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Support What's New in Global Mapper Version 6.00 (7/28/2004) Added support for true 3D viewing. When you have elevation data loaded, just press the 3D button on the toolbar to get a 3D perspective view of the current view, including any loaded raster and vector data. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading TerraServer satellite imagery and topo maps directly into Global Mapper. Simply use the new File menu command to load any portion of the TerraServer data for viewing. This data is fully functional and can be exported to new files as well. This function basically gives you access to the complete USGS DRG and DOQ archives as well as the new high resolution imagery for select urban areas for free from within Global Mapper. Improved the batch conversion functionality to support almost any import format to any compatible export format. You can now also configure the sample spacing to use when converting to a raster or elevation format. The default is still to use the sample spacing of the source data. (Registered Version Only) Added support for exporting data to ECW format files. The maximum size of the uncompressed data that is to make up the ECW file is limited to 500 MB. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading CADRG and CIB format data. Added support for loading VPF format data such as the VMAP0 and VMAP1 data sets available from http://geoengine.nima.mil/ and the Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) data sets available from http://www.nga.mil/portal/site/dnc/. Added support for loading S-57 marine chart files such as the NOAA charts available for free from http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm. Added support for loading JPEG2000 (.jp2 and .j2k) format files. Added support for loading Erdas GIS format files. Added support for loading ERMapper grid files (.ers). Added support for loading GIF format files. Added support for loading the NOS/GEO chart format. Added support for loading Garmin PCX5 format waypoint (WPT) and track (TRK) files. Added support for loading OziExplorer format waypoint (WPT) and track (PLT) files. Added support for exporting loaded vector and elevation data to PLS CADD format files. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading the ZMap Plus format grid files used by Geographix products such as IsoMap. Added support for exporting loaded elevation data to ZMap Plus format grid files. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading MicroDEM format 2 DEM files (created with MicroDEM v8 and above). Added support for customizing the grid line spacing when displaying lat/lon grids or grids in the global projection sytem. Added support for loading CIRCLE entities from DXF files. Added additional info to the path profile info display and made the tilt angle use the line of sight heights if available. Added option to the custom shader dialog to specify whether or not to blend colors between elevation values Added button to the custom shader dialog to allow initialization of the elevation/color ranges from those used by the Global Shader. Added option to export gridded elevation data to Surfer v7 binary grid files (previously only Surfer v6 binary grid files could be created). (Registered Version Only) Added COORD_OFFSET and COORD_SCALE parameters to Simple ASCII export from the EXPORT_VECTOR script command to allow custom modification of the coordinates being exported (this is useful for changing elevation units, etc). (Registered Version Only) Added support for providing a coordinate scale and offset when exporting to SVG format. This allows users to export SVG files that work with software (like Adobe Illustrator) that has problems with very large coordinates, like UTM coordinates. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problems displaying some TIFF imagery with separate color channels, such as the multi-spectral Quickbird imagery from DigitalGlobe. Made coordinates in exported STL files be stored in counter-clockwise order and also include a surface normal. (Registered Version Only) Improved accuracy of NAD27 CONUS datum conversions to well under a meter by using the NADCON datum conversion method rather than the multiple-regression equation (errors up to 2 meters) used in previous releases. Added menu option for loading ground control points and projection information from OziExplorer .map files in the image rectification dialog. Added support for exporting an elevation GeoTIFF file with 32-bit floating point samples rather than 16-bit integer samples. (Registered Version Only) Disabled display of warning messages when loading (Geo)TIFF files if the warnings don't have any negative consequences. Corrected the Stereo70 projection for Romania. It was off by about 1 degree in latitude. Added support for loading ERMapper grid files (.ers). Fixed printing to scale when using the Geographic projection. (Registered Version Only) Improved classification of city features from NIMA GNS files. Added support for the Vertical Near-Side Perspective projection. Added support for the Ain El Abd (Bahrain), Ain El Abd (Saudi Arabia), Carthage, Luzon (Philippines), and Merchich (Morocco) datums. Added support for dash and dot line styles have a width greater than 1 pixel. Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that do not provide fix quality information messages. Corrected handling of International Feet and US Feet units when reading and writing GeoTIFF files. Fixed problems viewing ECW files which are oriented in a bottom-up rather than a top-down manner. Fixed problem calculating the top right corner of Surfer7 binary grid files which caused the top right corner to be slightly too far up and to the right. Corrected one half grid cell shift up and to the right of imported SRTM HGT files. Fixed error when exporting point features to a vector file using the EXPORT_VECTOR command in a Global Mapper script file passed on the command line. (Registered Version Only) Made HSV shader parameters be saved to the registry. Made a default.prj file in the same directory as a file with an unknown projection being loaded be used for the projection of the file. This is useful to specify the source projection/datum of all of the files in a folder. Added support for using a color palette in a .clr file for BIL/BIP/BSQ 8-bit imagery. The .clr file just needs to have the same base name as the image file to be used (i.e. image.clr for image.bil). Greatly increased the speed of exporting from ECW files to new imagery files. (Registered Version Only) Made users be prompted to select the projection for USGS DEM files that do not contain complete projection information rather than just failing to load the file. Fixed problems exporting to USGS DEM and DLG formats with projections who have projection parameters west of -10 degrees longitude or east of +100 degrees longitude. Note this does not affect the UTM, State Plane, or Geographic projection typically used with these file types. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem that prevented users from printing to a printer after they had printed to a file. (Registered Version Only) Made the color attribute for closed DXF polygons be applied as a border color. Made area features with elevations be considered when creating elevation grids from loaded vector data from the Overlay Control Center. Changed "Allow Overlapping Labels" option on the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog to "Always Display All Labels" and modified the behavior to reflect that change. Previously, duplicate labels near each other on the screen could still be hidden even if the option was checked. No longer export the optional Bounds field to MIF files since that limits what MapInfo will display if other files are loaded. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 5.10 (4/18/2004)
Added support for loading JPEG-in-TIFF files. Fixed bug introduced in v5.09 that prevented the Line Type used for features in Shapefiles from being changed. Added option to raster format exports (i.e. BIL, GeoTIFF, JPG) to allow the user to select whether or not they want loaded vector data to be included in the exported image. By default, loaded vector data will NOT be exported (this is the opposite of the setting introduced in v5.09). (Registered Version Only) Added support for correctly positioning DXF files with features that use a extrusion vector to describe a rotation for the object. Added additional right click option in the path profile/line of sight display dialog to show additional information about the path, such as the vertical distance, horizontal distance, bearing, and tilt angle. Fixed bug when using linear image rectification (i.e. rectification using only two points) that prevented imagery from being flipped horizontally or vertically when necessary. (Registered Version Only) Fixed occasional access violation error when using improperly defined projections. Fixed crash with message 'PropPageVectorTypeOptions.cpp - 74' when trying to re-interpret the projection for a vector layer that does not display the Feature Types tab for vector options (i.e. DLGs, GNIS, LULC, Tiger). This bug was introduced in v5.09. Made the palette index of colors in the transparent color selection dialog be displayed in addition to the actual color value. What's New in Version 5.09 (4/8/2004)
