What's New in Version 10.02 (January 28, 2009)

Added ability to easily create strike-and-dip points by right-clicking in the Digitizer Tool. You can now place your strike-and-dip points and specify the dip value, azimuth angle, and symbol to use and get the appropriate symbology displayed on the map.

Added support for adding custom area fill styles from image files. New fill styles can be added on the Area Styles tab of the Configuration dialog.

Added support for rotating point symbols by a user-specified angle. This option is on the Point Styles tab of the Configuration dialog as well as on the edit dialogs for point features.

Added option to the Digitizer Tool to calculate the minimum, maximum, and average elevation values within selected area features.
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Added support for specifying that lines should draw a particular number of meters in width. Line width selections on the Line Styles tab of the Configuration dialog and anywhere else that you setup a line drawing style now include an option to specify a fixed width in meters for the line.

Added new input option to distance/bearing/COGO input for lines to allow one-handed-input using the number pad with either quadrant/bearing/distance input or distance/bearing input. Also added support for entering DM or DMS bearings as decimal values, like 40.3020 for 40 degrees, 30 minutes, and 20 seconds.

Added new right-click options to the Area Styles, Line Styles, and Point Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog to allow saving the current style settings to a file and restoring style settings from a file.

Added new ASSIGN_TYPE command to the scripting language to allow classifying loaded vector features based on one or more attribute/display label value queries.
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Added support for loading SOSI format files (commonly used in Norway).

Added ability to easily shift loaded data by some fixed distance by right clicking on them in the Control Center and selecting a new option to shift the selected layer(s).

Made batch conversion remember the last used import and export formats as well as the last used settings for a previously used import/export format combination.
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Made GPX files with links pointing to local image files behave just like JPG files with EXIF positioning data and show the image when you click on the point with the Feature Info tool. The linked images will also export to KMZ files.

Added new Slope Direction shader to allow coloring loaded terrain files by the direction that the slope faces (the coloring can be setup on the Shader Options tab of the Configuration dialog). You can also now export slope direction values to Float/Grid files.

Added option to batch converter to add a watermark image.
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Added new option to only display area labels when the label is completely contained within the parent area to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.

Made the option to display selected feature measurements (including combined values) in the Digitizer/Edit Tool work even if only line features are selected.
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Added ability to display any custom 'elevation' units string that you want on the elevation legend by right-clicking on the legend and selecting the option to specify a custom unit string.

Added support for exporting to DeLorme track and waypoint formats.
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Added support for exporting loaded area and line features to ZMap+ XYSegId text files.
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Added option when generating Global Mapper Package files to store each layer in its native projection rather than in the current view projection or in lat/lon/WGS84.
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Added new option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to always show vertices for features selected with the Digitizer/Edit Tool. This makes it easier to edit the vertices of area and line features without being overwhelmed by displaying all feature vertices.

Allowed rasterization of vector data to any size to exported image file (previously you were limited by the largest bitmap that could be allocated on your system).
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Added built-in support for the Wisconsin County coordinate systems.

Added built-in support for Deir Ez Sor, Egypt Gulf of Suez S-650 TL, Estonia 1997, FD 1958, Herat North, ISN93, Jordan, Korean 1985, Korean 1995, Ocotepeque (Costa Rica), Reykjavik 1900, and Trinidad 1903 datums.

Added built-in support for the Clarke 1858, Danish 1876 and Clarke 1880 (IGN) ellipsoids.

Added built-in support for linear units of Clarke Feet.

Added EPSG codes for KGD (Korean Geodetic Datum) and Mercator projection used in Google Maps and Virtual Earth (code 3785).

Fixed problem with Dutch (RD) datum transformations in the v10.01 release.

Added support for decoding Bonne projections from OziExplorer .map files.

Added support for decoding projection names from ECW files stored as EPSG:epsg_code in the projection name and also encode unknown projections that way in exported ECW files.

Improved accuracy of KKJ datum conversions and added KKJ projection EPSG codes.

Added option to Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog when matching the elevation scale to the draw scale to allow users to enter a vertical exaggeration to apply.

Added new batch conversion option to skip existing output files.
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Added new batch conversion option to disable anti-aliasing (interpolation) in all cases, even when it is automatically applied for reprojection or resampling.
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Added new batch conversion option to minimize the main window while the conversion is running.
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Updated batch conversion to not report any errors in the conversion until all conversions have been completed. This prevents a batch conversion operation from stalling in the middle waiting for a user to clear an error message.
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Updated the set position dialog to have an elevation field when editing the location of a single vertex from a 3D line or area feature using the Digitizer Tool.

Added options when gridding exports to break each row (or column if naming is reversed) into its own folder as well as an option to not place an underscore between each piece of the export filename.
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Improved decoding of waypoints from GPS TrackMaker .gtm files. An appropriate symbol should now be assigned if possible and the correct naming is now used.

