- Created native 64-bit version of Global Mapper, allowing users of 64-bit versions Windows to work with much larger data sets.
- Added support for exporting loaded data to geo-enabled PDF files. This includes keeping all vector features as separate entities rather than rasterizing them.
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- Added support for directly loading PDF/GeoPDF® format files.
- Added support for exporting loading vector data to DWG format files.
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- Built-in DigitalGlobe imagery access was updated to have much better worldwide coverage.
- Added free built-in access to global street-level maps from OpenStreetMap.org via the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.
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- Added support for exporting GeoTIFF files with 3 or more bands of data and 16 bits per band, thus allowing multi-spectral input files to be output without losing any information.
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- Added new Map Layout option under the Tools menu and on some right-click menus to allow more control over the display of the elevation legend and distance scale, as well as new support for adding margins and a north arrow to your map display/exports.
- Added real-time display of current cursor information (location, distance, elevation) to 3D Path Profile dialog. In addition, you can now also click to define a sub-path on the 3D Path Profile dialog and get information about that sub-path displayed.
- Added ability to easily create symbols from common shapes like dots, squares, diamonds, and stars of a user-selected size and color anywhere that a point symbol can be selected.
- Added ability to add custom point symbols from PNG, GIF, and JPG images (in addition to the current support for BMP and ICO files). This includes support for translucent symbols by using PNG files with an alpha channel for transparency.
- Added ability to add custom point symbols from vector format files, including EMF, DXF, and Global Mapper symbol (.gm_sym) files, which are just ASCII XYZ files.
- Added support for scaling point symbols, allowing you to change of existing point symbols either by some fixed percentage or to make them a fixed number of meters in height on the display.
- Updated vector exports that are cropped to a selected area to actually crop the line and area features being exported to the selected area.
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- Added new option to display a whitened highlight area in terrain areas that are getting direct sunlight. The amount of whitening can be controlled on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added new option to vector KML/KMZ export to generate an index KML file. This can help manage large collections of vector KML files that would otherwise overwhelm Google Earth.
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- Added support for averaging your GPS position to create a more accurate waypoint when tracking a connected GPS device.
- Added new Search->Search and Replace menu option to allow easily searching for a particular text item and replacing that with a new value, including appending or pre-pending text to existing values.
- Prompt users for location of missing files when loading workspaces rather than just skipping the load of those files.
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- Added estimated completion time to progress dialog for operation that take longer than 30 seconds.
- Added support for named views that are saved to a workspace file rather than globally shared, thus allowing you to easily share views view workspace files.
- Added support for adding area and line features to a running instance of Global Mapper using the External Control API interface.
- Added toolbar for Digitizer/Edit Tool to make it easier to perform many commonly used operations.
- Added ability to create new line features by tracing them without clicking at each vertex with the Digitizer/Edit Tool.
- Added ability to rotate and scale features.
- Added ability to combine arbitrary area features.
- Added ability to find the intersection of two area features.
- Added ability to crop selected line features to a selected area feature.
- Added ability to apply attributes to selected line features from selected area features that the lines are completely enclosed within.
- Added a new feature to the Digitizer/Edit tool allowing you to select one or more points, then right click and assign attributes to those points based on the top-most area feature with attributes that each point is contained in.
- Added a new feature to the Digitizer/Edit tool allowing you to create labeled point features at a regularly spaced interval along selected area and line features. This is in the Advanced Feature Creation right-click menu.
- Added a new feature to the Digitizer/Edit tool allowing you to resample selected area and line features at a regularly spaced interval along selected area and line features. This is in the Advanced Feature Creation right-click menu.
- Added a new feature to the Digitizer/Edit tool allowing you to simplify (reduce the vertex count) of selected line and area features by removing vertices that do not significantly contribute to the shape of the feature.
- Added a new feature to the Digitizer/Edit tool allowing you to smooth selected line and area features by moving existing vertices to create a smoother appearance.
- Added option to split selected line features into separate line features for each segment under the Advanced Feature Creation sub-menu in the Digitizer Tool.
- Added option to calculate view sheds at each point feature selected with the Digitizer Tool rather than just at the clicked location.
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- Allow generation of 3D path profiles from selected area features using the Digitizer Tool (previously only lines were supported).
- Added support for exporting loaded data to Window bitmap (BMP) format files.
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- Added support for loading MrSID MG4 Lidar files.
- Added support for loading Vertical Mapper (MapInfo) Grid/Clutter format files.
- Added support for loading QCT (Quick Chart) and QED format files.
- Added support for loading Google SketchUp (.skp) format files.
