Global Mapper v22.1 is Now Available!

Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the availability of the official Global Mapper v21.1 release for download!

What's New in Global Mapper v22.1

Significant New Features

• New 'Save 3D Views' tool allows you to orient the 3D view to look at the data from a particular side, or to use a custom saved camera position.
• 3D View navigation tools to target camera on features and lock the pivot axis around the feature(s) of interest.
• Improved Graph and Chart tool to include graphs that contain data from multiple layers, graphs that contain multiple series, etc.
• New Spatial Operations for union, difference and symmetrical difference, allow you to find where two area layers are different or to merge them together. There are also spatial predicate operations that find features that overlap, touch, contain, are within, are equal to or are disjoint from a layer of area features.
• Spatial Operations tool has a scripting tab that can perform advanced operations on sets of features, including queries, layer overlay operations, and building sets from attribute queries. This is also available in the Global Mapper scripting language

Significant New LiDAR Module features

• Added the ability to resume cancelled Pixels-to-Points processes without having to start over from the beginning. [Item #GM-7604]
• Added new scene clustering option to Pixels-to-Points dialog to allow handling larger data sets. [Item #GM-8703]
• Added option to regularize extracted building footprints, walls and planes. This will simplify the extracted polygons in a way that favors parallel/perpendicular line segments. [Item #GM-11445]
• Added Terrain Paint Slope Along Line and Slope Across Line brushes. [Item #GM-11438]
• Added new terrain painting brushes for line trace mode and area trace mode. [Item #GM-11562]

New Supported Formats

• Added export to Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) files. [Item #GM-9266]
• Added basic support for IFC file formats. Currently only basic 3D shapes are supported. [Item #GM-9662]
• Added support for import of GEBCO 2020 data in NetCDF format. [Item #GM-11020]
• Added the ability to import SXF files (Panorama GIS) [Item #GM-559]
• Added import support for EDIGEO file format [Item #GM-10522]
• Import support for GRT geoid undulation data. [Item #GM-11407]
• Added ability to load lidar from the GeoSlam DB (based on SQLiteDB) [Item #GM-11353]
• Added the functionality to create a Carlson IDB file for the tiled export of a raster overlay [Item #GM-9592]

LiDAR Changes

• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added new scene clustering option to Pixels-to-Points dialog to allow handling larger data sets. [Item #GM-8703]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added option to regularize extracted building footprints, walls and planes. This will simplify the extracted polygons in a way that favors parallel/perpendicular line segments. [Item #GM-11445]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added the ability to resume cancelled Pixels-to-Points processes without having to start over from the beginning. [Item #GM-7604]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed crash creating a grid of non-elevation data (like 'Classification Codes', 'Point Density', etc.) from Lidar. This issue was only in the v22.0.1 release. [Item #GM-11528]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed issue with user-provided control points not being properly used for some P2P (Pixels-to-Points) data sets. The issue was in v22.0.0-v22.0.1. [Item #GM-11511]
• Added settings to the Configuration -> Lidar tab allowing the user to change default load options like Point Size, Point Draw Quality, and Color by Intensity Brightness. [Item #GM-8326]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Significantly reduced memory footprint and increased performance of graph-based point cloud classification and extraction methods. [Item #GM-9434]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated the Lidar building and tree auto-classify dialog to support both the new (Segmentation) and old (Grid) methods. [Item #GM-11402]
• Significantly sped up the load of Lidar point cloud data from GMP (Global Mapper Package) files. Some minor speed improvements for Lidar loaded from other formats should also be expected. [Item #GM-3995]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added 'Show Image Metadata' right-click option to the Pixels-to-Points dialog allowing the easy display of metadata for any image. [Item #GM-11141]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added new camera management dialog to P2P dialog [Item #GM-8806]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated the Post-Processing Report generated by the Pixels-to-Points process to include a table of contents at the top and to make it clearer when some images could not be used. [Item #GM-11673]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed issue with Lidar points with return numbers > 1 being offset in the Z direction when sorting poorly organized point clouds on load. This only happened if the LAS/LAZ points had elevation units other than meters. [Item #GM-11715]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed cropping to selected area features when gridding Lidar point cloud data using a bin gridding method. [Item #GM-11807]
• Updated the Attribute Editor display for Lidar layers to hide any columns that don't apply to Lidar data (like <Feature Name>, <Last Modified Time>, etc.). [Item #GM-11836]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Greatly sped the initial load of large .gmp2p (Pixels-to-Points workspace files) into the Pixels-to-Points interface. [Item #GM-11667]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added option to apply surface reconstruction to extracted building mesh. This option generates a manifold surface and effectively simplifies the mesh by allowing the user to resample points at some percentage of initial density. [Item #GM-11446]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed issue with elevation values being interpreted as the wrong units when creating an elevation grid of the median values in a cell from Lidar point clouds. [Item #GM-11794]

