Added support for loading Tiger 2007 Shapefiles with full attribution and automatic styling and type assignment from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html.
Added support for loading Vulcan3D triangulation files.
Added support for loading OpenStreetMap (OSM) format vector maps.
Added support for loading NITF data sets using JPEG2000 compression.
Added ability to add per-vertex elevations to features that don't already have them.
Made the vertex display dialog automatically highlight all vertices that are selected in the dialog on the map.
Made the Search by Attributes/Name dialog automatically highlight all of the result features that are selected on the map.
Added option when generating elevation grids from vector data to ignore zero elevation values.
Added automatic recognition of potentially iconized road names when editing road features. This allows you to do things like enter a road name of 'I-35' and have it automatically be recognized as an interstate highway iconized road name.
Added new option to the File menu of the rectification dialog to allow easily saving a world file that represents (if possible) the transformation defined by the currently provided control points.
Added option to the vector filter dialogs to save and restore a filter to a file.
Added yards and chains as available units of measure when using the Measure Tool.
Added built-in support for the MGA (Map Grid of Australia) projection.
Added built-in support for the Aratu and Camacupa datums.
Improved accuracy of OSGB36 datum conversions by using the OSTN02 tables.
Made Bonne projection work properly when the origin latitude is in the Southern Hemisphere.
Added support for decoding Albers Conic projections from Ozi .map files.
Added support for correcting the projection of multiple raster files at once (only if all of the raster files being corrected have the same projection to start with).
Fixed problem with displaying the equator grid line when using the Van der Grinten projection.
Fixed problems encoding and decoding Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area projection to/from GeoTIFF files.
Added option to the Shader Options tab of the Configuration dialog to reverse the color order of the selected shader (previously only the HSV shader was reversible).
Added support for reading the track style information written to GPX files by the ExpertGPS software application.
Added new right-click option to the Feature Info dialog to allowing easily zooming to the extents of the selected feature.
When an elevation legend is displayed, make selecting the View->Full View menu command zoom the map so that the elevation legend does not obscure any of the loaded data.
When editing existing elevation values on the custom shader dialog, edit the value in the selected elevation units rather than always in meters.
When digitizing new point features, display the distance from the last digitized point to the current cursor position in the status bar.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow drawing dots at line endpoint locations (this is a subset of the existing option to display all area and line vertices).
Fixed problem that prevented the description of the 'User Created Features' layer from being modified in some situations.
Fixed bug with enabling transparent colors for gridded elevation maps that made them disappear in some cases.
Added support for parsing coordinate values that use commas rather than periods for the decimal separator character.
Sped up exports to ECW and JPEG2000 files from map catalogs.
Fixed snapping to existing line and area feature boundaries when the data being snapped to is in a different projection than the current view projection.
Made the display label for selected area features be displayed if the option to only highlight the border of selected areas is selected.
Improved default elevation unit selection when loading multiple files so that it doesn't always default back to meters.
Fixed problem with some grid line labels being drawn at strange angles.
When drawing new line and area features with the Digitizer Tool, render the vertices if we are displaying the vertices for other line and area features.
Made the Feature Info dialog display the enclosed area in addition to the length in the Geometry field for closed line features.
Allowed band selection for NITF imagery with 3 or more bands of data.
Made the bit depth be displayed in the metadata list for MrSID and NITF imagery.
Added support for WMS servers using secure HTTP (i.e. https:// addresses).
Improved accuracy of area calculations when using the Mercator projection.
Added support for per-vertex elevations for area features from Shapefiles in all cases (previously only simple areas with no holes were supported).
Made the calculated error at each control point in a rectification be saved in a GCP file saved through the File menu on the rectification dialog. It will be the last column for each control point.
Improved great circle distance calculations by using the more accurate Vincenty algorithm.
Fixed remaining problems loading portions of some Erdas Imagine .img grid files with floating point samples.
Fixed problem with gap showing up between lines that end at the same location.
Added built-in point types for bank and restaurant.
Added built-in line type for invisible boundaries (such as those commonly found in Tiger/Line files).
Fixed rare problem with very long vector lines or large area features not printing correctly.
When loading KML/KMZ files, use the folder names from the files to automatically assign Global Mapper types if possible (i.e. if a matching type name exists).
Fixed problems loading some complex entities from DXF and DWG files.
Made default attribute lists be applied when changing the feature classification of multiple features at a time.
Corrected placement of image files positioned using world files with rotation.
What is new in version 9.02 (February 22, 2008)
Added support for exporting any loaded data into tiles for use in Microsoft Virtual Earth. In addition, an HTML file will also be created allowing immediate viewing of the maps. The menu option for creating the tiles is under the new File->Export to Web Formats menu.
Moved web mapping formats, like Google Maps, World Wind, etc., to a new File->Export to Web Formats menu from existing export menus.
Added Vertices button to the Feature Info dialog to allow displaying and editing the location and per-vertex elevations for line and area features and displaying per-vertex time stamps for line features.
Added ability to apply elevation values from loaded terrain data to point features using a right-click option in the Digitizer/Edit tool.
Added new right-click menu option in the Digitizer Tool to allow easily shifting (offsetting) selecting features by some distance.
Added ability to combine multiple attribute values into the display label for features on the vector layer options dialog available from the Overlay Control Center.
Added new external control interface to allow external applications to control the view of Global Mapper and also display point features on the map loaded in Global Mapper. See the Developers page at http://www.globalmapper.com for details.