Added GPS tracking support! You can now track your position using a GPS device connected over the serial port that communicates in NMEA-0183 v2.x or Garmin binary format. You can mark waypoints at your current location and record a tracklog of where you have been. Added support for loading Arc/Info Binary Vector Coverages (i.e. arc.adf files). Made loaded vector data be saved to GeoTIFF, JPG, and BIL/BIP/BSQ files exported from the Export Raster and Elevation Data menu. In addition, options were also added to allow saving the scale, elevation legend, and grid lines if desired. (Registered Version Only) Added options to change the default area, line, and point type used for many of the vector formats in Global Mapper, such as DGN, DXF, E00, and MapInfo files. To change the classifications, use the Options button in the Overlay Control Center. Made loaded vector data be saved to files generated using the EXPORT_RASTER script command if possible. (Registered Version Only) Added prompt to the projection selection dialog when batch converting multiple files that allows users to specify that they want to use the selected projection/datum for all files that they selected to convert that do not already have projection information. (Registered Version Only) Added display of segment/polyline bearing when measuring using the Measure Tool. Improved handling of auto-contrast adjustment when transparency is being applied at the same time. Corrected the Old Hawaiian Mean datum transformation. It had been using the transformation specific to the big island of Hawaii rather than the mean values. Added option to remember the projection last used when rectifying imagery. The projection is remembered within a single session of Global Mapper. Corrected generation of an image-optimized palette in GeoTIFF imagery for 8-bit per pixel source imagery that has been auto-contrast adjusted, has a blend mode active, or is being texture mapped over elevation data. (Registered Version Only) Added support for auto-detecting whether floating point or integer samples are present in 4-byte per sample grid files (i.e. BIL) for which the header doesn't specify what the data type is. Made the current slope be displayed in the status bar in addition to the elevation when using the Slope Shader. Fixed bug in the Generic ASCII import that caused the "Comma" and "Space or Tab" delimiter options to be reversed. Fixed strange line drawing with polygon borders set to use the striped or railroad styles when zoomed out on those features. Fixed errors saving workspaces in which a hole in an area has been modified by the parent area has not or the drawing style of an area with islands has been customized. Fixed crash when dragging a workspace file onto the Global Mapper icon to launch Global Mapper and run the workspace. This was introduced in v5.08. (Registered Version Only) Improved auto-detection of delimiters in ASCII files. Added new built-in point type classification and symbol for mines. Added support for TIFF world files with TIFW and TIFFW extensions. Fixed PNGOverlay.cpp - 862 error when loading some PNG files. Added support for binary elevation grids containing double-precision elevation values. Corrected use of projections with interplanetary datums. Added an option to specify the name to use when generating a new contour layer. Reduced the amount of RAM used when loading a lot of TIFF files. Made several settings in the Export GeoTIFF dialog be remembered within a run of Global Mapper, such as the export file type and palette type. (Registered Version Only) Added an entry to the Overlay Control Center for the layer(s) containing any user-created features, such as those created with the Digitizer and/or Measure tools. This allows you to operate on user-created features just like any others. Improved CDF export by automatically mapping the types of the features being exported to the CDF file to a CDF type if possible. There is also an option to force all features to use the same classification if desired. (Registered Version Only) Sped up the loading of Shapefiles with large attribute (DBF) files. Also reduced the memory used by such files. Added support for getting positioning and projection information from TAB files associated with JPG imagery. Corrected slope calculations in the slope shader when working with data that does not use meters for the elevation units. Added option to the path profile/line of sight dialog to toggle whether or not intermediate points are displayed. Added option when importing generic ASCII data to specify whether or not the 3rd value, if any, in a coordinate line should be treated as an elevation value or not (previously it always was). Added support for loading text annotations from E00 files. What's New in Version 5.08 (2/12/2004)
Added support for importing Tiger/Line vector data from the US Census Bureau. Added support for creating an elevation grid (i.e. a DEM) from any loaded vector data containing elevation points from the Overlay Control Center by selecting the layers to work with, then right clicking and selecting the Create Elevation Grid option. Added support for exporting vector data to CDF format files. (Registered Version Only) Added support for reading Geosoft Grid files in ASCII format (GXF files). Added support for reading data from the ACE (Altimetry Corrected Elevations) data set. Added support for reading the GEBCO Digital Atlas 1' spacing elevation model of the world including bathymetry in NetCDF format. Added support for reading CTM DEMs, such as those produced by the IGM (Instituto Geografico Militare) of Italy. Added the Bogota Observatory, Hjorsey 1955, Ireland 1965, North Sahara 1959, Reunion Island, and Schwarzeck datums. Added the Oblique Stereographic and Stereo70 projections. Added new raster blend modes "Keep Red", "Keep Green", and "Keep Blue". These allow you to keep only a particular color channel from the selected overlay and apply the other color channels from the underlying data. This is useful when creating imagery from Landsat or other multi-spectral imagery where each channel is stored in a separate layer. Added links to a large body of LandSat 5 and 7 data from the "Open ECW File from the Web" File menu option. This data is provided over the web by ResMap and can be purchased from them for offline viewing at www.resmap.com. Made Equidistant Conic B projection be stored and read correctly from .prj files and workspaces. Fixed problems loading native format DOQ data introduced in v5.07. Added support for ENVI format headers for BIL/BIP/BSQ files. Improved display of some large files in projections other than their native one. Added support for reading E00 files from gzip files without extracting them first (i.e. .e00.gz files). Made the last selected feature type for newly created area, line, and point features be remembered when creating multiple features using the Digitizer tool. Added a setting to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog that allows users to specify whether or not they want to allow overlapping labels to be displayed (by default, labels that would cause an overlap when displayed are not drawn). Made transparency for raster imagery be applied prior to applying auto-contrast adjustment, thus allowing transparency to be effectively used with auto-contrast adjustment. Added support for additional header formats when loading raw binary elevation files like .bil and .bin files. This allows custom GLOBE and TerrainBase imports to work more smoothly. Added support for exporting USGS DEMs in many projections that aren't officially supported by the USGS DEM specification, but are supported by other software applications, like Global Mapper. (Registered Version Only) Made any extracted files be removed from the Global Mapper temporary folder on startup to make sure nothing gets left behind and wastes user's disk space due to a program crash or malfunction. Added prompt to the projection selection dialog when loading multiple files that allows users to specify that they want to use the selected projection/datum for all files that they selected to load. Added the Plate Carree projection. This is just an alias for the Geographic projection which already existed. Fixed problems with loading workspaces that contained files loaded from subdirectories within .zip archives. Fixed problems with strange results on the edge of some maps rectified using the triangulated method. What's New in Version 5.07 (12/14/2003)
Made significant improvements to the print engine. Printing should now work on a wider variety of printers. You can now also PRINT TO SCALE, customize the footer text to print out, and print to a BMP, JPG, or PNG file. In addition, printouts will now take up the entire page rather than being limited to what's on the screen. Added support for reading any format that can be read from a .tar.gz archive from a .zip archive. Improved support for tab-delimited ASCII text files when using the File->Open Generic ASCII Text File menu command. Added support for the latest format NIMA GNS point data set format. Allowed loading of some BSB files that have corruption in parts of the file. Fixed errors loading BIL/BIP/BSQ files larger than 16 MB that have bytes to skip at the beginning of the file. This problem was introduced in v5.06. Added options in the Overlay Control Center to move selected overlays to the top or bottom of the draw order. Added option when generating contours to generate isoheight areas in addition to contour lines. Added option when generating contours to generate spot elevations at the min and max elevation locations in the area that contours are being generated for. Added support for exporting gridded elevation data (i.e. DEMs) to DXF files containing 3D face entities (this is in addition to the already existing DXF mesh and DXF 3D point exports for elevation data). (Registered Version Only) Added support for exporting named point features to a Garmin PCX5-format WPT file. (Registered Version Only) Added support for exporting line features to a Garmin PCX5-format TRK file. (Registered Version Only) Improved reading of line style information from DXF files. Files which before did not have colors read from them should now. Reduced memory required to load Arc Binary Grid files and sped up the loading of those files as well. Fixed problems loading Arc ASCII Grid files with less than 6 rows in the header. Also allowed canceling of the load of Arc ASCII Grid files. Increased precision of coordinates stored in the header of exported Arc ASCII Grid files to prevent slight shrinking of files with very small elevation sample sizes (i.e. files exported in Arc Degrees units). (Registered Version Only) Fixed problems with lines changing direction when zooming really far in on them. Fixed some problems selecting line features with the Digitizer Tool when zoomed far in on them. Fixed problems with vertical lines being clipped incorrectly on a sub-set export. (Registered Version Only) Allowed the distance scale to be displayed at much smaller distances when zooming in very far. Added prompt when combining line features to allow users to specify whether or not they'd like to combine connected line features with different label, description, and/or attribute values if connecting incompatible lines are detected. Added support for reading most supported file formats from .zip and .tar.gz archives. Made auto-detection of USGS DEM, DLG-O, and GNIS files better when they are read from .gz files. This means that you are now less likely to be asked to choose the type of file when loading a file of those types that are gzipped. Added Save Workspace button to the toolbar. This is a shortcut to the File->Save Workspace menu item. Fixed problems loading some very large MrSID files. Allowed USGS DEM files to be exported when Arc Degrees or International Feet units are selected as the ground units for the view/export projection. Those units will automatically be replaced with Arc Second and US Feet units respectively to achieve compliance with the DEM spec. Previously the user was simply told to choose different units. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 5.06 (10/30/2003)