3D Viewer Changes

• Improve accuracy of 3D Sweep Selected Lidar data. [Item #GM-11109]
• Added new dropdown and dialog for creating and managing 3D views [Item #GM-6685]
• Improve viewing and coordination between 2D and 3D zoom levels. [Item #GM-11675]
• Transparency for 3D vector features. [Item #GM-7110]
• Add Target Camera as a view mode. [Item #GM-8212]
• Restore 3D rendering of deleted Lidar points when using draw deleted setting. [Item #GM-11750]
• Improve 3D rendering performance particularly with small data. [Item #GM-10956]
• Change deselection hot key for 3D Sweep Selection (now Ctrl+Alt+Left click) [Item #GM-11507]

Path Profile/Line of Sight Function Changes

• Added option to save a cross profile series to export all the profiles in a perpendicular profile. [Item #GM-11006]
• Added the ability to specify spacing values for the elevation and distance scales on a Path Profile window. [Item #GM-542]
• Add ability to customize the distance unit in Path Profile settings [Item #GM-11752]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed issue in v22.0.0 with Path Profiles not displaying Lidar points from layers than have a non-automatic point size greater than 1. [Item #GM-11405]

Analysis Function Changes

• Improved graphing to include graphs that contain data from multiple layers, graphs that contain multiple series, etc. [Item #GM-10984]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added Terrain Paint Slope Along Line and Slope Across Line brushes. [Item #GM-11438]
• Fixed pan-sharpening of 24-bit RGB images using the Brovey or IHS methods. [Item #GM-11415]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added terrain paint area trace mode. [Item #GM-11562]
• In Spatial Analysis Scripting, improved the SELECT command format, which allows the user to select features in the digitizer. SELECT commands now have a more regular syntax. Added the ability to select the results of a feature set expression directly. Added a new option to clear the current selection. SELECT commands that create a new selection or add to the existing selection now enable the digitizer. [Item #GM-11712]
• Fixed issue with view shed analyses not allowing angle that sweep through 0. [Item #GM-11593]
• Restored display of the correct palette index when selecting which colors to create equal-value areas from on a palette-based image layer. [Item #GM-11183]
• Fixed issue where layer created by raster reclassification is offset by half a pixel. [Item #GM-11457]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Allow use of pan cursor while terrain paint is active. [Item #GM-11702]
• Fixed raster reclassification graph pane toolbar issue. [Item #GM-11588]
• Fixed problem where valid geometries were not being considered for spatial predicates. Prevent application of predicates on empty sets. Fixed problem where set projections were not being compared compared correctly, such that the global projection was always being used. [Item #GM-11642]
• Fixed crash finding Peaks and Depressions in a very small area during Contour Generation. [Item #GM-11430]

Digitizer Tool Changes

• Fixed issue with the Create Regular Grid option in v22.0 not creating a grid orthogonal to the current projection if the Great Circle distance measurement option was selected on the Configuration dialog. [Item #GM-11462]
• Allow editing the location of point features on the Feature Edit dialog. You can also now edit the vertices of area/line features when they are being created. [Item #GM-10565]
• Added option to drag picture points to new location and update the location in the EXIF tags. Turn this on in Configuration > General > Raster Formats [Item #GM-10318]
• Added the option to sample at a '% of length' when creating point features along selected line features. The label used for new point features created along selected lines will also be correct in this case. [Item #GM-11564]
• Fixed issue causing extra point features to be selected when dragging a selection box on a rotated map view. [Item #GM-5363]
• Updated the distance/bearing/COGO dialog to allow using Grades as units. The dialog is also resizable and includes bearing/distance units in the quadrant-based text strings. [Item #GM-8211]
• Added ability to cut or copy and paste label features.
• Added the ability to specify a more precise smoothing factor when creating a bounding box/convex hull around features. [Item #GM-11657]
• Fixed issue with lines drawn to the edge of placed Picture Points not being drawn. [Item #GM-11420]
• Fixed issue with the Create Regular Grid option creating slightly rotated grids when the view projection is using a datum with a Prime Meridian other than Greenwich. This only happened if the Distance Calculation method was Great Circle. [Item #GM-11449]

