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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 release.
Eagle Globe Software is pleased to announce the latest
release of Global Mapper v9.01 GIS mapping software which you may experience
via our Free Download.
Multiple enhancements and bug fixes have been
made to Global Mapper since the v9.00 release, making the v9.xx another exciting
release in Globalmapper history!
We have listed the latest features
added in Global Mapper 9.01 along
with other enhancements and bug fixes implemented since the Globalmapper
v9.00 release.
What's New in Version 9.01 (12/02/2007)
- Added support for exporting any loaded data into
tiles for use in Google Maps. In addition, an HTML file will also be
created allowing immediate viewing of the maps.
- Made significant improvements to the triangulation
and gridding of 3D point, line, and area data. Not only is the
process now MUCH faster (especially for large triangulations), but
it also now supports treating lines as constraints (i.e. breaklines),
saving the generated triangulation as a separate vector layer, and
making elevations for source vector features be relative to the
elevation from loaded terrain data. You now also grid a much larger
number of points at once (well over 10 million points have been
tested with no problems).
- Added option to Shapefile export to split the
export into separate files by layer. This allows you to easily break
your data up into separate Shapefiles based on the layer/description
of the features being exported. The layer name for each file will be
appended to the end of the selected export filename.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added fuzzy transparency support to allow for
transparency for a raster layer to be set up so that all colors near
a selected transparent color can be marked as transparent. This is
useful for removing collars from lossy formats, like JPG, ECW, and
MrSID.
- Allowed 3D area features to be created in Shapefile
export.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for loading RIK (Swedish Topo) format
raster files.
- Added support for loading OCAD format files.
- Added support for loading MapTech PCX charts. Load
these from the MapTech .hdr file in the ChartHdr folder.
- Added support for loading OziExplorer .rte format
files.
- Added support for loading Garmin PCX5 .rte format
files.
- Added support for loading UKOOA format post plot
data files. They are listed under the format SEGP1/UKOOA.
- Added support for loading HF2/HFZ format elevation
grid files.
- Added support for exporting loaded gridded
elevation data to HF2/HFZ format files.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added new item to the Options menu on the Path
Profile/Line of Sight dialog to allow specification of how many
sample points (either by number or by a spacing distance) to use
when generating the path profile.
- Allowed feather blending to use multiple polygons.
- Added several new built-in symbols for different
well types used in the petroleum industry.
- Made minor improvements to Polish MP export,
including option to keep ID value from [IMG ID] section during
templated exports, to copy the [FILES] and [MAP] sections from
template files, to allow Text attributes longer than 80 characters,
and to automatically remove the labels from marine spot depth and
height points.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added new option to JPG export to allow
specification of a DPI value to store in the exported JPG file.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added DXF vector export option to use the filename
for the input feature as the layer name in addition to the default
of the feature description or the feature label.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added new COMBINE_TERRAIN command to the scripting
language to allow combining terrain layers to generate a new layer
using a script file.(Registered Version Only)
- Added new ADD_MEASURE_ATTRS command to the
scripting language to allow adding measure attributes to loaded
vector layers from a script. (Registered Version Only)
- Made the OVERWRITE_EXISTING=NO parameter work
properly when gridding an export from a script.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added new PIXEL_SIZE parameter for use with the
EXPORT_RASTER script command. This parameter allows you to specify
the desired pixel size of your export result. The format is
PIXEL_SIZE="widthxheight", or PIXEL_SIZE="1024x768"
as an example.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made the value of the INC_VECTOR_DATA parameter
default to YES with the EXPORT_RASTER command if only vector data is
loaded.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Allowed use of SPATIAL_RES parameter with the
IMPORT_ASCII script command to manually specify the grid resolution
to use when generating a gridded elevation layer.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added new LAYER_BOUNDS_EXPAND parameter to script
commands taking a bounding box so allow using an expanded version of
a bounding box obtained using a LAYER_BOUNDS parameter.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added new DGN_GLOBAL_ORIGIN_LL,
DGN_REPLACE_DARK_COLORS, and DGN_UNIT_RESOLUTION parameters to the
EXPORT_VECTOR script command to allow specifying additional options
for DGN export.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made GEN_WORLD_FILE parameter work for ECW and
JPEG2000 exports from script files.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Allowed easy movement of view sheds by moving the
transmitter point feature at the center of the view shed using the
Digitizer/Edit Tool. When this is done, the user will now be
prompted to recalculate the view shed at the new location if they
want.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added option to lock the current active workspace
file while you are working with it to prevent other users from
opening and using that same workspace file. This is useful in
network environments where you don't want one persons work to
accidentally overwrite another's. This option is in the Advanced
section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added option to have cells from DGN v8 and later
files to be imported as point features at the cell's origin rather
than be exploded into the features referenced by the cell. This
option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the
Configuration dialog.