Added the Export BIL/BIP/BSQ menu item allowing raster imagery to be exported to BIL, BIP, and BSQ formats as well as allowing gridded elevation data to be exported to 2- or 4-byte BIL elevation files. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading BSB chart files. Added support for rectifying imagery using a triangulated method. This method tries to exactly preserve every ground control point rather than coming up with an approximation to cover the entire image. This method may generate better results than the polynomial method when 8 or more ground control points are entered. Added the Beijing 1954, NGO 1948, NTF France, and Finland/Hayford datums. Added an option to DXF export that allows feature labels to be saved as separate DXF TEXT features in their own layer. (Registered Version Only) Made view sheds be saved to and restored from Global Mapper workspaces. (Registered Version Only) Added the SET_BG_COLOR command allowing the render background color to be modified from Global Mapper script files. (Registered Version Only) Reduced the memory required for working with large BIL, BIP, BSQ, and FLOAT/GRID files and added support for files of those types greater than 2GB in size. Added a new option in the Digitizer Tool allowing multiple line features to be combined into a single line feature. Reduced the memory required for working with very large native format USGS DEM files. Made holes in areas (e.g. islands) be exported to DXF files as separate features. (Registered Version Only) Added display of the palette index on the status bar (in addition to the RGB color) for pixels under the cursor of palette-based TIFF files. Made all attributes be saved to Shapefiles, even if several of them start with the same 10 characters (10 characters is the limit for Shapefile attribute names). (Registered Version Only) Corrected interpretation and saving of world file coordinates. They were off by half a pixel. Corrected Arc ASCII Grid import and export to use the correct definition of the lower left corner coordinate as being the edge of the lower-left grid cell and not the center of the lower-left pixel. This was causing the grids to be shifted by half a pixel. Made remembering the last export bounds optional rather than the default on the Export Bounds tab of all of the data exports. (Registered Version Only) Made the last point of an area or line feature created with the Digitizer Tool correctly snap to nearby features as indicated on the screen. Fixed the Kentucky State Plane NAD83 definition. It was off by one degree in longitude. Fixed bug that prevented the Area Type filtering from the Vector Display Configuration page from functioning. Added new palette options for GeoTIFF export allowing 8-bit grayscale images with no color map to be created by Global Mapper in addition to the normal 8-bit with color map grayscale option. (Registered Version Only) Made linear coordinates (i.e. meters, feet) in ASCII formats be stored with two digits after the decimal place rather than one. (Registered Version Only) Added support for exporting US Coast Guard NIMA ASZ files (these are the same as NIMA ASC files but with a color attribute for each line feature). (Registered Version Only) Made any errors encountered loading or saving a Global Mapper workspace be displayed once the load/save operation is complete. (Registered Version Only) Fixed error when finding a 3D path profile when clicking on the same point twice in a row. Made altering the elevation interpretation of an overlay using the new Alter Elevations dialog actually work. Reduced memory required to load MapInfo files with lots of attributes. Made the export format and GeoTIFF palette type for batch image rectifications be remembered during a single Global Mapper session. What's New in Version 5.05 (9/21/2003)
Added ability to offset elevation values, modify the valid elevation range, and change the value used for invalid elevation values in gridded elevation layers from the Options button in the Overlay Control Center. Added the ability to generate 3D path profiles along paths with more than one point. You can now also select a line feature in the Digitizer Tool and generate a path profile from that line. Added support for loading MicroPath MPZ DEMs. Added support for saving elevation data to Float/Grid format files. (Registered Version Only) Added an option to view shed analysis allowing the receiver information to be specified as an elevation angle relative to the transmitter location rather than an absolute height either above ground or sea level if desired. (Registered Version Only) Added support for saving elevation data to Leveller Heightfield format files for use with the Daylon Leveller (www.daylongraphics.com) application. (Registered Version Only) Added option to load your ground control point list from a comma-delimited file when rectifying an image and also to save your ground control point list to a comma-delimited file. Made ground control points be displayed on the reference image view as well as the other two when rectifying imagery. Also made double-clicking on a control point recenter the reference image view as well as the others. Allowed font types other than TrueType and ClearType to be selected for labeling point and area features. Added option to save the results of a path profile to a text file with distances and elevation values. Also moved all export options on the path profile dialog to a File menu. (Registered Version Only) Added display of percentage complete in most progress display dialogs. Made holes in areas be saved to simple ASCII text files (they will have an ISLAND=YES attribute if attributes are saved). (Registered Version Only) Added support for treating some area features as holes in the previous area when loading generic ASCII text files (ISLAND attribute enables this). Added support for Float/Grid files with a .FLT extension. Slightly sped up elevation data exports and view shed generation. (Registered Version Only) Corrected USGS DEM export progress dialog and added option to cancel the export. (Registered Version Only) Fixed error when rectifying an image to a new file while grid lines are displayed. (Registered Version Only) Slightly sped up elevation data exports and view shed generation. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem when changing the datum specified in the image rectification dialog and then specifying to reproject the coordinates. In this case, the datum conversion was not being performed correctly. Fixed error loading MapInfo MIF/MID files that have a data column named VERSION. Fixed problem that caused islands for unclassified areas to sometimes not be displayed. Made MapInfo files appear when opening files with the All Supported Vector Types rather than (erroneously) under All Supported Raster Types. What's New in Version 5.04 (8/27/2003)
Added the ability to customize the font used when rendering feature labels on both a per-feature and per-classification basis. Added support for loading MrSID v3 images, including lossless MrSID. Improved speed of displaying and exporting rectified imagery and also fixed rectification problem that occasionally caused jumbled results. Fixed northing coordinates stored in exported RockWorks grid files. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading Helava DEM format files. Added support for loading and exporting MapMaker terrain (.ter) files. Added support for loading Swedish DEM Grid files in a GSD format. Added a new Center on Location option under the View menu to allow recentering the map view on a manually entered location. Added support for the Zanderij datum (widely used in Suriname). Fixed bug that caused the coordinates for point features to not be reprojected if necessary when saved to new Simple ASCII Text files. (Registered Version Only) Made .grd the default extension when exporting new Arc ASCII Grid files rather than .txt since .grd is more prevalently used by other software packages. (Registered Version Only) Added support for explicitly specified linear units with PCS projections specified in MrSID metadata (i.e. meters instead of feet for some State Plane projections). Added confirmation prompt when restoring the original shape of line and area features with the Edit Controller to prevent users from accidentally losing changes by selecting the wrong item. Added support for loading native format DLG-O files from .tar.gz archives. Made the last used export bounds be remembered when exporting new data files, allowing one to easily export the same area of maps to different file formats. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 5.03 (7/23/2003)
Improved the "snap-to" functionality in the Digitizer Tool. You can now snap to nearby features when moving a single vertex of existing features as well as when creating new features. In addition, you can now snap to nearby point features in addition to area and line features. Added option to the Digitizer Tool to create a new point feature at a manually entered location (defaulting to the cursor position) rather than a clicked location. Added support for exporting imagery to grayscale JPG files. (Registered Version Only) Added new script commands to allow calling other scripts from within a script (EMBED_SCRIPT), unloading single layers (UNLOAD_LAYER), and setting the display options for elevation data from a script (SET_VERT_DISP_OPTS). (Registered Version Only) Added option to generate 3D point shapefiles. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading .dem files created by MicroDEM. Modified the generic ASCII importer such that if a feature has only a single attribute associated with it that attribute will be used as the feature name. Corrected transformations involving the Potsdam datum. They were about 60 meters off in easting. Added support for elevations less than -3276.7 meters in decimeter DEMs (such as Mars DEMs). Made generated contour layers stay in their own layer when saved to a workspace and then restored from that workspace. (Registered Version Only) Added option when exporting GeoTIFF and JPG data to force the pixels in the generated image to be square to ensure compatibility with the largest number of other software packages. This option is enabled by default. (Registered Version Only) Made the measurement attributes (i.e. LENGTH, ENCLOSED_AREA, PERIMETER) of user-created line and area features get updated when the line and area features are reshaped. Fixed a problem with gridding 3D point data sets that prevented very large data sets from being gridded. Fixed problem with view shed that could cause some barely visible areas to be marked as invisible, even with very large transmitter heights. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading 8-bit BIL elevation files (previously they were always treated as grayscale imagery, now the user will be asked unless the file contains 'DEM' in the name). What's New in Version 5.02 (6/30/2003)
