What's New in Version 9.03 (April 28, 2008)

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 exported loaded gridded elevation data to Vulcan 3D triangulation (.00t) files.
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Added support for loading OpenStreetMap (OSM) format vector maps.

Added support for loading NITF data sets using JPEG2000 compression.

Added option to directly export the results of the triangulation and gridding of loaded vector layers from the Overlay Control Center to Global Mapper Grid files rather than loading them in the main map view, thus allowing larger areas to be triangulated and gridded at once without memory issues.
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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 support for exporting loaded point features to TomTom OV2 format files for creating new point databases for loading onto TomTom GPS devices.
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Added support for exporting loading vector data to Delft 3D (.ldb) format files.
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Added option to KML/KMZ vector export to make labels for line and area features display on the map in Google Earth.
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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.

When exporting new Polish MP format files, check the default attribute list for the type of a feature if the feature does not have a particular attribute in its own attribute list (this was already being done for the MP_TYPE attribute, but has now been extended to all supported MP attributes, like PERIOD for light points).
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Fixed problem with icon symbols not being correctly exported to Polish MP files if the export was based on a MP template file using a LBLCoding value other than 9.
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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.

Added new SPLIT_BY_LAYER parameter to the EXPORT_VECTOR command in the scripting language to allow splitting Shapefile exports into files based on the layer/type of each feature.
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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.

Updated WASP .map area export to support roughness values in a RV attribute in addition to ROUGH_L and ROUGH_R.
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Write out LOCAL as the projection name when exporting ECW files using a projection that is not recognized for storage in ECW files.
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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 bug with image-optimized palette selection generating 24-bit RGB PNG and Erdas Imagine files when batch converting to those formats.
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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).

Added ability to specify water level in feet in addition to meters in the 3D viewer.
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Fixed problems loading some complex entities from DXF and DWG files.

Fixed problems adding package files with multiple layers to map catalogs.
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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's 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 ability to batch convert to DTED and raster KMZ formats.
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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.

Added new GENERATE_ELEV_GRID script command to allow generating an elevation grid from loaded 3D vector data.
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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.

Made tracklogs exported to GPX files contain time stamps if the tracklog had time information for each vertex.
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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.

Allowed map catalog files to be added to existing map catalog files. In these cases, all files referenced in the map catalog being added will simply be added to the map catalog they are being added to.
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Added "Save As" button on the map catalog options dialog to allow changing the filename associated with a map catalog.
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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.

Fixed bug writing out 3D area features to DGN files.
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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).

Fixed problem generating image-optimized palettes during export when the input files are all palette-based files whose combined palette has over 256 colors.
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Allowed for the generation of .tab files for ECW and JPEG2000 exports.
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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.

Added option to several raster export formats (like ECW, JPG, JPEG2000) to fill small gaps between valid data samples.
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Fixed problems loading some projections from ECW and JPEG2000 files.

Made additional speed-ups to ECW and JPEG2000 exports when exporting from large numbers of loaded files.
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Added option to feathering to just crop to the specified feather boundary rather than actually feather-blending.

Added option to palette-based exports to use a custom palette from a .pal file (such as one saved from the transparency dialog in Global Mapper).
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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.

Made running script files that make changes to the main view automatically update the main view window when they complete in all cases.
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Made the 'Run in Context of the Main Map View' setting on the Run Script dialog be remembered between runs.
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Allow selection of elevation units when batch converting to the Lidar LAS format.
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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).

Fixed error exporting vector data to SHP file if there are more than 100 attributes with the same name to 10 characters associated with a single feature.
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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.

Fixed problems converting some Erdas Imagine elevation files with void areas to Arc ASCII Grid format files.
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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.

Fixed error in some cases when generating view sheds while checking Fresnel zone clearance.
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Made cut-and-fill volume calculation operations for areas report the 3D surface area of the calculation area in addition to the 2D surface area.
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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.

Added support for using a MP_BIT_LEVEL attribute value to specify the maximum zoom bit level that a particular feature (or feature type for default attribute lists) should be visible at in exported Polish MP files.
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What's 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 option to Shapefile export to split the export into separate files by layer. This allows you to easily break your data up into separate Shapefiles based on the layer/description of the features being exported. The layer name for each file will be appended to the end of the selected export filename.
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Added fuzzy transparency support to allow for transparency for a raster layer to be set up so that all colors near a selected transparent color can be marked as transparent. This is useful for removing collars from lossy formats, like JPG, ECW, and MrSID.

Allowed 3D area features to be created in Shapefile export.
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Added support for loading RIK (Swedish Topo) format raster files.

Added support for loading OCAD format files.

Added support for loading MapTech PCX charts. Load these from the MapTech .hdr file in the ChartHdr folder.

Added support for loading OziExplorer .rte format files.

Added support for loading Garmin PCX5 .rte format files.

Added support for loading UKOOA format post plot data files. They are listed under the format SEGP1/UKOOA.

Added support for loading HF2/HFZ format elevation grid files.

Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data to HF2/HFZ format files.
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Added new item to the Options menu on the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog to allow specification of how many sample points (either by number or by a spacing distance) to use when generating the path profile.

Allowed feather blending to use multiple polygons.

Added several new built-in symbols for different well types used in the petroleum industry.

