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Global Mapper v8.01 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 v8.01 release.
The v8.01 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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Over 100 new features added along
with a few client request, shown below.
What's New in Version 8.01 (11/6/2006)
- Added new tab to the Options dialog for some
multi-spectral raster files (currently only GeoTIFF files with more
than 3 bands of data and Erdas IMAGINE, ECW, JPEG2000, and MrSID
imagery with 3 or more bands of data) to allow controlling which
bands are used for the red, green, and blue color channels during
display.
- Added support to check for new releases of Global
Mapper, both automatically and manually using a new Help menu
option.
- Added support for feather blending raster data to a
polygonal boundary rather than just along selected edges. This makes
it much easier to feather blend the border of a large collection of
adjacent files.
- Added option to associate a list of default
attribute/value pairs with each area, line, and point classification
on the * Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog. If a default
attribute list is provided for a type any new features created with
that type using the Digitizer Tool will automatically add those
default attribute/value pairs.
- Added support for loading DWG files. imagery.
- Added support for importing data from WAsP .map
format files.
- Added support for exporting lines with elevation
and/or roughness values to be exported to WAsP .map format files for
use in the WAsP wind analysis application. (Registered Version
Only)
- Added option to export survey section (i.e.
section/township/range) area features to Platte River ASCII
Digitizer format files. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting gridded elevation data
to PGM format grayscale grid files. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading NTF-format contour files
as supplied by the UK Ordnance Survey.
- Added support for loading KINGDOM planimetric
polygon files like those used by SMT (Seismic Micro-Technology)
software.
- Added option to shift all of the control points for
a file when rectifying imagery or vector data. This effectively
provides an easy way to shift a file by a given distance.
- Added Apply button to the image rectification
dialog to allow the results of repositioning a layer to be
immediately seen in the reference map window.
- Added option to the Digitizer Tool to automatically
create vertices at the intersections of selected line features.
- Improved behavior of vertex insertion into area and
line features so that the new vertex is inserted at the clicked
location rather than the nearest point on the feature to the clicked
location.
- When inserting new vertices in selected line and
area features with the Digitizer Tool, automatically select the
newly added vertices to allow easy moving and joining of them.
- Added option when creating range rings with the
Digitizer Tool to create a "multi-ring" by combining the
outer rings of multiple range rings into a single combined boundary.
- When adding range rings and point features are
selected, added option to add the new range rings at the selected
point locations.
- Changed behavior of moving features and vertices
with the Digitizer Tool so that the move operation is terminated
once the feature(s)/vertices are moved. This is to prevent
inadvertently moving the features again.
- Fixed problems in Digitizer Tool with horizontal
and vertical snapping not working properly for the last vertex added
to line and area features.
- Changed "point-in-polygon" selection hot
key from ALT to the 'P' key. Now if you hold down the 'P' key when
left clicking to select with the Digitizer Tool, the top-most area
feature containing the clicked location will be selected.
- Made holding down the ALT key when selecting
features and/or vertices automatically put you in Move mode after
the selection, thus providing a quick way to manually reshape or
move features.
- Added option to the Polish MP export to allow the
use of a template MP file for getting the map settings to save in
the newly created MP file. (Registered Version Only)
- Made addressing and routing attributes for line
features be written to Polish MP files on export if they exist in
the data being exported. (Registered Version Only)
- Made all point features except for known cities be
written out to Polish MP files as RGN10 features rather than RGN20
features. (Registered Version Only)
- Made features in Polish MP files that do not have
data at level 0 still be loaded.