Added option to the path profile/line of sight dialog to allow matching the elevation scale to the distance scale.
Added support for selecting multiple colors as transparent for palette-based raster files.
Added new Palette tab to Options dialog for raster layers with palettes to allow easy display and modification of the palette used for loaded raster layers.
Added support for loading PCI Geomatics RAW files with AUX headers.
Added support for loading German Topo map files in MPR/MPH format.
Added support for loading block polygon ASCII data files from the Minerals Management Service department of the US Department of Interior (DOI).
Added support for loading TMC Location Database files from (point.dat and poffset.dat files).
Added support for loading Lowrance USR v3 files with depth data.
Added support for automatic detection and loading of PLS-CADD XYZ files.
Made the dialog for drawing a box around the area to export be resizable and also allow zooming and panning the map.
Added support for having lines a fixed width in meters based on attribute values named WIDTH_M or LINE_WIDTH_METERS.
Made time stamps for each vertex in a GPS tracklog be saved if available when tracking a connected GPS device or when loading a tracklog from a GPX file.
Added new options to hide all offscreen layers and close all hidden layers to the right-click popup menu in the Overlay Control Center.
Added built-in support for the Belge 1972 (Belgian Lambert 1972) grid system, Laborde (Madagascar) projection, and Transverse Mercator (South-Orientated) projection.
Added built-in support for the NGO 1948 datum based on the Oslo prime meridian vs. Greenwich.
Added built-in support for the Tananarive 1925 datum based on the Paris prime meridian vs. Greenwich.
Added decoding support for some Polar Stereographic, Austrian Grid, and Norwegian grid EPSG projection codes.
Fixed Oblique Stereographic and Dutch Grid projections (they were broken in v9.00).
Fixed Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection to work properly with all datums. This fixes problems with the CORINE land cover data not lining up properly.
Fixed problems using New Zealand Map Grid with any datum other than NZGDA49.
Renamed some datums (i.e. ED50 and OSGB36) to make them shorter and reflect their more common usage.
Fixed problem loading new format (WKT) PRJ files with a datum using a meridian other than Greenwich (i.e. the NTF Paris datum).
Added support for decoding Vertical Near-Sided Perspective projections from OziExplorer .map files.
Fixed bug using the Aitoff-Wagner projection.
Added centifeet (hundredths of feet) as an elevation unit for export.
Made further improvements to triangulation and gridding to allow even larger data sets to be gridded.
When gridding 3D point data sets using the File->Open Generic ASCII Data File menu command, made the elevation specific options (like tightness threshold and grid spacing) appear on a separate dialog after selecting the ASCII options.
Added option to make specified export bounds be exactly maintained at the expense of the specified sample spacing (the reverse is the default) to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added new 'SPOT Natural Color' blend mode to combine the color channels in a layer using the common algorithm for generating natural color imagery from the SPOT HRV multi-spectral sensor.
Made the 'Copy to Clipboard' button on the Feature Info dialog copy the actual feature to the clipboard for pasting into Global Mapper in addition to copying the text attribution for the feature to the Windows clipboard for pasting in a text application.
Added new option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow auto-iconizing road feature names on import if they are recognizable icon names (like I-70, US63, etc.).
Made holding down the 'P' key when left clicking with the Feature Info tool only select area features (i.e. nearby lines and points will be ignored).
Made results on Search by Attributes dialog not include features in hidden layers or features with the types disabled for display.
Allowed splitting of selected area features at selected vertices with the Digitizer Tool when more than one feature is selected.
Fixed problems loading some projections from ECW and JPEG2000 files.
Added option to feathering to just crop to the specified feather boundary rather than actually feather-blending.
Added new Option menu command on the rectification dialog to allow displaying the transformation equations used for the specified control points.
Added new option to the Advanced Selection menu in the Digitizer Tool for easily selecting all of the island areas associated with a parent area and deselecting the parent.
Prompt for the type of 16-bit Erdas Imagine .img files (i.e. are they elevation data or imagery).
Improved loading of HATCH entities from DXF files.
Improved loading of text from MTEXT entities in DXF files.
Added option to Google Maps export to select the default Google Maps background layer that is displayed (i.e. street maps, imagery, or terrain).
Made the last searched address be remembered on the Find Data Online and Find Address dialogs.
Made point classification and intensity be available for Lidar points from Terrascan format files.
Made the Search by Name and Search by Attributes dialogs show a bullseye on the map when you double click on a search result.
Fixed bug with color intensity values not being used in some cases for some raster files.
Added option to the elevation grid generation dialog to allow the user to specify that they want the generated elevation grid to fill the entire bounding box of the input data rather than stopping at the convex hull of the data set. This should really only be used for data sets that very nearly fill the bounding box but have corners cut off or something.
Added support for reading raster layout information from .glcf data files.
Fixed problems loading portions of some Erdas Imagine .img grid files with floating point samples.
Added support for auto-detecting connected NMEA GPS devices running at 9600 baud (in addition to the standard 4800 baud).
Added support for getting positioning information for JPG files from JGC files.
Fixed problems loading CDF files where the pen goes up and down within a single string of coordinates.
Added new RP_RenderStarted and RP_RenderFinished functions to raster/elevation import plugin API to allow plugin DLLs to be notified of raster begin and end operations with the bounding box being rendered.
Significantly sped up the loading of line and area features with a lot of vertices from KML/KMZ files.
Fixed problems loading some new MicroDEM DEM format files.