Made minor improvements to Polish MP export, including option to keep ID value from [IMG ID] section during templated exports, to copy the [FILES] and [MAP] sections from template files, to allow Text attributes longer than 80 characters, and to automatically remove the labels from marine spot depth and height points.
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Added new option to JPG export to allow specification of a DPI value to store in the exported JPG file.
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Added DXF vector export option to use the filename for the input feature as the layer name in addition to the default of the feature description or the feature label.
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Added new COMBINE_TERRAIN command to the scripting language to allow combining terrain layers to generate a new layer using a script file.
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Added new ADD_MEASURE_ATTRS command to the scripting language to allow adding measure attributes to loaded vector layers from a script.
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Made the OVERWRITE_EXISTING=NO parameter work properly when gridding an export from a script.
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Added new PIXEL_SIZE parameter for use with the EXPORT_RASTER script command. This parameter allows you to specify the desired pixel size of your export result. The format is PIXEL_SIZE="widthxheight", or PIXEL_SIZE="1024x768" as an example.
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Made the value of the INC_VECTOR_DATA parameter default to YES with the EXPORT_RASTER command if only vector data is loaded.
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Allowed use of SPATIAL_RES parameter with the IMPORT_ASCII script command to manually specify the grid resolution to use when generating a gridded elevation layer.
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Added new LAYER_BOUNDS_EXPAND parameter to script commands taking a bounding box so allow using an expanded version of a bounding box obtained using a LAYER_BOUNDS parameter.
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Added new DGN_GLOBAL_ORIGIN_LL, DGN_REPLACE_DARK_COLORS, and DGN_UNIT_RESOLUTION parameters to the EXPORT_VECTOR script command to allow specifying additional options for DGN export.
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Made GEN_WORLD_FILE parameter work for ECW and JPEG2000 exports from script files.
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Allowed easy movement of view sheds by moving the transmitter point feature at the center of the view shed using the Digitizer/Edit Tool. When this is done, the user will now be prompted to recalculate the view shed at the new location if they want.
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Added option to lock the current active workspace file while you are working with it to prevent other users from opening and using that same workspace file. This is useful in network environments where you don't want one persons work to accidentally overwrite another's. This option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
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Added option to have cells from DGN v8 and later files to be imported as point features at the cell's origin rather than be exploded into the features referenced by the cell. This option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.

Added option to have the color number for lines from DGN v8 and later files to be add to the feature description text in addition to the level number. This option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.

Added option to generate world files and PRJ files during Terragen terrain export.
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Added support for getting depth values from a connected GPS device that embeds $STDBT or $IIDBT NMEA sentences containing the depth values. For GPS devices that provide depth, the depth will be used as the Z coordinate for track logs rather than the elevation value.

Added option to Options menu on rectification dialog to automatically add control points at the image corners.

Fixed creation of attribute list when marking new waypoints from a connected GPS device. Previously the elevation and time stamp attributes were no longer being saved.

Fixed problem with elevation units other than meters not being usable for Lidar LAS and Terrascan files loaded as point cloud data sets.

When loading TIFF files with 4 color channels and the 4th color channel is of unspecified type, prompt the user to see if this should be treated as an alpha channel or an additional data channel (like infrared). This allows TIFF files created with Photoshop with an incorrectly marked alpha channel to be loaded and displayed properly.

Added new option to the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog to automatically save backup copies of the current workspace every so often. These backup copies will be created in the same folder as the workspace file and have the suffix "auto_backupX", where X is a number from 0 to 9.
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When generating new area features from the bounds of layers in the Overlay Control Center, make those new areas have an attribute list consisting of the metadata from the layer.

Made the last selected file type be remembered between sessions on the GeoTIFF export dialog.
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Made the last selected export target compression ratio be remembered between sessions on the ECW and JPG2000 export dialogs.
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Made the last selected quality setting be remembered between session on the JPG export dialogs.
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Added the Winkel Tripel projection as a built-in projection.

Added built-in support for the BD72 (Belgium 1972), M'Poraloko (Gabon) and Google Maps datums.

Improved the accuracy of the ED50 - Spain and Portugal datum transformation by having it use a NTv2 transformation file.

Improved the accuracy of the MGI Austria and Potsdam (DHDN) datum transformations.

Added Indian Yard as an available unit for projections.

Allowed EPSG datum codes to be used to specify a datum on the projection selection dialog using the 'Init From EPSG' button.

Added support for decoding Polyconic (American) projections from OziExplorer .map files.

Made the map/chart type for CADRG maps (i.e. TPC, ONC, etc.) be included in the layer description and metadata for those maps.

Fixed problem with elevation override data not being applied to elevation WMS layers (like SRTM and NED) loaded from a script or workspace file.

Made the Vertical Units control actually work when combining terrain layers.
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Made the addition operation work when combining terrain layers in areas where only one of the two input layers has a valid elevation.
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Made Surfer CLR files saved from the custom shader dialog actually be compatible with Surfer.

Added support for correctly importing line and point features in Polish MP format files that have multiple Data0 coordinate records.

Added option to PNG export options dialog to easily specify the sample spacing in units other than the current export projection units.
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Improved performance of raster exports from map catalogs when one or more files referenced by the map catalog are missing.
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Added support for automatically cropping the collar of Canadian topographic maps with CanMatrix XML metadata files.

When exporting filled area features to DXF files, write out the fill color of the area to the DXF file.
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When exporting raster layers to Global Mapper Package files, make those layers support transparency so that they will overlay properly on other layers when re-loaded.
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Made feather-blended elevation layers visually feather blend better in to underlying layers rather than just smoothly blending the elevation values.

When loading files from workspace, script, and map catalog files, if the file exists at the full path specified, don't check for a new location relative to the metafile location.

When rectifying imagery, allowed new control point values to be entered as lat/lon coordinates regardless of the native projection of the layer.

