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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 v8.00 release.
The v8.00 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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What's New in Global Mapper Version 8.00 (8/31/2006)
- Added support for loading data from OpenGC WMS servers.
This is done through the new File->Download Online Imagery/Topo Maps
menu command (formerly the Download TerraServer menu command). Several
sources are built-in, providing easy access to gridded elevation data
for the US (NED) and the world (SRTM) as well as color imagery for the
entire world. Users can easily add their own WMS data sources as well. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the
Polish MP format for use with the cGPSMapper application (www.cgpsmapper.com)
which allows the creation of new maps for Garmin GPS units. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for loading Polish MP format files like
those used by the cGPSMapper application.
- Added support for loading vector data from KML/KMZ
format files.
- Added support for loading NITF (National Imagery
Transmission Format) format imagery.
- Added support for loading Geodas Grid (GRD98) format
elevation files.
- Added support for loading some Intergraph COT format
files.
- Added support for loading CDF (GES Cartographic Data
Format) files.
- Greatly improved the raster layer options by adding
support for color balancing (individual red, green, and blue
adjustment), linear min/max contrast stretch, setting transparency for
multiple layers at a time, feather blending (see below) and cropping to
native bounds or by a given number of pixels.
- Added feather blending support for raster layers to the
Options available from the Overlay Control Center. This is an extremely
powerful feature that allows smoothly blending raster layers with
underlying layers. For example, you might have high resolution imagery
on top of lower resolution imagery. With feather blending, you can
smooth the sharp edge and make the transition at the border seamless.
- Added support for checking clearances with respect to
the first Fresnel zone when calculating view sheds and performing line
of sight analysis. This allows for a more accurate visibility
calculation depending on the wavelength being transmitted. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for having labels be displayed at a fixed
height in meters rather than at the same size at each zoom level. This
option is on the bottom of the font selection dialog when either
selecting a font for a classification on one of the * Styles tabs on the
Configuration dialog or when selecting a font for a feature when editing
it.
- Added option to always display the label for a
particular feature or classification if labels are displayed. This
option is on the bottom of the font selection dialog when either
selecting a font for a classification on one of the * Styles tabs on the
Configuration dialog or when selecting a font for a feature when editing
it.
- Added an undo option when digitizing new features with
the Digitizer Tool or drawing new measurements with the Measure Tool.
Simply press Ctrl+Z and the last vertex added to the feature/measurement
being drawn will be removed.
- Changed the snapping behavior in the Digitizer Tool so
that snapping is disabled using the ALT key (rather than CTRL) and that
snapping to vertices only is enabled by holding down the 'V' key (rather
than SHIFT).
- When digitizing new features or moving existing feature
or vertices using the Digitizer Tool, made holding down the CTRL key
make the new location be snapped vertically, holding down the SHIFT key
make the new location be snapped horizontally, and holding down both the
CTRL and SHIFT keys snap the location diagonally.
- Added a new advanced selection option popup menu to the
right-click popup menu for the Digitizer Tool when one or more area
features is selected. This new menu has options for selecting all point
and area features within the selected area(s), making it easy to select
and edit features within a particular area.
- Added option to the Digitizer Tool to allow creating
new line features from the boundaries of selected area features.
- When placing new range ring features with the Digitizer
Tool, make the range ring center snap to existing features just like
line, area, and point features do when drawing them. You can hold down
Ctrl when placing the range ring to disable snapping.
- When adding areas as islands to existing features with
the Digitizer Tool, prompt the user for whether or not the original
areas should be marked as deleted. Previously the original areas were
always marked as deleted, but this is not always desired.
- Greatly sped up exports to numerous binary formats,
including Shapefiles, Global Mapper Grid files, and Surfer Grid files,
especially when exporting to a network drive. (Registered Version
Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export to have the
column name be first and then the row name in the generated filename,
rather than the default of row name first, then column name. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added option when gridding data on export to turn off
the prepending of zeroes to numeric column or row names in order to make
them all the same length.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added option to save a gridded file of slope values
rather than elevations when exporting to a Float/Grid format. (Registered
Version Only)
- Corrected text encoding recorded in exported KML/KMZ
files to ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when exporting to KML/KMZ format files to
fake an elevation for 2D area features in order to get the same draw
order in Google Earth as you see in Global Mapper. (Registered
Version Only)
- When gridding an export that is also cropped to a
selected area feature, don't create files to any grid cells that don't
intersect the selected area feature.