- Added support for exporting loaded vector data to OSM XML (OpenStreetMap.org) format files.
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- Added support for loading HTF (Hydrographic Transfer Format) files.
- Added support for loading SPS (Shell Processing Support) format files.
- Added support for loading MapMaker Drawing (DRA) format files.
- Added support for loading LMN (Spectra Line Management Node) files.
- Added support for loading GSD (Swedish DEM Grid) format files.
- Added support for loading BAG (Bathymetric Attributed Grid) files.
- Added support for loading FCC ASR (Antenna Registration System) data files.
- Added support for loading Japanese DEMs in LEM/CSV format.
- Added support for loading Garmin TCX (Training Center Database) files.
- Added support for loading CXF (Italian Cadastral Format) files.
- Added support for exporting loaded point and line data to UKOOA P1/90 format files.
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- Added support for exporting loaded vector data to Lowrance LCM format files for display on Lowrance GPS devices.
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- Added support for exporting loaded elevation data to Vertical Mapper (MapInfo) Grid format files.
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- Added support for exporting loaded data to tiles for displaying on the web with Zoomify (use File->Export Web Formats->Export Zoomify menu command).
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- Added option to import features from ASCII text files using the Well-Known-Text (WKT) format for storing feature geometry.
- Added checkboxes to allow easily turning individual control points on and off to see how it affects the rectification.
- Added an optional crosshair display traversing the entire zoomed and reference image views.
- Added dynamic cursor location display for reference image view.
- Added display of the selected rectification method to the dialog title bar.
- Added support for using a Helmert (similarity) transformation when rectifying imagery and vector data layers.
- Made polynomial rectification with 6 or more control points use a 2nd degree (N=2) equation.
- Made Ctrl+Left Click in the Zoomed View automatically fill in the projected coordinates and also zoom the Reference View to the same approximate location and zoom scale if possible.
- Made Ctrl+Left Click in the Reference View automatically fill in the pixel coordinates and also zoom the Zoomed View to the same approximate location and zoom scale if possible.
- Added option under the Options menu to automatically save the control points (GCPs) to a GCP file when closing the dialog.
- Made the control point list resize when the dialog is resized.
- Added built-in support for the Japanese Projection System (zones I - XIX), the Philippines Grid projection (zones 1-5), and the Sinusoidal (Integerized) projection.
- Added built-in support for ED50 (North Sea), ED50 (Norway Offshore N62), ED50 (Norway Offshore S62), JGD2000 (Japan), LKS92 (Latvia 1992), NAD83 (South Carolina HPGN), Naparima 1972, Rome 1940 [Monte Mario] (w/ Rome meridian), SIRGAS 2000 (Brazil), South American 1969 (Brazil), Wisconsin - Burnett County, Wisconsin - Douglas County, and special MODIS spheroid-based datums.
- Added support for a Central Longitude parameter for the Geographic (Lat/Lon) projection to allow re-centering a lat/lon display on a longitude other than 0. This allows for easily wrapping maps near the anti-meridian.
- Added built-in support for Mars 2000 sphere and polar sphere datums and ellipsoids.
- Added support for Maine CS2000 State Plane zones.
- Updated the built-in Lambert-93 projection to now be a zoned projection supporting the base Lambert-93 definition as well as the CC-42 through CC-50 zones
- Renamed 'Central Meridian Scale Factor' in projection selection dialog to just 'Scale Factor' so that it would fit on the screen better.
- When writing out State Plane projections to PRJ files, save the name of the State Plane zone in the projection name at the start of the PRJ file.
- Added support for modifying the location relative to which the extra scale factor is applied to State Plane projections. This is for advanced users with some very unusual modifications to State Plane projections.
- Corrected EPSG codes and added new ones for many State Plane projections.
- Fixed problem with an extra scale factor being applied to some State Plane zones extracted from ECW files (this bug was introduced in v10.01).
- Corrected transformation for Kertau 1948, PRS92, and Timbalai 1948 datums (incorrect since v10.01).
- Improved accuracy of NTF France datum conversions (they now agree with the official results to within 1 centimeter).
- Improved accuracy of ROME 1940 and WGS72 datum transformations.
- Updated Robinson projection to use newer PROJ4 library definition rather than older GCTPC library definition that does not seem to be consistent with any other applications.
- Added support for using inches as a linear unit with projections.
- Increased valid range for scale factor parameters from [-2,2] to [-10,+10].
- Allowed use of WGS84 with Austrian Grid, Belge1972, and Dutch Grid projections.