Made elevation values from loaded terrain data be used when batch converting to Simple ASCII Text files and selecting to include elevation data.
Ignore duplicate point features in DXF BLOCK sections.
Slightly increased the precision reported for some measurements.
Added option to the right-click menu on the Overlay Control Center to allow disabling selection of vector features from a layer.
What is new in version 9.01 (November 30, 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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 support for automatically cropping the collar of Canadian topographic maps with CanMatrix XML metadata files.
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.
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.
Added support for loading ERS files with missing cell sizes. These are apparently defined as having a cell size of 1.0.
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.
Added support for loading Ozi .map files with grid coordinates in multiple UTM zones.
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 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 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.
What is new in version 9.00 (8/28/2007)
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
Made the area covered by the bounding box of a layer be reported as part of the metadata for that layer.
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.
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.
Fixed problems loading uncompressed CIB imagery.
Fixed problems with edited labels for Shapefile features not being saved to workspaces.
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.
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.
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.
Fixed error loading some RPF (i.e. CADRG/CIB) data sets.
Fixed file size error loading some Geosoft Grid files.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What is new in version 8.03 (4/28/2007)
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
Made online data display more responsive to canceling the render with the ESC key.
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.
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.
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.
Added support for loading new tab-delimited GNIS format files.
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 support for reading 8-bit palette and grayscale Intergraph COT format files.
Fixed half-pixel shift of GeoTIFF files that were forcefully positioned using a world file rather than embedded positioning information.
What is new in version 8.02 (3/11/2007)
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 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.
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 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.
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).
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Improved accuracy of distance calculations.
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.
What is 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 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.
Made features in Polish MP files that do not have data at level 0 still
be loaded.
Added support for loading the Z coordinates for 3D area features from most
3D shapefiles.
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.
Dramatically sped up the loading of map catalog files with lots of files
in different projections.
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.
Added support for decoding some additional NITF imagery formats, in
particular 2-band 16-bit per band imagery.
Added POSGAR94 (Argentina) datum.
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 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 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.
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.
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 version to title bar.
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).
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.
What is new in version 8.00 (8/30/2006)
Added support for loading Polish MP format files like those used by the
cGPSMapper application.
Added support for loading vector data from KML/KMZ format files.
Added support for loading NITF (National Imagery Transmission Format) format
imagery.
Added support for loading Geodas Grid (GRD98) format elevation files.
Added support for loading some Intergraph COT format files.
Added support for loading CDF (GES Cartographic Data Format) files.
Greatly improved the raster layer options by adding support for color balancing
(individual red, green, and blue adjustment), linear min/max contrast stretch,
setting transparency for multiple layers at a time, feather blending (see below)
and cropping to native bounds or by a given number of pixels.
Added feather blending support for raster layers to the Options available from
the Overlay Control Center. This is an extremely powerful feature that allows
smoothly blending raster layers with underlying layers. For example, you might
have high resolution imagery on top of lower resolution imagery. With feather
blending, you can smooth the sharp edge and make the transition at the border
seamless.
Added support for having labels be displayed at a fixed height in meters rather
than at the same size at each zoom level. This option is on the bottom of the
font selection dialog when either selecting a font for a classification on one
of the * Styles tabs on the Configuration dialog or when selecting a font for
a feature when editing it.
Added option to always display the label for a particular feature or
classification if labels are displayed. This option is on the bottom of the
font selection dialog when either selecting a font for a classification on one
of the * Styles tabs on the Configuration dialog or when selecting a font for
a feature when editing it.
Added an undo option when digitizing new features with the Digitizer Tool or
drawing new measurements with the Measure Tool. Simply press Ctrl+Z and the
last vertex added to the feature/measurement being drawn will be removed.
Changed the snapping behavior in the Digitizer Tool so that snapping is
disabled using the ALT key (rather than CTRL) and that snapping to vertices
only is enabled by holding down the 'V' key (rather than SHIFT).
When digitizing new features or moving existing feature or vertices using
the Digitizer Tool, made holding down the CTRL key make the new location be
snapped vertically, holding down the SHIFT key make the new location be snapped
horizontally, and holding down both the CTRL and SHIFT keys snap the location
diagonally.
Added a new advanced selection option popup menu to the right-click popup menu
for the Digitizer Tool when one or more area features is selected. This new menu
has options for selecting all point and area features within the selected area(s),
making it easy to select and edit features within a particular area.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to allow creating new line features from the
boundaries of selected area features.
When placing new range ring features with the Digitizer Tool, make the range
ring center snap to existing features just like line, area, and point features
do when drawing them. You can hold down Ctrl when placing the range ring to
disable snapping.
When adding areas as islands to existing features with the Digitizer Tool,
prompt the user for whether or not the original areas should be marked as
deleted. Previously the original areas were always marked as deleted, but
this is not always desired.
When rectifying imagery, made snapping to nearby vector data in the Reference
Map view be turned off by holding the Alt key when left clicking rather than
holding down the Ctrl key. This allows both snapping and zooming to a clicked
location to be done by holding down the Ctrl key.
When rectifying imagery, made left-clicking in the Zoomed Image and Reference
Image views drop a small red dot to visually indicate the click location.
In the image rectification dialog, made holding down the Ctrl key
increase the pan size to a half screen when panning with the edge arrow on
any of the map views.
Added support for the Bipolar Oblique Conic Western Hemisphere, Times, Old
Israeli Grid, and New Israeli Grid projections.