Don't use EXIF information from JPG files if you open the files with the File->Rectify Imagery menu command to force rectification.

Fixed crash when loading Terrascan .bin files from v10.01 release.

Added new Ctrl+Shift+D shortcut key to toggle the display of deleted features.

Allow initialization of custom shaders from other custom shaders in addition to the Global Shader and also added option to re-base and offset the elevation values used in a shader.

Fixed problems with labels for very short lines not showing when zoomed way out on them.

Reduced memory requirements for loading Helava DEM format files.

Fixed color problems with CMYK-encoded JPG files from Adobe Photoshop.

Fixed problem generating iso-height contour areas in some rare situations.

Added a new option when batch converting to Float/Grid format files to export slope values rather than elevations.
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Updated the DXF export to use the Elevation Display/Export Units setting on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog to determine whether to export feet or meters for elevation values derived from loaded terrain data during export.
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Updated Google Maps exports to use a separate folder for each row in a particular zoom level to avoid overloading a single Windows folder with more files than it can efficiently handle.
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Fixed bug with slope values written out to Float/Grid files being slightly smaller than they should be, especially in very steep areas.
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Fixed problem with incorrect slope values of 0 being written out to Float/Grid format files in some cases.
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Fixed problem with KML_ZOOM_SCALE_FACTOR script parameter not working.
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Added support for overriding the default naming convention for Lidar class names using a lidar_classes.txt file enumerating Lidar classes and the new name to use for those classifications.

Fixed problems with some features being missing when loading some ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) files, like those from the NHD.

Updated KML import to support color specified for icons.

When batch converting files that are loaded in the main map view with contrast adjustment enabled, use the contrast adjustment settings of the loaded files during the conversion.
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Added support for loading clutter and height files similar to MSI Planet but with .cl or .he extensions and a List file rather than a Index file.

Added new option to Google Maps and Virtual Earth exports to allow skipping existing tiles. This provides a mechanism for restarting cancelled exports or just updating part of a data set.
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Improved compression ratio achieved in LZW-compressed GeoTIFF files.
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Fixed problem exporting Shapefiles split by layer/description when the layer/description includes special characters.
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Allow the Control Center dialog to be resized to be more narrow.

Added option when batch converting from USGS DRG files with accompanying FGD metadata files to use the quad name from the FGD filename as the output filename.
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Drastically sped up the loading of Canada3D files.

Updated distance/bearing input dialog to allow bearings to be specified with formats other than decimal degrees (like DMS, DM, etc.).

Added new option to the Options menu on the Path Profile/LOS dialog to allow modifying the start distance for the distance scale in the path profile graph.

When gridding during export and using a letter to name rows and/or columns, keep the letter as lower case if it was originally specified that way.
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Fixed problem with default line simplification not being applied during contour generation unless you actually click on the Simplification tab.

When gridding to selected area features, allow the overlap setting to be applied if you are just cropping to the bounds of each area feature.
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Corrected half-pixel shift in the placement of loaded GXF files.

Fixed problem reading palette color labels with spaces in them from .pal files.

Made the shot point number field in exported SEG-P1 files be right-justified.
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Increased the number of recently opened files that are remembered on the File menu from 4 to 6.

Made the Search->Search by Attributes dialog always display the current number of selected items.

Added option to feather blend to the outside of a polygonal boundary rather than to the inside.

Added option to generate ERS files when doing elevation-format BIL exports.
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Allowed cropping a raster layer to multiple selected polygons when using the Cropping tab on the options dialog for the layer.

Fixed error reading some MapInfo MIF/MID format files.

Added support for .jgwx as a JPG world file extension.

Made the dialog displayed when editing multiple features at the same time be resizable.

Updated the create/flatten terrain from areas option of the Digitizer Tool when treating the area elevations as relative to the ground perform the relative adjustment of the terrain at each sample location within the area rather than picking a single representative elevation for the entire area. This is useful for adjust all elevation values within an area feature by some amount.

When loading files that have contrast adjustment automatically applied, make them use a shared contrast adjustment by default. This makes loading multiple high color (i.e. 16-bit per color channel) files adjust them consistently automatically rather than doing a separate adjustment for each image.

Added new right-click option to the Control Center to allow easily setting the current view/export projection to the native projection of the layer that is right-clicked on.

Corrected placement of text points from DGN v8 files.

Added support for rotated text from DGN v8 files.

What's New in Version 10.01 (November 13, 2008)

Added support for loading JPG files with embedded EXIF GPS position data. These files will be loaded as point features with picture icons. When you select one of these with the Feature Info Tool, the JPG image will be displayed.

Added support for tracking and managing multiple GPS devices via an input GPS data stream including $PRAVE sentences. With a compatible receiver, you can now use Global Mapper for fleet management. There is a new Manage GPS Devices option under the GPS menu that provides extensive functionality for managing the collection of GPS devices being tracked.

