GIS Global Mapper v8.03 3D GPS Mapping Software

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 release. 

Eagle Globe Software is pleased to announce the latest release of Global Mapper v8.03 GIS mapping software which you may experience via our Free Download page.

Multiple enhancements and bug fixes have been made to Global Mapper since the v8.02 release, making v8.03 another exciting release in GlobalMapper history!

We have listed below the new features added in Global Mapper 8.03 along with the other enhancements and bug fixes implemented since the Globalmapper v8.02 release.

• Added support for loading GML format files.
• Modified the Overlay Control Center to display a checkbox next to each layer for controlling the displayed state of the layer. This replace the previous text of "(Displayed)" and "(Hidden)" used for each layer and also provides an additional mechanism to turn the layer on and off.
• Added new option on the "Select Online Data Source to Download" dialog to specify the download location as a lat/lon and a radius.
• Added option when batch converting and exporting most raster formats to generate an ERS file for use with ERMapper. (Registered Version Only)
• Added new menu commands to the Options menu on the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog to allow users to manually specify the range of elevation values displayed. This options allows for consistent results between multiple profiles if desired.
• Added option when drawing line or area arcs to have the arcs be a fixed radius rather than drawing them.
• Added option to use a template file when batch converting to new Polish MP format files. (Registered Version Only)
• Added option to the Generic ASCII Import dialog to allow the specification of a column to break area/line features on when the value of that column changes. This allows importing formats like the Landmark polygon format that runs all of its features together but changes a feature index in a particular column to indicate a new feature.
• Added option to save custom shaders to Surfer CLR format files when editing them. When coupled with the current ability to initialize a shader from a Surfer CLR file this provides an easy way to makes copies of custom shaders.
• Allowed batch conversion to raster/elevation export formats added via plugin. (Registered Version Only)
• Added a new line type ("Digitizer Tool Line") that controls the drawing style used when digitizing new line and area features with the Digitizer (Edit) Tool.
• Added option to the transparent color picker dialog for palette-based files to save the palette to a .pal file.
• Allow color band setup for TIFF files with just 3 color bands.
• Fixed slowdown in rendering/exporting TIFF files. This was introduced in v8.02.
• Fixed rendering of TIFF files with overview layers when raster display options are changed from the defaults. This problem was introduced in v8.02.
• Added built-in support for the Tananarive Observatory 1925 and Yacare datums.
• Corrected datum conversions involving the Hermannskogel datum.
• Fixed export to ECW format when export units are not arc degrees, meters, or US survey feet. (Registered Version Only)
• Fixed errors during lengthy exports to ECW files when data from online sources was loaded. (Registered Version Only)
• Fixed problems with not being able to change the label attribute used for Shapefile features that have a 'LABEL' attribute associated with them.
• Fixed reading of altitude values for waypoints in somee Garmin PCX5 .WPT format files.
• When batch converting ADRG/ASRP files to new raster formats, use the name of the internal .IMG file for the export results rather than the TRANSH01.THF file which is too generic. (Registered Version Only)
• Made most of the metadata for SDTS vector layers be available on the main metadata tab for that layer to allow easy copying to the clipboard.
• Fixed problems with translucency, blending, and feathering over the top of TerraServer-USA data layers.
• Fixed vertical flip of some GMT grids in netCDF format.
• Added Projection tab to the Options dialog for raster and gridded elevation layers to allow easily changing the native projection interpretation of the coordinates for that layer. This allows you to easily correct files that have the wrong projection/datum used for them at load time.
• Made the vertices of holes/islands in areas be displayed when displaying area and line vertices.
• Fixed rare problem decoding some sections of Arc Binary Grid format files.
• Fixed error when exporting vector data to Erdas Imagine .IMG files. 
  (Registered Version Only)
• Made online data display more responsive to canceling the render with the ESC key.
• Improved exporting of data to palette-based images with multiple colors in the export palette being very near each other. (Registered Version Only)
• Added BANDROWBYTES, TOTALROWBYTES, BANDGAPBYTES, and NODATA fields to the .hdr file exported for elevation BIL format exports. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for reading MultiGeometry features from KML files.
• Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use a Schema directive to change the name of Placemarks.
• Fixed problems when adding loaded map files to a map catalog when the loaded files were loaded from an archive file, like a .zip or .tar.gz. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for loading some additional Moss/Genio format files and made *.inp be a recognized file mask for that type of file.
• Fixed crash when generating contour lines at only the 0 height contour.
• Fixed problems with the global projection being reset when using the VECTOR_ONLY=YES parameter for the UNLOAD_ALL script command. 
  (Registered Version Only)
• Allowed .clr palette files for BIL/BIP/BSQ format files to be delimited with commas, tabs, or semi-colons in addition to spaces.
• Added support for additional NITF format imagery files, such as those using JPG compression.
• Improved the name displayed for Arc Vector Coverage layers in the Overlay Control Center.
• Make default export elevation units for DEM and Global Mapper Grid exports be decimeters if metric units are the default so that the full precision of nearly all data sets will be preserved by default. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for loading new tab-delimited GNIS format files.
• Fixed problems exporting attributes as tags to DGN format files (this problem was introduced in v8.02). (Registered Version Only)
• Made graphic group codes for 2D lines and points from DGN v7 files be used as elevation values.
• Made the 'z' scan range value for 2D lines and points from DGN v8 files be used as elevation values.
• Added new GRID_KEEP_CELL_SIZE parameter to the scripting language to allow specification that grid cell size should be maintained at the expense of sample spacing. (Registered Version Only)
• Added support for reading 8-bit palette and grayscale Intergraph COT format files.

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