Fixed problem with manually specified grid spacing being ignored when flattening areas using the Digitizer Tool.

Added option to World Wind export to allow generating the filenames required by the Java edition of World Wind.

Updated area calculations to be done in the native units for a layer rather than always be done in lat/lon coordinates. This can make area calculations from Global Mapper for large areas more consistent with what you see in other applications.

Fixed bug with fill style not being read from generic ASCII files properly.

Fixed errors rendering ECW and JPEG2000 files to monitors with extremely high resolutions (typically multi-monitor setups).

Added option to Help menu to disable the automatic check for updates at application startup.

Made it possible to batch convert from ASCII text files (like XYZ) to gridded elevation formats.
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Fixed bug in batch conversion that caused the horizontal extents of raster or gridded elevation data exported using a custom spacing to be incorrect in some situations. Also fixed problem with an extra column and or row being exported when the custom spacing option was used.
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Added attributes for database linkages to loaded DGN files.

Improved the handling of break lines imported from DMDF format files.

Fixed problems loading some Garmin PCX5 files.

Added new File menu commands to the rectification dialog to allow loading control points and projection information from CompeGPS .imp and Touratech TTQV .cal files.

Added option to specify offset and scale values to apply to coordinates loaded from EMF format files.

No longer save the 'Render Areas', 'Render Lines', 'Render Points', and 'Render Area and Line Vertices' options from the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog between runs as this tends to cause confusion. The first three will always be enabled by default when you start Global Mapper and the vertex display will now always be disabled by default.

Corrected positioning of ENVI files that don't use the top left coordinate as their reference point.

Fixed problems exporting attributes with special characters like # and - in their name to MapInfo MIF/MID format files.
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Added support for loading ERS files with missing cell sizes. These are apparently defined as having a cell size of 1.0.

Made the last exported bounds be available between runs of Global Mapper.
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Made the full path to files be displayed in the Overlay Control Center for layers that do not have any description other than the filename.

Allowed selection of which bands are used from multi-spectral FAST-L7A Landsat imagery layers.

Added support for loading 16-color (4-bit per pixel) PCX files.

Made holding down the 'P' key when selecting a new location in the Reference View of the rectification dialog or when using the Measure or Digitizer Tools, cause the new location to be snapped to the nearby point features.

Made the default attribute list for a feature type be applied when changing the classification of an existing feature through the single feature edit dialog.

Fixed problem with missing start row and column of DTED tiles in some cases when exporting to DTED format.
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When cropping to selected area features during a batch conversion operation, made the bounds of the exported data also be cropped to the selected area features.
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Added support for loading Ozi .map files with grid coordinates in multiple UTM zones.

Significantly sped up export of large number of files to ECW and JPEG2000 format files.
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Added support for modifying the default projection used when rectifying imagery by supplying a default_rectification.prj file in the Global Mapper installation folder containing the desired default projection.

Added Ctrl+R as shortcut key to restore last saved view.

Made the compression type used for TIFF files be displayed in the metadata for the file available from the Overlay Control Center.

Made the image collar specified in the "MainPolygonBitmap" section of CompeGPS IMP files be used when automatically cropping the collar of imagery loaded with positioning information from the IMP file.

Fixed problem with the 'Update GCP' button on the rectification dialog causing the name of the control point being updated to be lost.

Added ability to automatically add/update a MODIFIED_DATE parameter to vector features when they are modified. This option is found in the options list at the bottom of the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.

Added control of the JPEG-in-TIFF quality setting with a new DWORD registry setting at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\JpegInTiffQuality" to control the JPEG-n-TIFF quality. The default value is 75.
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Added control of the default search string used in the Search by Attributes dialog with a new string registry setting at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DefaultVectorSearchStr". The default value is '*'.

Made it possible to batch rectify ECW and JPEG2000 format files using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command.

Made LiDAR LAS export write out the point count for each number of returns in the header.
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Made LiDAR LAS support reading and writing projection information.

Added an 'Invert Selection' option to the popup menu when you right click on the search results list on the Search by Attributes dialog.

Made the Add/Update Feature Measures option in the Digitizer Tool report the combined length of all selected line features and the combined enclosed area of all selected area features at the end of the operation.

Added new 'Deleted Line' and 'Selected Line' line classifications so that users could modify the drawing style used for deleted and selected line features.

Fixed saving of Lambert Conformal Conic projections to MapInfo MIF/MID files (this was broken in v9.00).
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What's 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 support for exporting ECW files of unlimited size. Previously there was a limit of 500 MB of uncompressed data for ECW exports.
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Added support for exporting loaded data to JPEG2000 format files.
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Added support for exporting loaded raster/elevation data to KML/KMZ file for display in Google Earth (use File->Export Raster and Elevation Data->Export KML/KMZ menu command).
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Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data to DTED format files.
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Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data and 3D vector data (including LIDAR point clouds) to LIDAR .LAS format files.
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Added ability to make area features partially transparent. Everywhere that you can edit an area style now has a transparency slider allowing you to adjust how translucent a solid filled area will be.

Added new File->Combine Terrains menu command to allow combining loaded terrain layers with a variety of operations, including differencing terrains, averaging terrains, and using the min and/or max elevations from two terrains.
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Added new option to the Color/Contrast Adjust option dialog for raster layers to allow specification that the contrast adjustment should be shared between multiple layers. This allows a consistent contrast adjustment to be applied to all images with that option checked.

Added option to view shed calculation to generate area features for the covered areas. These generated area features could then be exported to vector formats like Shapefiles.
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Added support for feather-blending elevation layers in order to smoothly blend the elevation values of one layer with an underlying one near some edge (either a polygon or the rectangular edges of the top file).