(Registered Version Only)
- When exporting Shapefiles, remove any duplicate
vertices from the exported lines. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when exporting GeoTIFF files to generate
PRJ files for the GeoTIFF files. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when exporting 3D DXF Face files to
generate the coordinates as ECEF (earth-centered earth-fixed) rather
than in whatever projection system is selected (use EXPORT_ECEF=YES
parameter for EXPORT_ELEVATION command in scripting language to script
this behavior). (Registered Version Only)
- When rectifying imagery, made snapping to nearby vector
data in the Reference Map view be turned off by holding the Alt key when
left clicking rather than holding down the Ctrl key. This allows both
snapping and zooming to a clicked location to be done by holding down
the Ctrl key.
- When rectifying imagery, made left-clicking in the
Zoomed Image and Reference Image views drop a small red dot to visually
indicate the click location.
- In the image rectification dialog, made holding down
the Ctrl key increase the pan size to a half screen when panning with
the edge arrow on any of the map views.
- Made PRJ files be saved if possible in the newer PRJ
well-known-text (WKT) format rather than the older ESRI-originated
format that is no longer supported by ESRI products. There is an option
to use the older PRJ format if desired on the General tab of the
Configuration dialog. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for the Bipolar Oblique Conic Western
Hemisphere, Times, Old Israeli Grid, and New Israeli Grid projections.
- Added Corrego Alegra, NID (New Israeli Datum), OID (Old
Israeli Datum) and QND95 (Qatar) as built-in datums.
- Added Clarke 1880 (Palestine), Clarke 1880 (RGS) and
Sphere Radius 6371000 m as built-in ellipsoids available for use with
custom datums.
- Fixed problems using and saving the Quebec MTM
projection for which support was added in the last release.
- Made the names of state-plane zones listed on the
projection selection dialog include the FIPS zone number of the zone.
- Allowed the use of the NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums with
State Plane projections.
- Fixed problems decoding the Lambert France projections
from old format PRJ files and workspaces.
- Increased accuracy of OSGB36 datum conversions.
- Made central meridian scale factor for Lambert
Conformal Conic projections only be used in the 1SP (both first and
second standard parallels the same) case since it can only be unity
(1.0) in the 2SP case.
- Fixed decoding of UTM zones in the Southern hemisphere
from some new format PRJ files.
- Fixed Transverse Mercator projections when used with
datums based on perfect spheres (these would only have been custom
datums based on a spherical ellipsoid).
- Added option to custom shader dialog to allow
initialization of a custom shader from a Surfer CLR shader palette file.
- When creating or editing a map catalog and using the
"Add Loaded Files" or "Add Onscreen Files" buttons,
made files from other loaded map catalogs be added as well if they are
not already in the map catalog being worked with.
(Registered Version Only)
- When saving a workspace with any gridded elevation data
loaded, made the current shader and other vertical display settings be
written to the workspace so that the view will be the same when the data
is reloaded.
- Added new advanced options list to the General tab of
the Configuration dialog to allow selecting advanced options like
treating DXF INSERT entities as points, automatically adding custom
types for DXF layers, exporting old format PRJ files, preferring world
file coordinates over embedded coordinates for GeoTIFF files, and
prompting for whether or not 16-bit BIL data is imagery or elevation
data.
- Added SAVE_SCALE_AND_LEGEND parameter to the
EXPORT_RASTER script command to allow saving the distance scale and/or
elevation legend to generated raster format files. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added POINT_SPACING parameter to the
GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command to allow specifying the spacing
between sample locations along a path profile rather than the number of
points. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed reading of Shapefiles with PolygonZ and PolygonM
shape types which don't have Z or M values for all features.
- Added option when batch converting to DGN format to
control whether or not 3D DGN files are created. (Registered Version
Only)
- Allowed specification of the default elevation units to
use for vector data with elevations from the Options button of the
Overlay Control Center. This elevation units value will be used for any
elevation values associated with vector features in that layer that do
not explicitly contain a unit identifier (i.e. "ft" or
"m").
- When saving/updating feature measure information for
polygon features that have islands/holes, include the area of the island
features as a separate ISLAND_AREA attribute. Also subtract the area of
those islands away from the total polygon area stored in the
ENCLOSED_AREA attribute to give a true representation of the actual area
covered by the polygon.
- Greatly improved the load speed and reduced the memory
requirements for most BMP format files.
