Global Mapper v8.02 3D GIS Software Biggest Point Release

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 v8.02 release.

Eagle Globe Software is pleased to announce the availability of Global Mapper v8.02 GIS mapping software latest release on our Free Download page.

Over 100 enhancements and bug fixes have been made to Global Mapper since the v8.01 release, making v8.02 the biggest point release in GlobalMapper history!

We have listed the new features added along with all other enhancements and bug fixes that were made since globalmapper v8.01 as well, shown below.

Added the ability to load layers (like graphic images) to be displayed at a fixed location on the screen rather than tied to earth coordinates. This allows you to add things like headers and watermarks very easily. There is a new File menu command called "Open Data File at Fixed Screen Location" that allows this.
Added ability to export any loaded data to tiled images for use in NASA's World Wind application. The new World Wind export option under the File->Export Raster and Elevation Data menu will correctly break your data up into tiles at various zoom levels and also create the necessary XML file to view your data in World Wind. (Registered Version Only)
Added the ability to copy features selected with the Digitizer Tool to the clipboard and then paste that copied data into any running instance of Global Mapper by using the new Edit menu options.
Added new right-click option to the Search->Search by Attributes dialog to allowing copying the selected features to the clipboard. Those features can then be pasted into any running instance of Global Mapper by pressing Ctrl+V.
When triangulating and gridding 3D vector data, like LIDAR and XYZ data, made all sample locations outside of the bounding polygon of the input data to be discarded to avoid the spurious data outside of the bounds.
When triangulating and gridding 3D vector data that includes area features with height values, make any regions inside an area feature be flattened rather than just treating the area features as 3D lines. This allows making good elevation grids from things like buildings as well as allows easily flattening an area like a lake.
Added option to smooth generated contour lines to improve their appearance. This option is enabled by default.
Added option when generating contour lines to directly export them to Global Mapper Package (GMP) files rather than displaying them on the main map. This allows very large areas to be contoured when used in conjunction with the Gridding option during contour generation. (Registered Version Only)
Added ability for users to add support for additional raster and elevation export formats through a DLL-plugin architecture. See the Developers/SDK page at http://www.globalmapper.com for more details. (Registered Version Only)
Allowed Global Mapper to use up to 4GB of RAM on 64-bit Windows. On 32-bit Windows Global Mapper (like all applications) is limited to 2GB of RAM.
Added option to rotate point labels when selecting the font to use for points of a particular type.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to create/flatten terrain within any selected area features that have an elevation value associated with them.
Allowed quick insertion of multiple vertices in selected features with the Digitizer Tool by holding down the ALT key when adding vertices. This will cause you to stay in insert vertex mode rather than reverting back to the default mode.
Allowed modification of insert vertex behavior to insert vertices on the existing selected line feature if the SHIFT key is held down when adding vertices. This allows you to emulate the behavior of releases earlier than v8.01 if you prefer things to work that way.
Allowed quick deletion of selected vertices with the Digitizer Tool. Simply use the CTRL+DELETE hotkey to delete selected vertices. This saves having to right-click and select the delete vertices option from the popup menu.
Added new right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow selecting all of the selected search results with the Digitizer Tool to allow further editing after closing the dialog.
When reversing the order of line vertices also reverse any left or right type attributes like addressing attributes.
Added option to add address attributes to selected point features using addressing information from the nearest line feature to those selected point features.
Added new IMPORT_DIR_TREE command to allow importing all files in a directory tree that match a list of filename masks. This is the same functionality offered by the File->Open All Files in Directory Tree menu command. (Registered Version Only)
Allowed the user of files with multiple polygons when using the POLYGON_CROP_FILE parameter for any of the EXPORT_* commands. If multiple polygons are found in the specified file the polygon with the largest overlap over the loaded data will be used as the crop polygon. (Registered Version Only)
Added ability to specify template file to use for MP export when scripting (TEMPLATE_FILENAME parameter for EXPORT_VECTOR command). (Registered Version Only)
Added ability to specify an image id to use for MP export when scripting (MP_IMAGE_ID parameter for EXPORT_VECTOR command). (Registered Version Only)
Made User Created Features layers be exportable via scripts run in the context of the main view window. (Registered Version Only)
Added new SAVE_CURRENT_VIEW and RESTORE_LAST_SAVED_VIEW script commands to allow saving a restoring views from within script files. (Registered Version Only)
Added OVERWRITE_EXISTING parameter for EXPORT_ELEVATION, EXPORT_RASTER, and EXPORT_VECTOR script commands to allow user to specify that they want to skip existing files. (Registered Version Only)
Made passing a filename of 'USER CREATED FEATURES' to the UNLOAD_LAYER script command of a script being run in the context of the main map view unload any user-created features. (Registered Version Only)
Added new parameter (VECTOR_ONLY) to the UNLOAD_ALL script command to allow easily unloading all of the vector layers but leaving the other layers loaded. (Registered Version Only)