Scripting Changes

• New spatial operations tool DEFINE_SPATIAL_OPERATION can build sets of features, perform intersections and queries by location, and various other vector operations. [Item #GM-11649]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] New LIDAR_CLASSIFY_GRAPH command to script the lidar building and tree segmentation method. Also updates to LIDAR_EXTRACT to use new building extraction options. [Item #GM-11424]
• Added a new GENERATE_LABEL_LAYER script command to create a new label layer from an existing layer. [Item #GM-10942]
• Added new SHEET_NAME parameter for the IMPORT_ASCII command to allow specifying which sheet of an Excel file to load. [Item #GM-11413]
• Updated the EXPORT_VECTOR command so that COORD_ORDER can be used with TYPE=SIMPLE_ASCII to swap the order of the X and Y axes in output. [Item #GM-11928]
• Fixed issue with EXPORT_VECTOR exporting all data if none of the input layers intersect explicitly provided bounds. [Item #GM-11502]
• Updated the default for the USE_EXACT_BOUNDS parameter for script commands to default to YES when the bounds are explicitly provided. [Item #GM-11502]
• Added logic to create output directory while processing EXPORT_METADATA script command. [Item #GM-11539]

Online Source Changes

• Fixed issues with online sources requiring authentication not working in v22.0.0. [Item #GM-10938]
• Fixed issues displaying WMS/WMTS imagery sources that are based on GeoTIFF files. Now even high-bit-depth multi-band sources are properly supported. [Item #GM-11700]
• Fixed issues accessing online sources through a proxy server. [Item #GM-11607]

Projection/Datum Changes

• Added built-in support for OSTN02 and OSTN15 datums (OSGB36 specializations). [Item #GM-6663]
• Updated the 'Search by EPSG Code' button on the Projection selection dialog to show common and recently used EPSG codes on the drop-down for easy selection. [Item #GM-11643]
• Added new built-in HS2 Survey Grid datum as well as EPSG code 9300 for the HS2 Snake Projection. [Item #GM-11192]
• Fixed issues with distortion when rectifying data using the Triangulated method (this is the default for 5 or more control points). [Item #GM-11884]
• Improved the CH1903 and CH1903+ datum transformation methods to use a NTv2 grid shift file. [Item #GM-11745]
• Added built-in EPSG codes 26891-26899 for MTM NAD83 (CSRS). [Item #GM-11641]
• When encountering a layer with a NAD83 HARN datum that we cannot automatically find the state for, prompt the user to select the appropriate NAD83 specialization. [Item #GM-11843]
• GeoCalc Mode compatible with Geographic Calculator 2020 SP1 [Item #GM-11376]
• Corrected vertical units shown on GeoCalc projection page [Item #GM-10584]
• Updated Cassini-Soldner projections based on a datum with a Prime Meridian other than Greenwich to treat the Central Meridian as relative to the datum's Prime Meridian. [Item #GM-11449]

