Whats New

WHAT'S NEW IN Global Mapper v6.
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Added support for exporting loaded data to a Global Mapper package file
(*.gmp). These files are similar to workspace files except that the actual data is
stored in the files. Package files provide an easy way to pass around lots of data
between Global Mapper users with a single self-contained file.
Added new File menu command to load all files matching a user-specified mask
(or series of masks) under a selected folder on the disk. This provides an easy way
to load a lot of files that are spread out in a large directory structure.
Added support for cropping raster and elevation data to a selected area feature on
export.
Added support for loading ASTER DEM and L1B imagery files in their native
HDF file format.
Added the ability to load individual frame files from RPF databases like CADRG
and CIB. To do this, simply select the frame(s) to load, then select that the type of
the file is Raster Product Format (CADRG/CIB) Frame if prompted.
Added support for loading DIVA GIS grid files.
Added the ability to load Erdas Imagine .img files that contain gridded elevation
data (previously they were displayed as grayscale imagery).
Made double-clicking on a feature in the Digitizer Tool bring up the edit dialog
for that feature.
Added right-click option to the Digitizer tool to allow creating area features from
selected line features.
Added right-click option to the Digitizer tool to allow assigning area features to
be islands within other, enclosing, area features.
Added option to display line feature labels directly on the line rather than offset a
few pixels from it (this option is on the Line Styles tab of the Configuration
dialog).
Added ability to specify a custom feature separator when exporting simple ASCII
text files with vector data (File->Export Vector->Export Simple ASCII menu
command).
Added support for the Gauss Boaga (Italy) and Greek Grid projection systems.
Added support for the GGRS 1987 (Greek Grid), KKJ (Finnish Grid), and Pointe
Noire 1948 (Congo) datums.
Added support for loading GNIS files with the latest column definitions and pipedelimited files (GNIS files are available for download at
http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/index.html).
Enabled option to fill small gaps in data when exporting to non-elevation
GeoTIFF files (it was already enabled for elevation exports). This allows gaps up
to several pixels in size between or within data files being exported to be filled by
interpolating nearby pixels to fill them in.
Added option to XYZ Grid export to allow coordinate values to be saved in ECEF
(Earth-Centered Earth-Fixed) coordinates. This option is for very advanced users
only.
Fixed auto-adjusting the contrast for imagery with more than about 4 billion
pixels (this is only very large image files).
Fixed problem when creating DBF files with elevation attributes that have more
than one digit of precision beyond the decimal point. The elevation values were
getting truncated oddly in those cases.
Made the auto-clip collar functionality work for 3.75 minute DOQs.
Made the Use Selected Projection for All Files checkbox appear when loading
workspace files if the projection could not be automatically determined for all of
the files.
Allowed DTED files which contain unknown record types after the data and
header records to be loaded.
Fixed problems loading Limits data like Anchorage areas and marine routes from
DNC chart files.
Made extended note text associated with features in DNC and S-57 chart files be
loaded and added as attributes.
Made auto-contrast statistics for raster data be saved in workspace files so that
they do not have to be recalculated the next time the data is loaded.
Added support for loading extremely large binary ArcGRID files that have the
actual data split in to two separate files.
Corrected problems with hill shading for very large elevation files (specifically, if
the sum of the squares of the pixel width and pixel height was greater than about 4
billion, the hill shading would not work properly).
Corrected registration of BIL/GridFloat data that use the XLLCORNER and
YLLCORNER fields in the header file (they were stretched in the Y direction by
1 sample).
Reduced memory utilization when exporting very large or numerous ECW and/or
JPEG2000 files.
Added new parameters to the GENERATE_CONTOURS script command to
allow specification of the simplification threshold to use (advanced users only) as
well as the option to just generate contour lines at a single height (the contour
interval value) and to turn off filling gaps in the elevation data used to generate
the contours.
Added new LAYER_DESC parameter to the IMPORT script command to allow
specification of the description to use for a layer in the Overlay Control Center.
Added support for exporting Terragen TER files with larger sizes (8197 x 8197
and 16393 x 16393).
Allowed cancellation of running scripts and loading workspaces.
Fixed problems with the incorrect attribute values being associated with point
features in some E00 files.
Made the palette-index of the pixel under the cursor be displayed in the status bar
when moving your cursor over palette-based Erdas Imagine IMG files.
Updated the UNLOAD_LAYER script command so that if an empty FILENAME
parameter is provided, all layers created by the script (i.e. generated contour
layers) will be unloaded.
Added support for forward slash and backslash characters in DMS and DM
coordinate strings, such as in ASCII files.
Fixed error when trying to edit a newly created attribute value when creating a
new area, point, or line feature with the Digitizer Tool.
Fixed crash when rectifying BMP files.
Fixed recently introduced problem with BMP files saved from the path
profile/line of sight dialog being upside down.
Improved reprojecting and rendering of vector features in lat/lon coordinates that
either cross the anti-meridian (ATM) or use non-standard longitude coordinates
(i.e. longitudes from 0 to 360 rather than -180 to +180).
Added support for importing ARC entities from DXF files.
WHAT'S NEW IN Global Mapper v6.05
Updated to work with the latest TerraServer changes. TerraServer access was
broken in all previous v6.xx releases on about December 2nd, 2004 when a minor
change was made by the TerraServer team.
Reduced the memory usage of SRTM HGT files to allow much larger chunks of
SRTM data to be loaded. Now several thousand HGT files can be loaded
simultaneously.