Added Corrego Alegra, NID (New Israeli Datum), OID (Old Israeli Datum) and
QND95 (Qatar) as built-in datums.
Added Clarke 1880 (Palestine), Clarke 1880 (RGS) and Sphere Radius 6371000 m
as built-in ellipsoids available for use with custom datums.
Fixed problems using and saving the Quebec MTM projection for which support
was added in the last release.
Made the names of state-plane zones listed on the projection selection dialog
include the FIPS zone number of the zone.
Allowed the use of the NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums with State Plane projections.
Fixed problems decoding the Lambert France projections from old format PRJ
files and workspaces.
Increased accuracy of OSGB36 datum conversions.
Made central meridian scale factor for Lambert Conformal Conic projections
only be used in the 1SP (both first and second standard parallels the same)
case since it can only be unity (1.0) in the 2SP case.
Fixed decoding of UTM zones in the Southern hemisphere from some new format
PRJ files.
Fixed Transverse Mercator projections when used with datums based on perfect
spheres (these would only have been custom datums based on a spherical ellipsoid).
Added option to custom shader dialog to allow initialization of a custom shader
from a Surfer CLR shader palette file.
When saving a workspace with any gridded elevation data loaded, made the
current shader and other vertical display settings be written to the workspace
so that the view will be the same when the data is reloaded.
Added new advanced options list to the General tab of the Configuration dialog
to allow selecting advanced options like treating DXF INSERT entities as points,
automatically adding custom types for DXF layers, exporting old format PRJ files,
preferring world file coordinates over embedded coordinates for GeoTIFF files,
and prompting for whether or not 16-bit BIL data is imagery or elevation data.
Fixed reading of Shapefiles with PolygonZ and PolygonM shape types which don't
have Z or M values for all features.
Allowed specification of the default elevation units to use for vector data
with elevations from the Options button of the Overlay Control Center. This
elevation units value will be used for any elevation values associated with
vector features in that layer that do not explicitly contain a unit identifier
(i.e. "ft" or "m").
When saving/updating feature measure information for polygon features that
have islands/holes, include the area of the island features as a separate
ISLAND_AREA attribute. Also subtract the area of those islands away from the
total polygon area stored in the ENCLOSED_AREA attribute to give a true
representation of the actual area covered by the polygon.
Greatly improved the load speed and reduced the memory requirements for most
BMP format files.
Improved auto-assignment of type names based on feature descriptions when
loading DXF files to handle type names with spaces or underscores in them.
Fixed error when saving a workspace file containing a map catalog with
auto-collar cropping enabled.
Fixed problems decoding NMEA GPS streams where the only valid sentence is
the $GPRMC sentence.
Fixed problem with the label background for labels set to display with filled
backgrounds being white rather than the current view background color in some
instances when raster or gridded elevation data is also being displayed.
Made the size of the vector search dialog be remembered between runs.
Allowed ECW and MrSID files without embedded positioning information to use
positioning information from additional sources, like world files.
Replace underscores with spaces in waypoint names loaded from CompeGPS
format files.
Made symbols for waypoints from CompeGPS files be automatically set if the
symbol name for the waypoint matches a Global Mapper symbol name.
Fixed restoring of default drawing styles for area and line features from
the tabs of the Configuration dialog. This has been broken since the v6.08 release.
Added support for reading coordinates from world files where the coordinates
are separated with tabs rather than being on separate lines.
Made the list of layers in the Overlay Control Center be scrollable with the
mouse wheel.
Corrected image registration via CompeGPS IMP files with control points in
multiple UTM zones or in a UTM zone in the Southern hemisphere.
Improved decoding of CompeGPS IMP files using Lambert Conformal Conic projections.
Sped up the import of large DTED files.
Made symbol and type lookups by name work properly for types and symbols
with accented characters.
Don't allow multiple custom shaders with the same name to be used.
Fixed loading of Arc ASCII Grid files with lines over 256 KB in length
(up to a max of 2MB per line).
Fixed bug with display of raster layers texture mapped over loaded elevation
layers that do not use the shared default shader.
Fixed bug in the encoding of area features in DLG-O files and allowed correct
reading of incorrectly encoded DLG-O files with area features.
Fixed display of tiled 16-bit grayscale TIFF imagery.
Fixed recording of GPS tracklog when attached GPS device always reports an
elevation of 0.
Fixed auto-contrast adjustment for some large images with 16 bits per color
channel.
Made rotation values from BLW files used to position BIL files be used.
Added option to Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow hiding
any extra text displayed below road icons, like alternate names for the road.
Added option to the General tab of the Configuration dialog to control whether
or not grid lines should extend beyond the edge of loaded data.
Added support for 16-bit per color channel separated (Geo)TIFF files with
more than 3 bands of data.
Improved rendering of some lat/lon data that crosses the anti-meridian
(180 E/W), such as range rings.
Added option to the Measure Tool to have measured lines and areas be drawn
along great circles rather than on straight lines (all measurements are always
along great circles).
Fixed rare problem with min and max values being treated as invalid from some
Surfer Grid files.
Made national wilderness and wildlife areas in 100K SDTS DLG files be detected
and automatically classified as "National Park (Other)".
Improved positioning of imagery using Ozi .map files that reference the Swiss
Grid projection.
Corrected positioning of imagery using Ozi .map files that specify a "map scale
factor" (MSF) value other than 1.
Added support for reading text from MTEXT entities in DXF files.
Made link elements in GPX files be saved as attributes in the created features.