Format Specific Changes

• Added the ability to export Multi-Band Erdas Imagine Files. [Item #GM-3432]
• Added support for loading PLS CADD XYZ files as a point cloud. The support is controlled by selecting an option in Configuration->General->Vector Formats->PLS-CADD XYZ [Item #GM-11022]
• Allow Excel spreadsheets to be used in layer join operation. [Item #GM-11529]
• Added options to generic text file import for user to select the index of X,Y, and Z columns. [Item #GM-9249]
• Added support for using image masks from (Geo)TIFF files. [Item #GM-11043]
• Fixed issues loading some Excel files, including adding support for saving and loading them from workspaces and scripts. [Item #GM-11413]
• Fixed issue in v22.0.0 with newly created mesh features (i.e. created from terrain) not saving to workspace or Global Mapper Package (GMP) files. [Item #GM-11426]
• Fixed XTF load issue. Improved memory management. Create ping features and mosaic in separate layers. [Item #GM-11581]
• Fixed issue with exports to DWG and non-legacy DXF files not including point and line features with no attributes or name. [Item #GM-11877]
• Added option to split DWG, DXF, and DGN by attribute on import [Item #GM-10920]
• CSV export now has option to include a row for mgrs [Item #GM-3856]
• Added GMMP import option that allows user to select which layers to load. [Item #GM-11601]
• Updated DXF Export to use the same exporter as DWG by default. This allows choosing the DXF version to target and has better support for area features and styles. [Item #GM-8741]
• Auto-assign the Central Longitude for Geographic data to +180 for GeoTIFFs that use [0,360] rather than [-180,+180]. [Item #GM-11902]
• Fixed issues with the export of non-ASCII characters to OpenStreetMap (OSM) XML files. [Item #GM-11464]
• Made JPG images with EXIF tags that are loaded as image layers (rather than points) obey the orientation tag in the image. Any non-default orientation will be displayed in the layer's Metadata. Also any images loaded with a 'faked' location will be centered on the EXIF tag location rather than at a default location. [Item #GM-11489]
• Fixed issues loading hundreds of generic text files in v22.0 release. [Item #GM-11602]
• Fixed issues loading DXF and DWG files with non-English characters in the layer names.
• Added support for European-style comma-as-decimal numbers when loading text/CSV files with lat/lon coordinates. [Item #GM-11600]
• Fixed crash when importing certain Autodesk ReCap (RCS) files. [Item #GM-10310]
• Added ability to save overview layers in exporting GeoTIFF files. The functionality is enabled by "ADVANCED: Write GeoTIFF Overviews (Pyramid)" checkbox in the GeoTIFF Export Options dialog. [Item #GM-87]
• Set the active viewport in exported DXF and DWG files so that AutoCAD displays the full bounds of the data when the file is loaded. [Item #GM-9547]
• Added ability to load GeoTIFF overview from side-car files (*.aux/*.rrd). [Item #GM-1227]
• Ensured that text size in exported DGN file matches the text size in the original DGN file as much as possible. [Item #GM-11604]
• Fixed issue with translated paper size names in PDF export. [Item #GM-11779]
• Ensure center point coordinates of circles get converted to world coordinates. [Item #GM-11893]
• Corrected BIT DEPTH reported for DTED layers to be 16 bits rather than 32. [Item #GM-11803]
• Fixed issues loading text files with mixed line termination (i.e. CR/LF on the first line, and LF for the rest). [Item #GM-11344]
• Fixed issue when exporting data to Geopackage file. [Item #GM-11475]
• Fixed error exporting to palette-based image formats using the 'Custom Palette from Loaded Layer' option. [Item #GM-11491]
• When exporting to Spatialite database, always include the EPSG code in the spatial reference definition. [Item #GM-11423]
• Fixed issue importing spline objects from a DXF file. [Item #GM-11429]
• Ignore extraneous objects at the end of a GeoJSON file. [Item #GM-11526]
• Fixed issues with exports from palette-based images to multi-band images (like GeoTIFF with multi-band option) always resulting in grayscale output. [Item #GM-11635]
• Fixed location of Carlson GSF Geoid Grid file containing boundary longitude values greater than 180 degrees. [Item #GM-11573]
• Added support for loading TIFF files that are missing the Photometric interpretation tag. [Item #GM-11949]

Rendering/Style Changes

• Added new Mesh (3D Model) Display tab to the Options dialog for layers that have mesh/model features. You can now control when and if wireframes are drawn for meshes in the layer and specify where or not to interpolate textured meshes. [Item #GM-8680]
• Dramatically sped up the rendering of textured or gradient-filled mesh (3D model) features in the 2D (top-down) view. [Item #GM-8680]
• Fixed issue with map catalogs of terrain layers showing visible borders where they used to blend seamlessly together. [Item #GM-11163]

