiple
point features are selected to identify any point features that are
within a user-specified distance of other selected point features.
This is helpful for finding duplicate points.
- Display the height of any gridded elevation data in
the status bar as you move the cursor around, even if the cursor is
near vector data (the height will be appended to the nearest vector
feature description).
- When placing new point/text features or moving a
single point/text feature with the Digitizer Tool, make the point snap
to existing features just like line and area features do when drawing
them. You can hold down Ctrl when placing the point to disable
snapping.
- Made CSV files created by the Lowrance SonarViewer
software be automatically detected and loaded rather than prompting
the user for input parameters.
- Added option to CDF export to allow exporting
coordinates in either the current projection system or lat/lon. (Registered
Version Only)
- Allowed DTED files with invalid column numbers in the
data record to be loaded.
- Added support for loading Geosoft Grid files with
right-handed vector orientation.
- Added automatic detection of world files that have an
extra .txt appended to the filename.
- Improved loading of ATTRIB values from DXF values.
- Improved export of point/text features to DXF files. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added option to use the display label as the layer
name when exporting to DXF files rather than the description/type if a
layer name is available for a feature.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed "Crop to Selected Area Feature"
option to be used when generating contours.
- Added option when generating contours to control
whether or not unit indicator suffixes should be appended to labels
for the generated contour features.
- Added INC_UNIT_SUFFIX parameter to the
GENERATE_CONTOURS script command to allow specification of whether
unit indicator suffixes should be appended to the labels for the
generated contour features. (Registered Version Only)
- Added Sphere Radius 6371204 m as an available
ellipsoid for adding custom datums.
- Fixed problem with custom datums created by the user
being written out to new files, like GeoTIFFs, as the Adindan datum. (Registered
Version Only)
- Fixed incorrect loading of some MSI Planet format
height files (they would appear garbled).
- Fixed errors loading some GPX files with extremely
long text strings in them.
- Fixed problem with missing lat/lon grid lines in some
projections where the lat/lon grid is not valid over the entire data
bounding box.
- Fixed automatic removal of collars for files with
very curved lat/lon boundaries, such as the Antarctica DRGs.
- Fixed loading of attributes from MIF/MID files when
one of the attribute names starts with "Index".
- Fixed errors trying to batch convert raster data with
both the "Use Other Source Files As Filler" and "Auto
Adjust Contrast" options enabled. (Registered Version Only)
- Improved rectification based on an OziExplorer .map
file when that .map file has a UTM grid and each control point has
both lat/long and grid coordinates or the .map file has control points
that are marked as excluded.
- Allowed ground control points specified for
rectification with the IMPORT script command to be specified in a
projection other than the specified projection for the file being
rectified. The use of either the GCP_PROJ_NAME or GCP_PROJ_FILENAME
parameters will cause the control points to be projected automatically
to the file projection before rectification occurs. (Registered
Version Only)
- When loading LIDAR LAS data, save the class of each
sample point as an attribute.
- When batch converting from LIDAR LAS data to other
vector formats, add an option to only include sample points classified
as "ground shot points" in the output.
(Registered Version Only)
- Don't display POLYLINE entities from DXF files that
are marked as 3D polygon meshes or polyface meshes.
- When loading generic ASCII files with quoted fields,
make sure the quoted fields are properly treated as a single field and
that the quotes are removed for all fields. Also treat back-to-back
double quotes as a single quote mark in the text that doesn't act as a
field delimeter.
- When loading generic ASCII text files and using
column names from the first line of the file as attribute names, don't
include attributes from non-coordinates lines.
- Fixed problem introduced in v7.02 release with saving
Transverse Mercator projections to ECW files (the projection name was
not being saved for some users).
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed view shed calculations to have a radius as
small as one thousandth or a mile or kilometer rather than the
previous minimum of one tenth of a mile or kilometer. (Registered
Version Only)
- Fixed some printing issues and improved printing
performance when printing to large paper sizes.
- Added a registry key to allow specifying that
positioning information from TIFF world files, if available, should be
preferred over the positioning data stored within TIFF file headers.
If you create a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\TIFFPreferTFW
DWORD value with the value set to 1, then the world file positions
will be preferred.
- Added support for reading and writing oblique
stereographic projections from/to GeoTIFF files.
