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 v9.00 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 v8.03 release, making the v9.xx another exciting release in GlobalMapper history! We have listed below the latest features added in Global Mapper 9.00 along with the other enhancements and bug fixes implemented since the Globalmapper v8.03 release.
What's New in Version 9.00 (8/30/2007) - Added direct access to high resolution Digital Globe, GlobeXplorer, and AirPhotoUSA imagery for the entire world through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command. Free access is provided to watermarked imagery for reference only, with access to un-watermarked imagery that can be exported to new files can be purchased.
- Added support for exporting ECW files of unlimited size. Previously there was a limit of 500 MB of uncompressed data for ECW exports.
(Registered Version Only) - Added support for exporting loaded data to JPEG2000 format files.
(Registered Version Only) - Added support for exporting loaded raster/elevation data to KML/KMZ file for display in Google Earth (use File->Export Raster and Elevation Data->Export KML/KMZ menu command). (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data to DTED format files. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data and 3D vector data (including LIDAR point clouds) to LIDAR .LAS format files.
(Registered Version Only) - Added ability to make area features partially transparent. Everywhere that you can edit an area style now has a transparency slider allowing you to adjust how translucent a solid filled area will be.
- Added new File->Combine Terrains menu command to allow combining loaded terrain layers with a variety of operations, including differencing terrains, averaging terrains, and using the min and/or max elevations from two terrains.
(Registered Version Only) - Added new option to the Color/Contrast Adjust option dialog for raster layers to allow specification that the contrast adjustment should be shared between multiple layers. This allows a consistent contrast adjustment to be applied to all images with that option checked.
- Added option to view shed calculation to generate area features for the covered areas. These generated area features could then be exported to vector formats like Shapefiles. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for feather-blending elevation layers in order to smoothly blend the elevation values of one layer with an underlying one near some edge (either a polygon or the rectangular edges of the top file).
- Added support for loading DMDF (Digital Map Data Format) files, such as those used for Alberta DEM files.
- Added support for loading vector data from EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) files.
- Added support for loading Erdas .LAN format files.
- Added support for loading PCX format image files.
- Added support for loading point Arc Vector Coverage files (lab.adf).
- Added option to the Vector Options dialog to allow selecting the attribute to use for elevation values for vector features. This is useful if you want to get elevation values from something other than the default elevation field for a layer.
- Added option to the Digitizer Tool to split an area feature into 2 pieces along the segment connecting 2 selected vertices.
- Made the Search->Search by Attributes/Name/Desc dialog be "modeless" so that you can interact with the map underneath the dialog without closing the dialog.
- Added new "Select All" option under the Edit menu to allow easily selecting all loaded vector features.
- Added support for loading files in a fixed location relative to the screen with the position of the file being specified in width or height percentage values or relative to an absolute latitude/longitude value in addition to the previously available inches from edge values.
- When specify custom crop bounds for a raster layer, allow control of which sides will be cropped through check boxes activating which edges to actually crop. The default is all edges.
- Added a new "Hill Shading Shadow Darkness" control to the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog. This control allows you to control the maximum darkness of shadows (the default is black). With this setting you can cause the shadowing to be capped in high relief areas, thus allowing the use of other controls to better bring out detail in low-relief areas.
- Added support for drawing the location for a connected GPS device as a circle or transparent triangle with a dot at the center for the GPS location. This support is provided by the new GPS->Vessel Shape submenu.
- Added option to DXF vector export to allow elevation values from loaded elevation layers to be used as the Z coordinate for exported vertices if available. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option to DXF vector export to allow coordinate values to be written out as ECEF (earth-centered earth-fixed) coordinates rather than in the current selected projection. (Registered Version Only)
- Added support for performing batch geocode operations from data files using currently loaded road data. Previously batch geocoding was limited to the US using an online geocoder. With this new feature, geocoding can be done using load and properly attributed road data along with input address data split into appropriate fields. (Registered Version Only)
- Allowed drawing of rectangle, square, circle, and ellipse shapes anchored at the top left rather than center with the Digitizer Tool by holding down the 'T' key when left clicking to start the shape.
- Added option to the projection selection dialog to allow a projection to be initialized from an EPSG projection system code.
- Made the parameters used for most grid system and zoned projections, like British Grid and UTM, be displayed in the attribute section of the projection selection dialog (which will be disabled for those projections).
- Added support for the India Zoned Grid, Korean Grid, Krovak, Lambert (Marta), Lambert (NOAA), Marta Satellite, and Winkel I projections.
- Added built-in support for the Dealul Piscului 1970, Ireland 1965 (with 1975 Adjustment), Korean Geodetic (KGD), Lisbon (DLx), S-JTSK, Solomon 1968 (GUX1 Astro) datums as well as a generic GRS80 ellipsoid datum.