User Interface

• Added option to search the favorites list to find a command [Item #GM-6421]
• Added 'Metadata' button to Feature Info dialog allowing you to show the Metadata dialog for the layer a selected feature is in. [Item #GM-11142]
• Added option to Export Bounds to allow the user to control whether exports cropped to an area clamp the data bounds or not. [Item #GM-11077]
• Made video playback dialog dockable. [Item #GM-9604]
• Fixed issue with the Measure Volume command on the Measure Tool right-click being disabled. [Item #GM-11668]
• Added ability to change the background color of an overlay item shown in the Control Center. Right click -> Layer -> "Set Background Color for Layer in Control Center" brings a color-picker dialog. Select white color to reset the background color to default. [Item #GM-7022]
• Fixed issue with user-modified layer descriptions not showing in the <Feature Layer Name> field of the Attribute Editor. [Item #GM-11861]
• Updated all color selection (such as from Area/Line Style dialogs) to save any custom colors between runs and allow selection of a color from the map. [Item #GM-11629]

Misc. Changes

• Feature Templates now support point, line and area templates that can be predefined with specific point symbols or styles based on the attribute value. [Item #GM-4545]
• Updated Attribute Table display for Lidar-only layers to hide columns that don't apply to Lidar (like <Feature Name>, <Last Modified Time>, etc.). [Item #GM-11036]
• Export feature vertex information from the feature vertex dialog. This can include data like timestamps, velocity, and segments measurements. [Item #GM-10402]
• Export text list of layers names and descriptions from the control center context menu [Item #GM-11007]
• Implemented a drop-down menu in KML/KMZ export dialog to select feature attribute to use as a KML Folder name [Item #GM-8176]
• Fixed issue where prompt for export file name is repeated, over and over, without end. [Item #GM-11478]
• Fixed issue with terrain dropout while saving flythrough. [Item #GM-10320]
• Added info tips option to display neighboring elevation values. [Item #GM-11501]
• Added options to open a single attribute list or each sublayer in its own tab for a group in the control center [Item #GM-11583]
• Fixed issues with 3D areas that are linear in 2D being discarded when cropping to a polygon (on export or in the Digitizer Tool). [Item #GM-7379]
• Made the 'Find by Name' Search dialog properly handle non-ASCII text when the layer uses a code page other than the system code page (i.e. UTF-8 layers). [Item #GM-11633]
• Added the functionality to link an external METADATA file with an overlay. That is particular convenient in case if the filenames of the overlay and metadata are not "related". The functionality is available in Pane Control Center via Right-Click -> Layer -> Link External Metadata File [Item #GM-11589]
• Make sure the row count is always displayed in the status bar of the Attribute Editor. [Item #GM-11624]
• Addressed "incorrectly detected closed contours" issue. [Item #GM-11196]
• Added ability to create network directories where the path name starts with "\\", e.g., "\\server". [Item #GM-11936]
• Fixed issue where file status was not being displayed in the status window for batch conversions. [Item #GM-11476]
• In Control Center, fixed reversal of layer order when multiple layers are moved by drag and drop. [Item #GM-11479]
• Streamline interaction between label attribute and feature name when labeling features with attributes. [Item #GM-10583]
• Fix issue where the names newly added layers were not included in the title and tab of the Attribute Editor. [Item #GM-11584]

What's New in Global Mapper v22.0

Significant New Features

• New Eye Dome Lighting settings in the 3D viewer help improve visual display of vector and lidar data
• A new tool for simplifying loaded meshes or TINs
• A new Spatial Operations tool to find the intersection of two vector layers
• A new Analysis menu option to find the overlap (both percentage and graphical) between two or more Lidar, raster/image, and/or terrain layers
• An update to the Raster Reclassify tool that allows it to work with continuous data (terrain/slope, single bands of imagery).
• A new sweep selection tool for working with vector data in the 3D viewer
• Dramatically faster rendering of tiled online sources, especially in 3D.
• Support for creating point, line, or area features from a list of coordinates in an MS Excel (.xls/.xlsx) file.
• A new Digitizer menu providing convenient access to all Digitizer functions.
• A tabular preview showing the beginning of an imported ASCII or Excel file.

Significant New LiDAR Module features

• A new Terrain Paint tool for manipulating elevation values in a free-form way using an interface similar to MS Paint, Photoshop, etc. [Item #GM-1126]
• A new algorithm that improves building classification results on all types of point clouds. [Item #GM-9434]
• Improved building extraction with better 3D shape simplification, including generating building footprints. [Item #GM-2889]
• A new option to generate a process summary report when using Pixels to Points [Item #GM-7612]
• An update to the underlying libraries used in the Pixels to Points process resulting in improved output with certain image data sets. [Item #GM-10386]
• Two new lidar draw modes: [Item #GM-10148]
  • 'Color by Source Layer' (allowing easy display of lidar point clouds using a different color for each layer)
  • ‘Color by Scan Angle’.Supports for sorting exported LAS/LAZ files by one or more fields (.X, Y, Z, class, GPS time, etc.).
• Dramatically faster rendering of lidar path profiles with a large number of points.