- Improved auto-assignment of type names based on feature
descriptions when loading DXF files to handle type names with spaces or
underscores in them.
- Fixed error when saving a workspace file containing a
map catalog with auto-collar cropping enabled.
- Fixed problems decoding NMEA GPS streams where the only
valid sentence is the $GPRMC sentence.
- Fixed problem with the label background for labels set
to display with filled backgrounds being white rather than the current
view background color in some instances when raster or gridded elevation
data is also being displayed.
- Made the size of the vector search dialog be remembered
between runs.
- Fixed problems saving some Lambert Conformal Conic
based projections to ECW files. In the v7.04 release a bug was
introduced which would cause some projections to not have a projection
string written to a newly created ECW file.
(Registered Version Only)
- Allowed ECW and MrSID files without embedded
positioning information to use positioning information from additional
sources, like world files.
- Replace underscores with spaces in waypoint names
loaded from CompeGPS format files.
- Made symbols for waypoints from CompeGPS files be
automatically set if the symbol name for the waypoint matches a Global
Mapper symbol name.
- Fixed restoring of default drawing styles for area and
line features from the tabs of the Configuration dialog. This has been
broken since the v6.08 release.
- Made transparency when exporting PNG files work when
including either loaded vector data or the displayed scale, legend,
and/or grid.
(Registered Version Only)
- When exporting Simple ASCII text files, make the
GM_TYPE attribute be exported when necessary if either attribute export
option is enabled rather than only when the style attributes export
option is enabled. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for reading coordinates from world files
where the coordinates are separated with tabs rather than being on
separate lines.
- Made the list of layers in the Overlay Control Center
be scrollable with the mouse wheel.
- Corrected image registration via CompeGPS IMP files
with control points in multiple UTM zones or in a UTM zone in the
Southern hemisphere.
- Improved decoding of CompeGPS IMP files using Lambert
Conformal Conic projections.
- Sped up the import of large DTED files.
- Made symbol and type lookups by name work properly for
types and symbols with accented characters.
- Don't allow multiple custom shaders with the same name
to be used.
- Fixed loading of Arc ASCII Grid files with lines over
256 KB in length (up to a max of 2MB per line).
- Fixed bug with display of raster layers texture mapped
over loaded elevation layers that do not use the shared default shader.
- Fixed bug in the encoding of area features in DLG-O
files and allowed correct reading of incorrectly encoded DLG-O files
with area features.
- Fixed display of tiled 16-bit grayscale TIFF imagery.
- Fixed recording of GPS tracklog when attached GPS
device always reports an elevation of 0.
- Fixed auto-contrast adjustment for some large images
with 16 bits per color channel.
- Made rotation values from BLW files used to position
BIL files be used.
- Added option to Vector Display tab of the Configuration
dialog to allow hiding any extra text displayed below road icons, like
alternate names for the road.
- Added option to the General tab of the Configuration
dialog to control whether or not grid lines should extend beyond the
edge of loaded data.
- Added support for dragging Global Mapper Script (GMS)
files onto a running instance of Global Mapper and have them be run. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for 16-bit per color channel separated (Geo)TIFF
files with more than 3 bands of data.
- Improved rendering of some lat/lon data that crosses
the anti-meridian (180 E/W), such as range rings.
- Added option to the Measure Tool to have measured lines
and areas be drawn along great circles rather than on straight lines
(all measurements are always along great circles).
- Fixed rare problem with min and max values being
treated as invalid from some Surfer Grid files.
- Made national wilderness and wildlife areas in 100K
SDTS DLG files be detected and automatically classified as
"National Park (Other)".
- Improved positioning of imagery using Ozi .map files
that reference the Swiss Grid projection.
- Corrected positioning of imagery using Ozi .map files
that specify a "map scale factor" (MSF) value other than 1.
- Added support for reading text from MTEXT entities in
DXF files.
- Made link elements in GPX files be saved as attributes
in the created features.
- Fixed very rare lockup when creating an elevation grid
from 3D vector point features or during ASCII file import.
- Fixed problem with attribute tags in exported DGN files
not being recognized by MicroStation. (Registered Version Only)
- Added Gridding tab when generating contours to allow
breaking up the contour generation into multiple smaller pieces.
- Improved the visual appearance of gridded elevation
data along the edges of the data when interpolating (the visible seem is
reduced or disappears altogether in some cases). (Registered Version
Only)
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