Fixed very rare lockup when creating an elevation grid from 3D vector point
features or during ASCII file import.
Added Gridding tab when generating contours to allow breaking up the contour
generation into multiple smaller pieces.
What is new in version 7.04 (5/5/2006)
Fixed problem on some systems that would cause the application to disappear
or crash when attempting to select a new file for loading or saving. This
problem occurred on Windows XP SP2 systems which also had Adobe Acrobat
Reader v7 installed. Apparently the installation of Acrobat Reader changed
some built-in Windows behavior in a way that broke Global Mapper (and several
other applications).
Made tag values be read in from DGN files and stored as attributes.
Made point features stored as 0-dimensional lines in DGN v7 files load correctly.
When exporting DGN files, made the level number used for exported features
that originally came from a DGN file be maintained.
Added support for loading Japanese DEM (JDEM) .mem files.
Added support for loading SEGP1 seismic shotpoint format data files.
Added support for loading CompeGPS RTE, TRK, and WPT format files.
When loading Shapefile, MapInfo, and DXF format files, use the layer
name/attributes to try and auto-classify features.
Added built-in support for the Quebec MTM projection.
Added support for western hemisphere zones when using the Gauss Krueger
6-degree zone projection.
Added built-in support for the LUREF (Luxembourg) datum.
Improved accuracy of the Dutch Grid projection and the Dutch (RD) datum.
Made the "Path Details" dialog for a 3D path profile display the along-ground
distance (i.e. distance with elevation changes taken into account) as well
as the minimum and maximum elevation values along the path.
Added support for loading USRP data sets (ASRP data with UTM coordinates).
Made all appropriate border pixels be marked as transparent in ADRG, ASRP,
and USRP data sets.
Added button to the custom shader edit dialog allowing the elevation value
for an existing elevation/color range be changed.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool when multiple point features are selected
to identify any point features that are within a user-specified distance of
other selected point features. This is helpful for finding duplicate points.
Display the height of any gridded elevation data in the status bar as you
move the cursor around, even if the cursor is near vector data (the height
will be appended to the nearest vector feature description).
When placing new point/text features or moving a single point/text feature
with the Digitizer Tool, make the point snap to existing features just like
line and area features do when drawing them. You can hold down Ctrl when
placing the point to disable snapping.
Made CSV files created by the Lowrance SonarViewer software be automatically
detected and loaded rather than prompting the user for input parameters.
Allowed DTED files with invalid column numbers in the data record to be loaded.
Added support for loading Geosoft Grid files with right-handed vector
orientation.
Added automatic detection of world files that have an extra .txt appended
to the filename.
Improved loading of ATTRIB values from DXF values.
Fixed loading of 3D LINE entities from DXF files where the start and end
points had different elevations.
Made 3DFACE entities be loaded from DXF files.
Allowed "Crop to Selected Area Feature" option to be used when generating contours.
Added option when generating contours to control whether or not unit
indicator suffixes should be appended to labels for the generated contour
features.
Added Sphere Radius 6371204 m as an available ellipsoid for adding custom datums.
Fixed incorrect loading of some MSI Planet format height files (they would
appear garbled).
Fixed errors loading some GPX files with extremely long text strings in them.
Fixed problem with missing lat/lon grid lines in some projections where the
lat/lon grid is not valid over the entire data bounding box.
Fixed automatic removal of collars for files with very curved lat/lon
boundaries, such as the Antarctica DRGs.
Fixed loading of attributes from MIF/MID files when one of the attribute
names starts with "Index".
Improved rectification based on an OziExplorer .map file when that .map
file has a UTM grid and each control point has both lat/long and grid
coordinates or the .map file has control points that are marked as excluded.
When loading LIDAR LAS data, save the class of each sample point as an
attribute.
Don't display POLYLINE entities from DXF files that are marked as 3D
polygon meshes or polyface meshes.
When loading generic ASCII files with quoted fields, make sure the quoted
fields are properly treated as a single field and that the quotes are removed
for all fields. Also treat back-to-back double quotes as a single quote mark
in the text that doesn't act as a field delimeter.
When loading generic ASCII text files and using column names from the first
line of the file as attribute names, don't include attributes from
non-coordinates lines.
Fixed some printing issues and improved printing performance when printing
to large paper sizes.
Added a registry key to allow specifying that positioning information from
TIFF world files, if available, should be preferred over the positioning
data stored within TIFF file headers. If you create a
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\TIFFPreferTFW DWORD value with the
value set to 1, then the world file positions will be preferred.
Added support for reading and writing oblique stereographic projections
from/to GeoTIFF files.
Added support for reading and writing Gauss Krueger (6-degree zones)
projections using the Pulkovo 1942 datum from/to GeoTIFF files.
Added support for reading and writing the Potsdam/DHDN datum from/to
GeoTIFF files as well as Gauss Krueger Germany (3 degree zones) projections
with that datum.
Added checkbox to the ASCII import file to allow using the same configuration
for all files during that load or batch convert operation.
Allowed positioning data from Ozi .map and CompeGPS .imp files to be used
to position ECW files that do not contain embedded positioning information.
Corrected positioning of some non-WGS84 MapTech maps. In some cases the
wrong datum would be used. Now if there is any doubt the user is prompted
to select the correct projection.
Made user-defined projections be automatically decoded from MrSID files.
Made French Lambert projections be decoded and encoded from/to ECW files
automatically.