Added new Color Grade tab to raster options dialog to allow complex manipulation of color channel values and saturation for loaded raster files. This allows 'grading' each color channel from a specified input range for a color channel to a specified output range.

Added support for exporting loaded data to NITF format files.
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Added support for exporting an alpha channel to ECW and JPG2000 format files, thus allowing creating of files in those formats with transparency built-in.
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Added button to the toolbar for the Search->Search by Attributes menu command.

Added option to add X and Y coordinate attributes to selected point features via the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.

Added new option to the distance/bearing/COGO input to close a path using the 'compass rule' and to edit the start location.

Added ability to right click on a point in the Search by Attributes dialog and start a new distance/bearing/COGO line from that point.

Added new batch conversion option to "Make a Single Color Transparent". This will allow you to choose a color to make transparent when batch converting raster format files.
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Added support for loading PDS/Vicar format data, which is commonly used by NASA for planetary data sets.

Added new item to the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool when area features are selected to populate the attributes of those areas from the attribute tables of a single point contained within those area features.

Added new Advanced Creation Options sub-menu to the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool when area and/or line features are selected. This menu now contains the options to create lines from area, create areas from lines, create terrain from areas, as well as a couple of new options (see below).

Added option to the Advanced Creation Options menu of the Digitizer Tool to create new point features at the centroid of selected area features.

Added option to the Advanced Creation Options menu of the Digitizer Tool to create new point features from the vertices of selected area and line features.

Added new options to the right-click menu option of the Digitizer Tool for creating rectangular/square area and line features by manually entering the rectangle coordinates.

Added new built-in point types for LIDAR point types to make it easier to filter out different LIDAR points loaded from LAS and Terrascan LIDAR files.

Sped up export to GeoTIFF files when a large number of input files are being exported.
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Added support for adding multiple custom symbols at once when adding custom symbols on the Point Styles tab of the Configuration dialog.

Added automatic positioning of OSGB 10K grid cells in TIFF format.

Improved generation of image-optimized palettes in cases where over 16.7 million pixels with the same color are involved in the export.
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Added ability to select which layers to load from an ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) file.

Added new palette option during batch conversion to use the same settings as the source file. This allows you to convert a mixture of RGB and palette-based files and maintain their original settings.
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Added built-in support for the Double Stereographic and System 1965 (Uklad 1965) projection systems.

Added built-in support for IRENET95, Malongo 1987, PRS92 (Philippines Reference System 1992), and SWEREF99 datums and associated EPSG projection codes.

Added new EPSG codes for Swedish Grid (3021 and 2400).

Added built-in datums for each of the custom Minnesota county ellipsoids as well as for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.

Added more accurate 7-parameter datum transformations for Kertau 1948 and Timbalai datums.

Allowed use of linear units other than meters (i.e. feet) for New Zealand projections.

Corrected definition of Guam State Plane zone.

Added option when shifting selected features with the Digitizer Tool and selected control points when rectifying imagery to shift based on a distance and bearing as well as fixed X and Y offset distances.

Added Speed and Bearing display for each leg in the Feature Vertices dialog when a time-stamp is present for each vertex (i.e. such as GPS tracklogs).

Added support for getting positioning information for raster files (like JPG, etc) from a greater variety of KML files.

Sped up display of dense point data sets with labels. This was slower in v10 due to new automatic label placement feature.

Added new right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow zooming to the selected feature(s).

Increased the size of the displayed elevation and lat/lon position on the GPS Information dialog.

No longer generate transparent PNG or TIFF files for KML raster exports using the super overlay feature if vector data is being exported. This is to prevent problems with the multiple layers of images showing through in Google Earth when zoom in on transparent areas which are prevalent in vector exports.
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Made filename parameters for script commands referencing loaded files (like COMBINE_TERRAIN, UNLOAD_LAYER, etc.) also match against the description of loaded layers in case no matching filenames are found. This allows matching against created layers that are not backed by a filename, like the results of a previous COMBINE_TERRAIN or GENERATE_CONTOURS command.
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Allowed use of PROJ_EPSG_CODE parameter with LOAD_PROJECTION script command.
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Fixed problem decoding projections from MapInfo files with units other than meters and specified false easting/northing values.

Added option to view shed generation to specify a receiver height above the terrain surface to check for visibility at when use a beam with restricted transmission angles.
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Improved export of 3D line and area features to PLS-CADD XYZ files.
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Update PLS-CADD export to write out a sequential ID number in the first field for point features with no POINT_DESC attribute value.
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Fixed problem loading some WMS data sets.
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Added new option to the Global Mapper Package export dialog to specify that the full style for all features should always be saved to the generated file, even if a feature is using the default style for a type. This makes it easier to save data sets with the same styling for sharing between users.
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Made Feature Edit dialog resizable.