- Improved accuracy of the Beijing 1954, Hungarian Datum 1972 (HD72), NGO1948, and Portugese 1973 (Datum 73) datums.
- Added Bessel (Modified) as a new built-in ellipsoid.
- Added support for adding new ellipsoids to create custom datums from on the custom datums dialog.
- Fixed crash when exporting to some formats with the Old Israel Grid or New Israel Grid projections selected. (Registered Version Only)
- Made the extra scale factor for State Plane projections be applied AFTER any false easting and northing values for the underlying projection for the State Plane zone, rather than before the false easting/northing values as before.
- Allowed exports cropped to a polygon from a file be cropped to multiple polygons with the new POLYGON_CROP_USE_ALL parameter for the export commands. (Registered Version Only)
- Added CLIP_COLLAR_FLAGS parameter to IMPORT script command to allow saving of per-edge collar cropping flags. (Registered Version Only)
- Added COLOR_INTENSITY_FULL parameter to IMPORT script command to allow specification of higher resolution color intensity for raster layers (from 0 to 512 rather than 0 to 20). (Registered Version Only)
- Allowed the polygon to use when feather blending to be specified from a file using a FEATHER_BLEND_POLY_FILE parameter with an IMPORT command in a script file. (Registered Version Only)
- When using the EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with a polygon crop file, only use the bounds of the crop polygon for the export as the export bounds if the export bounds are not explicitly specified. In addition, for gridded exports with a crop polygon, don't export grid cells that are completely outside of the crop polygon. (Registered Version Only)
- Fix error with some layers not showing up in the output when using the EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with gridding.
(Registered Version Only) - Added new parameters to the EXPORT_* script commands to allow specifying how gridded tiles should be named. (Registered Version Only)
- Allowed FEATURE_SEP values for exporting simple ASCII text files with the EXPORT_VECTOR script command to specify feature separators other than just none or a blank line. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem using SET_BG_COLOR in scripts called from the command line. (Registered Version Only)
- Made the area covered by the bounding box of a layer be reported as part of the metadata for that layer.
- For BIL and Erdas Imagine elevation exports, if all of the input files use the same NODATA value use that rather than the default of -9999.0 for the NODATA value for the export. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem loading complex shapes from older (pre-v8) DGN files. This problem was introduced in the v7.04 release.
- Improved decoding and encoding of some Lambert-based projections with default units of feet with ECW files.
- Fixed garbled display of some rare ASRP/ADRG/USRP format maps.
- Fixed problem with features being duplicating when copying and pasting selected features from multiple data layers at a time.
- Made blending and translucency between layers within a map catalog work properly.
- Fixed display of selected features when dragging a map to pan.
- Made nearby point locations be snapped to when selecting the transmitter location for view shed analysis. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with scale bar being cut off when printing to scale with a footer string. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem in v8.03 with some features in the a User Created Features layer not responding to the show/hide checkbox in the Overlay Control Center.
- Fixed problems loading area and line features with more than about 200,000 vertices from Polish MP format files.
- Increased precision of angular coordinates (like arc degrees) written to text file formats, like Simple ASCII Text export, to support approximately the same level of ground truth precision as linear coordinates (like meters).
(Registered Version Only) - Fixed problem with offscreen islands not being exported when exporting simple ASCII text format files. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problems loading uncompressed CIB imagery.
- Fixed problems with edited labels for Shapefile features not being saved to workspaces.
- Split line features with more than 5,000 vertices into multiple pieces on export to DGN files as some applications (like Microstation) do not support lines with more than 5,000 vertices. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option to DGN export for converting dark line colors (like black) to white. This is useful as many DGN viewers automatically use black as the background color, making dark colors very difficult to see. (Registered Version Only)
- Added option to the GPS Status dialog to copy the current GPS location to the clipboard.
- Added support for loading polyface mesh features from DXF files.
- Added support for loading DXF files with nested BLOCK references.
- Fixed problems handling some SPLINE entities in DXF files.
- Added new View->Properties menu command to allow displaying properties about the current view, including bounds, scale, and resolution.
- Made ERS files be used for positioning information if needed for additional formats, like JPG, ECW, TIFF, and PNG.
- Increased the resolution of the color intensity slider on the raster options dialog and also made the current intensity value be displayed.
- Made filenames in the Overlay Control Center be displayed with the same casing as they have on disk rather than always being all upper case.
- Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to allow users to specify that the default export folder should be the folder of the first loaded file rather than the last exported-to folder.