- Updated MrSID imports to treat false easting/northing values embedded in the SID file as GeoTIFF tags as always being provided in meters as that seems to be how the MrSID library treats them.
- Added new LOAD_TYPE_FILTER script command for loading area, line, and point filters from GMF (Global Mapper Filter) files.
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- Added new EXPORT_PACKAGE script command to allow exporting loaded data to Global Mapper Package files.
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- Added new GENERATE_REPORT script command to allow creating a text report about the loaded vector layers, including feature counts, combined line length, and total covered area, broken down by feature name, type, or attribute value.
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- Added new GENERATE_LAYER_BOUNDS script command to allowing generating a layer with bounding areas for the loaded data from a script.
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- Added support for splitting a vector export into a separate file for each group of features with the same attribute values using the SPLIT_BY_ATTR=YES parameter. The new FILENAME_ATTR_LIST and FILENAME_INCLUDE_ATTR_NAME parameters can be used to control the file naming when splitting an export using this new functionality.
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- Modified specification of vertical exaggeration for VRML exports to allow manual number entry rather than using a slider to allow for a greater range of values and a more intuitive experience. The VERT_EXAG value used for the EXPORT_ELEVATION script command also now uses a normal value rather than a strange scaled value.
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- Made GEN_WORLD_FILE parameter work for all export formats with EXPORT_ELEVATION and EXPORT_RASTER script commands.
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- Updated default SIMPLIFICATION parameter value for GENERATE_CONTOURS command to match what is used in the user interface.
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- Added new collar cropping option to allow manually specifying a degree boundary to crop each side of a loaded layer to. For example you might specify that the crop boundary for a layer is at even degree boundaries.
- Added new option to Search->Search by Attributes dialog to allow searching on a value in any attribute, rather than just a single selected attribute.
- Automatically use bilinear interpolation when exporting reprojected or resampled raster layers that are not palette-based.
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- Added ability to label features based on the feature type, description, and/or source filename as well as attributes when setting up feature labeling for a vector layer via the Options dialog for the layer from the Control Center.
- Added support for exporting loaded area data to multi-patch Shapefiles.
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- Dramatically increased speed of raster and elevation exports cropped to areas with a large number of vertices.
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- Updated to save user settings in Application Data area of Windows rather than in Program Files folder. This is more in line with the requirements of newer Windows versions like Vista and Windows 7. The location of your user data folder will now also be displayed on the Help->About dialog.
- Allowed modifying the options for multiple selected vector layers and the User Created Features layer from the Control Center.
- Added new option to vector KML/KMZ export to allow specifying that the feature description be based on custom HTML text that can include attribute values and other feature information in whatever manner the user deems appropriate.
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- Added new option to vector KML/KMZ export to allow specifying the character encoding to specify in the header. This is useful if you are exporting things like UTF-8 text to KML files.
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- Added much better looking 24-bit color toolbar buttons (thanks to Bruno Bellazzi for these). You can switch back to using the older higher-contrast toolbar buttons using an option under the View->Toolbars menu.
- Added toolbar button to restore the last drawn view.
- Added new right-click option to the Control Center to allow ordering the loaded layers by resolution or by the bounding box of the layers.
- Added button to copy the contents of the Feature Vertices to the clipboard as text.
- Added reporting of DPI to metadata for (Geo)TIFF files.
- When batch converting from TIFF files to new TIFF or JPG files, maintain the DPI value specified in the original file (if there was one).
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- Made GPX exports write out 'time' attributes for 'wpt' elements if TIMESTAMP, TIME, or UTCDATE and UTCTIME attributes are available for the point being exported.
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- Made the preview window on the feature edit dialog for points and the create strike-and-dip dialog display the portion of the map under the point location so that you can see exactly how the symbol will look on the map when you create it.
- Added new option specify that any raster layers should automatically have anti-aliasing (interpolate) enabled when loaded to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Added support for loading text associated with features from USGS DLG-O files.
- Added support for loading compressed GXF files.
- Made FONT_HEIGHT_METERS attribute actually be used when importing point features.
- Changed FONT_HEIGHT_METERS to FONT_HT_M when writing out style information via attributes so that it would fit inside the 10 character attribute length limit for DBF/Shapefiles.
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- Added a new option to the Advanced section on the General tab of the Configuration dialog to specify that lat/lon values in the status should be displayed in WGS84 rather than the current datum selected on the Projection tab of the Configuration dialog.
- Sped up gridding of Lidar LAS files when using the option to remove ground shot points during the gridding operation.
- Allowed use of up to 20 zoom levels (instead of 19) when generating tiles for display in Virtual Earth.