Added support for loading DMDF (Digital Map Data Format) files, such as those used for Alberta DEM files.

Added support for loading vector data from EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) files.

Added support for loading Erdas .LAN format files.

Added support for loading PCX format image files.

Added support for loading point Arc Vector Coverage files (lab.adf).

Added option to the Vector Options dialog to allow selecting the attribute to use for elevation values for vector features. This is useful if you want to get elevation values from something other than the default elevation field for a layer.

Added option to the Digitizer Tool to split an area feature into 2 pieces along the segment connecting 2 selected vertices.

Made the Search->Search by Attributes/Name/Desc dialog be "modeless" so that you can interact with the map underneath the dialog without closing the dialog.

Added new "Select All" option under the Edit menu to allow easily selecting all loaded vector features.

Added support for loading files in a fixed location relative to the screen with the position of the file being specified in width or height percentage values or relative to an absolute latitude/longitude value in addition to the previously available inches from edge values.

When specify custom crop bounds for a raster layer, allow control of which sides will be cropped through check boxes activating which edges to actually crop. The default is all edges.

Added a new "Hill Shading Shadow Darkness" control to the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog. This control allows you to control the maximum darkness of shadows (the default is black). With this setting you can cause the shadowing to be capped in high relief areas, thus allowing the use of other controls to better bring out detail in low-relief areas.

Added support for drawing the location for a connected GPS device as a circle or transparent triangle with a dot at the center for the GPS location. This support is provided by the new GPS->Vessel Shape submenu.

Added option to DXF vector export to allow elevation values from loaded elevation layers to be used as the Z coordinate for exported vertices if available.
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Added option to DXF vector export to allow coordinate values to be written out as ECEF (earth-centered earth-fixed) coordinates rather than in the current selected projection.
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Added support for performing batch geocode operations from data files using currently loaded road data. Previously batch geocoding was limited to the US using an online geocoder. With this new feature, geocoding can be done using load and properly attributed road data along with input address data split into appropriate fields.
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Allowed drawing of rectangle, square, circle, and ellipse shapes anchored at the top left rather than center with the Digitizer Tool by holding down the 'T' key when left clicking to start the shape.

Added option to the projection selection dialog to allow a projection to be initialized from an EPSG projection system code.

Made the parameters used for most grid system and zoned projections, like British Grid and UTM, be displayed in the attribute section of the projection selection dialog (which will be disabled for those projections).

Added support for the India Zoned Grid, Korean Grid, Krovak, Lambert (Marta), Lambert (NOAA), Marta Satellite, and Winkel I projections.

Added built-in support for the Dealul Piscului 1970, Ireland 1965 (with 1975 Adjustment), Korean Geodetic (KGD), Lisbon (DLx), S-JTSK, Solomon 1968 (GUX1 Astro) datums as well as a generic GRS80 ellipsoid datum.

Improved accuracy of the Beijing 1954, Hungarian Datum 1972 (HD72), NGO1948, and Portugese 1973 (Datum 73) datums.

Added Bessel (Modified) as a new built-in ellipsoid.

Added support for adding new ellipsoids to create custom datums from on the custom datums dialog.

Fixed crash when exporting to some formats with the Old Israel Grid or New Israel Grid projections selected.
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Made the extra scale factor for State Plane projections be applied AFTER any false easting and northing values for the underlying projection for the State Plane zone, rather than before the false easting/northing values as before.

Allowed exports cropped to a polygon from a file be cropped to multiple polygons with the new POLYGON_CROP_USE_ALL parameter for the export commands.
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Added CLIP_COLLAR_FLAGS parameter to IMPORT script command to allow saving of per-edge collar cropping flags.
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Added COLOR_INTENSITY_FULL parameter to IMPORT script command to allow specification of higher resolution color intensity for raster layers (from 0 to 512 rather than 0 to 20).
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Allowed the polygon to use when feather blending to be specified from a file using a FEATHER_BLEND_POLY_FILE parameter with an IMPORT command in a script file.
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When using the EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with a polygon crop file, only use the bounds of the crop polygon for the export as the export bounds if the export bounds are not explicitly specified. In addition, for gridded exports with a crop polygon, don't export grid cells that are completely outside of the crop polygon.
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Fix error with some layers not showing up in the output when using the EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with gridding.
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Added new parameters to the EXPORT_* script commands to allow specifying how gridded tiles should be named.
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Allowed FEATURE_SEP values for exporting simple ASCII text files with the EXPORT_VECTOR script command to specify feature separators other than just none or a blank line.
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Fixed problem using SET_BG_COLOR in scripts called from the command line.
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Made the area covered by the bounding box of a layer be reported as part of the metadata for that layer.

For BIL and Erdas Imagine elevation exports, if all of the input files use the same NODATA value use that rather than the default of -9999.0 for the NODATA value for the export.
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Fixed problem loading complex shapes from older (pre-v8) DGN files. This problem was introduced in the v7.04 release.

Improved decoding and encoding of some Lambert-based projections with default units of feet with ECW files.

Fixed garbled display of some rare ASRP/ADRG/USRP format maps.

Fixed problem with features being duplicating when copying and pasting selected features from multiple data layers at a time.

Made blending and translucency between layers within a map catalog work properly.

Fixed display of selected features when dragging a map to pan.

Made nearby point locations be snapped to when selecting the transmitter location for view shed analysis.
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Fixed problem with scale bar being cut off when printing to scale with a footer string.
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Fixed problem in v8.03 with some features in the a User Created Features layer not responding to the show/hide checkbox in the Overlay Control Center.