Added support for loading Moss/Genio format files.
Added support for loading Geosoft Grid format files.
Added support for loading interlaced PNG files.
Added support for exporting loaded elevation data to Geosoft Grid format files.
Allowed Generic ASCII Text files to be loaded through the normal File->Open
Data File mechanism in addition to through the Open Generic ASCII Text file
mechanism.
Allowed the load of Generic ASCII Text files to be canceled.
When exporting to the CSV format, make the elevation value the third column
(immediately after the coordinates) if exported. Also include the feature
description as a column.
Allowed transparent color values in a script file to be specified by palette index in
addition to RGB color value.
Improved connection of contour lines generated by Global Mapper, resulting in
more closed contours where possible.
Fixed shrinkage of loaded ECW files by one pixel on the right and bottom sides.
Made the first vertex of a feature be colored green and the last vertex colored red
when a line or area feature is selected in the Digitizer Tool and polyline vertex
display is enabled. This allows you to determine the direction that the polyline
goes.
Made the export of attribute values to DBF and Shapefiles be case-insensitive so
that you dont get multiple attribute fields with names that are identical except for
case (i.e. LONGITUDE and Longitude).
Fixed DBF attribute loading. In previous versions the attributes assigned to a DBF
point were those for the previous feature in the DBF file.
Made minor tweaks to Moss file export to make the generated Moss file more
compatible with other software packages. Also made the elevation of features be
saved to Moss files rather than the feature classification number.
Fixed problems loading Arc ASCII Grid files with more than about 65000
characters per line (this is usually around six or seven thousand samples per row).
Significantly sped up the import of Arc ASCII Grid files.
Made interplanetary datums be recognized when reading PRJ files.
When loading generic ASCII files, make the coordinate order setting be
remembered between dialog invocations.
Fixed bug introduced in v6.04 that prevented changing the display label field to
<No Name Field> from working for Shapefiles in the Options dialog accessible
from the Control Center.
Fixed bug introduced in v6.04 that prevented the loading of Arc Binary Grid files
that are missing a prj.adf file or have a prj.adf file that Global Mapper does not
recognize.
Fixed problems with reading some Lambert projections from ECW files that were
introduced in the v6.04 release.
Replaced the Recenter Tool with the new Pan (Grab-and-Drag) Tool. The new
tool allows you to left click and drag the map to a new location which should be
much more intuitive than the operation of the current Recenter Tool.
Added option for most vector data types to select which attribute value to use (if
any) for the feature labels.
Added option in the Overlay Control Center to right click on a raster or elevation
layer and zoom the main view such that a single sample/pixel in the selected layer
will be approximately one pixel on the screen.
Added support for exporting loaded point data to a CSV format file.
Added support for loading DBF (Dbase) format files with point data.
Added support for loading BT (Binary Terrain) format elevation grid files.
Added option to export loaded elevation data to a BT (Binary Terrain) format grid
file.
Added option to export loaded area and line vector data to a Moss format file.
Added option when loading ASCII files to use the first line of the file as column
headers (attribute names) for all attributes extracted from coordinate lines for
point features.
Improved auto-detection of delimiters for ASCII files when lines contain multiple
delimiters (i.e. spaces and commas).
Allowed coordinates for ASCII files to be specified in degrees/minutes and
degrees/minutes/seconds formats in most circumstances.
Added option to generate JPG-in-TIFF format files when exporting or batch
converting to the GeoTIFF format.
Added Austrian Grid and Mollewide projections.

Added support for the Astro B4, Astro Beacon, Astro Dos 71/4, Astronomic
Station 1952, Easter Island 1967, Hermannskogel, Indian (Bangladesh), Indian
(Mean Value), Indian (Thailand), ISTS 073 Astro, Kertau 1948, Leigon,
Observatorio 1966, Pico de las Nieves, Portugese 1973, Provisional South
Chilean, Qornoq, Rome 1940, Sao Braz, Southeast Base, Southwest Base and
Timbalai 1948 datums as well as several local variations of the European 1950
and NAD27 datums.
Added option in GeoTIFF export to control whether or not small gaps in elevation
data are filled.
Allowed latitude/longitude coordinate to be entered in degrees/minutes and
degrees/minutes/seconds formats on the rectification dialog, the TerraServer
import dialog, and the pan to/set location dialog.
Fixed problem with triangulated rectification that would sometimes cause some of
the control points to get moved a little.
Fixed error when exporting TerraServer layers that had the auto-adjust contrast
setting enabled.
Fixed problem in STL export that caused all y coordinate values to be shifted
north by one sample spacing.
Made two digits past the decimal point be written out when exporting elevation
values for vector features to Simple ASCII text files.
Improved accuracy of zooming to a particular scale and also made the scale value
in the zoom to scale dialog be initialized to the current view scale.
Fixed loading of color TIFF files that incorrectly specify their type as black and
white.
Improved the accuracy of the Stereo70 projection.
Removed warning for TIFF files that use a Geographic projection but do not
specify an angular units value. Arc degrees will just be assumed without bothering
the user.
Added ability to save the list of files in the batch conversion dialog to the
clipboard by right clicking on the files list and selecting the appropriate option in
the popup menu that is displayed.
Sped up loading of workspaces which contain multiple files loaded from the same
archive (i.e. .zip, .tar.gz) file.
Added support for loading point features from INSERT entities in DXF files.