- Added option to have the color number for lines
from DGN v8 and later files to be add to the feature description
text in addition to the level number. This option is in the Advanced
section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added option to generate world files and PRJ files
during Terragen terrain export.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for getting depth values from a
connected GPS device that embeds $STDBT or $IIDBT NMEA sentences
containing the depth values. For GPS devices that provide depth, the
depth will be used as the Z coordinate for track logs rather than
the elevation value.
- Added option to Options menu on rectification
dialog to automatically add control points at the image corners.
- Fixed creation of attribute list when marking new
waypoints from a connected GPS device. Previously the elevation and
time stamp attributes were no longer being saved.
- Fixed problem with elevation units other than
meters not being usable for Lidar LAS and Terrascan files loaded as
point cloud data sets.
- When loading TIFF files with 4 color channels and
the 4th color channel is of unspecified type, prompt the user to see
if this should be treated as an alpha channel or an additional data
channel (like infrared). This allows TIFF files created with
Photoshop with an incorrectly marked alpha channel to be loaded and
displayed properly.
- Added new option to the Advanced section of the
General Options tab of the Configuration dialog to automatically
save backup copies of the current workspace every so often. These
backup copies will be created in the same folder as the workspace
file and have the suffix "auto_backupX", where X is a
number from 0 to 9.
(Registered
Version Only)
- When generating new area features from the bounds
of layers in the Overlay Control Center, make those new areas have
an attribute list consisting of the metadata from the layer.
- Made the last selected file type be remembered
between sessions on the GeoTIFF export dialog.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made the last selected export target compression
ratio be remembered between sessions on the ECW and JPG2000 export
dialogs.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made the last selected quality setting be
remembered between session on the JPG export dialogs.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added the Winkel Tripel projection as a built-in
projection.
- Added built-in support for the BD72 (Belgium 1972),
M'Poraloko (Gabon) and Google Maps datums.
- Improved the accuracy of the ED50 - Spain and
Portugal datum transformation by having it use a NTv2 transformation
file.
- Improved the accuracy of the MGI Austria and
Potsdam (DHDN) datum transformations.
- Added Indian Yard as an available unit for
projections.
- Allowed EPSG datum codes to be used to specify a
datum on the projection selection dialog using the 'Init From EPSG'
button.
- Added support for decoding Polyconic (American)
projections from OziExplorer .map files.
- Made the map/chart type for CADRG maps (i.e. TPC,
ONC, etc.) be included in the layer description and metadata for
those maps.
- Fixed problem with elevation override data not
being applied to elevation WMS layers (like SRTM and NED) loaded
from a script or workspace file.
- Made the Vertical Units control actually work when
combining terrain layers.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made the addition operation work when combining
terrain layers in areas where only one of the two input layers has a
valid elevation.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made Surfer CLR files saved from the custom shader
dialog actually be compatible with Surfer.
- Added support for correctly importing line and
point features in Polish MP format files that have multiple Data0
coordinate records.
- Added option to PNG export options dialog to easily
specify the sample spacing in units other than the current export
projection units.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Improved performance of raster exports from map
catalogs when one or more files referenced by the map catalog are
missing.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for automatically cropping the collar
of Canadian topographic maps with CanMatrix XML metadata files.
- When exporting filled area features to DXF files,
write out the fill color of the area to the DXF file.
(Registered
Version Only)
- When exporting raster layers to Global Mapper
Package files, make those layers support transparency so that they
will overlay properly on other layers when re-loaded.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made feather-blended elevation layers visually
feather blend better in to underlying layers rather than just
smoothly blending the elevation values.
- When loading files from workspace, script, and map
catalog files, if the file exists at the full path specified, don't
check for a new location relative to the metafile location.
- When rectifying imagery, allowed new control point
values to be entered as lat/lon coordinates regardless of the native
projection of the layer.
- Fixed problem with manually specified grid spacing
being ignored when flattening areas using the Digitizer Tool.
- Added option to World Wind export to allow
generating the filenames required by the Java edition of World Wind.
- Updated area calculations to be done in the native
units for a layer rather than always be done in lat/lon coordinates.