Added support for newer format ESRI PRJ files. Added support for repositioning most raster and elevation formats from the Overlay Control Center. To use this feature, simply right click on the layer you want to reposition in the Overlay Control Center and select the "Modify Overlay Position (Re-Rectify)". This will also let you modify the positioning/projection of imagery that has been manually rectified. Added option to force raster and elevation data created from most batch conversions to have square pixels. This helps prevent problems with less capable software like AutoCAD that doesn't handle non-square pixels correctly. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem where files loaded from .tar.gz files that were saved to a workspace, then loaded from the workspace and saved once again to a workspace would no longer be loaded. (Registered Version Only) Added support for SRTM height files with a little endian byte order. Added support for BIL files with Intermap format headers. Added support for TIFF imagery with 64 bits per pixel (4 color channels with 16 bits per channel). This type of imagery is often obtained from Digital Globe. Sped up the display of stripped TIFF imagery with non-contiguous color planes. Added the option to show/hide area and line vertex display on the right click menu in the Digitizer Tool. Added the ability to measure distance in nautical units (i.e. nautical miles). Made the name of the currently loaded workspace (if any) be displayed in the application title bar. (Registered Version Only) Modified the File->Save Workspace menu command to not prompt for a filename if a workspace is currently loaded. The new File->Save Workspace As menu command allows a workspace name to be explicitly selected if necessary. Created a new Vector Options tab on the main Configuration dialog and moved all vector data related options to it from the General tab. New options for the area and distance measurement were added to the General tab. Made area and line features created with the Digitizer tool have their measurements created as default attributes. For example, new area features will automatically have PERIMETER and AREA attributes created, and new line features will automatically have LENGTH attributes created. Fixed problems loading TIFF imagery with an invalid value for the number of rows per strip. Added the Minna (Cameroon) and Minna (Nigeria) datums. Added support for the Dutch Grid (RD) projection and datum. Fixed error when dragging imagery that needs rectified onto the Global Mapper icon to launch it. Improved speed of rendering very complex areas and also fixed bug drawing those same areas (areas affected are those with at least 8192 vertices between the area and its islands). Added support for performing view shed analysis where the receiver height is specified as a fixed height above sea level rather than a height above the ground. (Registered Version Only) Added display of some geometry information (i.e. vertex count, number of islands) for vector features from most supported file formats when using the Pick Tool. Enhanced Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog to allow entry of the water level in either meters or feet and to display the numeric values corresponding to the various slider configuration to allow exact setup. Made the Global Mapper type assigned to a feature be saved with the attribute name GM_TYPE when exporting simple ASCII format files with attributes enabled if the type name is different than the description. (Registered Version Only) Made the generic ASCII importer recognize the GM_TYPE attribute for reading back in vector features with the same classification that they had in Global Mapper. What's New in Version 5.01 (6/3/2003)
Fixed problem with modified vector features saved to workspaces not being saved again when that workspace is loaded and then saved. (Registered Version Only) Added batch conversions for MrSID to GeoTIFF and MrSID to JPG. (Registered Version Only) Add option in the Overlay Control Center to right click on an overlay and zoom the view to that overlay. Added the Lambert I, Lambert II, Lambert III, Lambert IV, Lambert II-Wide, and Lambert-93 projections (these are widely used in France). Increased the max resolution for creating screen captures to 16384 x 16384 from 8192 x 8192. (Registered Version Only) Corrected loading of ECW files with explicit false eastings and false northings and grounds units of feet. Made Global Mapper workspace files be available from the list of recently opened files under the File menu. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 5.00 (5/11/2003)
FEATURE CREATION AND EDITING! There is a new Digitizer Tool that allows you to edit existing vector features and to create new ones by drawing them with the mouse. IMAGE RECTIFICATION! You can now visually rectify imagery that has not been placed on the earth. Use the new File->Rectify Imagery menu item, or simply load the data file as usual. If it doesn't have geo-placement information, you will be asked if you want to rectify the image for display. Currently, JPG, TIFF, and PNG imagery can be rectified. You can now save measurements created with the measurement tool so that they can be saved to files and compared to other measurements. Added auto-scrolling feature to allow easy scrolling by moving the cursor near the view edge and clicking, regardless of which tool is active. User-generated contour lines will now be stored in Global Mapper workspace files. Made downloaded User Manual files that are placed in a Help directory under that used by Global Mapper be used rather than going online for the help. Made the user be prompted to save a workspace if any overlay viewing options have changed. Improved contour generation be removing extraneous hanging segments in flat areas and closing contour lines whenever possible. Improved projection/datum support when importing/exporting MapInfo MIF/MID files. Made items selected with the pick tool stay selected as you pan and zoom around without leaving the pick tool. This makes it easier to review exactly where an item goes without having to zoom out and reselect it. Enhanced the measure tool so that the cursor will snap to nearby vector features (areas and lines) to facilitate measuring area and line features. This snap functionality can be disabled by holding down the Ctrl key while moving the mouse. Holding down the Shift key causes the snap to only snap to vertices along the features. Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the InRoads ASCII data format. (Registered Version Only) Added D-48 Slovenia and NAD27 (Canada) datums. Added support for zooming in and out with the mouse wheel in the main map view. What's New in Version 4.78 (4/14/2003)
Fixed problems loading SRTM HGT files introduced in v4.77 release. Made the Options display for generic ASCII files correctly display the elevation options for elevation grids and the vector data options for ASCII files imported as vector data (i.e. points, lines, and areas). What's New in Version 4.77 (4/13/2003)
Added hotkeys for many menu items and common operations. Fixed problems exporting lines that have been reprojected to Shapefiles. (Registered Version Only) Fixed printing of custom symbols. Fixed problem with print to white background option not working in v4.76. Added support for loading very large Arc/Info Binary grid files. Added the ability to import area features from generic ASCII text files. Added support for reading tiled TIFF data with elevation data. Added support for user-defined types. Added support for the Kentucky State Plane zone. Added support for loading TAB/TIFF and TAB/MrSID combinations. Added several S-42 datums for various eastern European countries. Made workspaces save/restore the view as well as the files loaded. (Registered Version Only) Improved display of National Atlas road layer data in SDTS format. Added support for BSQ and BIP data formats. Made contour lines not draw over other line types. Made most line types save the appropriate attribute codes into DLG-O files when they are exported to files of that type. (Registered Version Only) Made display of path profiles always ignore earth curvature. Only line of sight analysis can use earth curvature display. Added support for black and white TIFF images that are missing the bits per sample TIFF tag. Fixed problems writing large elevation values to decimeter or centimeter USGS DEM files. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problems selecting a lot of files at once when adding files to a Batch Convert operation. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.76 (2/27/2003)
Made scales and any current measurement be saved when capturing the screen to an image file. (Registered Version Only) Added two new color blend modes, Apply Color and Apply Color (Reversed). These blend modes can be useful for colorizing high-resolution grayscale imagery using lower resolution color imagery, such as LandSat photos. Added an additional option to the Generic ASCII import to allow specification of a criteria for determining which grid points should be treated as invalid when creating an elevation grid from a 3D point data set. By default, all grid points are treated as valid, but you can now adjust that setting so that only grid points within a certain threshold of an actual data point are treated as valid. Added support for the Hammer-Aitoff, Wagner VII (Hammer-Wagner), New Zealand Map Grid, and New Zealand Transverse Mercator projections. Added support for the Nahrwan and New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 datums. Made Simple ASCII Text exports with attributes include the area, line, or point styles as attributes. Made the Generic ASCII Import recognize area, line, and point style attributes associated with the features in order to allow for coloring and symbology to be read. See the help file for details on what attributes are recognized. Fixed problem loading some point types from E00 files. Improved descriptions and type assignments for international GNS point names data sets. Added support for GeoTIFF files in the State Plane Projection which do not have feet as the linear units. Made area labels exported to Landmark Graphics format maintain the same position as the labels are displayed on the screen. (Registered Version Only) Add support for directly loading the projection from the metadata files accompanying the LandSat data at http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/. Fixed loading of custom sections of the GLOBE data set. Improved display of polyline vertices. Removed Sphere Radius as a parameter when specifying a projection since that is implied by the datum. Improved display of Transverse Mercator and UTM projections so that data far from the central longitude is not displayed. This fixes the problem with lots of spurious areas being displayed when viewing large data sets. Made Shapefile options (label field, area type, line type, and point type) be saved to workspaces and settable in script files. (Registered Version Only) Made Generic ASCII file line and point types selections be saved to workspaces and settable in script files. (Registered Version Only) Made Global Mapper support additional projections and datums from the PRJ format. What's New in Version 4.75 (1/25/2003)