New Supported Formats

• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added support for exporting Lidar data to the Leica PTS format. [Item #GM-10284]
• Added ability to import and export Mapbox Vector Tile data sets. [Item #GM-3900]
• Added support for the XTide .dat file format [Item #GM-9424]

LiDAR Changes

• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added new Lidar draw mode 'Color by Scan Angle' to color Lidar point clouds by scan angle. [Item #GM-10834]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added a new option to allow selecting Lidar points at least some distance from other Lidar or line features to the existing 'Select Lidar by Distance' feature. [Item #GM-10994]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Poles that are extracted now have a height attribute [Item #GM-10820]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Pole extraction will now use the workspace projection correctly. [Item #GM-10653]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Pole extraction now handles poles that have a negative elevation [Item #GM-10708]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed an issue where the method that retrieved the nearby points could return no points. This affected pole classification and an other lidar operations that used this method [Item #GM-10868]
• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Lidar cropping based on selected features now uses the feature bounds instead of a rectangle [Item #GM-10997]

3D Viewer Changes

• Repair the rendering of 3D vector area features in some contexts. [Item #GM-11267]
• Repair the rendering of 3D vector line (twisting) features in some contexts. [Item #GM-11083]
• Fix a variety of issues in 3D vector feature editing. [Item #GM-11108]
• 3D Sweep Selection [Item #GM-4088]
• New Eye Dome Lighting settings in the 3D viewer help improve visual display of vector and lidar data [Item #GM-9276]
• 3D lines now have constant width. [Item #GM-6847]

Path Profile/Line of Sight Function Changes

• [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Dramatically sped up the render of Lidar path profiles with large numbers of points. [Item #GM-10825]

Analysis Function Changes

• Add new option to find the overlap (both percentage and graphical) between two or more Lidar, raster/image, and/or terrain layers. The new option is under the Analysis menu. [Item #GM-10367]
• Added features to the Raster Reclassify tool to work with continuous data (terrain / slope). Other new features include creating a spread of output values, Improved diagnostic messages, creation of ranges with equal but opposite ends, and allow multiple transparent colors. [Item #GM-10734]
• Added a new option to simplify when generating a 3D model (mesh) from a loaded terrain surface. [Item #GM-7358]
• Added more output options to Raster Reclassification. It includes palette image, elevation (8-bit integer), elevation (16 bit integer), and an option to set unspecified input values to the transparent color.Raster Reclassification now allows non palette based layers such as elevation and image data. [Item #GM-10842/GM-10816/GM-10843]
• Fixed incorrect units on min/max points while generating contours. [Item #GM-10684]
• Reworked View Shed algorithm to use Measure->Bearing Options to calculate angles. [Item #GM-8409]

Digitizer Tool Changes

• Added a new option to simplify the geometry of 3D models (meshes). The new option is in the Digitizer Tool's right-click Move/Reshape menu. [Item #GM-7358]
• Added new option to allow snapping to Lidar point returns when digitizing. The option is under the right-click Options menu of the Digitizer Tool. [Item #GM-5859]
• Add ELEVATION attribute to newly created point features created by snapping to 3D features (Lidar, terrain, 3D models, etc.) in the Digitizer Tool. [Item #GM-10992]
• Allow user to select "Above Sea Level" option when performing multiple volume calculations over a range of base heights. [Item #GM-10575]

Scripting Changes

• Added ability to export TINs, Points, and Contours to Land/XML via a script. [Item #GM-7759]
• Added parameter to CALC_VOLUME script command to allow user to indicate whether the base height is at sea level or relative to the ground. [Item #GM-10913]
• Add support for splitting meshes in scripting with EDIT_VECTOR SPLIT_MESHES

Projection/Datum Changes

• When in geocalc mode and files are using a projection that isn't supported by geocalc a warning will appear and let you pick a new projection instead of hard crashing [Item #GM-10571]