Improved positioning of NOS/GEO format charts by positioning them using
the specified native chart projection if recognized.
Fixed errors loading text from some single-precision E00 files.
Dramatically sped up the calculation of auto-contrast statistics for
large MrSID files.
When loading MapInfo MIF/MID format files, don't set any numeric fields
to have a value of 0 when their value is actually empty.
Fixed bug from v7.03 release that could cause discontinuities in rectified
imagery that used the triangulated rectification method.
When displaying feature information for polygon features that have
islands/holes, include the area of the island features as a separate item
in the Geometry section of the Feature Info dialog. Also subtract the area
of those islands away from the total polygon area to give a true
representation of the actual area covered by the polygon.
Sped up contour generation when the elevation data being used comes from a
map catalog or Global Mapper Grid files.
Added support for specifying a scale factor for Lambert Conformal Conic
and Stereographic projections.
Added option to do case-sensitive searches with the Search->Search by
Attributes menu command.
Fixed orientation of GPS heading arrow when the display projection is one
in which north is not necessarily straight up.
Reduced memory usage for E00 files with lots of attribute values.
Fixed calculation of PERIMETER and ENCLOSED_AREA values for some range
rings that had incorrect values stored.
Fixed decoding of UTM zone 60 projections from NASA LandSat .met files.
When rectifying data with vector data displayed in the Reference pane,
made clicking near a vector feature automatically "snap" to that feature
to assure exact matches.
Fixed rare problems loading some portions of Arc Binary Grid format files
(technically, some 32-bit RLE encoded tiles with very large values were
incorrectly decoded).
Made tracking of Garmin USB GPS devices work for newer devices, like the
SP2720, that send some extra information when first connected.
What is new in version 7.03 (2/14/2006)
Added support for loading DGN v8 and later format files.
Added support for loading MapTech format files, including encrypted BSB
files and other MapTech topographic maps and aerial navigation maps.
Added support for loading Idrisi format raster and elevation files.
Significantly improved the display of raster and gridded elevation data at
intermediate zoom levels by always anti-aliasing the display when not zoomed
into the pixel level of the data and not zoomed out so far that it doesn't
matter much. There will be a slight performance hit for this, but the
improvement in display quality seems worth it.
Made pressing the ESC key during a draw abort the draw as soon as possible.
Improved accuracy of the NAD27 (Canada), AGD66, AGD84, and NZGD49 datums by
using the NTv2 grid shift method for sub-meter datum transformation accuracy.
Added generic NAD27 datum that will automatically use the most accurate local
datum conversion based on the location being converted.
Added support for the Miller Oblated Stereographic projection.
Allowed use of the NZGD2000 datum with the New Zealand Map Grid projection.
Made additional datum codes, like those for the NTF datums, be recognized for
GeoTIFF files.
Made ETRS89 datum be recognized in additional spellings from PRJ files.
Corrected small error when transforming the Rome 1940 datum to other datums.
format files.
Added Clarke 1880 (Benoit) as an available ellipsoid for adding custom datums.
Improved loading of DXF files that have features in the BLOCKS section of the file.
Made the path profile/line of sight dialog maintain its size between showings,
preventing the user from having to continually resize it to get the size they
want for different path profiles.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow
an arrow to be drawn along line features in the direction that they travel.
Made custom symbols from .ico files draw in their actual size instead of
always using the default system size of 32x32.
Added new built-in point symbol, "Dot - Yellow".
Fixed problems loading some GPS TrackMaker files that have no waypoints in them.
Made degree symbols display correctly on Asian versions of Windows that
weren't fixed in the earlier update.
Fixed problems with render progress on status bar not working properly with
map catalog files.
Fixed problems with some maps that result in multiple layers, like ADRG files,
in map catalogs.
Allowed custom per-layer shaders to work properly with map catalogs containing
elevation data.
Fixed problems with some iso-height area contours not being generated in some
rare cases when generating contours.
Fixed problems with elevation shading and display of the elevation legend when
negative scaling factors are used on the Alter Elevations dialog.
Corrected half-pixel offset in placement of MrSID files with embedded
coordinate information.
Allowed confirmation prompt when closing loaded overlays from the Overlay
Control Center to be disabled so that it won't be shown again.
Fixed out of memory errors when zoomed in really far on some MrSID files.
Fixed loading of E00 files with empty annotations.
Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that use $EC* sentences rather
than $GP* sentences.
Fixed determination of State Plane projection from Erdas Imagine .img files
that use a negative zone number in the header.
Added right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow selecting
all search results.
Made files opened by dragging them onto Global Mapper be added to the list of
recently used files under the File menu.
When dragging multiple files onto Global Mapper to load them, make the
"Use Selected Projection for All" checkbox option work if the user is asked
for a projection.
Added a registry key to allow overriding where temporary files, like extracted
archive contents and downloaded TerraServer tiles, are stored. If you create a
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\TempDir string value with the folder
that you want the temporary files to be based in, that folder will be used
the next time that you run Global Mapper.
Added option to save the elevation legend in the main view to a BMP file by
right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate option.
Added option to control whether or not unit labels (e.g. "m" or "ft") are
displayed on the elevation legend. This setting can be changed by right-clicking
on it and selecting the appropriate option.
Fixed problem with grid line labels being cropped at the bottom when footer
strings were used during printing.
Made new Explorer-style dialogs be used for all file selection.
Fixed crash when displaying metadata for map catalogs that contain elevation layers.