- Added new EXPORT_METADATA command to the scripting
language to allow exporting of text metadata for loaded layers to a
file. (Registered Version Only)
- Added ability to grid exports from script files
when using the EXPORT_ELEVATION, EXPORT_RASTER, and EXPORT_VECTOR
script commands. (Registered Version Only)
- Added SAVE_DIST_Z_FILE parameter for
GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command to allow specification that a
file containing distance and elevation values should be saved rather
than one with the XYZ coordinates of the path profile line. (Registered
Version Only)
- Corrected behavior of POINT_SPACING parameter for
GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command. It was generating one less
sample point than needed. (Registered Version Only)
- Added new DEFINE_SHAPE script command. This is
currently used for defining a polygonal feather blend boundary. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added ability to export CDF format files from a
script. (Registered Version Only)
- Allowed POLYGON_CROP_FILE to be used for
EXPORT_VECTOR command. For now all line and area features will just
be cropped to the bounding box of the specified polygon. Point
features for some formats will actually be cropped to the polygon. (Registered
Version Only)
- Fixed problems exporting WMS data layers to Global
Mapper Package files. Now the full detail of the data layer will
always be exported. (Registered Version Only)
- Removed limit on the length of WMS server URLs
added through the "Select WMS Data Source to Load" dialog.
(Registered Version Only)
- Added support for adding custom WMS sources with a
question mark at the end of the server URL. (Registered Version
Only)
- Added support for adding custom WMS sources with a
service name other than WMS (this was not working properly before). (Registered
Version Only)
- Added option to 24-bit RGB and JPG-in-TIFF GeoTIFF
exports to have any background/no data pixels marked as transparent.
This works by adding an alpha channel to the file. This might not be
supported by all applications. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading the Z coordinates for 3D
area features from most 3D shapefiles.
- Added option to the Simple ASCII Text export to
write out the Y (latitude) coordinates before the X (longitude)
coordinates if desired. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for cropping Simple ASCII Text
exports to a selected area feature. Note that this will only crop
point features to the selected area feature. Exported area and line
features will only be cropped to the bounding box of the selected
area. (Registered Version Only)
- When exporting vector data to Simple ASCII Text
files, made area features that extend outside of the export bounds
be cropped to the export bounds. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option on the File menu of the Path
Profile/LOS dialog to save the sight line and the Fresnel zone line
(if applicable) to a KML format file for display in Google Earth. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made overwrite of existing workspace files
fail-safe by not writing out the workspace to the existing file
until the workspace save is complete and error-free. This prevents
any errors during a workspace save from wiping out an existing
workspace file that was being overwritten.
- Added additional progress reporting when batch
converting files. (Registered Version Only)
- Dramatically sped up the loading of map catalog
files with lots of files in different projections.
- Fixed problem with scale being slightly changed
when printing to scale with a header and/or footer. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made State Plane projections with NAD83 HARN/HPGN
datums be properly saved and loaded from PRJ files.
- Added support for loading ECW and JPG2000 files
with more than 8 bits per color channel, including elevation-based
files.
- Made the TIFFTAG_SAMPLEFORMAT value be written out
for 16-bit elevation TIFF files so that ESRI products can properly
read them when negative values are present. (Registered Version
Only)
- Added option to skip files for which the projection
cannot be automatically be determined when batch converting files. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for decoding some additional NITF
imagery formats, in particular 2-band 16-bit per band imagery.
- Added POSGAR94 (Argentina) datum.
- Fixed bug in gridding while exporting with an
overlap percentage specified that caused the overlap to not be
applied to the right or bottom sides of some files when splitting up
the export to a fixed ground size. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for loading MrSID imagery with more
than 8 bits per color channel.
- Fixed display of ADRG/ASRP/USRP data sets with
4-bit count RLE compression.
- Added option to the Vector Display tab of the
Configuration dialog to have only the border of selected area
features highlighted.
- Added additional Lambert France projections to
handle the newer projections with larger false northings. Made the
attributes used for each of these Lambert projections be listed on
the Projection selection dialog as well. (Registered Version
Only)
- Added support for decoding and encoding Lambert
France projection codes from GeoTIFF files.
- Added support for automatically decoding projection
and datum information from text metadata files accompanying Mexican
topo maps.
- Fixed rare problems loading some NOS/GEO format
files.