Made types that are disabled in the type filter on the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog not show up in the Feature Edit dialog.

Updated raster/elevation export plugin architecture to add a new flag (EP_Flags_ElevAndColor) that allows an elevation format to also have the color callback function called for each exported sample for formats that store both elevation and color information.
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Added display of current data download speed to export progress dialogs that are exporting data coming from online sources, like WMS or DigitalGlobe imagery.
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Fixed bug in v10.00 that prevented export to some formats from a script file.
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Fixed bug with incorrect Z value being written out to new 3D DGN files for 3D points that have no display label.
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Added new File menu command to the Path Profile/LOS dialog to allow saving the path profile results to a CSV file with X, Y, elevation, and distance (both segment and cumulative) values.
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Added support for loading JPEG2000 files from associated .TAB files.

Added display of target compression ratio to metadata display for ECW and JP2 format images.

Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that use $IN* sentences rather than $GP* sentences.

Corrected zone number used for GeoTIFF files for the Mississippi West State Plane zone.

Greatly sped up export to large ECW files from map catalogs.
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Updated date fields imported from DBF files to use 4 digit years.

Updated Lidar LAS export from vector data to use feet for the elevation units if the 'Elevation Display/Export Units' setting on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog is set to 'Statute (ft)'.
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Fixed problem batch-converting to GeoTIFF files using a min-is-black or min-is-white palette.
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Added options to Erdas Imagine export to control the block size, whether or not compression is used, and whether or not to add overview (pyramid) layers.
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Added progress bar for lengthy area volume calculations.
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Made Surfer BLN files be automatically detected and imported with no user intervention.

Made Delft 3D .ldb files be automatically detected and imported with no user intervention.

Added support for reading place point features from OpenStreetMap (OSM) files.

Fixed problem with attribute display in Search by Attributes dialog when loading new files with the dialog open.

Added new line drawing style, "Solid with Black Edges".

Fixed bug in v10.00 which caused vector features to not be selectable if any fixed screen position layers that are set to always draw on top are loaded.

Modified the bearing display in Global Mapper to be based on the Position Display Format selection on the General tab of the Configuration dialog. So if you have that set to DMS, your bearings should show up that way as well.

Added support for MPR/MPH files larger than 2GB.

Reduce memory requirements for loading large ENVI DEM format files.

Fixed problem in v10.00 release with users being prompted to confirm projection for NAD83-based projections from old-style PRJ files or prj.adf files.

Added support for loading truncated Lidar LAS files.

Added support for loading very large 16-bit BMP files.

Corrected color display in the status bar as you move the cursor around the map over loaded TIFF files.

Added support for user-specified tile size when generating KML super overlays.
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Made the last palette selection be remembered for batch conversions.
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Added support for additional flavors of MODIS data in HDF format, like the SST (sea surface temperature) data.

Fixed problem with some new line styles from v10.00 not drawing properly when used as area borders.

Corrected rotation of text labels from some DXF files.

Fixed problem with multiple consecutive spaces being reduced to a single space when reading in attributes from ASCII text files.

Made the text '\n' be interpreted as a newline character in attribute values read from ASCII text files.

Added LEVEL_DESC attribute to features imported from DGN v8 and later files if the file contains a text description for the level of the feature.

Fixed problem with translucency setting not always working with TIFF files in map catalogs.

Added ability to use custom palettes when exporting GeoTIFF, PNG, or Erdas Imagine files from scripts by providing the palette filename as the value of the PALETTE parameter, like PALETTE="C:\my_palette.pal".
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Greatly sped up the addition of JPG files to map catalogs.
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Made NAME and LABEL fields be preferred for labeling over fields that just start with NAME or LABEL when loading Shapefiles.

Added support for addition font style information from attributes using FONT_STYLE, FONT_WEIGHT, and FONT_PLACEMENT attributes.

Changed name of automatic MODIFIED_DATE attribute to MOD_DATE to avoid attribute name length issues with Shapefiles.

Fixed problem when geo-coding to loaded data from a file that contains the address number and street name in the same field.
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What's New in Version 10.00 (August 21, 2008)

Added support for importing ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) files.

Added support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files, which allows working with (Geo)TIFF files larger than 4GB.

Added support for generating super overlays in raster KML/KMZ exports to allow for the viewing of massive quantities of data in Google Earth. The existing option to automatically grid data on the KML/KMZ raster export options dialog enables this behavior.
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Added support for selecting/changing the layer that features are in when editing existing features and creating new ones with the Digitizer Tool.

Added ability to generate raster KML/KMZ files using the EXPORT_RASTER script command.
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Added new Coordinate Convertor option under the Tools menu to allow easily converting a coordinate between any two supported projections/datums/units.