Fixed errors loading some tiled TIFF files with separated color channels.
Made dot symbols look better when printed.
When creating area features from selected line features with the Digitizer Tool,
only prompt for name, attribute, and style information once, then use that
information for all remaining areas created from the selected lines if no other
information is available from the lines making up the area.
Made the count of selected features appear in the status bar when the Digitizer
Tool is active and you are not actively working with the selected features.
Corrected decoding of New Zealand Map Grid projections from ECW files. They were
being decoded as a closely-approximated Transverse Mercator projection.
Fixed loading of some ASRP-format data files.
Fixed errors loading DLG-O files with area features and non-contiguous element
IDs for lines (these are very rare).
Fixed problem when doing multiple line connection operations from the Search
by Attributes dialog that would result in extra long lines (they would loop
over themselves) after the first line connection operation.
Made "Longitude of Pole" attributes for Polar Stereographic projections be
saved and read from PRJ files.
Added support for a BOTTOM_UP parameter in BIL file headers to specify that
the data starts at the lower-left rather than the top-left. Just add a line
with the text "BOTTOM_UP Y" to the .hdr file to flip the data vertically.
Fixed problem with point features getting the wrong attributes from some E00 files.
What is new in version 7.02 (12/1/2005)
Added option on Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow
more control over the order that vector features are drawn in. You can
now select to have the layer order in the Overlay Control Center take
top priority for vector data, allowing vector layers to be drawn under
raster layers and also allowing explicit forcing of vector layer draw order.
Added support for searching on address in the US under the Search menu.
Added option to download TerraServer data near an address.
Made transparency and translucency in PNG files be used.
Improved ease of digitizing lots of area, line, and point features by making
the Digitizer Tool stay in the creation mode after creating a feature rather
than forcing you to re-select the feature type to create each time. You
still just need to right-click to cancel the current operation.
Added display of the number of points digitized so far when drawing a new
line or area feature with the Digitizer Tool.
Added option to reverse the order of the vertices in selected line features
using the Digitizer Tool.
Added option to find unconnected endpoints in selected lines with the
Digitizer Tool. This provides an easy method of identifying connectivity
problems in loaded data.
Fixed creation of duplicate attributes when editing multiple features at a
time with the Digitizer Tool and adding a new attribute which already exists
in some of the features being edited.
Added option to measure cut-and-fill volumes to the right-click menu when a
single line or area feature is selected in the Digitizer Tool.
Vastly improved accuracy of RT90 (Sweden) datum transformations.
Added Indonesia 1974 and Bukit Rimpah datums.
Added support for using the French angular unit "grades" with the Geographic
projection.
Fixed rare problems projecting between a State Plane projection and a Lambert
Conformal Conic projection.
Fixed loading of Erdas Imagine .img files with embedded projection information.
This was broken in the v7.01 release.
Added support for loading and saving Southern Transverse Mercator projections
in ECW files.
Added support for using projection and positioning information from .TAB files
for ECW files.
Added support for decoding New Zealand Map Grid projections from .TAB files.
Do not allow modifying the Origin Latitude for Mercator projections since it
is not used (the latitude origin is always the equator for Mercator).
Made projection information from supplemental files (like .prj files) be
used if available for GeoTIFF files that do not contain projection
information internally rather than always asking the user to select the
projection in that case.
Added GRS 1967 (Indonesia 1974), Sphere Radius 6378388 Meters, and War
Office (McCaw 1924) as available ellipsoids for adding custom datums.
Fixed name of the "Everest 1830" ellipsoid in the custom datum dialog. It was
being incorrectly listed as "Everest 1930".
Made Ctrl+Right Click in the Zoom Tool restore the last zoom scale.
Made the name of the map that a vector feature is in always be displayed in
the Feature Info dialog for the feature.
Added button on the General tab of the Configuration dialog to allow
restoring all settings to their default values.
Added support for tracking GPS devices on COM ports up to COM64 (previously
the highest support serial port was COM16).
Made the COM port and baud rate settings for serial GPS devices be properly
remembered between sessions.
Added shortcut key (Ctrl+T) for starting and stopping the tracking of a
connected GPS device.
Added support for using new font attributes when reading generic ASCII
text files. See the User's Manual section for that menu command for details
on the new supported attributes.
Added ability to combine line features in the Search by Attributes dialog.
Just select the lines to combine, then right click on them in the list and
select the combine option that appears.
Fixed errors loading label points from some .e00 files.
Added support for rectifying ECW and JPG2000 files.
Added support for loading TAB-referenced raster files which do not have
the same base name as the TAB file. You must select the TAB file to load
for this to work.
If a color palette is specified in a TIFF header for files with a
grayscale photometric interpretation, use the color palette rather than
creating a grayscale one. Apparently some products, like ArcGIS, will
create TIFF files in this way for some reason.
Made TEXT feature labels from MIF/MID files be read in and used.
Fixed loading of attributes from some DBF files that had padding bytes
after the DBF header.
Added support for decoding DMS lat/lon values which use a hyphen as the
separator.
Fixed really slow drawing of some rotated BSB files.
Fixed vertical flip of NTF-format grid files.
Added Landsat True Color links from resmap.com to the File->Open ECW File
from the Web menu dialog.
Added support for reading in 3D DXF line features and saving the separate
elevations for each vertex rather than using the elevation of the first
vertex for the entire line.
Added ability to create regularly spaced tiles of elevation grids from 3D
vector data when right-clicking on vector layers in the Overlay Control
Center and selecting the option to create an elevation grid from the data.