(Registered Version Only) - Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to specify that lines in generated world files should be separated with CR/LF (carriage return and line feed) characters rather than just a LF (line feed) character. (Registered Version Only)
- Updated GNIS files to use the NAD83 datum as the USGS switched to that in 2005. In addition, GNIS files that use meters for elevation values will also handle those correctly and less error messages will be shown for GNIS files.
- Allowed clearances greater than 100% of the first Fresnel zone to be checked when performing line of sight and view shed analysis. (Registered Version Only)
- Made the minimum clearance display for line-of-sight analysis display in the currently selected 'Position Display Format' if the From and To locations are also displayed using it. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed problem with the per-vertex elevation list for 3D area and line features not being maintained when copying and pasting those features.
- Fixed problems with loaded data from some VPF data sets with only one tile of data, namely UVMAP3 data.
- Fixed memory leak when generating an elevation grid from some loaded 3D vector data sets. This problem was introduced in the v8.02 release.
- Added a new right-click option to the Overlay Control Center to allow you to save a workspace file containing just the selected layers and their settings.
- Changed export of transparent areas to new 24-bit RGB PNG files to use an alpha channel rather than a single color transparency as some applications only support the alpha channel method. (Registered Version Only)
- Fixed error loading some RPF (i.e. CADRG/CIB) data sets.
- Fixed file size error loading some Geosoft Grid files.
- Made Global Mapper workspace (.gmw) files be loaded from archive files (.zip, .tar.gz, etc.). If any .gmw files are encountered and loaded from a workspace file, no other data files will be loaded from the archive file.
(Registered Version Only) - Made it possible to rectify MrSID files with the File->Rectify Imagery menu command.
- Fixed error loading some DGN v7 or older files with tags in them.
- When digitizing new area, line, and point features, notify the user if their features will not be displayed immediately after creating it due to vector display settings.
- Make the default attribute list for the default classification be properly initialized when digitizing new features.
- Make sure that the user wants to switch away from the Digitizer Tool if doing so would result in the loss of a significant number of digitized points.
- Display progress while saving workspace files.
- Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use multiple Schema directives to change the name of Placemarks.
- Fixed rare problem with a handful of iso-height areas not generating properly during contour generation.
- No longer break lines over 256 vertices into smaller pieces on export to the Polish MP format as cGPSMapper can now properly handle lines of any length. (Registered Version Only)
- Made double-clicking on layers in the Overlay Control Center bring up the Options dialog for that layer. If you hold down the 'M' key when double-clicking the Metadata dialog will appear instead.
- Added support for the Swiss Grid projection in ECW files.
- Fixed problems batch converting Lidar LAS format files to some other formats, like Shapefiles. (Registered Version Only)
- Made automatic DRG-style collar cropping work for high latitude Canadian topo maps.
- Added support for loading MSI Planet files with a .dat extension.
- Made GML files from the UK Ordnance Survey load.
- Allowed border and line widths up to 30 pixels wide (up from 10) to be selected.
- Updated raster/elevation import plugin API to allow the plugin DLL to notify Global Mapper that the data in a layer has changed and needs to be redrawn, thus allowing for dynamically updating layers.
- Updated raster/elevation export plugin API to add an EP_ExportEvent function that is called whenever an entire export operation is started and ends.
(Registered Version Only) - Reduced memory requirements for loading and displaying CMYK TIFF files.
- Dramatically sped up the process of moving overlays to the top and bottom of the draw order when there are a lot of layers loaded.
- Don't attempt to load DBF files from archive (.zip, etc.) files if they don't have obvious positioning fields in them.
- In the location selection dialog, made the Latitude and Longitude fields initialize with the coordinates formatted according to the currently selected position display format. Also swapped the fields so that the Latitude is on top.
- Made the elevation readout on the status bar display up to 3 digits beyond the decimal rather than just 1.
- Made DEM files exported with the Geographic (Lat/Lon) projection write out full elevation profiles for every column, even if there are invalid data values at the beginning and/or end of the profile. This is to ensure compatibility with other software.
- Added support for the user providing an explicit format and/or projection to use in the service name string when adding a new WMS data source. For example, if a data source is available in both JPG and PNG formats and you want to get the JPG data, use a service name of 'WMS&format=image/jpeg' when adding the data source. Use the SRS parameter to explicitly select a projection to use.
- Added new right-click option to the Measure Tool to specify that no unit labels (like 'm' or 'ft') should be appended to the measure attributes added to new line and area features.
- Added new advanced selection option to the Digitizer Tool to allow selecting all line features contained within a selected area feature.
- Made the false easting/northing values for UTM projections in units other than meters be stored correctly when saved to WKT format PRJ files.
- Made the list of user-provided web-based ECW links be stored in a text format in the user_web_files.wfl file rather than a hard to edit binary format.
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