Added a new Point Styles tab to the Configuration dialog allowing the user to select what symbol to use for a given point type, whether or not to label points of a given type, and the ability to select bitmaps or icon files to use as custom symbols. Sped up display of translucent or blended overlays. Added the option to display gridded elevation values on the status bar in either native file units, metric or statute units. This setting can be found on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog. Made the overlay blend mode be saved in workspace files. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem with labeling areas after reprojecting vector data. Added the ability to reproject when batch converting SDTS DEMs to USGS DEMs. (Registered Version Only) Made the generic feature info dialog displayed for most vector features resizable. Made the color intensity setting be applied correctly when exporting new imagery files (it was being ignored before). (Registered Version Only) Made elevation values from overlays not marked as anti-aliased not be interpolated on export. (Registered Version Only) Added option to ignore clearances at the start and end of a path when performing line of sight analysis. (Registered Version Only) Greatly sped up the display of lat/lon grid lines when a large portion of the earth is loaded. Limited display when UTM is the current projection to prevent the display of data more than 10 zones from the selected zone as it was highly distorted at that point. Added options to ASCII import to allow the user to specify a number of columns to skip at the beginning of the line as well as the ability to specify a scale factor and offset to apply to coordinates. What's New in Version 4.74 (1/7/2003)
Added advanced blending capabilities to the rendering of raster data. You can now apply Photoshop style blending (i.e. Hard Light, Multiple, Screen, etc.) to loaded elevation and raster data. Fixed problems with printing on some printers. Fixed DXF label size when saving a DXF file in arc degrees. (Registered Version Only) Fixed exporting of 3D DXF mesh files via scripts. (Registered Version Only) Added an option to export the RGB color value of each point during an XYZ Grid export of loaded elevation data. (Registered Version Only) Added support for exporting loading elevation grid data to STL format files (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.73 (1/1/2003)
Added the option to modify the translucency of loaded raster and elevation grid data. This allows an overlay to be partially "see-through" so that some of the underlying layers can be seen blended with the layers on top. Made view sheds be created so that you can initially see through the covered areas to the data underneath. (Registered Version Only) Added support for reading PNG images with world files. Added support for displaying the current cursor coordinates in MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) coordinates. To display coordinates in MGRS, select the MGRS option from the Position Display Format list on the General tab of the Configuration dialog. Added support for entering the bounds for exporting data in MGRS (Military Grid Reference System) coordinates. (Registered Version Only) Added display of the current datum to the status bar. Added new file type selections to the file open dialog for "All Elevation", "All Raster", and "All Vector" data formats. Added support for ENVI DEMs with 2 bytes per elevation sample. Added support for automatically loading British Grid and Swedish Grid projections from GeoTIFF files. Added support for the GDA94, Indian 1954, and Indian 1975 datums. Added an option to DXF export to force exported lines to have a thickness of zero to avoid problems with Microstation. (Registered Version Only) Made some minor printing improvements and bug fixes. What's New in Version 4.72 (12/15/2002)
Made user-selected projections and elevation units be saved in workspaces so that they don't have to be re-entered when loading a workspace. (Registered Version Only) Added British Grid support. Improved handling of PLSS DLG data. Now township, range, and section numbers are displayed as labels for the section polygons. Added a new area type, Survey Section, to better support PLSS data from the USGS. Added support for loading ENVI DEM format data. Reduced memory usage when loading GLOBE data sets such that the entire world can be loaded at once. Allowed for contours to be generated at intervals other than whole numbers, for example 0.5 meters. Added the ability to export simple ASCII text files for vector data from scripts. (Registered Version Only) Improved generic ASCII import by maintaining the elevation for each coordinate specified in the file. This extra data can then be maintained to 3D shapefile exports. Fixed default GeoTIFF and JPG export bounds to not add an extra pixel of data having the background color on the right and bottom of the generated images. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problems with loading grayscale BIL image data. Fixed problem with MrSID imagery being shrunk by one pixel when loaded. What's New in Version 4.71 (12/1/2002)
Fixed display of ERDAS Imagine .img files with less than 8 bits per pixel. Added support for USDA SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) files in DLG-3 format. These files can be obtained from http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/ssur_data.html. Added import of elevation data from 3D DXF files. Improved automatic detection of name and description fields from MapInfo files. Made the Generic ASCII Text export write a very large negative number for invalid elevations rather than 0.0 so that the invalid elevations can be easily discarded on import. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem writing out projection files introduced in v4.70. What's New in Version 4.70 (11/26/2002)
Added VRML export support. (Registered Version Only) Added support for user-defined elevation shading. The user can now create new elevation data shaders on the Shaders tab of the Configuration dialog or by selected the "Add Custom Shader" option from the Shader dropdown on the toolbar. Added export of elevation data to 3D DXF Point file. (Registered Version Only) Made false easting and northings stored in GeoTIFF files be stored in the correct linear units rather than always in meters. (Registered Version Only) Added the option for registered users to disable the "Click Here to Download Data" button that is displayed when no data is loaded. The option is available by right-clicking on the image. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problems with some elevations in large flat areas being discarded when gridding 3D point data. Made area data with identical classifications be sorted in the order that the layers are ordered in the Overlay Control Center. This provides users with more control over how areas are layered on the display. Added progress display while exporting BMP files. (Registered Version Only) Made elevations in Arc ASCII Grids be stored with one digit after the decimal point to allow for more precision. (Registered Version Only) Made the DGN level number be used as the description for features imported from DGN files. Made the scale and elevation legend be drawn using a slightly smaller font. Made empty attribute lists not be exported to DXF files. Fixed problem with the latitude for some UTM and Transverse Mercator projections in the southern hemisphere. Added auto-detection of SDTS DEMs marked as NAD27 that are actually in Old Hawaiian Mean or the Puerto Rico NAD27 flavors. Allowed DXF files with minor formatting problems to be loaded. Fixed problem exporting elevation data mixed with texture mapped raster layers to any of the raster formats (i.e. GeoTIFF, JPEG). (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.69 (11/4/2002)
Fixed problems drawing some very large MrSID image files. Improved the speed of exporting reprojected MrSID image files to other formats. (Registered Version Only) Made the scale go away when it zoomed in too far to show any tick marks. Made degree coordinates be stored with 8 digits after the decimal place rather than 6 when written to text files. (Registered Version Only) Added support for reading extremely large JPG images. Fixed error writing angular projection parameters to GeoTIFF files when the angles were not on even degree boundaries. Fixed problem in view shed analysis when the transmitter height was specified in feet rather than meters. (Registered Version Only) Improved selection of elevation range for vertical GeoTIFF data that do not explicitly indicate a valid elevation range. Added the MGI Austria datum. Added access to the FAQ under the Help menu. Made all characters be preserved when exporting labels to DXF files. Previously, any diacritic or other special characters were being converted to underscores. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.68 (10/20/2002)
Fixed several bugs with printing on older versions of Windows (95/98/Me and NT 4.0). Added the option to display a scale on the map. Added the option to display an elevation legend on the map. Added new menu option and toolbar button to link to data download sites on the web. Added instructive graphics display in the center of the map display when no data is loaded. What's New in Version 4.67 (10/14/2002)