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- Fixed problem with specified sample spacing not being maintained when gridding to a fixed width in ground units during export and also applying overlap. This bug was introduced in the v10.02 release.
- Updated custom shader creation to allow initializing values between currently specified min/max values when using the 'Evenly Space Elevations' option rather than just replacing the existing number of values.
- Added support for loading rotated MrSID format files.
- Added support for loading additional MODIS data sets from HDF format files.
- Added support for loading data from netCDF format files with multiple plottable data sets in them.
- Fixed problem with duplicate points being exported to SEGP1 files when points are in both line and point form.
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- Updated KMZ vector exports to copy any files referenced by "link" attributes to the output file.
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- Added support for loading gzipped text files using the File->Open Generic ASCII Data File menu command.
- Updated 3D path distance reported in path profile to work correctly for multi-segment lines.
- Added support for using styling information from KML/KMZ files that use 'StyleMap' tags.
- Updated the TomTom OV2 export to generate a BMP file with the same name as the OV2 file with the first symbol found in the points being exported.
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- Allow creating/flattening terrain from areas with per-vertex elevations rather than just a single elevation attribute.
- When calculating view sheds and using area features as obstructions, added option to control whether or not the top of the area features are allowed to be marked as visible or not.
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- Added support for modifying the intervals used for designating minor and major contours during contour generation via registry keys. To change the minor interval, create a DWORD value 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\ContourInterval_Minor' and set it to the desired multiplier (5 is the default). To change the major interval, create a DWORD value 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\ContourInterval_Major' and set it to the desired multiplier (10 is the default).
- Corrected issues loading BIL/BIP/BSQ images with signed 16-bit samples rather than unsigned 16-bit samples.
- Added support for gridding Terragen exports.
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- Fixed problem in v10.02 release with rotated symbols being mirrored in the X direction.
- Reduced default simplification applied during contour generation to improve appearance of contours generated with default settings (at the expense of the default settings now resulting in contours with more vertices).
- Added new options to the right-click menu in the Measure Tool allowing you to set the bearing format to degrees (the previous display format), the two-directional format used in surveying, or mils. In addition you can also choose whether to display bearings relative to True North, Magnetic North, or Grid North.
- Increased precision of decimal bearings displayed when measuring and also provided a registry key to control this at 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\BrgPrecision'.
- Fixed problems exporting MapInfo MIF/MID and TAB/MAP files with US Survey Feet coordinates.
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- Added a new shortcut key (Ctrl+Shift+L) to copy the cursor location and the elevation at the cursor location to the clipboard.
- Updated elevation legend display when a Slope Shader is used to be restricted to the min/max slope range setup for the Slope Shader.
- Fixed problems with missing time-stamps when tracking some connected NMEA GPS devices.
- Added support for additional colors when exporting to and importing from DXF files.
- Allow selection of any color for label font display rather than just a pre-selected list of colors.
- Fixed issues with some data not importing from OSGB GML files.
- Added support for loading PNG files embedded in KMZ files.
- Increased precision of elevation values written to Arc ASCII Grid files (now will be up to 3 digits of precision in nearly all cases).
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- Changed PNG and BMP world file extensions for screen captures to .pgw and .bpw respectively, rather than .pngw and .bmpw.
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- Improved performance exporting from some WMS data sources.
- Allowed GPS-triggered redraw to happen up to 3 times per second rather than just once per second.
- Added support for rods and varas as a unit of measure when using distance/bearing/COGO input.
- Added support for using bearings relative to the current projection/grid system rather than true north when using distance/bearing/COGO input.
- Fixed problems with cropping to rectangles or polygons during draw not working for online sources, like DigitalGlobe, Terraserver-USA, or WMS sources.
- Added support for loading ellipse/circle and rectangle features from EMF files.
- Added support for saving elevation values from multi-point Z Shapefiles.
- Added option to combine all vector layers into a single layer when exporting a Global Mapper Package file.
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- Significantly sped up access to the SRTM and NED data sources using the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.
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- Updated the Feature Info dialog so that if you double-click on an attribute with a filename as the value, that file will be opened with the associated Windows application.
- Sped up display or rotated or rectified ECW and JPEG2000 files.
- Added support for associating a text or web file to display when loading a workspace with a particular file. This association is set via the right-click menu on the Control Panel.
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- Fixed rare positioning problem with some Arc Binary Grid (ADF) files.
- Sped up Global Mapper Grid exports from large collections of files (like map catalogs).
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- Added option to batch convert vector files to the InRoads ASCII format.
- Fixed problem exporting areas with duplicate islands/holes when the export boundary passes through one or more duplicate islands/holes.