Fixed problems loading area and line features with more than about 200,000 vertices from Polish MP format files.

Increased precision of angular coordinates (like arc degrees) written to text file formats, like Simple ASCII Text export, to support approximately the same level of ground truth precision as linear coordinates (like meters).
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Fixed problem with offscreen islands not being exported when exporting simple ASCII text format files.
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Fixed problems loading uncompressed CIB imagery.

Fixed problems with edited labels for Shapefile features not being saved to workspaces.

Split line features with more than 5,000 vertices into multiple pieces on export to DGN files as some applications (like Microstation) do not support lines with more than 5,000 vertices.
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Added option to DGN export for converting dark line colors (like black) to white. This is useful as many DGN viewers automatically use black as the background color, making dark colors very difficult to see.
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Added option to the GPS Status dialog to copy the current GPS location to the clipboard.

Added support for loading polyface mesh features from DXF files.

Added support for loading DXF files with nested BLOCK references.

Fixed problems handling some SPLINE entities in DXF files.

Added new View->Properties menu command to allow displaying properties about the current view, including bounds, scale, and resolution.

Made ERS files be used for positioning information if needed for additional formats, like JPG, ECW, TIFF, and PNG.

Increased the resolution of the color intensity slider on the raster options dialog and also made the current intensity value be displayed.

Made filenames in the Overlay Control Center be displayed with the same casing as they have on disk rather than always being all upper case.

Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to allow users to specify that the default export folder should be the folder of the first loaded file rather than the last exported-to folder.
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Added new option to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to specify that lines in generated world files should be separated with CR/LF (carriage return and line feed) characters rather than just a LF (line feed) character.
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Updated GNIS files to use the NAD83 datum as the USGS switched to that in 2005. In addition, GNIS files that use meters for elevation values will also handle those correctly and less error messages will be shown for GNIS files.

Allowed clearances greater than 100% of the first Fresnel zone to be checked when performing line of sight and view shed analysis.
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Made the minimum clearance display for line-of-sight analysis display in the currently selected 'Position Display Format' if the From and To locations are also displayed using it.
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Fixed problem with the per-vertex elevation list for 3D area and line features not being maintained when copying and pasting those features.

Fixed problems with loaded data from some VPF data sets with only one tile of data, namely UVMAP3 data.

Fixed memory leak when generating an elevation grid from some loaded 3D vector data sets. This problem was introduced in the v8.02 release.

Added a new right-click option to the Overlay Control Center to allow you to save a workspace file containing just the selected layers and their settings.

Changed export of transparent areas to new 24-bit RGB PNG files to use an alpha channel rather than a single color transparency as some applications only support the alpha channel method.
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Fixed error loading some RPF (i.e. CADRG/CIB) data sets.

Fixed file size error loading some Geosoft Grid files.

Made Global Mapper workspace (.gmw) files be loaded from archive files (.zip, .tar.gz, etc.). If any .gmw files are encountered and loaded from a workspace file, no other data files will be loaded from the archive file.
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Made it possible to rectify MrSID files with the File->Rectify Imagery menu command.

Fixed error loading some DGN v7 or older files with tags in them.

When digitizing new area, line, and point features, notify the user if their features will not be displayed immediately after creating it due to vector display settings.

Make the default attribute list for the default classification be properly initialized when digitizing new features.

Make sure that the user wants to switch away from the Digitizer Tool if doing so would result in the loss of a significant number of digitized points.

Display progress while saving workspace files.

Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use multiple Schema directives to change the name of Placemarks.

Fixed rare problem with a handful of iso-height areas not generating properly during contour generation.

No longer break lines over 256 vertices into smaller pieces on export to the Polish MP format as cGPSMapper can now properly handle lines of any length.
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Made double-clicking on layers in the Overlay Control Center bring up the Options dialog for that layer. If you hold down the 'M' key when double-clicking the Metadata dialog will appear instead.

Added support for the Swiss Grid projection in ECW files.

Fixed problems batch converting Lidar LAS format files to some other formats, like Shapefiles.
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Made automatic DRG-style collar cropping work for high latitude Canadian topo maps.

Added support for loading MSI Planet files with a .dat extension.

Made GML files from the UK Ordnance Survey load.

Allowed border and line widths up to 30 pixels wide (up from 10) to be selected.

Updated raster/elevation import plugin API to allow the plugin DLL to notify Global Mapper that the data in a layer has changed and needs to be redrawn, thus allowing for dynamically updating layers.

Updated raster/elevation export plugin API to add an EP_ExportEvent function that is called whenever an entire export operation is started and ends.
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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's 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 option when batch converting and exporting most raster formats to generate an ERS file for use with ERMapper.
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Added new menu commands to the Options menu on the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog to allow users to manually specify the range of elevation values displayed. This options allows for consistent results between multiple profiles if desired.

Added option when drawing line or area arcs to have the arcs be a fixed radius rather than drawing them.

Added option to use a template file when batch converting to new Polish MP format files.
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Added option to the Generic ASCII Import dialog to allow the specification of a column to break area/line features on when the value of that column changes. This allows importing formats like the Landmark polygon format that runs all of its features together but changes a feature index in a particular column to indicate a new feature.

Added option to save custom shaders to Surfer CLR format files when editing them. When coupled with the current ability to initialize a shader from a Surfer CLR file this provides an easy way to makes copies of custom shaders.

Allowed batch conversion to raster/elevation export formats added via plugin.
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Added a new line type ("Digitizer Tool Line") that controls the drawing style used when digitizing new line and area features with the Digitizer (Edit) Tool.