Format Specific Changes

• Added support for exporting terrain data to Land/XML as a TIN. [Item #GM-9472]
• Sped up tiled exports to ECW/JP2 files when multiple cores are available. [Item #GM-5063]
• Updated DXF and DWG exports to handle 3D models (meshes). Each triangle in the mesh is exported as a 3D area feature. [Item #GM-11345]
• Fixed the methodology used to identify a SQLite/Spatialite database file. [Item #GM-7745]
• Updated exports to multi-band image formats (i.e. GeoTIFF, BIL, Erdas Imagine) to allow the inclusion of vector data and map layout items (i.e. scale bar). [Item #GM-8177]
• Added support for batch converting to the Garmin JNX format. [Item #GM-11334]
• Added option to use the Ordinance Survey Master Map (OSMM) styling when loading an OSMM file. [Item #GM-9055]
• Add an option to the KML/KMZ export to control the creation of folders for each geometry type. [Item #GM-10579]
• Significantly improved time needed to export data to CADRG format. [Item #GM-5415]
• Improved performance of exporting data to Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED) file format. [Item #GM-7830]
• S-52 zoom levels now are used when changing the detail slider on s-57 files. Features that disappear when zooming in will now more closely match the s-52 style [Item #GM-10788]
• Fixed problem with incorrect elevation units when importing Global Mapper workspace file containing TIF files. [Item #GM-10634]
• Fixed problem exporting feature points to shape files when using the "Generate 3D Features Using Loaded Elevation Data" option and the points did not have an ELEVATION attribute. [Item #GM-10564]
• Improved exporting and importing 3D content (mesh data) to and from PDF files. [Item #GM-9727]
• Include color from GM point symbols when exporting to DWG and DXF.Read point color when importing DWG and DXF. [Item #GM-5606]
• Fixed issue where the wrong code page being written to an exported SOSI file. [Item #GM-11200]
• Fixed an issue where the projection was not being identified correctly in an exported SOSI file. [Item #GM-11201]
• Improved resolution when exporting large map layout from the Map Layout Editor to PDF [Item #GM-10629]

Rendering/Style Changes

• Fixed issue with custom shape point symbols scaled to be less than 0.5 pixels in radius drawing as 2 pixels width. Also fixed the pixel location of vector data on display and export. It could be up to one pixel right and or down of where it should have been. [Item #GM-7490]

Performance

• Sped up tiled exports when cropping or tiling to selected area features. Now multiple cores will be used if available. [Item #GM-5063]
• Improved performance when specifying very small custom grid line spacing. [Item #GM-5788]

User Interface

• Added a new top-level Digitizer menu providing access to all Digitizer functions. [Item #GM-11198]
• ASCII and Excel file import dialogs now have a preview for the top 10 lines [Item #GM-457]
• Added Apply button to the Layer Shift dialog when its opened from the Control Center [Item #GM-11126]
• Added preview of transparent colors in the Raster Options/Display dialog for all raster formats, not just palette based ones. [Item #GM-10675]
• Added new feature to keep Histogram Graph windows open after the metadata dialog has closed. [Item #GM-10883]
• Added options on metadata histogram tab to control display of histogram bin labels and the option to color the histogram bins based on the currently selected shader. [Item #GM-10878]
• Added option for more detailed batch/re-projection processing information during run. [Item #GM-10720]
• Added configuration option for setting water level increment in 2D view. [Item #GM-9475]
• Modified Layer Name input box to only outline the control with a red box if it is blank rather than a blinking color. [Item #GM-10895]
• Allow deleting single color from a list of a layer's transparent colors. [Item #GM-10891]

Misc. Changes

• An update to the Raster Reclassify tool that allows it to with continuous data (terrain/slope, single bands of imagery).
• Enforce multi-part polygon grouping in Attribute Editor. [Item #GM-8068]
• User settings import now will remember toolbar locations. They will be used when imported as long as the version and monitor resolution match. [Item #GM-10615]
• Added "Apply" option to layer SHIFT dialogues [Item #GM-11126]
• Added ability to specify transparent color fuzziness factor during the batch convert/reproject process [Item #GM-10827]
• Fixed bug where vertical transformation box doesn't appear in geocalc mode [Item #GM-10560]
• Fixed bug where 3D settings didn't match expected values if there were no GM registry keys yet [Item #GM-10279]
• Global Mapper correctly reads the custom AoU file in geocalc mode [Item #GM-10127]