Added ability to Search Vector Data dialog to limit your search to the existing search results. This effectively allows you to query on multiple attributes/values.

Added support for creating new feature coordinates based on distance/bearing and/or COGO values from a start location using the Digitizer Tool.

Added more control over placement of labels for point features. Now when choosing the font to use for point features, you can also choose where to place the label for the point relative to the point location. An automatic setting will try different locations to try and make the label fit.

Added a large collection of new available line styles to use when rendering line features or area feature borders.

Added option to crop a loaded raster layer to the currently selected area feature to the Cropping tab of the Raster Options dialog accessible from the Overlay Control Center.

Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the MapInfo TAB/MAP format.
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Added support for exporting loaded 3D line and point data to the SEGP1 format.
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Added support for exporting loaded area features to the DeLorme Polygon Text format that some DeLorme products can import.
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Added support for loading IKT track files generated by MagicMaps software.

Added support for loading Gravsoft Grid format files.

Added option on the Gridding tab for exports to grid to the currently selected area features. This will create a separate export file for each selected area feature. Naming can be done using the display labels or an attribute of the selected area feature(s).
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Added support for generating 3D DXF and Shapefiles (including using any loaded elevation data as a source) when batch converting to those formats.
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Made automatic collar cropping work for BSB charts.

Added arrow buttons to the Overlay Control Center to make it easier to change the overlay draw order.

Added support for loading files from web URLs using the IMPORT command in a script file. Just pass the URL with the FILENAME parameter.
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Alphabetized the area, line, and point type lists on the * Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog and on the vector type options dialog.

Added new 'Pseudo Natural Color' blend mode to combine the color channels in a layer using a common algorithm for generating natural color imagery from CIR imagery.

Added option to the Digitizer Tool to select multiple area features and right click and display measure information about each feature and the combination of features on a dialog.
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Added options when editing multiple features to rename attributes and also to copy the values of one attribute to a different attribute.

Added new option when combining terrains to filter one terrain layer based on another by keeping the values in one terrain layer only when the other terrain layer also has a valid value.
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Added options to the View menu to save the current view with a name and then restore named views from a list of the saved views with names.

Added option to the View menu to restore the last drawn view. This allows you to back up through up to the last 20 drawn views.

Added option to the View menu to zoom the view to a particular sample spacing (pixel size).

Added support for extracting positioning information for image files from KML files. This allows you to load KMZ files that contain embedded raster images.

Added option when creating an elevation grid when loading Lidar data formats (like LAS and Terrascan files) for the user to specify options such as the grid tightness, whether or not to fill to the entire bounds of the data, and whether or not to only consider ground-shot points in the gridding process.

Added new option to initialize custom elevation shaders from a palette file.

Made the distance scale displayed on the main map view and on the path profile dialog use the currently selected distance measure units. This allows display of nautical and other units on the scale.

Added option for fixed screen layers to force them to always be drawn on top of other layers (including grid lines and user created features) regardless of the layer order in the Control Center. This is useful for forcing things like legends to always be display on top of other data.

Added new option when pasting features from the clipboard to not clear the clipboard after pasting the features (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+V).

Added option when printing to select the area to print rather than just always using what is on screen.

Significantly improved the speed and reliability of accessing the Landsat7 Global Imagery Mosaic data layer through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.

Added built-in access to several new aviation chart (GNC, ONC, TPC, and JNC) layers through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.

Made rotated line labels be exported to DXF files when exporting line labels to DXF files 'Include Display Labels as Separate Text Layer' option.
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Added new option to the Font selection dialog to control the label fill background mode. Now you can force the background to be transparent, which allows labels centered on line features to be drawn with no filler behind them if you want.

Added built-in support for the MSTM (Mississippi Transverse Mercator) and New Brunswick Double Stereographic projections as well as a configurable RSO (Rectified Skew Orthomorphic) projection.

Added built-in support for the ED87, JAD69 (Jamaica 1969) and JAD2001 (Jamaica 2001) datums.

Improved accuracy of datum conversions involving the Tananarive datum by using improved conversion parameters from IGN.

Fixed accuracy problem with ED50 (Spain and Portugal) and OSGB36 datum conversions very close to and just east of the prime meridian.

Improved accuracy of datum conversions involving the Bogota Observatory (Bogota 1975) datum.

Allow the Azimuthal Equidistant projection to cover the entire world rather than just half the world around the projection center.

Added support for users to add their own EPSG codes definitions or modify the existing ones by modifying the epsg_codes.txt file in the Global Mapper installation folder.

Added recognition of additional EPSG codes for projections (like MGI/Balkans).

Updated EPSG projection definitions for State Plane Illinois zones (FIPS 1201 and 1202). New codes 3435 and 3436 are for these zones using feet units and existing codes 26971 and 26972 now use meters as units.