- Fixed bug cropping reprojected area features on
export to MapInfo MIF/MID format files. The bug caused those areas
to not be exported. (Registered Version Only)
- Improved behavior of near-white colors when
exporting to image-optimized palettes. (Registered Version Only)
- When exporting 3D point features to DXF files,
export the elevation information after the coordinate information
rather than before. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems loading positioning information from
Touratech (TTQV) .cal files where the first pixel control point is
at (0,0). Also added support for automatically decoding Swiss Grid
projections from those files.
- Fixed application of Fresnel zone analysis to view
sheds. It had nearly no effect in the v8.00 release for view sheds
(it did work properly for line of sight analysis however). (Registered
Version Only)
- Expanded support for FAST-format Landsat imagery to
allow the direct loading of panchromatic, VNIR/SWIR, and thermal
imagery without needing a _MTL.FST header file.
- Fixed problem with line vertices showing up
slightly offset from the line when zoomed way in on line features
that are also being reprojected.
- Improved display of 4-band Digital Globe QuickBird
imagery with 8 bits per color band.
- Removed special TIFF and GeoTIFF metadata pages and
placed all of the information on the main metadata page so that the
information could be easily copied to the clipboard.
- Improved decoding of diacritic text from NIMA GNS
point data files. The UTF-8 encoded text is now converted to the
current system codepage for improved display of diacritic and other
extended characters.
- Fixed very slow display of some large tiled TIFF
files.
- Dramatically sped up export of TerraServer-USA data
when it is being exported in a projection other than Geographic. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added JPEG2000 .jp2, BSB chart .kap, and Polish .MP
files to the list of "Supported Commonly Used Types" list
on the file selection dialog.
- Added option to CSV export to include LATITUDE and
LONGITUDE columns even if the projection is not Geographic. (Registered
Version Only)
- Drastically reduced memory requirements when
exporting vector data to Global Mapper Package files and saving
generated vector features (like contour lines) to workspace files.
This should eliminate all error messages when exporting package
files and most when exporting workspace files. (Registered
Version Only)
- Added version to title bar.
- When exporting a VRML file, made the lowest
vertical exaggeration setting on the slider correspond to no
vertical exaggeration at all. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed bounds of exported VRML files so that they
will tile properly. In addition, additional comments were added VRML
file headers to describe the ground location of the data and
additional digits of elevation precision were also written out in
most cases. (Registered Version Only)
- When using the 'Add Loaded Files' or 'Add Onscreen
Files' batch conversion dialog buttons, allow the user to add files
of types other than the specified input file type. (Registered
Version Only)
- Allowed for entry of azimuth and altitude light
angle values at greater than integer precision on the Vertical
Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Moved the Configuration button on the toolbar to be
next to the Overlay Control Center button as that is a more logical
grouping.
- Changed the globe button on the toolbar to launch
the online TerraServer-USA/WMS data access dialog rather than going
to the Find Data Online page at http://www.globalmapper.com.
- When marking a waypoint from a tracked GPS
location, automatically add elevation (if available) and timestamp
attributes.
- Fixed error message and lockup on Search->Search
by Name dialog when searching on the last start letter (like 'Z')
and having non-alphanumeric characters starting some of the strings.
- Made State Plane projections be recognized from ECW
files rather than using the base projection (like Lambert Conformal
Conic).
- Updated Surfer BLN export to use new
comma-delimited format. (Registered Version Only)
- Sped up some raster/elevation exports from map
catalogs (exports that span many maps from the catalog in a single
export row). (Registered Version Only)
- Made elevation units for most gridded elevation
exports default to the elevation units of the loaded data or, if the
vertical display units are manually set to metric or statute on the
Vertical Display tab of the Configuration dialog, to meters or feet
respectively. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option when gridding on export and naming the
rows or columns with numbers to specify a step value by which to
increment the row or column numbers rather than just 1. (Registered
Version Only)
- Made the default projection system displayed for
files for which the projection cannot automatically be determined be
configurable. This default projection system can be set by saving a
default.prj file in the Global Mapper installation folder.
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