This can make area calculations from Global Mapper for large areas
more consistent with what you see in other applications.
- Fixed bug with fill style not being read from
generic ASCII files properly.
- Fixed errors rendering ECW and JPEG2000 files to
monitors with extremely high resolutions (typically multi-monitor
setups).
- Added option to Help menu to disable the automatic
check for updates at application startup.
- Made it possible to batch convert from ASCII text
files (like XYZ) to gridded elevation formats.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Fixed bug in batch conversion that caused the
horizontal extents of raster or gridded elevation data exported
using a custom spacing to be incorrect in some situations. Also
fixed problem with an extra column and or row being exported when
the custom spacing option was used.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added attributes for database linkages to loaded
DGN files.
- Improved the handling of break lines imported from
DMDF format files.
- Fixed problems loading some Garmin PCX5 files.
- Added new File menu commands to the rectification
dialog to allow loading control points and projection information
from CompeGPS .imp and Touratech TTQV .cal files.
- Added option to specify offset and scale values to
apply to coordinates loaded from EMF format files.
- No longer save the 'Render Areas', 'Render Lines',
'Render Points', and 'Render Area and Line Vertices' options from
the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog between runs as
this tends to cause confusion. The first three will always be
enabled by default when you start Global Mapper and the vertex
display will now always be disabled by default.
- Corrected positioning of ENVI files that don't use
the top left coordinate as their reference point.
- Fixed problems exporting attributes with special
characters like # and - in their name to MapInfo MIF/MID format
files.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for loading ERS files with missing
cell sizes. These are apparently defined as having a cell size of
1.0.
- Made the last exported bounds be available between
runs of Global Mapper.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made the full path to files be displayed in the
Overlay Control Center for layers that do not have any description
other than the filename.
- Allowed selection of which bands are used from
multi-spectral FAST-L7A Landsat imagery layers.
- Added support for loading 16-color (4-bit per
pixel) PCX files.
- Made holding down the 'P' key when selecting a new
location in the Reference View of the rectification dialog or when
using the Measure or Digitizer Tools, cause the new location to be
snapped to the nearby point features.
- Made the default attribute list for a feature type
be applied when changing the classification of an existing feature
through the single feature edit dialog.
- Fixed problem with missing start row and column of
DTED tiles in some cases when exporting to DTED format.
(Registered
Version Only)
- When cropping to selected area features during a
batch conversion operation, made the bounds of the exported data
also be cropped to the selected area features.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for loading Ozi .map files with grid
coordinates in multiple UTM zones.
- Significantly sped up export of large number of
files to ECW and JPEG2000 format files.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added support for modifying the default projection
used when rectifying imagery by supplying a
default_rectification.prj file in the Global Mapper installation
folder containing the desired default projection.
- Added Ctrl+R as shortcut key to restore last saved
view.
- Made the compression type used for TIFF files be
displayed in the metadata for the file available from the Overlay
Control Center.
- Made the image collar specified in the "MainPolygonBitmap"
section of CompeGPS IMP files be used when automatically cropping
the collar of imagery loaded with positioning information from the
IMP file.
- Fixed problem with the 'Update GCP' button on the
rectification dialog causing the name of the control point being
updated to be lost.
- Added ability to automatically add/update a
MODIFIED_DATE parameter to vector features when they are modified.
This option is found in the options list at the bottom of the Vector
Display tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added control of the JPEG-in-TIFF quality setting
with a new DWORD registry setting at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global
Mapper\JpegInTiffQuality" to control the JPEG-n-TIFF quality.
The default value is 75.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Added control of the default search string used in
the Search by Attributes dialog with a new string registry setting
at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DefaultVectorSearchStr".
The default value is '*'.
- Made it possible to batch rectify ECW and JPEG2000
format files using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command.
- Made LiDAR LAS export write out the point count for
each number of returns in the header.
(Registered
Version Only)
- Made LiDAR LAS support reading and writing
projection information.
- Added an 'Invert Selection' option to the popup
menu when you right click on the search results list on the Search
by Attributes dialog.
- Made the Add/Update Feature Measures option in the
Digitizer Tool report the combined length of all selected line
features and the combined enclosed area of all selected area
features at the end of the operation.
- Added new 'Deleted Line' and 'Selected Line' line
classifications so that users could modify the drawing style used
for deleted and selected line features.
- Fixed saving of Lambert Conformal Conic projections
to MapInfo MIF/MID files (this was broken in v9.00).
(Registered
Version Only)
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