This makes it easier to deal with very large data sets that cannot be
gridded all at once without running out of memory.
Added support for Global Mapper Package files larger than 2GB in size.
What is new in version 7.01 (10/11/2005)
Made the middle mouse button drag the map in all of the tools and not just
the Zoom tool.
Added option to use an elevation shader other than the shared elevation
shader selected on the toolbar for rendering an elevation layer. This
option is available from the Options button in the Overlay Control Center.
Added and/or improved metadata display from the Overlay Control Center for
most file types. The improved metadata display allows copying the metadata
to the clipboard and easy viewing of projection information.
Added support for the NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums.
Improved accuracy of NAD27 Alaska, Old Hawaiian Mean, and Puerto Rico datums
by adding support for using the NADCON datum conversion methods for those datums.
Improved accuracy of NTF France datums by adding support for using variable
grid shifts depending on the location within France.
Added support for creating custom datums that use the 7-parameter Bursa-Wolfe
datum transformation method (previously only the 3-parameter Molodensky method
was supported).
Added built-in support for the Irish Grid projection.
Added support for yards as a linear unit.
Added support for millimeters as an elevation unit.
Corrected detection of UTM zones in the Southern Hemisphere from old-format
ESRI PRJ files.
Improved decoding of some projections from OziExplorer .map files.
Added support for loading NTF-format grid files, such as those used for
elevation data in Great Britain.
Added support for loading some FAST format imagery files, such as those used
for L7A Landsat data in some parts of the world.
Made holding the X and Y keys when moving vertices or features with the
Digitizer Tool, clamp the move horizontally or vertically.
When creating new line or area features with the Digitizer Tool, the length
and enclosed area (if applicable) will be displayed in the status bar as
the new feature is drawn.
When moving or joining vertices of line or area features with the Digitizer
Tool, the length and enclosed area (if applicable) will be displayed in the
status bar as the vertices are moved.
When creating a new line feature from a measurement in the Measure Tool, set
the length of the measurement to also be the default display label.
When displaying length and other measurement strings, such as with the Measure
Tool, remove any trailing zeroes from the length to make it more compact.
Added new hotkeys to the image rectification dialog. Now Alt+R will act like
pressing the "Update Selected GCP" button, Alt+Q will move the GCP list
selection up, and Alt+Z will move the GCP list selection down.
Improved the crosshair cursor used in the Zoomed and Reference views of the
Image Rectification dialog.
Improved the symbols used in the image rectification dialog for displaying
ground control points to make it easier to see the data behind the control
point.
Corrected placement of Erdas Imagine .img files with a UTM projection in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Added support for getting projection information for MrSID files from .aux files.
Added support for loading JPG files directly from .zip and .tar.gz archives.
Fixed loading of some Raster Product Format (RPF) data, like CADRG/CIB data,
that had odd security descriptor values in the frame files.
Display a progress dialog when printing to show the progress of generating
the high-resolution image to send to the printer.
Made zooming the main map view with the mouse wheel only zoom half as far as
the zoom buttons on the toolbar.
Made the feature type lists on the Generic ASCII Import dialog be sorted
alphabetically.
If the datum can not be determined from a GeoTIFF file, ask the user to
confirm it if we can't determine the datum from some other source rather
than just assuming the datum is WGS84.
Made auto-collar cropping work correctly for 1:63K scale Alaska DRGs.
Improved dialog that appears when TerraServer connections fail.
Improved display of elevation lines in the path profile dialog when the
elevation range is small.
Fixed problems with the wrong font being displayed when editing custom area,
line, and point types from the Configuration dialog.
Corrected datum used for VPF (e.g. VMAP, DNC) data. NAD83 was being used when
it should have been WGS84. There was no position error however as those datums
are the same positionally.
Fixed problem with the zoom scale changing after a print preview.
Fixed problem with grid lines not being saved to raster files or printed if
no other vector data is loaded.
Allowed correct loading of elevation TIFF files that don't correctly specify
their min/max elevation range.
Added option to clamp values outside the valid elevation range to the
specified elevation range when modifying the valid elevation range of a
layer from the Options button in the Overlay Control Center.
Added support for loading large TIFF files with YCBCR-encoding (usually
JPEG-in-TIFF files).
When loading ECW and JPEG2000 files with apparently flipped Y coordinates,
made it optional to flip the image vertically since it some cases that is
not correct.
Added new red and yellow diagonal crosshair symbols.
Made features from Tiger/Line files include the CFCC (census feature
class code) as an attribute of the feature if available.
Improved generation of range rings to always use a great-circle distance
method if possible, even if the current projection is not Geographic.
Added support for automatically positioning imagery using ASTER browse
.meta files.
What is new in version 7.00 (8/4/2005)
Added support for tracking real-time GPS locations from Garmin USB GPS devices.
Added option under the Search menu to allow searching loaded vector data on
the name, description, or attribute values. The searching allows both text
and numeric comparisons in the search criteria. Features can be edited and
deleted directly from the search results.
Made the bearing from the start to the end of line features be added when
creating new lines using either the Measure tool or the Digitizer tool.
Added ability to easily create rectangular, square, circular, elliptical,
circular arc, and elliptical arc area and line feature using the Digitizer
Tool. There are additional items on the right click popup menu for drawing
these shapes.
Added option to create concentric range rings (i.e. circles of a given
radius) on the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.
Added an option when editing vector features with the D