- Added support for reading and writing Gauss Krueger
(6-degree zones) projections using the Pulkovo 1942 datum from/to
GeoTIFF files.
- Added support for reading and writing the Potsdam/DHDN
datum from/to GeoTIFF files as well as Gauss Krueger Germany (3 degree
zones) projections with that datum.
- Added checkbox to the ASCII import file to allow
using the same configuration for all files during that load or batch
convert operation.
- Allowed positioning data from Ozi .map and CompeGPS
.imp files to be used to position ECW files that do not contain
embedded positioning information.
- Corrected positioning of some non-WGS84 MapTech maps.
In some cases the wrong datum would be used. Now if there is any doubt
the user is prompted to select the correct projection.
- Made user-defined projections be automatically
decoded from MrSID files.
- Fixed export of NAD83 datums to Erdas Imagine format
files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Made French Lambert projections be decoded and
encoded from/to ECW files automatically.
- Improved positioning of NOS/GEO format charts by
positioning them using the specified native chart projection if
recognized.
- When using the GENERATING_CONTOURS script command,
allowed negative intervals to be specified if the SINGLE_LEVEL_ONLY=YES
parameter is specified.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed half pixel shift and other positioning problems
when exporting to new Float/Grid format files. (Registered Version
Only)
- Fixed errors loading text from some single-precision
E00 files.
- Dramatically sped up the calculation of auto-contrast
statistics for large MrSID files.
- When loading MapInfo MIF/MID format files, don't set
any numeric fields to have a value of 0 when their value is actually
empty.
- Fixed bug from v7.03 release that could cause
discontinuities in rectified imagery that used the triangulated
rectification method.
- When displaying feature information for polygon
features that have islands/holes, include the area of the island
features as a separate item in the Geometry section of the Feature
Info dialog. Also subtract the area of those islands away from the
total polygon area to give a true representation of the actual area
covered by the polygon.
- Improved compression of 24-bit RGB GeoTIFF files
created by Global Mapper that are created with the LZW compression
option. (Registered Version Only)
- Improved consistency of multiple view sheds
calculated from the same center point with the same sample spacing but
different radii when the specify sample spacing is much larger than
the spacing of the elevation files that are used.
(Registered Version Only)
- Sped up calculation of view sheds when the elevation
data being used comes from a map catalog or Global Mapper Grid files. (Registered
Version Only)
- Sped up contour generation when the elevation data
being used comes from a map catalog or Global Mapper Grid files.
- Added support for specifying a scale factor for
Lambert Conformal Conic and Stereographic projections.
- Significantly sped up export to any raster format
using a palette, such as palette-based GeoTIFF or PNG exports. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added option to do case-sensitive searches with the
Search->Search by Attributes menu command.
- Made map catalogs be exportable to Global Mapper
Package files.
(Registered Version Only)
- Fixed orientation of GPS heading arrow when the
display projection is one in which north is not necessarily straight
up.
- Reduced memory usage for E00 files with lots of
attribute values.
- Fixed calculation of PERIMETER and ENCLOSED_AREA
values for some range rings that had incorrect values stored.
- Fixed decoding of UTM zone 60 projections from NASA
LandSat .met files.
- When rectifying data with vector data displayed in
the Reference pane, made clicking near a vector feature automatically
"snap" to that feature to assure exact matches.
- Made statistics (STX) files be generated for
elevation BIL file exports.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added SHOW_3D_VIEW command to the scripting language
to allow scripts and workspaces to bring up the 3D view window. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added option to generate XYZ grid files in row-major
order.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to anti-alias pixels (interpolate) when
batch converting between raster formats. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed rare problems loading some portions of Arc
Binary Grid format files (technically, some 32-bit RLE encoded tiles
with very large values were incorrectly decoded).
- Fixed problem with labeled areas exported to Landmark
Graphics ASCII format files have two TEXT labels exported. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made image-optimized palettes always contain white
and/or black if those colors are in the image being exported. This
makes collars stay the color they are supposed to be. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made tracking of Garmin USB GPS devices work for
newer devices, like the SP2720, that send some extra information when
first connected.
- Added warning to exports when a large amount of
TerraServer data would be exported to explain that it could be very
slow and give the user a chance to cancel the operation. (Registered
Version Only)
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