Fixed handling of export bounds and spacing when exporting DXF 3D Face, DXF Mesh, STL, and VRML files with the EXPORT_ELEVATION command. (Registered Version Only)
Added SMOOTH_CONTOURS parameter to the GENERATE_CONTOURS script command to allow the user to control whether or not generated contour lines are smoothed to improve their appearance. (Registered Version Only)
Added REQUIRE_WORKSPACE parameter to the GLOBAL_MAPPER_SCRIPT command to allow specification that a script/workspace file can only be run if another workspace file is already loaded. (Registered Version Only)
Added ENABLE_PROGRESS parameter to the GLOBAL_MAPPER_SCRIPT command to allow specification that no progress reporting dialogs should be displayed while running a script. Use ENABLE_PROGRESS=NO to disable the display of progress. (Registered Version Only)
Added the Cassini Malaysia (state zones), Hungarian National Grid (EOV), Lambert Cylindrical Equal-Area, RSO East Malaysia (Borneo), RSO West Malaysia (Peninsular), and Two Point Equidistant projections.
Added the ATS77 (Nova Scotia), Hungarian 1972 (HD72), and Indian (Nepal) datums.
Added the ATS77, Everest 1830 (1967 Definition), and Everest 1956 ellipsoids.
Added support for supplying an extra scale factor to State Plane projections. This allows for using things like grid vs. ground coordinates.
Modified the Timbalai 1948 datum to use the Everest 1830 (1967 definition) ellipsoid internally.
Fixed problem with Hotine Oblique Mercator A projection acting exactly like a Mercator projection.
Corrected false northing value for Lambert IV Corse projection.
Corrected central meridian for the Quebec MTM Zone 2 projection.
Added ability to specify a scale factor for Mercator projections.
Improved handling of some Lambert France projections in GeoTIFF files.
Fixed decoding of Ireland 1965 datum from TAB files.
Fixed problem from v8.00 release that caused some PRJ files to not be loadable.
Fixed problems with northing values for a handful of State Plane zones, like the NM East zone with the NAD27 datum.
Fixed problems with saving and restoring the Hotine Oblique Mercator B and the derived Michigan Georef projections to/from PRJ files.
Fixed problems saving projections using a "longitude of pole" or a "true scale latitude" parameter to new format PRJ files.
Made the current view scale be display on the status bar.
When running the cursor over line features with recognized addressing attributes the address under the cursor will be displayed on the status bar.
Added support for points to have dot or square symbols of any size and color when loaded from a file. Symbol attributes now support symbol names of DOT_CUSTOM_[SIZE]_[RED]_[GREEN]_[BLUE] and SQUARE_CUSTOM_[SIZE]_[RED]_[GREEN]_[BLUE] where the [SIZE] value is the radius in pixels of the dot or square, and the [RED], [GREEN], and [BLUE] values represent the color to use.
Made any text rotation and size be obeyed when loading DXF files.
Made fixed size text and text rotation angles be saved to exported DXF files.
Added 'inches' as a supported elevation unit.
Made township, range, section, and meridian values be recognized from additional attribute values when exporting to Platte River Survey files. (Registered Version Only)
Made batch converting from LIDAR and TerraScan formats to gridded elevation formats work. (Registered Version Only)
Added support for additional NTF grid formats, like the LandRanger DTMs.
Added new right-click option to the Measure Tool to save the current measure text to the Windows clipboard.
Added option to show pixel coordinates of the current mouse location in the topmost raster layer in the status bar. This option is in the Advanced Options section on the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added new option to the Advanced Options section on the General tab of the Configuration dialog to specify that default display label fonts should use the OEM character set (code page 437) rather than the ANSI character set (code page 1252). This option can be helpful if you are having problem with accented characters not displaying correctly from some data sets (those data sets encoded in code page 437 rather than 1252).
Added support for cropping Polish MP 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)
Fixed storage of contour line elevations to Polish MP files when a template file with elevation units of meters is used. (Registered Version Only)
Made Polish MP exports using template files be done in the datum specified in the template file if the datum name is known. (Registered Version Only)
Fixed automatic map ID generator for Polish MP exports so that valid map IDs will always be generated. (Registered Version Only)
Made the Z-level value for custom area types be stored in the custom_area_types.txt file. This allows the user to customize the Z-ordering of custom area types to get them to draw where they want. Currently this requires editing the custom_area_types.txt file and editing the value in the 7th column. A value of 0 will cause the type to draw below all other area features.
Fixed problems loading text from some DGN v8 files.
Fixed error when loading some DGN v8 files with raster data in them.
Made the last selected type be remembered on the Area Styles, Line Styles, and Point Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog.
Made the 'Restore Default Settings' button on the General tab of the Configuration dialog also restore the vertical display settings to their default values.
Made alpha channels from ECW files be used.
Fixed conversion of offset and min/max elevation values in feet units on Alter Elevations tab of the raster Options dialog when pressing the Apply button.
Fixed export bug when using blend modes and transparency at the same time.
When rectifying, made holding down the CTRL key and right-clicking in either the zoomed or reference map views zoom the clicked view out to the full extents of the available data.