Added option to the transparent color picker dialog for palette-based files to save the palette to a .pal file.

Allow color band setup for TIFF files with just 3 color bands.

Fixed slowdown in rendering/exporting TIFF files. This was introduced in v8.02.

Fixed rendering of TIFF files with overview layers when raster display options are changed from the defaults. This problem was introduced in v8.02.

Added built-in support for the Tananarive Observatory 1925 and Yacare datums.

Corrected datum conversions involving the Hermannskogel datum.

Fixed export to ECW format when export units are not arc degrees, meters, or US survey feet.
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Fixed errors during lengthy exports to ECW files when data from online sources was loaded.
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Fixed problems with not being able to change the label attribute used for Shapefile features that have a 'LABEL' attribute associated with them.

Fixed reading of altitude values for waypoints in somee Garmin PCX5 .WPT format files.

When batch converting ADRG/ASRP files to new raster formats, use the name of the internal .IMG file for the export results rather than the TRANSH01.THF file which is too generic.
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Made most of the metadata for SDTS vector layers be available on the main metadata tab for that layer to allow easy copying to the clipboard.

Fixed problems with translucency, blending, and feathering over the top of TerraServer-USA data layers.

Fixed vertical flip of some GMT grids in netCDF format.

Added Projection tab to the Options dialog for raster and gridded elevation layers to allow easily changing the native projection interpretation of the coordinates for that layer. This allows you to easily correct files that have the wrong projection/datum used for them at load time.

Made the vertices of holes/islands in areas be displayed when displaying area and line vertices.

Fixed rare problem decoding some sections of Arc Binary Grid format files.

Fixed error when exporting vector data to Erdas Imagine .IMG files.
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Made online data display more responsive to canceling the render with the ESC key.

Improved exporting of data to palette-based images with multiple colors in the export palette being very near each other.
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Added BANDROWBYTES, TOTALROWBYTES, BANDGAPBYTES, and NODATA fields to the .hdr file exported for elevation BIL format exports.
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Added support for reading MultiGeometry features from KML files.

Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use a Schema directive to change the name of Placemarks.

Fixed problems when adding loaded map files to a map catalog when the loaded files were loaded from an archive file, like a .zip or .tar.gz.
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Added support for loading some additional Moss/Genio format files and made *.inp be a recognized file mask for that type of file.

Fixed crash when generating contour lines at only the 0 height contour.

Fixed problems with the global projection being reset when using the VECTOR_ONLY=YES parameter for the UNLOAD_ALL script command.
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Allowed .clr palette files for BIL/BIP/BSQ format files to be delimited with commas, tabs, or semi-colons in addition to spaces.

Added support for additional NITF format imagery files, such as those using JPG compression.

Improved the name displayed for Arc Vector Coverage layers in the Overlay Control Center.

Make default export elevation units for DEM and Global Mapper Grid exports be decimeters if metric units are the default so that the full precision of nearly all data sets will be preserved by default.
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Added support for loading new tab-delimited GNIS format files.

Fixed problems exporting attributes as tags to DGN format files (this problem was introduced in v8.02).
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Made graphic group codes for 2D lines and points from DGN v7 files be used as elevation values.

Made the 'z' scan range value for 2D lines and points from DGN v8 files be used as elevation values.

Added new GRID_KEEP_CELL_SIZE parameter to the scripting language to allow specification that grid cell size should be maintained at the expense of sample spacing.
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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's 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 ability to export any loaded data to tiled images for use in NASA's World Wind application. The new World Wind export option under the File->Export Raster and Elevation Data menu will correctly break your data up into tiles at various zoom levels and also create the necessary XML file to view your data in World Wind.
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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.

Added option when generating contour lines to directly export them to Global Mapper Package (GMP) files rather than displaying them on the main map. This allows very large areas to be contoured when used in conjunction with the Gridding option during contour generation.
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Added ability for users to add support for additional raster and elevation export formats through a DLL-plugin architecture. See the Developers/SDK page at http://www.globalmapper.com for more details.
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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 new IMPORT_DIR_TREE command to allow importing all files in a directory tree that match a list of filename masks. This is the same functionality offered by the File->Open All Files in Directory Tree menu command.
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Allowed the user of files with multiple polygons when using the POLYGON_CROP_FILE parameter for any of the EXPORT_* commands. If multiple polygons are found in the specified file the polygon with the largest overlap over the loaded data will be used as the crop polygon.
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Added ability to specify template file to use for MP export when scripting (TEMPLATE_FILENAME parameter for EXPORT_VECTOR command).
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Added ability to specify an image id to use for MP export when scripting (MP_IMAGE_ID parameter for EXPORT_VECTOR command).
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Made User Created Features layers be exportable via scripts run in the context of the main view window.
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Added new SAVE_CURRENT_VIEW and RESTORE_LAST_SAVED_VIEW script commands to allow saving a restoring views from within script files.
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Added OVERWRITE_EXISTING parameter for EXPORT_ELEVATION, EXPORT_RASTER, and EXPORT_VECTOR script commands to allow user to specify that they want to skip existing files.
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Made passing a filename of 'USER CREATED FEATURES' to the UNLOAD_LAYER script command of a script being run in the context of the main map view unload any user-created features.
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Added new parameter (VECTOR_ONLY) to the UNLOAD_ALL script command to allow easily unloading all of the vector layers but leaving the other layers loaded.
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Fixed handling of export bounds and spacing when exporting DXF 3D Face, DXF Mesh, STL, and VRML files with the EXPORT_ELEVATION command.
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Added SMOOTH_CONTOURS parameter to the GENERATE_CONTOURS script command to allow the user to control whether or not generated contour lines are smoothed to improve their appearance.
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Added REQUIRE_WORKSPACE parameter to the GLOBAL_MAPPER_SCRIPT command to allow specification that a script/workspace file can only be run if another workspace file is already loaded.
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Added ENABLE_PROGRESS parameter to the GLOBAL_MAPPER_SCRIPT command to allow specification that no progress reporting dialogs should be displayed while running a script. Use ENABLE_PROGRESS=NO to disable the display of progress.
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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.