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- Updated KML import to use feature names for type assignment if type assignment based on folder names doesn't find a matching type.
- Added support for specifying the Image ID to use when exporting a Polish MP file.
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- Updated Polish MP exports to use 'EndLevel' rather than 'Levels' and [POLYLINE] and [POLYGON] sections rather than [RGN40] and [RGN80].
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- Made Polish MP export report any literal types that are exported which may cause problems in cGPSMapper.
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- Added area and line vertex count to metadata for layers.
- Added support for gpxx:Depth and gpxx:Temperature attributes when importing GPX files.
- Significantly sped up exports to extremely large ECW (multi-GB) files that had previously slowed to a crawl in some cases.
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- Updated behavior of path profile generation along multi-segment paths to not always stop at vertices when generating a path with a user-specified fixed interval. Now that interval will be obeyed so the user will get the exact spacing that they requested.
- Added option to generate 24-bit PNG files when exporting to WorldWind tiles.
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- Made fat road line styles and zoom-level based type filtering work properly when exporting to formats with multiple zoom resolutions, like Google Maps.
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- Made the Add New Attribute option when editing one or more features remember the last added attribute to simplify adding the same attribute to lots of features.
- Added display of bounding box for area and line features to the Geometry section of the Feature Info dialog for those features when selected.
- When adding a new WMS data source, if an existing WMS data source is selected initialize the server URL to that of the selected WMS source.
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- Updated CSV export to include all available attributes, even if the values for all of them are empty.
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- Added support for Yards as a unit for specifying the radius of range rings.
- Corrected problem with the default font being written to style files saved from the * Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog rather than the font assigned to a type.
- Updated the Path Profile/Line of Sight tool to draw using the 'Measurement' line style, so you can now customize the appearance of that line.
- Added support for loading data that is in .zip files contained within .zip files, like the new Tiger 2008 data is typically distributed.
- When measuring cut-and-fill volume from the Path Profile or Digitizer Tools, initialize the cut elevation for each vertex to that of the input path if possible.
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- Added ability to save your 3D cut line to a CSV file on the Volume Calculation dialog.
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- When splitting Shapefiles by layer on export, use the type name rather than the description string for anything other than unknown types.
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- Corrected positioning of some OSGB TIFF tiles.
- Added support for loading arc (BUE and BUEP) features from SOSI format files.
- Fixed problem loading area features with holes from SOSI format files.
- Added Location button to Feature Info dialog displayed for point features allowing display and editing of point feature location from there.
- Renamed Virtual Earth export to Bing Maps to reflect new naming by Microsoft.
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- Added support for positioning raster files with SOSI .sos files.
- Updated saving of Surfer CLR shader files to allow saving the actual elevation values rather than the standard elevation percentage values that Surfer uses. This makes it easier to save and restore shader settings within Global Mapper.
- Reduced size of built-in bullseye symbol to make it less obtrusive.
- Added option to use space separator rather than comma when batch converting to Simple ASCII Text and XYZ grid files.
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- When using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command, make the export option be unchecked by default.
- When exporting to a raster (image) format, check the 'Save Vector Data if Displayed' option by default if any vector data is loaded.
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- Made SEGP1 import just ask the user to confirm the datum as the projection is already known.
- Corrected application of color intensity when feather blending.
- Improved bearing calculations in Global Mapper to use the Vincenty formula.
- Made attribute values with multiple leading zeroes be treated as text fields rather than numeric when exported to DBF/Shapefiles.
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- Made Global Mapper Package exports maintain the names for palette entries if they exist.
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- Fixed problem with slow terrain draws from the last release.
- Added progress reporting when loading an archive (.zip or .tar.gz) file with multiple files to load inside it.
- Fixed bug with changes on the Palette tab of the Options tab for TIFF files not being applied to overview layers (i.e. it only worked when zoomed in on the layer).
- Dramatically improved performance of exports from large numbers of MrSID files.
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- Updated GeoTIFF exports to write out the ellipsoid parameters.
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- Updated TIN generation when flattening areas to automatically delete any triangles outside the area feature(s) being flattened.
- Reversed the order of colors in the HSV shader.
- Made CSV exports include non-default symbol names as well as an IMAGE_LINK attribute for EXIF point features.
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- Added support for additional HDF-formatted data sets.
- When loading .gm_style files via the * Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog, prompt the user to add any types that aren't found on the system.
- Added support for controlling the accuracy and collection system values stored in exported DTED files through the 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DTEDAccuracy' and 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DTEDCollectionSystem' string registry keys.
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