Vastly improved printing. Made line features exported to the ESRI Shapefile format be clipped to the requested export bounds before being exported. (Registered Version Only) Added the ability to re-order loaded overlays for drawing. To do this, simply right click on the overlay that you want to move in the Overlay Control Center and select whether to move it up or down in the list (and thusly the draw order). Made the overlay control center resizable. Changed the extension for JPEG world files from .jpgw to .jgw to make it more compatible with other software packages. (Registered Version Only) Added support for (Geo)TIFF files with color channels stored separately rather than contiguously. Added option to automatically adjust the contrast of images converted during the (Geo)TIFF to GeoTIFF batch converter. (Registered Version Only) Fixed some problems loading or placing some LULC data and added better automatic detection of LULC data sets. Added support for International Feet units in PRJ files. Fixed program crash when creating some elevation grids from 3D point data. What's New in Version 4.66 (9/26/2002)
Added ability to create an elevation grid from 3D elevation points in the Generic ASCII Text importer. This allows one to import any random collection of elevation data points and automatically triangulate and grid them. The result can be exported to any of the supported elevation and raster formats, can have line of sight and view shed analysis performed on it, and can have contour lines generated from it. Added an option to control the quality setting for exported JPG files. In addition, the default quality setting has been decreased so as to generate much smaller JPG images without a noticable loss in quality. (Registered Version Only) Added option to export black and white GeoTIFF files. (Registered Version Only) Added additional NAD27 datums to list of available datums for State Plane projections. Modified GeoTIFF import to ask the user to select the projection for GeoTIFF files for which the projection could not be determined, rather than aborting the load. Fixed problem in the loading of TIFF files with a large number of rows per strip that caused too much memory to be used. Fixed shapefile export to actually reproject point features when necessary. Added menu item to allow for the batch conversion of SRTM elevation data to vertical GeoTIFF format files. (Registered Version Only) Improved accuracy of NAD27 datum conversions. Doubled the speed at which auto-contrast statistics are calculated. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.65 (9/13/2002)
Fixed problem in view shed analysis with some swept angle values when performing a subset of the entire view shed. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.64 (9/12/2002)
Added an option to export loaded raster and elevation grid data to JPG format files. (Registered Version Only) Added option to view shed analysis to only analyze a user-specified angular subsection of the view shed region. (Registered Version Only) Added ability to add loaded and in-view files when doing batch conversions. (Registered Version Only) Added the ability to specify the classification assigned to point and line features created from files imported from the generic ASCII importer. Made GeoTIFF export cancelable. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem with any datums based on the International datums (i.e. ED50). Added the ability to view multi-band BIL images, such as some LANDSAT imagery. Added datums for the major planetary bodies in our solar system. What's New in Version 4.63 (8/28/2002)
Added a new shader, the 'Slope Shader' that allows terrain to be colored based on the slope or gradient of the terrain, rather than the elevation. The user can configure the colors to use for various slope values. Allowed for the use of imported generic ASCII text files with workspaces. (Registered Version Only) Added new script command IMPORT_ASCII to support loading generic ASCII text files from scripts. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem with auto-clipping collars when the datum of the current view projection is not the same as the datum of the image whose collar is being clipped. Fixed placement of coordinate line attributes when using the Generic ASCII importer. Previously they would be associated with the next line in the file rather than with the coordinate in the line they were read from. This only affected imports which treated all coordinates as point features. Made the projection selector dialog when importing remember the last selection picked and use it as an initial setting. Added an option to the GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command to allow it to save land usage codes from any loaded LULC data sets in addition to the elevation for each point along the path. (Registered Version Only) Fixed bug with coordinate calculations using the ED50 (European 1950) datum. The wrong ellipsoid had been referenced resulting in an error in the northing value that resulted from coordinate conversion calculations. Increased the precision that coordinates are stored in, resulting in the preservation of sub-meter resolutions. Forced Terragen exports to always generate square terrains, which should make the exported results work much better with the latest Terragen versions. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.62 (8/20/2002)
Added support for exporting vector data to Landmark Graphics, MapGen, MatLab, NIMA ASC, Surfer BLN, and Tsunami OVR format files. (Registered Version Only) Added the ability to load data from generic ASCII text files in a multitude of customizable formats. This provides easy access to a large amount of data that is not already in an industry standard vector data format. Fixed error when exporting ECW data to other formats. (Registered Version Only) Added an E00 to DXF batch conversion option. (Registered Version Only) Added an ESRI Shapefile to DXF batch conversion option. (Registered Version Only) Improved File->Capture Screen to Image command so that larger images could be created. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem with loading DLG-Os with contours that do not have any elevation values or contour intervals. Fixed problem in SVG export that occasionally caused lines with a stroke width of 0 to be generated, thus creating invisible lines. (Registered Version Only) Corrected placement of attribute labels for when exporting reprojected vector data to DXF format. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problems loading some E00 grid files. Improved handling of TIFF files that have positioning information but either no projection info or incomplete projection info in the TIFF file itself. Made the auto-clip collar functionality first check for an FGD file that explicitly lists the collar bounds before trying to heuristically determine them. What's New in Version 4.61 (8/1/2002)
Added new view shed tool that allows for the calculation of the area visible from a transmitter placed on loaded elevation grid data. (Registered Version Only) Allowed for the loading of GTOPO30 data directly from .tar.gz archives. Made the elevation of the point under the cursor always be displayed in the taskbar even when a raster layer is on top of the elevation data. Fixed bug introduced in v4.60 that prevented the loading of ECW files from the web and workspaces. What's New in Version 4.60 (7/21/2002)
Added support for loading SRTM .hgt files. Added support for loading DGN files with 3D features. Made 3D path profile/line of sight operations take place along great circles rather than straight lines in the coordinate plane. This change only has a noticeable effect on relatively long paths. Added an option to the (Geo)TIFF to GeoTIFF batch conversion to allow clamping the export bounds to the nearest 3.75' lat/lon boundary to allow for the automated removal of tiny sliver collars when projecting to geographic lat/lon. (Registered Version Only) Added the ability to load GeoTIFF files directly from .tar.gz, .tgz, and .tif.gz archives. Fixed problem that caused maps to disappear when changing the datum for State Plane projections. Fixed problem loading files with .tar.gz or .tgz in the filename but not at the end that were not in fact archive files. What's New in Version 4.59 (7/14/2002)
Added support for importing MicroStation DGN files (from MicroStation versions prior to v8). Fixed error in line of sight calculations due to incorrect earth curvature calculations. (Registered Version Only) Made any current distance lines/areas or path profile lines rendered on the map be included when printing. Doubled the density of the elevation grid lines on the 3D path profile/line of sight display. Every other one is labeled. Added a horizontal grid to the 3D path profile/line of sight display so that distances along the profile can easily be determined. Improved the export speed of MrSID data to GeoTIFF format files. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.58 (7/11/2002)
Added the ability to export loaded elevation grid data to a Terragen terrain file. (Registered Version Only) Added the Guam 1963 and Potsdam datums. Added the filename for which a projection is needed for when asking the user for the projection of file from which the projection could not automatically be determined. Made the export bounds of images with the collar clipped off be automatically shrunk to remove the collar. (Registered Version Only) Made the vertical exaggeration setting be saved between program invocations. Added an option to allow the auto clipping of the collars off of DRGs during a (Geo)TIFF to GeoTIFF batch convert/reproject. (Registered Version Only) Added a new script command (GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE) that allows for the generation of 3D path profile XYZ files between specified points on loaded elevation grid data. (Registered Version Only) Made all GeoTIFF exports except DRG palette exports use the currently configured background color for areas in which no data exists. DRG palette exports will continue to use white for no data areas. (Registered Version Only) Added the option to abort GeoTIFF exports if the projection could not be saved. (Registered Version Only) Added support for exporting additional NAD27 datums to GeoTIFF files (i.e. NAD27 Alaska). (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.57 (6/30/2002)