Made township, range, section, and meridian values be recognized from additional attribute values when exporting to Platte River Survey files.
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Made batch converting from LIDAR and TerraScan formats to gridded elevation formats work.
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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).

Added support for cropping Polish MP exports to a selected area feature. Note that this will only crop point features to the selected area feature. Exported area and line features will only be cropped to the bounding box of the selected area.
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Fixed storage of contour line elevations to Polish MP files when a template file with elevation units of meters is used.
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Made Polish MP exports using template files be done in the datum specified in the template file if the datum name is known.
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Fixed automatic map ID generator for Polish MP exports so that valid map IDs will always be generated.
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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.

Fixed error in polyline flags for 3D area features exported to DXF files.
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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 support for providing offset and scale values for STL export.
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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.

Added option to generate a PRJ file when exporting vector data to Simple ASCII Text files.
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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.

Fixed error introduced in v8.01 when exporting grayscale MrSID imagery to new files.
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When exporting to a Float/Grid file, write a 'cellsize' value to the .hdr file rather than 'xdim' and 'ydim' values if the X and Y sample spacing are equal. This should fix errors loading creating Float/Grid files into Arc/Info.
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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 option to the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog File menu to save the path profile to a BMP file and display it in a fixed location on the main map view. This is useful for easily getting the path profile graphic displayed along with the main map for presentation purposes.
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Fixed problems with features with HTML in their names or descriptions being exported to GPX files.
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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.

Make sure area features exported to KML files are closed (i.e. first and last vertex equal) so that they will draw correctly in Google Earth when extruded.
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Improved accuracy of distance calculations.

Made area features exported to MatLab format files be cropped to the selected export bounds rather than just including all area features that overlap the export bounds.
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Fixed positioning problems when batch converting files in a State Plane projection and using the datum override setting on the batch conversion dialog to change the datum.
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Allowed layers that have been rectified to be properly stored in map catalog files.
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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's 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 exporting lines with elevation and/or roughness values to be exported to WAsP .map format files for use in the WAsP wind analysis application.
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Added option to export survey section (i.e. section/township/range) area features to Platte River ASCII Digitizer format files.
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Added support for exporting gridded elevation data to PGM format grayscale grid files.
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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.

Added option to the Polish MP export to allow the use of a template MP file for getting the map settings to save in the newly created MP file.
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Made addressing and routing attributes for line features be written to Polish MP files on export if they exist in the data being exported.
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Made all point features except for known cities be written out to Polish MP files as RGN10 features rather than RGN20 features.
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Made features in Polish MP files that do not have data at level 0 still be loaded.

Added new EXPORT_METADATA command to the scripting language to allow exporting of text metadata for loaded layers to a file.
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Added ability to grid exports from script files when using the EXPORT_ELEVATION, EXPORT_RASTER, and EXPORT_VECTOR script commands.
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Added SAVE_DIST_Z_FILE parameter for GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command to allow specification that a file containing distance and elevation values should be saved rather than one with the XYZ coordinates of the path profile line.
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Corrected behavior of POINT_SPACING parameter for GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command. It was generating one less sample point than needed.
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Added new DEFINE_SHAPE script command. This is currently used for defining a polygonal feather blend boundary.
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Added ability to export CDF format files from a script.
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Allowed POLYGON_CROP_FILE to be used for EXPORT_VECTOR command. For now all line and area features will just be cropped to the bounding box of the specified polygon. Point features for some formats will actually be cropped to the polygon.
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Fixed problems exporting WMS data layers to Global Mapper Package files. Now the full detail of the data layer will always be exported.
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Removed limit on the length of WMS server URLs added through the "Select WMS Data Source to Load" dialog.
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Added support for adding custom WMS sources with a question mark at the end of the server URL.
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Added support for adding custom WMS sources with a service name other than WMS (this was not working properly before).
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Added option to 24-bit RGB and JPG-in-TIFF GeoTIFF exports to have any background/no data pixels marked as transparent. This works by adding an alpha channel to the file. This might not be supported by all applications.
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Added support for loading the Z coordinates for 3D area features from most 3D shapefiles.

Added option to the Simple ASCII Text export to write out the Y (latitude) coordinates before the X (longitude) coordinates if desired.
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Added support for cropping Simple ASCII Text exports to a selected area feature. Note that this will only crop point features to the selected area feature. Exported area and line features will only be cropped to the bounding box of the selected area.
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When exporting vector data to Simple ASCII Text files, made area features that extend outside of the export bounds be cropped to the export bounds.
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Added option on the File menu of the Path Profile/LOS dialog to save the sight line and the Fresnel zone line (if applicable) to a KML format file for display in Google Earth.
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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.

Added additional progress reporting when batch converting files.
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Dramatically sped up the loading of map catalog files with lots of files in different projections.

Fixed problem with scale being slightly changed when printing to scale with a header and/or footer.
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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.