When rectifying, made holding down the SHIFT key when left-clicking in the reference map view with a lat/lon projection in arc degrees clamp to the nearest 30 second interval rather than the nearest 1 minute interval.
Fixed error in polyline flags for 3D area features exported to DXF files. (Registered Version Only)
Made the correct elevation for 3D point features imported from DXF block entities be used.
Made HATCH and SOLID entities be loaded from DXF files.
Allowed loading of RPF (i.e. CADRG, CIB, etc.) files with absolute file paths.
Added support for using positioning and projection information from Fugawi JPR files.
Added support for loading multi-patch Shapefiles.
Added support for providing offset and scale values for STL export. (Registered Version Only)
Added option when printing to specify an extra margin. This is useful when printing to things like a PDF file that do not have any natural margins.
Fixed problem with label settings not being saved to workspace files when changing the label attribute of Shapefiles to 'No Name Field'.
Removed error about bad OziExplorer .map format when loading MapInfo .tab files from which the projection cannot be automatically determined.
Added ability to directly load Ozi .map files to load the referenced imagery.
Made the last used State Plane zone be remembered in the projection selection dialog.
Added a new option ("Mark Sides of Roads with Addressing Information") to the option list at the bottom of the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. If checked, any roads that are recognized to have addressing information available on one or both sides will have "hair" drawn on the side(s) of the line where that address information is available. This option can be useful for determining the coverage of your addressing data.
Made the default face name used by labels in Global Mapper be stored in the registry and editable there. The 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DefaultFaceName'registry key now holds that value and can be edited via regedit to change the default face name for all labels.
Added support for loading some additional Moss/Genio format files.
When using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command, made the control point list for each file automatically be initialized to the control points found in any associated .gcp file.
When using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command, added an option to control whether or not rectified imagery is displayed in the reference view when rectifying multiple images. Unchecking this can speed up the process when rectifying lots of imagery.
Fixed problems selecting some line features at some zoom levels.
Added option to generate a PRJ file when exporting vector data to Simple ASCII Text files. (Registered Version Only)
Made information about the feature/location under the cursor be displayed in the status bar regardless of what the active tool is. For tools like the Digitizer/Edit tool the feature information will be displayed after any instructions.
Made the 'Feature Type' value for selected features be displayed in the Feature Info dialog. The 'Description' value will only be displayed if it is different from the 'Feature Type' value.
In the vector Search dialog, replaced the 'Feature Description' searchable field with the more useful 'Feature Type' field that always reflects the type of the feature.
Fixed error introduced in v8.01 when exporting grayscale MrSID imagery to new files. (Registered Version Only)
When exporting to a Float/Grid file, write a 'cellsize' value to the .hdr file rather than 'xdim' and 'ydim' values if the X and Y sample spacing are equal. This should fix errors loading creating Float/Grid files into Arc/Info. (Registered Version Only)
Added support for loading Erdas Imagine .img files directly from archives (.zip, .tar.gz, etc.) files.
Made additional SEGP1 format layouts be supported.
Added an option to map catalogs to control whether or not the map bounding boxes are displayed when a map itself is not displayed.
Added option to the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog File menu to save the path profile to a BMP file and display it in a fixed location on the main map view. This is useful for easily getting the path profile graphic displayed along with the main map for presentation purposes. (Registered Version Only)
Fixed problems with features with HTML in their names or descriptions being exported to GPX files. (Registered Version Only)
Added band selection support for BIL, BIP, and BSQ files and their derivatives.
Added support for additional band setups for GeoTIFF files (i.e. 5 band 8 bit-per-sample files, etc.).
Fixed access violation with 16-bit tiled elevation TIFF files.
Allowed custom lat/lon grid spacing to be specified in DD MM.MMMM and DD MM SS.SSSS format in addition to DDD.DDDDD.
Make sure area features exported to KML files are closed (i.e. first and last vertex equal) so that they will draw correctly in Google Earth when extruded. (Registered Version Only)
Improved accuracy of distance calculations.
Made area features exported to MatLab format files be cropped to the selected export bounds rather than just including all area features that overlap the export bounds. (Registered Version Only)
Fixed positioning problems when batch converting files in a State Plane projection and using the datum override setting on the batch conversion dialog to change the datum. (Registered Version Only)
Allowed layers that have been rectified to be properly stored in map catalog files. (Registered Version Only)
Made the custom color palette on the color selection dialog for the View->Set Background Color menu command be remembered between runs.
Made county and state boundary lines automatically be classified when imported from Tiger/Line files.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to "Hide Labels that are Partially Offscreen". This makes sure that you always get complete labels and is very useful if you are gridding vector data being exported to a raster format to ensure that you get a seamless set of tiles.

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