Added support for exporting GeoTIFF images with a 256 color palette optimized for the colors in the images. This allows you to achieve good results with a minimal amount of space. (Registered Version Only) Added a batch convert/reproject option for converting (Geo)TIFF images to GeoTIFF images with a different projection and/or palette. (Registered Version Only) Added the Swedish Grid projection. Added the RT90 datum. Fixed import of shapefiles with empty polyline or polygon features. What's New in Version 4.56 (6/17/2002)
Added MapInfo MIF/MID export support. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading NIMA GNS point text database files. Added South American 1969 datum. Corrected Egypt 1907 datum. Added auto-detection of datums mis-identified as NAD27 CONUS in GeoTIFF files. Added support for GeoTIFF images with 32-bits of color information per pixel. Fixed problem on projection selector dialog with State Plane zone list not being updated to reflect the list of available zones when the datum was changed. Improved handling of DLG-O carrying contours with multiple elevation values. Now the elevation resulting in the highest contour classification is used rather than the first elevation in the list. Added auto-detection of Wisconsin DRGs from the Wisconsin DNR that are in the Wisconsin Transverse Mercator 1983/91 projection rather than UTM. What's New in Version 4.55 (6/4/2002)
Fixed problems loading MapInfo files for which the projection/datum could not be automatically determined. Improved handling of shapefiles with incorrectly oriented polygons. Added coordinate scaling and offset options to XYZ grid export options. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.54 (6/2/2002)
Added the ability to load MapInfo MIF/MID and TAB/MAP files. Added international feet as a viable option for state plane zone projections and removed the state plane zone table option for horizontal units as it did nothing. Added Egypt 1907 datum. Added option to save name, description, and other attributes when exporting loaded vector data to XYZ vector files. (Registered Version Only) Removed option to modify the semi-major and semi-minor axis of projections as the ellipsoid implied by the datum selection covers those values. Added ability to save/load Oblique Mercator projections to/from ESRI format PRJ files. Fixed bug in script processing that made the LOAD_PROJECTION command have no effect on overlays loaded before the command. (Registered Version Only) Added the Michigan Georef projection. Fixed problems with loading E00 files with double precision polygons. Made the GEN_TAB_FILE script parameter work for the EXPORT_RASTER command as well as the EXPORT_ELEVATION command. (Registered Version Only) Added coordinate scaling and offset options to XYZ vector options. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.53 (5/23/2002)
Made the daylight and gradient shader settings be saved between program invocations. Added support for additional 16 and 32-bit per pixel GeoTIFF raster images that were being falsely interpreted as elevation data. Added support for displaying and exporting RockWorks grid data sets. Separated the raster/elevation export menu options and vector export menu options onto separate submenus under the main File menu. Added support for the Swiss Grid (CH1903) datum. Increased max resolution for Capture Screen to Image command to 8192 x 8192. Note that the actual limit that your machine supports may be less than that depending on the capabilities of your video driver and your Windows version. (Registered Version Only) Made line features exported to DXF, SVG, and XYZ ASCII formats be clipped to the requested export bounds before being exported. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.52 (5/15/2002)
Fixed error message when zooming way out and displaying grid lines. What's New in Version 4.51 (5/14/2002)
Added ability to display and export grid lines in either latitude/longitude or in the current global projection. Allowed for reprojection of data during most batch conversion operations. Fixed 90 degree rotation on import of Surfer 7 binary grid files. Added auto-correction of Hawaiian DEMs in the Old Hawaiian datum that are mis-identified as being NAD27. Added auto-detection of California DRGs from the Teale Data Center that are in Albers Conic rather than the UTM projection. Allowed for saving of WTM83/91 projections to PRJ and GeoTIFF files. What's New in Version 4.50 (4/29/2002)
Added auto-contrast option for raster overlays. This option uses a 2 standard deviation contrast adjust to improve the display of dark images or images with greater than 8 bits per color channel, such as IKONOS satellite imagery. Added support for the display of tiled GeoTIFF imagery and GeoTIFF imagery with greater than 8 bits per color channel. Added option to control whether or not road lines are displayed "fat" when zoomed in on. The option is on the Line Styles tab of the Configuration dialog. Added additional options to scripting language and workspaces to allow for saving of raster options such as collar clipping, transparency, auto-contrast, etc. (Registered Version Only) Fixed bug that occasionally caused a crash on some Windows 9X systems when loading data sets. What's New in Version 4.49 (4/25/2002)
Added SDTS DEM to XYZ Grid batch conversion. (Registered Version Only) Added support for loading DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) format files. Made the window position be remembered between program invocations (in layman's terms, the Global Mapper window will start in the same place it was when it was closed last). Improved XYZ vector export by allowing users to specify the coordinate separator, feature separator, and whether or not to include elevations. In addition, when elevations are requested but not present with a vector feature, any loaded elevation data sets are used to determine an elevation for the vertex. (Registered Version Only) Made the Help button for all of the export option dialogs and the contour generation dialog go to the appropriate section of the online manual. Made the label configuration for area types actually work. Added some tip dialogs before exporting and reinterpreting the projection of loaded overlays. What's New in Version 4.48 (4/15/2002)
Added option to turn labeling on/off globally. This option is on the General Config tab of the Configuration dialog. Added custom area styles. You can now customize how areas of different types are drawn via the new Area Styles tab on the Config dialog. Improved loading of GeoTIFF files with projections for which some parameters may be stored in different fields than usual. Added configuration options for shape files to allow users to specify what attribute field (if any) to use for feature names and what feature type to assign to features in the file. What's New in Version 4.47 (4/7/2002)
Added GENERATE_CONTOURS command to scripting language to allow for the generation of contours from elevation data in a script. (Registered Version Only) Added support for binary DXF files. Fixed handling of UTM projected data in the Southern hemisphere. Allowed for saving of projections using the Australian Geodetic Datums (1966 and 1984) to projection (PRJ) files. Made SVG export group unclassified feature by filename to allow for simple adjustment of styles in output file based on the source file the feature came from. (Registered Version Only) Added option to export loaded vector data to SVG format from the EXPORT_VECTOR command in the scripting language. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.46 (4/3/2002)
Fixed odd display of DRGs when both the auto-clip collar and the transparent options are selected. Fixed behavior of the transparent checkbox in the Raster Options dialog. What's New in Version 4.45 (3/31/2002)
Fixed problem with Arc Binary Grid import that prevented some grids from loading. Added support for importing LINE entities from DXF files. Fixed bogus warning about unknown elevation units when specifying the elevation units in the EXPORT_ELEVATION script command. (Registered Version Only) Added new SET_LOG_FILE command to the scripting language to support logging status, warning, and error messages to a file during script processing. (Registered Version Only) Improved description of loaded Arc Binary Grid files in the Overlay Control Center and the status bar. What's New in Version 4.44 (3/24/2002)
Made all SDTS attributes be maintained when exporting SDTS data to shapefiles. (Registered Version Only) Fixed import of ERDAS IMAGINE datasets with one channel of > 8 bits per sample. Fixed display of elevation data when anti-aliasing of pixels is turned on. Added support for importing Surfer 7 grid files. Added Zoom In Micro and Zoom Out Micro commands to the View menu to allow for zooming in and out in smaller increments. What's New in Version 4.43 (3/20/2002)
Added ability to export loaded vector data to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) format files for display on the web. (Registered Version Only) Corrected display of elevation data when the anti-alias pixel option is selected so that the bounds of the displayed data matches the bounds when the option is not selected. Added option to all elevation exports and to the EXPORT_ELEVATION script file command to automatically fill in small gaps between and within data sets by intepolating the surrounding data. This option is enabled by default for every elevation export. (Registered Version Only) Made all of the elevation exports consistent in how they handle specified export bounds and spatial resolution. (Registered Version Only) Added filename for which type could not be determined to the overlay type selector dialog. Added grayscale palette to list of supported palettes for GeoTIFF export. (Registered Version Only) Added support for 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF DEMs (i.e. some ASTER DEMs). Improved E00 import to allow for additional files to be imported successfully. Added option to generate a TAB file when exporting GeoTIFF images from a script. (Registered Version Only) Made the assigment of attribute types to fields in DBF files during shapefile export be more intelligent. (Registered Version Only) Added option to shapefile export to generate 3D line features. Selecting this option will use the assigned elevation for the line, if available. Otherwise, it will attempt to determine an elevation for each vertex by examining any underlying elevation data. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.42 (3/7/2002)