Added support for two extra false easting/northing attributes to the State Plane projection system to support users that use a State Plane projection system with an extra scale factor (such as for ground vs. grid coordinates) and then apply an XY offset to the coordinates after that.

Added zones 6-9 for Gauss Krueger Germany (3-degree zones) projection.

Added additional S-42 (Pulkovo 1942) datum specializations and made the base S-42 (Pulkovo 1942) datum automatically select an appropriate specialization to use.

Added support for easy creation of multi-line text for area and point features by adding the text '\n' to display labels for points when creating/editing them with the Digitizer Tool.

Allowed the label for area features to be rotated.

Automatically combine address ranges for Tiger 2007 line segments that have multiple address ranges to make address searching more effective.

Added support for additional MTFCC (feature type) codes from Tiger 2007 data so that features like state and county boundaries can be automatically classified on import.

Added new selection mode to the Digitizer Tool. If you hold down the 'I' key when dragging a box, only features that are completely contained within the box will be selected. This is useful for things like selecting a point feature on top of a line or area feature.

Corrected ERS header export to be correct when exporting BIL files or files with export units of arc degrees.
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Fixed bug when exporting raster KML/KMZ files to a filename with a special character not allowed in XML files, like an ampersand.
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Fixed problem with per-vertex time-stamp values being lost in some cases when graphically moving or deleting vertices with the Digitizer Tool.

Added new built-in point type 'Address Label'. You can disable this type to turn off the center address labels automatically applied to downloaded online sources, like TerraServer-USA and DigitalGlobe.

Added new built-in area type 'County Subdivision'.

Added option to maintain the map location under the cursor position when using the mouse wheel to zoom. You can do this either by checking the option on the Advanced list on the General tab of the Configuration dialog or holding down the Ctrl key when scrolling the mouse wheel.

Added new options to Google Maps export to allow easily adding additional controls to the map displayed by the default HTML file that is generated, such as a map type selected. Also made double-click zooming be enabled by default.
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Added transparency slider to the Google Maps and Virtual Earth export dialogs to allow setting the default transparency level for the exported maps.
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When importing generic ASCII text files, make the default attribute list for the type being assigned to a feature automatically be applied to the attribute list for that feature.

Added automatic type and style assignment from attribute values when loading DBF point files.

Updated the 'Find by Name' dialog to allow recentering on a feature without showing the bullseye icon if you hold down the ALT key when double-clicking on an item.

Added new Ctrl+Alt+L shortcut key for automatically copying the current point/cursor coordinates to the clipboard in the current selected projection with a tab separated the X and Y coordinate values.

Corrected placement of ECW/JPEG2000 files that use a projection code of TMNEWYEM. They were previously very slightly shifted.

Made the COMBINE_TERRAIN script command by default use the intersection of the bounding box of the two layers being combined rather than the union of the layer bounding boxes.
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Fixed problem with elevations sometimes not being saved when recording a tracklog for a connected GPS device.

Made saved CSV export options be remembered during a run of Global Mapper.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed problems loading LAS, Terrascan, and DMDF files from workspace files.
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for loading latest GNIS (USGS Geographic Names) database from http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm.

Added option when capturing the screen contents to an image to save a text file containing metadata about the file, like the bounds, pixel size, etc.
(Registered Version Only)

Increased precision of lat/lon coordinates displayed on the status bar.

Improved automatic detection of alpha channels and non-standard color channels when loading ECW and JPEG2000 (JP2) format files.

Changed font used for elevation legend and distance scale display text so that it can display correctly on all systems, regardless of language.

Fixed problems loading 24-bit RGB MPR/MPH files.

Fixed error when trying to load DBF files greater than 2GB in size.

Made gridded elevation grid generation from loaded vector data automatically overlap the edges during generation to generate a smooth, non-overlapped output.

Fixed problem when gridding elevation grid generation and manually specifying the sample spacing to use.

Fixed problem loading SID files with corrupt world files accompanying them.

Fixed problem with features being exported to the non-populated upper layer(s) of MP files in some cases.
(Registered Version Only)

Made files loaded at a fixed screen position be maintained as fixed screen location files when saved to Global Mapper Package (GMP) files.
(Registered Version Only)

When loading generic ASCII text/CSV files, keep a name/label column as both an attribute value and the display label if multiple attributes exist to allow easily changing what attribute(s) to display as the label.

When exporting to the Arc Ungenerate formats, write out coordinates in the projection selected on the Projection tab of the Configuration dialog rather than just lat/lon values.
(Registered Version Only)

Added automatic detection of grid cell registration type (i.e. pixel-is-point or pixel-is-area) for netCDF grids like those created using GMT.

When generating Simple ASCII Text files from a script using the EXPORT_VECTOR command, allow specification of attribute export except for style attributes by using the parameter EXPORT_ATTRS=NO_STYLE.
(Registered Version Only)

When importing files from a script/workspace, warn the user if a file does not exist.