Made the TIFFTAG_SAMPLEFORMAT value be written out for 16-bit elevation TIFF files so that ESRI products can properly read them when negative values are present.
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Added option to skip files for which the projection cannot be automatically be determined when batch converting files.
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Added support for decoding some additional NITF imagery formats, in particular 2-band 16-bit per band imagery.

Added POSGAR94 (Argentina) datum.

Fixed bug in gridding while exporting with an overlap percentage specified that caused the overlap to not be applied to the right or bottom sides of some files when splitting up the export to a fixed ground size.
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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 additional Lambert France projections to handle the newer projections with larger false northings. Made the attributes used for each of these Lambert projections be listed on the Projection selection dialog as well.
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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 bug cropping reprojected area features on export to MapInfo MIF/MID format files. The bug caused those areas to not be exported.
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Improved behavior of near-white colors when exporting to image-optimized palettes.
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When exporting 3D point features to DXF files, export the elevation information after the coordinate information rather than before.
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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.

Fixed application of Fresnel zone analysis to view sheds. It had nearly no effect in the v8.00 release for view sheds (it did work properly for line of sight analysis however).
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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.

Dramatically sped up export of TerraServer-USA data when it is being exported in a projection other than Geographic.
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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 option to CSV export to include LATITUDE and LONGITUDE columns even if the projection is not Geographic.
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Drastically reduced memory requirements when exporting vector data to Global Mapper Package files and saving generated vector features (like contour lines) to workspace files. This should eliminate all error messages when exporting package files and most when exporting workspace files.
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Added version to title bar.

When exporting a VRML file, made the lowest vertical exaggeration setting on the slider correspond to no vertical exaggeration at all.
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Fixed bounds of exported VRML files so that they will tile properly. In addition, additional comments were added VRML file headers to describe the ground location of the data and additional digits of elevation precision were also written out in most cases.
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When using the 'Add Loaded Files' or 'Add Onscreen Files' batch conversion dialog buttons, allow the user to add files of types other than the specified input file type.
(Registered Version Only)

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).

Updated Surfer BLN export to use new comma-delimited format.
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Sped up some raster/elevation exports from map catalogs (exports that span many maps from the catalog in a single export row).
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Made elevation units for most gridded elevation exports default to the elevation units of the loaded data or, if the vertical display units are manually set to metric or statute on the Vertical Display tab of the Configuration dialog, to meters or feet respectively.
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Added option when gridding on export and naming the rows or columns with numbers to specify a step value by which to increment the row or column numbers rather than just 1.
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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's New in Version 8.00 (8/30/2006)

Added support for loading data from OpenGC WMS servers. This is done through the new File->Download Online Imagery/Topo Maps menu command (formerly the Download TerraServer menu command). Several sources are built-in, providing easy access to gridded elevation data for the US (NED) and the world (SRTM) as well as color imagery for the entire world. Users can easily add their own WMS data sources as well.
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Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the Polish MP format for use with the cGPSMapper application (www.cgpsmapper.com) which allows the creation of new maps for Garmin GPS units.
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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 checking clearances with respect to the first Fresnel zone when calculating view sheds and performing line of sight analysis. This allows for a more accurate visibility calculation depending on the wavelength being transmitted.
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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.

Greatly sped up exports to numerous binary formats, including Shapefiles, Global Mapper Grid files, and Surfer Grid files, especially when exporting to a network drive.
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Added option when gridding data on export to have the column name be first and then the row name in the generated filename, rather than the default of row name first, then column name.
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Added option when gridding data on export to turn off the prepending of zeroes to numeric column or row names in order to make them all the same length.
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Added option to save a gridded file of slope values rather than elevations when exporting to a Float/Grid format.
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Corrected text encoding recorded in exported KML/KMZ files to ISO-8859-1 rather than UTF-8.
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Added option when exporting to KML/KMZ format files to fake an elevation for 2D area features in order to get the same draw order in Google Earth as you see in Global Mapper.
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When gridding an export that is also cropped to a selected area feature, don't create files to any grid cells that don't intersect the selected area feature.
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When exporting Shapefiles, remove any duplicate vertices from the exported lines.
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Added option when exporting GeoTIFF files to generate PRJ files for the GeoTIFF files.
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Added option when exporting 3D DXF Face files to generate the coordinates as ECEF (earth-centered earth-fixed) rather than in whatever projection system is selected (use EXPORT_ECEF=YES parameter for EXPORT_ELEVATION command in scripting language to script this behavior).
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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.

Made PRJ files be saved if possible in the newer PRJ well-known-text (WKT) format rather than the older ESRI-originated format that is no longer supported by ESRI products. There is an option to use the older PRJ format if desired on the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
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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 creating or editing a map catalog and using the "Add Loaded Files" or "Add Onscreen Files" buttons, made files from other loaded map catalogs be added as well if they are not already in the map catalog being worked with.
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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.

Added SAVE_SCALE_AND_LEGEND parameter to the EXPORT_RASTER script command to allow saving the distance scale and/or elevation legend to generated raster format files.
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Added POINT_SPACING parameter to the GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command to allow specifying the spacing between sample locations along a path profile rather than the number of points.
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Fixed reading of Shapefiles with PolygonZ and PolygonM shape types which don't have Z or M values for all features.

Added option when batch converting to DGN format to control whether or not 3D DGN files are created.
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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.

Fixed problems saving some Lambert Conformal Conic based projections to ECW files. In the v7.04 release a bug was introduced which would cause some projections to not have a projection string written to a newly created ECW file.
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Allowed ECW and MrSID files without embedd

What's New in Global Mapper