Added support for importing ERDAS IMAGINE image (.img) files. Enabled import of POINT entities from DXF files. Fixed yet another bug in the USGS SDTS++ library that was causing read access violations loading some SDTS data sets. Fixed import of GeoTIFFs that use the Alber's Conic projection (the longitude's were potentially incorrect before). Added option to batch convert USGS DEMs to XYZ Grid files. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.41 (2/27/2002)
Sped up export of MrSID and ECW data sets by using a more intelligent caching scheme. (Registered Version Only) Fixed bug that caused banding in the result of the export of reprojected data to GeoTIFF. (Registered Version Only) Fixed handling of GeoTIFF images using non-standard projection/unit pairings (i.e. UTM and feet). What's New in Version 4.40 (2/24/2002)
Added support for performing batch conversions of SDTS DLG data to DXF and Shapefile formats. (Registered Version Only) Added EXPORT_VECTOR command to the scripting language that allows loaded vector data to be exported the USGS DLG-O, DXF, and ESRI Shapefile formats. (Registered Version Only) Added suppor for Global Mapper script files (.gms) being passed on the command line. In this case, the script runs and Global Mapper immediately exits, allowing one to run Global Mapper scripts in a non-interactive manner. (Registered Version Only) Made index and intermediate contour lines have different description strings and therefore be in different layers when exported to DXF format files. Fixed half-pixel shift in GeoTIFF export. (Registered Version Only) Fixed progress reporting when exporting GeoTIFF images with greater than 32,765 rows in the output image. (Registered Version Only) Added layer name (description) attribute to DBF file generated during shapefile export. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.39 (2/21/2002)
Fixed problems with loading GeoTIFF images introduced in v4.38. Made USGS DEM export maintain exact user specified resolution. (Registered Version Only) Allowed for viewing of built-in ECW web link URLs. You still cannot edit the built in links. What's New in Version 4.38 (2/20/2002)
Added support for the ECW data format. This includes loading files locally or off the web (see the new File->Open Web Image command). Greatly increased speed of exports involving MrSID data. (Registered Version Only) Fixed problem that caused GeoTIFF files to stay locked until program exit after being loaded. What's New in Version 4.37 (2/13/2002)
Added support for elevation grids in E00 format files. Modified SDTS DEM to DEM batch conversion to not generate decimeter or decifeet DEMs for elevations that the native DEM format cannot handle. Made XYZ export more intelligent about how many digits it exports for each coordinate in order to generate smaller files without losing any significant precision. Fixed problem in Search By Name dialog that caused double-click recentering to not work when the global coordinate system was not the same as the native coordinate system of the file containing the object being centered on. Added help buttons to the raster and elevation options dialogs as well as the config dialog. What's New in Version 4.36 (2/6/2002)
Added online help! You can now select the Online Help option under the Help menu to open the Global Mapper manual in your browser window. Added ability to export vector data (i.e. areas,lines,points) to XYZ files containing the coordinates. (Registered Version Only) Fixed some minor bugs in E00 support that was preventing some from loading and causing attributes to not be read in correctly for others. Fixed problem that caused the "Full View" option to not work properly after overlays were closed from the Overlay Control Center. Removed reliance on specified control points in DLG-O headers. Global Mapper now calculates the data bounds at load time to prevent problems caused by incorrect control points. Allowed for loading of PRJ files that had no DATUM specified but do have a spheroid field with a recognized value (i.e. CLARKE1866). Fixed 3D DXF Mesh export to generate DXF files that work in more software packages, such as AutoCAD. (Registered Version Only) Added the filename to the description of SDTS DEM overlays in the Overlay Control Center. Allowed for hiding/showing multiple overlays at the same time from the Overlay Control Center. What's New in Version 4.35 (1/30/2002)
Fixed bug that caused vector feature selection to not work immediately after zooming or panning with the keyboard. Fixed importing of DXF files that contained blank lines or LWPOLYLINE entities. Added option to customize the collar boundaries used when auto-clipping the collar off of DRGs. This is useful when you wish to clip off more or less of the image than the automatic selection does. Added option to reverse the order of colors when using the HSV shader. Added support for Wisconsin Transverse Mercator 1983/91 (WTM83/91) projection in projection selector dialog. What's New in Version 4.34 (1/27/2002)
Added support for Arc/Info Binary Grid files. Allowed for options to be set on multiple raster/elevation overlays at a time from the Overlay Control Center. This is particlarly useful when auto-clipping the collar from lots of DRGs at a time. Fixed bug that would cause the dragging a box to zoom in while using a geographic projection would zoom to 0 N, 0 E rather than the dragged box. Added ability to capture the screen to a PNG format image. (Registered Version Only) Added ability to save 3D path profile information to an XYZ file. (Registered Version Only) Moved earth curvature settings for path profiling to line of sight dialog and corrected handling of atmospheric corrections. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.33 (1/17/2002)
Added new path profile tool that allows for the generation of a 3D elevation profile along a line whenever elevation data is loaded. Added line of sight and earth curvature calculation capabilities to the path profile tool. This addition allows you to set receiver and transmitter heights and determine if there is a clear line of sight between them. (Registered Version Only) Added ability to export elevation data to a 3D DXF Mesh. (Registered Version Only) Added ability to load NIMA DEMs that don't quite conform to the DEM standard. What's New in Version 4.32 (1/1/2002)
Vastly improved drawing speed of MrSID images. Fixed problem with your last directory not being saved between program invocations. Fixed problem where double-clicking to open a file resulted in the image being zoomed in and off-center when first drawn. What's New in Version 4.31 (12/25/2001)
Fixed error when loading workspaces in which any of the referenced data files are missing. Now you will just get a warning and the remaining files in the workspace will continue to load. (Registered Version Only) Fixed area measurement in square meters. That option was previously being misdirected to use acres instead of square meters. Upgraded distance measurement to allow the selected points to remain while zooming and panning about with the keyboard. This allows a finer degree of control over what is selected. Made 16-bit grayscale GeoTIFF images be treated as elevation data regardless of whether they conform to the vertical GeoTIFF standard. This allows ASTER DEMs to be treated as elevation data. If not provided, the elevation units will be assumed to be meters. Fixed bug in alignment of Hawaiian LULC data. The wrong UTM zone was being selected for a couple of the LULC data files covering the big island. What's New in Version 4.30 (12/18/2001)
Fixed handling of 16-bit grayscale TIFF images. This means that you can now view ASTER DEM GeoTIFF images. Fixed a Windows resource leak that was causing crashes after prolonged use. Fixed problem in SDTS library that caused some data to be corrupted when loaded. What's New in Version 4.29 (12/16/2001)
Added support for E00 format vector data. Vastly improved the distance measurement tool. You can now measure the length of multiple segments as well as enclosed area size. Right clicking allows one to select the units of measurement as well as to stop measuring Fixed handling of Hawaiian DLGs which are marked as NAD27 datum but are actually the Old Hawaiian Mean datum. Added option to Line Style customization to turn off labeling of lines of a given type. Added support for Albers Conic projection in PRJ file handling. Added support for colors to DXF import. DXF files with color info in them will draw using those colors. Added support for colors to DXF export. The display color of lines will now be preserved in exported DXF (to the extent that the DXF format allows). (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.28 (12/9/2001)
Added beta scripting language support. See the web site for a reference. This feature is currently under development and should be used for evaluation purposes only. (Registered Version Only) Added custom line styles. You can now customize how lines of different types are drawn via the new Line Styles tab on the Config dialog. Added support for Shapefiles containing *Z and *M shape types. The only unsupported shape type is now MultiPatch shapes. Added support for the Yuma Proving Grounds NAD27 datum. What's New in Version 4.27 (12/2/2001)
Added workspace support! You can now save your workspace (i.e. the files that you have loaded as well as the current projection) to a workspace to load later. You can find the new commands under the File menu. (Registered Version Only) Fixed several problems with Shapefile import. Fixed several problems with Shapefile export. Exported Shapefiles should now work properly in software other than Global Mapper. (Registered Version Only) What's New in Version 4.26 (11/25/2001)
Added support for MrSID data files. Fixed error message when doing search by name when mixed-case labels are present. Added option to DXF export to generate attribute entities containing the names of exported objects. (Registered Version Only) Added option to DXF export to allow generation of projection (PRJ) files. (Registered Version Only) Reworked "All Supported Types" filter in file open dialog box to get around Windows-imposed limit of 256 characters in filter string. Also moved the "All Supported Types" option to first in the list so that selection of it can be correctly remembered when more types are added. What's New in Version 4.25 (11/18/2001)
Added support for the ETOPO2 data set. Completely overhauled toolbars. There are now four separate toolbars. Three contain all of the functionality in the old toolbar. The fourth contains shader related options. Made some vertical shader options be stored in the registry so that they can be remembered between invocations. Added option to specify the resolution of a screen capture. (Registered Version Only)
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