Fixed rare problem with vector features right along the edge of a map not being
exported if the data has been re-projected.
Fixed problems with lines drawing thicker than they should if grid display is
enabled and the option to always draw all grid lines regardless of zoom scale is
enabled.
Sped up rendering and exporting of TerraServer data when there is no data
available for part of the TerraServer area requested.
Made floating point values rather than signed integers be used when exporting
BIL elevation files with 4 bytes per sample (32-bits).
Made double-clicking on an attribute/value list item in the feature edit dialog

bring up that attribute/value pair for editing.
Fixed problem with the anti-alias setting for elevation layers not being correct
restored from workspaces.
Added support for loading BMP format files with associated world or TAB files.
Added View menu option to allow zooming to a particular scale.
Added the Gauss Krueger Germany projection which is a version of the Gauss
Krueger projection added in the last release which has 3-degree wide zones rather
than 6-degree wide zones. Also added support for the Gauss Krueger projection
variation used in Slovenia.
Added support for the Aitoff-Wagner projection.
Added support for loading some MSI Planet format elevation grid files.
Added support for exporting loaded elevation data to the Gravsoft grid format.
Fixed occasional distortion of imagery rectified with the polynomial method if all
control points are along straight lines.
Added additional options when loading Tiger/Line data to allow loading polygon
features like zip code areas, school districts, Congressional districts, etc.
Added a shortcut key (Ctrl+L) to copy the current cursor position to the clipboard.
If during a batch convert/reproject operation one of the conversions is canceled,
the user will now be prompted to see if they want to cancel all remaining
conversions as well.
Made the last used .prj file folder be remembered between program runs to make
it easier to select .prj files from the same location repeatedly.
Made the correct options dialog be displayed for generated contour layers loaded
from workspace files when pressing the Options button in the Overlay Control
Center.
Allowed loading of truncated OziExplorer PLT files without error.
Fixed bug introduced in v6.02 that prevented the font used for the labels of most
selected features from being changed using the Digitizer Tool.
Fixed bug introduced in v6.02 that caused point symbols and road shield icons to
be printed upside down.
Fixed problems in v6.02 with loading .sid imagery on WinME and WinXP
Service Pack 2 machines.
Added support for loading ADRG format files.

Added support for loading waypoint, track, and route data from GPX (GPS
eXchange Format) files.
Added support for editing the name, type, and drawing style of multiple selected
features at a time in the Digitizer tool (previously only a single feature could be
edited at a time).
Added support for using vector features with elevation when performing a view
shed analysis. This allows you to add things like buildings, fence lines, trees, etc.
and have them be used when generating your view sheds.
Added support for rectifying vector layers from the Overlay Control Center (this
is a right-click option just as it is for raster layers).
Added support for editing and deleting vector features from the Search by Name
dialog.
Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the Arc Ungenerate format.
Added support for exporting loaded point and line data to GPX (GPS eXchange
Format) files.
Added support for saving and restoring a view under the View menu. This will
allow you to save a viewport, then move around the map looking at stuff, then
return to your saved point.
Corrected hill shading for elevation grids whose elevation samples are not in
meters.
Made small gaps between raster files and in downloaded TerraServer data be
filled in when exporting the data to new files.
Reduced memory requirements when creating high-resolution screen captures and
when exporting vector data to raster formats like GeoTIFF, JPG, etc.
Significantly reduced memory usage when exporting a large area of TerraServer
data.
Significantly reduced memory usage when exporting multiple MrSID files.
Added support for the Gauss Krueger, Eckert IV, and Gall Stereographic
projections.
Added option under the GPS menu to allow changing the color of the vessel.
Added display of the PDOP and the number of satellites used in a GPS solution
on the GPS information page when that information is available.
Made GPS velocity and bearing information be used from units that only output
GPGGA and GPVTG NMEA sentences.
Added option to GPS setup to specify an offset value to add to all elevations to
allow them to match up with other maps.
Added support for loading the ETOPO5 data set.
Added support for loading position information from TAB files for PNG images.
Added option to only generate metadata files like TAB and world files when
performing batch conversions. This provides an easy and fast way to create
metadata files for a lot of images for use in other software that requires such files.
Fixed problems with exported 32-bit vertical GeoTIFF files that have negative
elevation values.
Made handling of errors when exporting to GeoTIFF format more graceful.
Corrected export to Arc ASCII Grid format with non-whole elevation units, like
decimeters and centimeters.
Made additional digits of elevation precision be written to Arc ASCII Grid files
with small elevation ranges.

Corrected the Pulkovo 1942 datum transformation. It was off by a few meters
from the official transformation.
Corrected the PERIMETER attribute for area features to include the length of the
segment connected the first and last point.
Keep DXF attributes defined after all features as their own point features.
Reduced the memory required to store features loaded with the File->Open
Generic ASCII Data File menu command.
Added option to specify the JPG quality setting when batch converting to JPG
format files.
Made color intensity modification (i.e. lighten or darken) work for TerraServer
data.
Added ability to generate iso-height areas and min/max elevation points when
using the GENERATE_CONTOURS script command.
Added option to just generate contours at a specific height rather than at every
height thats an even multiple of an interval.
Fixed crash on some systems at the end of the contour generation process.
Added automatic recognition of DRGs in the Oregon Lambert projection if they
have a USGS standard filename.
Fixed loading of TerraServer DRG files from Alaska.
Fixed crash when loading an invalid JPG file.
