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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.
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Added support to check for new releases of Global Mapper, both automatically
and manually using a new Help menu option.
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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.
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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.
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Added support for loading DWG files.
imagery.
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Added support for importing data from WAsP .map format files.
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added option to export survey section (i.e. section/township/range) area
features to Platte River ASCII Digitizer format files.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for exporting gridded elevation data to PGM format grayscale
grid files.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for loading NTF-format contour files as supplied by the
UK Ordnance Survey.
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Added support for loading KINGDOM planimetric polygon files like those used
by SMT (Seismic Micro-Technology) software.
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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.
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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.
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Added option to the Digitizer Tool to automatically create vertices at the
intersections of selected line features.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When adding range rings and point features are selected, added option to
add the new range rings at the selected point locations.
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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.
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Fixed problems in Digitizer Tool with horizontal and vertical snapping
not working properly for the last vertex added to line and area features.
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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.
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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.
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Made features in Polish MP files that do not have data at level 0 still
be loaded.
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Added new EXPORT_METADATA command to the scripting language to allow
exporting of text metadata for loaded layers to a file.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added ability to grid exports from script files when using the
EXPORT_ELEVATION, EXPORT_RASTER, and EXPORT_VECTOR script commands.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added new DEFINE_SHAPE script command. This is currently used for defining
a polygonal feather blend boundary.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added ability to export CDF format files from a script.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Removed limit on the length of WMS server URLs added through the "Select
WMS Data Source to Load" dialog.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for adding custom WMS sources with a question mark at the
end of the server URL.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for adding custom WMS sources with a service name other than
WMS (this was not working properly before).
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for loading the Z coordinates for 3D area features from most
3D shapefiles.
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Added option to the Simple ASCII Text export to write out the Y (latitude)
coordinates before the X (longitude) coordinates if desired.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
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Added additional progress reporting when batch converting files.
(Registered Version Only)
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Dramatically sped up the loading of map catalog files with lots of files
in different projections.
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Fixed problem with scale being slightly changed when printing to scale
with a header and/or footer.
(Registered Version Only)
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Made State Plane projections with NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums be properly saved
and loaded from PRJ files.
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Added support for loading ECW and JPG2000 files with more than 8 bits per
color channel, including elevation-based files.
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added option to skip files for which the projection cannot be automatically
be determined when batch converting files.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for decoding some additional NITF imagery formats, in
particular 2-band 16-bit per band imagery.
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Added POSGAR94 (Argentina) datum.
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for loading MrSID imagery with more than 8 bits per color channel.
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Fixed display of ADRG/ASRP/USRP data sets with 4-bit count RLE compression.
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Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to have
only the border of selected area features highlighted.
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added support for decoding and encoding Lambert France projection codes from
GeoTIFF files.
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Added support for automatically decoding projection and datum information from
text metadata files accompanying Mexican topo maps.
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Fixed rare problems loading some NOS/GEO format files.
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Fixed bug cropping reprojected area features on export to MapInfo MIF/MID
format files. The bug caused those areas to not be exported.
(Registered Version Only)
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Improved behavior of near-white colors when exporting to image-optimized palettes.
(Registered Version Only)
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When exporting 3D point features to DXF files, export the elevation
information after the coordinate information rather than before.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
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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).
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
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Fixed problem with line vertices showing up slightly offset from the line
when zoomed way in on line features that are also being reprojected.
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Improved display of 4-band Digital Globe QuickBird imagery with 8 bits per
color band.
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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.
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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.
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Fixed very slow display of some large tiled TIFF files.
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Dramatically sped up export of TerraServer-USA data when it is being
exported in a projection other than Geographic.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
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Added option to CSV export to include LATITUDE and LONGITUDE columns even
if the projection is not Geographic.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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Added version to title bar.
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When exporting a VRML file, made the lowest vertical exaggeration setting on
the slider correspond to no vertical exaggeration at all.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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)
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Allowed for entry of azimuth and altitude light angle values at greater than
integer precision on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
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Moved the Configuration button on the toolbar to be next to the Overlay Control
Center button as that is a more logical grouping.
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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.
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When marking a waypoint from a tracked GPS location, automatically add
elevation (if available) and timestamp attributes.
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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.
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Made State Plane projections be recognized from ECW files rather than using
the base projection (like Lambert Conformal Conic).
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Updated Surfer BLN export to use new comma-delimited format.
(Registered Version Only)
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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).
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.
(Registered Version Only)
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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.