Improved detection of invalid (void) values for elevation GeoTIFF files that use very large negative numbers for invalid values and the files do not contain any valid data.

Added support for loading palettes from Idrisi SMP files.

Added option to make background pixels transparent when batch converting to raster KMZ files.
(Registered Version Only)

Added option to generate 8-bit palette-based PNG files when batch converting to raster KMZ files.
(Registered Version Only)

Added automatic detection and correction of incorrect State Plane zone encodings in some .aux files, such as those produced by a New York imagery site.

Fixed problem reading the timestamp for tracklog points from GPX files that are on the 31st day of a month.

Fixed problem with TriangulationLib.dll files sometimes not being installed by auto-downloading them if needed.

Fixed rare error loading some DNC data sets.

When importing ASCII data files, automatically detect lines with a series of 999.0 values and allow the user to treat these as feature separator lines rather than coordinates.

Sped up import of GML files, particularly when importing lines or areas with a lot of vertices.

Drastically improved speed when displaying some NAIP 2008 JPEG2000 imagery.

Added support for using TFWX files as world files for TIFF files.

Added display of the number of grid cells being exported when doing a gridded raster or elevation export.
(Registered Version Only)

Added display of the area covered by the screen to the View->Properties dialog.

Fixed crash when doing more than one export to a web-based format (like Virtual Earth, Google Maps, etc.) from a single Global Mapper session.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed HTML file created for Virtual Earth export when using the JPG format.
(Registered Version Only)

Added option to Download Online Imagery menu command to delete the caches for the various sources.

Added Alt+R as a shortcut key to save the current view.

Improved decoding of block labels and attributes from some DXF files.

Added support for 2 additional resolution level exports for Google Maps exports, allowing up to 2 cm resolution imagery to be accurately represented.
(Registered Version Only)

Allowed for the specification of negative grid cell width and/or height values when exporting and using the Gridding tab. When a negative value is specified the grid cells will be snapped to the right and/or bottom of the export bounds rather than the left and/or top as is normal.
(Registered Version Only)

When assigning areas to be islands in other areas with the Digitizer Tool, allow the user to add areas as islands even if they are not completely contained within the topmost area at the clicked location.

Changed the cursor used when selecting features with the Digitizer Tool to a crosshair from a pointer.

Added new Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut key to the Digitizer Tool to activate move mode.

Allow 2 line features that do not share a common endpoint to be combined by automatically adding a line segment connecting the 2 closest ends of the line when using the Combine Selected Line Features command in the Digitizer Tool.

Added display of some projection information on the Metadata tab of the metadata dialog for layers and also in the output of the EXPORT_METADATA script command.

Added option to the batch conversion dialog when converting raster files to disable the automatic use of contrast adjustment. This is useful when you have files with more than 8 bits per color channel that look better with no contrast adjustment applied.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new PROMPT_IF_TYPE_UNKNOWN parameter for the IMPORT script command to allow disabling the type prompt when importing files for which the type could not automatically be determined.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new option to the NASA World Wind export to allow manual specification of the level 0 tile size to use.
(Registered Version Only)

Allowed use of the Delete key to delete ground control points from the rectification dialog.

Fixed problem loading some MapTech BSB charts with unusual projections (like Polyconic).

Fixed problem with image rectification that would occasionally cause polynomial rectification to be used instead of triangulated even if triangulated (piecewise-affine) should have been used.

Corrected half-pixel shift when loading SRTM30 and SRTM30+ files.

Added Ctrl+S as a shortcut key to the image rectifier dialog to save the GCP list to a file.

When loading a GCP file in the image rectifier dialog, prompt the user to remove all of the current control points if there are any.

Added option to the advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog to specify that when cropping to an area feature on export that any cell that has any part in the crop area should be kept rather than just those for which the center of the cell is inside the crop area.
(Registered Version Only)

When cropping to selected area features during batch conversion, prompt the user to see whether they want the export files to have the bounds of the file being converted or the selected area features.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the screen capture dialog remember the last format used and select it by default within a single run of Global Mapper.
(Registered Version Only)

Improved display of some BSB charts that cross the anti-meridian.

Fixed error loading some NITF imagery data sets that use JPG2000 compression.

Improved positioning of NITF imagery that uses RPC (polynomial-based) positioning.

Prompt the user to specify whether 16-bit JPEG2000 and ECW files are elevation or imagery files rather than just assuming they are elevation.