Fixed problems with loading and properly positioning some CADRG and CIB
files.
Fixed problems with point features just outside of the specified export bounds
sometimes being exported when creating new vector files.
Made most state plane projections be saved when exporting ECW files.
Fixed problems with grid lines not being saved to exported raster files (i.e.
GeoTIFF, JPG, etc) if no other vector data is loaded.
Improved progress display during lengthy operations when capturing the screen to
a high-resolution image or exporting vector data to a raster format like GeoTIFF
or JPG.
Fixed problems connecting to the TerraServer from some computers, especially

those that go through a proxy server to get to the internet.
Fixed errors when viewing data in 3D if the main Global Mapper window was
sized too small.
Added the NAD27 (Mexico) datum.
Allowed specification of the target compression ratio to use when batch
converting to ECW format.
Made the EXPORT_RASTER script command take a
TARGET_COMPRESSION parameter for ECW format exports rather than a
QUALITY parameter.
Fixed problems projecting between State Plane New Mexico Central zone and
other projections.
Added a projection string to most TAB files generated from Global Mapper.
Fixed problems with pixels very near the center of a view shed analysis which has
a limited angular extent being marked as invisible incorrectly.
Sped up export and drawing of (Geo)TIFF files with data organized as very large
strips.
Added support for reading DXF features within the BLOCKS section of a DXF
file in addition to those within the ENTITIES section.
Always force at least one digit to the right of the decimal point to be saved when
saving a distance/z file from the path profile/line of sight dialog. This prevents
duplicate elevation values in some cases.
Fixed error loading NetCDF grid files that have a single character attribute value.
Added support for true 3D viewing. When you have elevation data loaded, just
press the 3D button on the toolbar to get a 3D perspective view of the current
view, including any loaded raster and vector data.
Added support for loading TerraServer data directly into Global Mapper. Simply
use the new File menu command to load any portion of the TerraServer data for
viewing. This data is fully functional and can be exported to new files as well.
Improved the batch conversion functionality to support almost any import format
to any compatible export format. You can now also configure the sample spacing
to use when converting to a raster or elevation format. The default is still to use
the sample spacing of the source data.
Added support for exporting data to ECW format files. The maximum size of the
uncompressed data that is to make up the ECW file is limited to 500 MB.
Added support for loading CADRG and CIB format data.
Added support for loading VPF format data such as the VMAP0 and VMAP1 data
sets available from http://geoengine.nima.mil/ and the Digital Nautical Chart
(DNC) data sets available from http://www.nga.mil/portal/site/dnc/.
Added support for loading S-57 marine chart files such as the NOAA charts
available for free from http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm.
Added support for loading JPEG2000 (.jp2 and .j2k) format files.
Added support for loading Erdas GIS format files.
Added support for loading ERMapper grid files (.ers).
Added support for loading GIF format files.
Added support for loading the NOS/GEO chart format.
Added support for loading Garmin PCX5 format waypoint (WPT) and track
(TRK) files.
Added support for loading OziExplorer format waypoint (WPT) and track (PLT)
files.
Added support for exporting loaded vector and elevation data to PLS CADD
format files.
Added support for loading the ZMap Plus format grid files used by Geographix
products such as IsoMap.
Added support for exporting loaded elevation data to ZMap Plus format grid files.
Added support for loading MicroDEM format 2 DEM files (created with
MicroDEM v8 and above).
Added support for customizing the grid line spacing when displaying lat/lon grids
or grids in the global projection sytem.
Added support for loading CIRCLE entities from DXF files.
Added additional info to the path profile info display and made the tilt angle use
the line of sight heights if available.
Added option to the custom shader dialog to specify whether or not to blend
colors between elevation values
Added button to the custom shader dialog to allow initialization of the
elevation/color ranges from those used by the Global Shader.
Added option to export gridded elevation data to Surfer v7 binary grid files
(previously only Surfer v6 binary grid files could be created).
Added COORD_OFFSET and COORD_SCALE parameters to Simple ASCII
export from the EXPORT_VECTOR script command to allow custom
modification of the coordinates being exported (this is useful for changing
elevation units, etc).
Added support for providing a coordinate scale and offset when exporting to SVG
format. This allows users to export SVG files that work with software (like Adobe
Illustrator) that has problems with very large coordinates, like UTM coordinates.
Fixed problems displaying some TIFF imagery with separate color channels, such
as the multi-spectral Quickbird imagery from DigitalGlobe.
Made coordinates in exported STL files be stored in counter-clockwise order and
also include a surface normal.
Improved accuracy of NAD27 CONUS datum conversions to well under a meter
by using the NADCON datum conversion method rather than the multipleregression equation (errors up to 2 meters) used in previous releases.
Added menu option for loading ground control points and projection information
from OziExplorer .map files in the image rectification dialog.
Added support for exporting an elevation GeoTIFF file with 32-bit floating point
samples rather than 16-bit integer samples.
Disabled display of warning messages when loading (Geo)TIFF files if the
warnings dont have any negative consequences.
Corrected the Stereo70 projection for Romania. It was off by about 1 degree in
latitude.
Fixed printing to scale when using the Geographic projection.
Improved classification of city features from NIMA GNS files.
Added support for the Vertical Near-Side Perspective projection.
Added support for the Ain El Abd (Bahrain), Ain El Abd (Saudi Arabia),
Carthage, Luzon (Philippines), and Merchich (Morocco) datums.
Added support for dash and dot line styles have a width greater than 1 pixel.
Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that do not provide fix quality
information messages.
Corrected handling of International Feet and US Feet units when reading and
writing GeoTIFF files.
Fixed problems viewing ECW files which are oriented in a bottom-up rather than
a top-down manner.
Fixed problem calculating the top right corner of Surfer7 binary grid files which
caused the top right corner to be slightly too far up and to the right.
Corrected one half grid cell shift up and to the right of imported SRTM HGT files.
Fixed error when exporting point features to a vector file using the
EXPORT_VECTOR command in a Global Mapper script file passed on the
command line.
Made HSV shader parameters be saved to the registry.
Made a default.prj file in the same directory as a file with an unknown projection
being loaded be used for the projection of the file. This is useful to specify the
source projection/datum of all of the files in a folder.
Added support for using a color palette in a .clr file for BIL/BIP/BSQ 8-bit
imagery. The .clr file just needs to have the same base name as the image file to
be used (i.e. image.clr for image.bil).
Greatly increased the speed of exporting from ECW files to new imagery files.
Made users be prompted to select the projection for USGS DEM files that do not
contain complete projection information rather than just failing to load the file.
Fixed problems exporting to USGS DEM and DLG formats with projections who
have projection parameters west of -10 degrees longitude or east of +100 degrees
longitude. Note this does not affect the UTM, State Plane, or Geographic
projection typically used with these file types.
Fixed problem that prevented users from printing to a printer after they had
printed to a file.
Made the color attribute for closed DXF polygons be applied as a border color.
Made area features with elevations be considered when creating elevation grids
from loaded vector data from the Overlay Control Center.
Changed Allow Overlapping Labels option on the General Options tab of the
Configuration dialog to Always Display All Labels and modified the behavior
to reflect that change. Previously, duplicate labels near each other on the screen
could still be hidden even if the option was checked.
No longer export the optional Bounds field to MIF files since that limits what
MapInfo will display if other files are loaded.
Made elevation or z-values in DGN line features be saved when the features are
loaded.
Added support for loading JPEG-in-TIFF files.
Fixed bug introduced in v5.09 that prevented the Line Type used for features in
Shapefiles from being changed.
Added option to raster format exports (i.e. BIL, GeoTIFF, JPG) to allow the user
to select whether or not they want loaded vector data to be included in the
exported image. By default, loaded vector data will NOT be exported (this is the
opposite of the setting introduced in v5.09).
Added support for correctly positioning DXF files with features that use an
extrusion vector to describe a rotation for the object.
Added additional right click option in the path profile/line of sight display dialog
to show additional information about the path, such as the vertical distance,
horizontal distance, bearing, and tilt angle.
Fixed bug when using linear image rectification (i.e. rectification using only two
points) that prevented imagery from being flipped horizontally or vertically when
necessary.
Fixed occasional access violation error when using improperly defined
projections.
Fixed crash with message PropPageVectorTypeOptions.cpp 74 when trying to
re-interpret the projection for a vector layer that does not display the Feature
Types tab for vector options (i.e. DLGs, GNIS, LULC, Tiger).
Made the palette index of colors in the transparent color selection dialog be
displayed in addition to the actual color value.
Added GPS tracking support! You can now track your position using a GPS
device connected over the serial port that communicates in NMEA-0183 v2.x or
Garmin binary format. You can mark waypoints at your current location and
record a tracklog of where you have been.
Added support for loading Arc/Info Binary Vector Coverages (i.e. arc.adf files).
Made loaded vector data be saved to GeoTIFF, JPG, and BIL/BIP/BSQ files
exported from the Export Raster and Elevation Data menu. In addition, options
were also added to allow saving the scale, elevation legend, and grid lines if
desired.
Added options to change the default area, line, and point type used for many of
the vector formats in Global Mapper, such as DGN, DXF, E00, and MapInfo files.
To change the classifications, use the Options button in the Overlay Control
Center.
Made loaded vector data be saved to files generated using the
EXPORT_RASTER script command if possible.
Added prompt to the projection selection dialog when batch converting multiple
files that allows users to specify that they want to use the selected
projection/datum for all files that they selected to convert that do not already have
projection information.
Added display of segment/polyline bearing when measuring using the Measure
Tool.
Improved handling of auto-contrast adjustment when transparency is being
applied at the same time.
Corrected the Old Hawaiian Mean datum transformation. It had been using the
transformation specific to the big island of Hawaii rather than the mean values.
Added option to remember the projection last used when rectifying imagery. The
projection is remembered within a single session of Global Mapper.
Corrected generation of an image-optimized palette in GeoTIFF imagery for 8-bit
per pixel source imagery that has been auto-contrast adjusted, has a blend mode
active, or is being texture mapped over elevation data.
Added support for auto-detecting whether floating point or integer samples are
present in 4-byte per sample grid files (i.e. BIL) for which the header doesnt
specify what the data type is.
Made the current slope be displayed in the status bar in addition to the elevation
when using the Slope Shader.
Fixed bug in the Generic ASCII import that caused the Comma and Space or
Tab delimiter options to be reversed.
Fixed strange line drawing with polygon borders set to use the striped or railroad
styles when zoomed out on those features.
Fixed errors saving workspaces in which a hole in an area has been modified by
the parent area has not or the drawing style of an area with islands has been
customized.
Fixed crash when dragging a workspace file onto the Global Mapper icon to
launch Global Mapper and run the workspace. This was introduced in v5.08.