Fixed problem with view background color not being in generated image optimized palettes in all cases.
(Registered Version Only)

Made script exports automatically create the destination directory for the new file being created if it doesn't already exist.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new GRID_NAMING_PREPEND_ZEROES parameter to the script export commands to allow controlling whether or not zeroes are prepended to named grid tiles during export.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new GRID_NAMING_SEPARATOR parameter to the script export commands to allow users to control what separator character is used between pieces of a grid name. The default is an underscore.
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for appending column names before row names when gridding on export from a script by using the GRID_NAMING=SEPARATE_COLS_FIRST parameter.
(Registered Version Only)

Improved resizing of main map window so that the map data is not constantly redrawn as you drag the window to a new size.

Increased the size of the displayed elevation on the GPS Information dialog.

Added option when batch converting vector data to KML/KMZ files to allow the inclusion of displayed text labels for exported area and line features with labels.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed problems reading some TIFF files larger than 2GB in size.

Added new shortcut key (Ctrl+1) to zoom the map to the full detail for the raster/elevation map at the center of the screen.

Fixed error when trying to export vector-only data to a raster BIL file.
(Registered Version Only)

When exporting Polish MP files using an image ID from a template file and also gridding the export into multiple pieces, automatically increment the image ID of the output files to prevent duplicate image ID values.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new option to always display line labels on the center of the longest segment of the line to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. This prevents line labels from jumping around as you zoom and pan around.

Added new option to only snap to area and line vertices by default when drawing new features to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. Holding the 'V' key when drawing the new features will toggle this behavior.

Enable snapping to existing features when inserting vertices into existing area and line features using the Digitizer Tool. The shortcut key to stay in "insert vertex" mode was changed to the 'I' key from ALT since the ALT key is used to disable snapping behavior.

Added option to crop Shapefile exports to selected area features. This will only include point features inside the selected area features and line and area features that intersect the bounding box of the selected area features.
(Registered Version Only)

Updated GeoTIFF export to always write out all projection information and parameters even when an EPSG code is matched and written.
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for additional parameters for recommended route (0x0108) and marine contour (0x0105) lines when exporting vector data to Polish MP files.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed memory leak when running a script file with EXPORT_RASTER commands that includes vector data from the command line.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for exporting loading vector data to Delft 3D (.ldb) format files.
(Registered Version Only)

Added option to KML/KMZ vector export to make labels for line and area features display on the map in Google Earth.
(Registered Version Only)

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).
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Write out LOCAL as the projection name when exporting ECW files using a projection that is not recognized for storage in ECW files.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed problems loading some complex entities from DXF and DWG files.

Fixed problems adding package files with multiple layers to map catalogs.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added "Save As" button on the map catalog options dialog to allow changing the filename associated with a map catalog.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Allowed for the generation of .tab files for ECW and JPEG2000 exports.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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).
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the 'Run in Context of the Main Map View' setting on the Run Script dialog be remembered between runs.
(Registered Version Only)

Allow selection of elevation units when batch converting to the Lidar LAS format.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new option to JPG export to allow specification of a DPI value to store in the exported JPG file.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new COMBINE_TERRAIN command to the scripting language to allow combining terrain layers to generate a new layer using a script file.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new ADD_MEASURE_ATTRS command to the scripting language to allow adding measure attributes to loaded vector layers from a script.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the OVERWRITE_EXISTING=NO parameter work properly when gridding an export from a script.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the value of the INC_VECTOR_DATA parameter default to YES with the EXPORT_RASTER command if only vector data is loaded.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Made GEN_WORLD_FILE parameter work for ECW and JPEG2000 exports from script files.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the last selected export target compression ratio be remembered between sessions on the ECW and JPG2000 export dialogs.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the last selected quality setting be remembered between session on the JPG export dialogs.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Made the addition operation work when combining terrain layers in areas where only one of the two input layers has a valid elevation.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Improved performance of raster exports from map catalogs when one or more files referenced by the map catalog are missing.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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).
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for exporting loaded data to JPEG2000 format files.
(Registered Version Only)

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).
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data to DTED format files.
(Registered Version Only)

Added support for exporting loaded gridded elevation data and 3D vector data (including LIDAR point clouds) to LIDAR .LAS format files.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added CLIP_COLLAR_FLAGS parameter to IMPORT script command to allow saving of per-edge collar cropping flags.
(Registered Version Only)

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).
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Fix error with some layers not showing up in the output when using the EXPORT_RASTER script command in conjunction with gridding.
(Registered Version Only)

Added new parameters to the EXPORT_* script commands to allow specifying how gridded tiles should be named.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed problem using SET_BG_COLOR in scripts called from the command line.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed problem with scale bar being cut off when printing to scale with a footer string.
(Registered Version Only)

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).
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed problem with offscreen islands not being exported when exporting simple ASCII text format files.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Fixed errors during lengthy exports to ECW files when data from online sources was loaded.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

Added BANDROWBYTES, TOTALROWBYTES, BANDGAPBYTES, and NODATA fields to the .hdr file exported for elevation BIL format exports.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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.
(Registered Version Only)

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 Gri

What's New in Global Mapper