Improved auto-detection of delimiters in ASCII files.
Added new built-in point type classification and symbol for mines.
Added support for TIFF world files with TIFW and TIFFW extensions.
Fixed PNGOverlay.cpp 862 error when loading some PNG files.
Added support for binary elevation grids containing double-precision elevation
values.
Corrected use of projections with interplanetary datums.
Added an option to specify the name to use when generating a new contour layer.
Reduced the amount of RAM used when loading a lot of TIFF files.
Made several settings in the Export GeoTIFF dialog be remembered within a run
of Global Mapper, such as the export file type and palette type.
Added an entry to the Overlay Control Center for the layer(s) containing any usercreated features, such as those created with the Digitizer and/or Measure tools.
This allows you to operate on user-created features just like any others.
Improved CDF export by automatically mapping the types of the features being
exported to the CDF file to a CDF type if possible. There is also an option to force
all features to use the same classification if desired.
Sped up the loading of Shapefiles with large attribute (DBF) files. Also reduced
the memory used by such files.
Added support for getting positioning and projection information from TAB files
associated with JPG imagery.
Corrected slope calculations in the slope shader when working with data that does
not use meters for the elevation units.
Added option to the path profile/line of sight dialog to toggle whether or not
intermediate points are displayed.
Added option when importing generic ASCII data to specify whether or not the 3rd
value, if any, in a coordinate line should be treated as an elevation value or not
(previously it always was).
Added support for loading text annotations from E00 files.
Added support for importing Tiger/Line vector data from the US Census Bureau.
Added support for creating an elevation grid (i.e. a DEM) from any loaded vector
data containing elevation points from the Overlay Control Center by selecting the
layers to work with, then right clicking and selecting the Create Elevation Grid
option.
Added support for exporting vector data to CDF format files.
Added support for reading Geosoft Grid files in ASCII format (GXF files).
Added support for reading data from the ACE (Altimetry Corrected Elevations)
data set.
Added support for reading the GEBCO Digital Atlas 1 spacing elevation model
of the world including bathymetry in NetCDF format.
Added support for reading CTM DEMs, such as those produced by the IGM
(Instituto Geografico Militare) of Italy.
Added the Bogota Observatory, Hjorsey 1955, Ireland 1965, North Sahara 1959,
Reunion Island, and Schwarzeck datums.
Added the Oblique Stereographic and Stereo70 projections.
Added new raster blend modes Keep Red, Keep Green, and Keep Blue.
These allow you to keep only a particular color channel from the selected overlay
and apply the other color channels from the underlying data. This is useful when
creating imagery from Landsat or other multi-spectral imagery where each
channel is stored in a separate layer.
Added links to a large body of LandSat 5 and 7 data from the Open ECW File
from the Web File menu option. This data is provided over the web by ResMap
and can be purchased from them for offline viewing at www.resmap.com.
Made Equidistant Conic B projection be stored and read correctly from .prj files
and workspaces.
Fixed problems loading native format DOQ data introduced in v5.07.
Added support for ENVI format headers for BIL/BIP/BSQ files.
Improved display of some large files in projections other than their native one.
Added support for reading E00 files from gzip files without extracting them first
(i.e. .e00.gz files).
Made the last selected feature type for newly created area, line, and point features
be remembered when creating multiple features using the Digitizer tool.
Added a setting to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog that allows
users to specify whether or not they want to allow overlapping labels to be
displayed (by default, labels that would cause an overlap when displayed are not
drawn).
Made transparency for raster imagery be applied prior to applying auto-contrast
adjustment, thus allowing transparency to be effectively used with auto-contrast
adjustment.
Added support for additional header formats when loading raw binary elevation
files like .bil and .bin files. This allows custom GLOBE and TerrainBase imports
to work more smoothly.
Added support for exporting USGS DEMs in many projections that arent
officially supported by the USGS DEM specification, but are supported by other
software applications, like Global Mapper.
Made any extracted files be removed from the Global Mapper temporary folder
on startup to make sure nothing gets left behind and wastes users disk space due
to a program crash or malfunction.
Added prompt to the projection selection dialog when loading multiple files that
allows users to specify that they want to use the selected projection/datum for all
files that they selected to load.
Added the Plate Carree projection. This is just an alias for the Geographic
projection which already existed.
Fixed problems with loading workspaces that contained files loaded from
subdirectories within .zip archives.
Fixed problems with strange results on the edge of some maps rectified using the
triangulated method.
Made significant improvements to the print engine. Printing should now work on
a wider variety of printers. You can now also PRINT TO SCALE, customize the
footer text to print out, and print to a BMP, JPG, or PNG file. In addition,
printouts will now take up the entire page rather than being limited to whats on
the screen.
Added support for reading any format that can be read from a .tar.gz archive from
a .zip archive.
Improved support for tab-delimited ASCII text files when using the File->Open
Generic ASCII Text File menu command.
Added support for the latest format NIMA GNS point data set format.
Allowed loading of some BSB files that have corruption in parts of the file.
Fixed errors loading BIL/BIP/BSQ files larger than 16 MB that have bytes to skip
at the beginning of the file. This problem was introduced in v5.06.
Added options in the Overlay Control Center to move selected overlays to the top
or bottom of the draw order.

Added option when generating contours to generate isoheight areas in addition to
contour lines.
Added option when generating contours to generate spot elevations at the min and
max elevation locations in the area that contours are being generated for.
Added support for exporting gridded elevation data (i.e. DEMs) to DXF files
containing 3D face entities (this is in addition to the already existing DXF mesh
and DXF 3D point exports for elevation data).
Added support for exporting named point features to a Garmin PCX5-format
WPT file.
Added support for exporting line features to a Garmin PCX5-format TRK file.
Improved reading of line style information from DXF files. Files which before did
not have colors read from them should now.
Reduced memory required to load Arc Binary Grid files and sped up the loading
of those files as well.
Fixed problems loading Arc ASCII Grid files with less than 6 rows in the header.
Also allowed canceling of the load of Arc ASCII Grid files.
Increased precision of coordinates stored in the header of exported Arc ASCII
Grid files to prevent slight shrinking of files with very small elevation sample
sizes (i.e. files exported in Arc Degrees units).
Fixed problems with lines changing direction when zooming really far in on them.
Fixed some problems selecting line features with the Digitizer Tool when zoomed
far in on them.
Fixed problems with vertical lines being clipped incorrectly on a sub-set export.
Allowed the distance scale to be displayed at much smaller distances when
zooming in very far.
Added prompt when combining line features to allow users to specify whether or
not theyd like to combine connected line features with different label,
description, and/or attribute values if connecting incompatible lines are detected.
Added support for reading most supported file formats from .zip and .tar.gz
archives.
Made auto-detection of USGS DEM, DLG-O, and GNIS files better when they
are read from .gz files. This means that you are now less likely to be asked to
choose the type of file when loading a file of those types that are gzipped.
Added Save Workspace button to the toolbar. This is a shortcut to the File->Save
Workspace menu item.
Fixed problems loading some very large MrSID files.
Allowed USGS DEM files to be exported when Arc Degrees or International Feet
units are selected as the ground units for the view/export projection. Those units
will automatically be replaced with Arc Second and US Feet units respectively to
achieve compliance with the DEM spec. Previously the user was simply told to
choose different units.
Added the Export BIL/BIP/BSQ menu item allowing raster imagery to be

exported to BIL, BIP, and BSQ formats as well as allowing gridded elevation data
to be exported to 2- or 4-byte BIL elevation files.
Added support for loading BSB chart files.
Added support for rectifying imagery using a triangulated method. This method
tries to exactly preserve every ground control point rather than coming up with an
approximation to cover the entire image. This method may generate better results
than the polynomial method when 8 or more ground control points are entered.
Added the Beijing 1954, NGO 1948, NTF France, and Finland/Hayford datums.
Added an option to DXF export that allows feature labels to be saved as separate
DXF TEXT features in their own layer.
Made view sheds be saved to and restored from Global Mapper workspaces.
Added the SET_BG_COLOR command allowing the render background color to
be modified from Global Mapper script files.
Reduced the memory required for working with large BIL, BIP, BSQ, and
FLOAT/GRID files and added support for files of those types greater than 2GB in
size.
Added a new option in the Digitizer Tool allowing multiple line features to be
combined into a single line feature.
Reduced the memory required for working with very large native format USGS
DEM files.
Made holes in areas (e.g. islands) be exported to DXF files as separate features.
Added display of the palette index on the status bar (in addition to the RGB color)
for pixels under the cursor of palette-based TIFF files.
Made all attributes be saved to Shapefiles, even if several of them start with the
same 10 characters (10 characters is the limit for Shapefile attribute names).
Corrected interpretation and saving of world file coordinates. They were off by
half a pixel.
Corrected Arc ASCII Grid import and export to use the correct definition of the
lower left corner coordinate as being the edge of the lower-left grid cell and not
the center of the lower-left pixel. This was causing the grids to be shifted by half a
pixel.
Made remembering the last export bounds optional rather than the default on the
Export Bounds tab of all of the data exports.
Made the last point of an area or line feature created with the Digitizer Tool
correctly snap to nearby features as indicated on the screen.
Fixed the Kentucky State Plane NAD83 definition. It was off by one degree in
longitude.
Fixed bug that prevented the Area Type filtering from the Vector Display
Configuration page from functioning.
Added new palette options for GeoTIFF export allowing 8-bit grayscale images
with no color map to be created by Global Mapper in addition to the normal 8-bit
with color map grayscale option.
Made linear coordinates (i.e. meters, feet) in ASCII formats be stored with two
digits after the decimal place rather than one.
Added support for exporting US Coast Guard NIMA ASZ files (these are the
same as NIMA ASC files but with a color attribute for each line feature).
Made any errors encountered loading or saving a Global Mapper workspace be
displayed once the load/save operation is complete.
Fixed error when finding a 3D path profile when clicking on the same point twice
in a row.
Made altering the elevation interpretation of an overlay using the new Alter
Elevations dialog actually work.
Reduced memory required to load MapInfo files with lots of attributes.
Made the export format and GeoTIFF palette type for batch image rectifications
be remembered during a single Global Mapper session.
Added ability to offset elevation values, modify the valid elevation range, and
change the value used for invalid elevation values in gridded elevation layers
from the Options button in the Overlay Control Center.
Added the ability to generate 3D path profiles along paths with more than one
point. You can now also select a line feature in the Digitizer Tool and generate a
path profile from that line.
Added support for loading MicroPath MPZ DEMs.
Added support for saving elevation data to Float/Grid format files.
Added an option to view shed analysis allowing the receiver information to be
specified as an elevation angle relative to the transmitter location rather than an
absolute height either above ground or sea level if desired.
Added support for saving elevation data to Leveller Heightfield format files for
use with the Daylon Leveller (www.daylongraphics.com) application.
Added option to load your ground control point list from a comma-delimited file
when rectifying an image and also to save your ground control point list to a
comma-delimited file.
Made ground control points be displayed on the reference image view as well as
the other two when rectifying imagery. Also made double-clicking on a control
point recenter the reference image view as well as the others.
Allowed font types other than TrueType and ClearType to be selected for labeling
point and area features.
Added option to save the results of a path profile to a text file with distances and
elevation values. Also moved all export options on the path profile dialog to a File
menu.
Added display of percentage complete in most progress display dialogs.
Made holes in areas be saved to simple ASCII text files (they will have an
ISLAND=YES attribute if attributes are saved).
Added support for treating some area features as holes in the previous area when
loading generic ASCII text files (ISLAND attribute enables this).

Added support for Float/Grid files with a .FLT extension.
Slightly sped up elevation data exports and view shed generation.
Corrected USGS DEM export progress dialog and added option to cancel the
export.
Fixed error when rectifying an image to a new file while grid lines are displayed.
Fixed problem when changing the datum specified in the image rectification
dialog and then specifying to reproject the coordinates. In this case, the datum
conversion was not being performed correctly.
Fixed error loading MapInfo MIF/MID files that have a data column named
VERSION.
Fixed problem that caused islands for unclassified areas to sometimes not be
displayed.
Made MapInfo files appear when opening files with the All Supported Vector
Types rather than (erroneously) under All Supported Raster Types.
Added the ability to customize the font used when rendering feature labels on
both a per-feature and per-classification basis.
Added support for loading MrSID v3 images, including lossless MrSID.
Improved speed of displaying and exporting rectified imagery and also fixed
rectification problem that occasionally caused jumbled results.
Fixed northing coordinates stored in exported RockWorks grid files.
Added support for loading Helava DEM format files.
Added support for loading and exporting MapMaker terrain (.ter) files.
Added support for loading Swedish DEM Grid files in a GSD format.
Added a new Center on Location option under the View menu to allow
recentering the map view on a manually entered location.
Added support for the Zanderij datum (widely used in Suriname).
Fixed bug that caused the coordinates for point features to not be reprojected if
necessary when saved to new Simple ASCII Text files.
Made .grd the default extension when exporting new Arc ASCII Grid files rather
than .txt since .grd is more prevalently used by other software packages.
Added support for explicitly specified linear units with PCS projections specified
in MrSID metadata (i.e. meters instead of feet for some State Plane projections).
Added confirmation prompt when restoring the original shape of line and area
features with the Edit Controller to prevent users from accidentally losing changes
by selecting the wrong item.
Added support for loading native format DLG-O files from .tar.gz archives.
Made the last used export bounds be remembered when exporting new data files,
allowing one to easily export the same area of maps to different file formats.
Improved the snap-to functionality in the Digitizer Tool. You can now snap to
nearby features when moving a single vertex of existing features as well as when
creating new features. In addition, you can now snap to nearby point features in
addition to area and line features.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to create a new point feature at a manually
entered location (defaulting to the cursor position) rather than a clicked location.
Added support for exporting imagery to grayscale JPG files.
Added new script commands to allow calling other scripts from within a script
(EMBED_SCRIPT), unloading single layers (UNLOAD_LAYER), and setting
the display options for elevation data from a script (SET_VERT_DISP_OPTS).
Added option to generate 3D point shapefiles.
Added support for loading .dem files created by MicroDEM.
Modified the generic ASCII importer such that if a feature has only a single
attribute associated with it that attribute will be used as the feature name.
Corrected transformations involving the Potsdam datum. They were about 60
meters off in easting.
Added support for elevations less than -3276.7 meters in decimeter DEMs (such
as Mars DEMs).
Made generated contour layers stay in their own layer when saved to a workspace
and then restored from that workspace.
Added option when exporting GeoTIFF and JPG data to force the pixels in the
generated image to be square to ensure compatibility with the largest number of
other software packages. This option is enabled by default.
Made the measurement attributes (i.e. LENGTH, ENCLOSED_AREA,
PERIMETER) of user-created line and area features get updated when the line
and area features are reshaped.
Fixed a problem with gridding 3D point data sets that prevented very large data
sets from being gridded.
Fixed problem with view shed that could cause some barely visible areas to be
marked as invisible, even with very large transmitter heights.
Added support for loading 8-bit BIL elevation files (previously they were always
treated as grayscale imagery, now the user will be asked unless the file contains
DEM in the name).
Added support for newer format ESRI PRJ files.

Added support for repositioning most raster and elevation formats from the
Overlay Control Center. To use this feature, simply right click on the layer you
want to reposition in the Overlay Control Center and select the Modify Overlay
Position (Re-Rectify). This will also let you modify the positioning/projection of
imagery that has been manually rectified.
Added option to force raster and elevation data created from most batch
conversions to have square pixels. This helps prevent problems with less capable
software like AutoCAD that doesnt handle non-square pixels correctly.
Fixed problem where files loaded from .tar.gz files that were saved to a
workspace, then loaded from the workspace and saved once again to a workspace
would no longer be loaded.
Added support for SRTM height files with a little endian byte order.
Added support for BIL files with Intermap format headers.
Added support for TIFF imagery with 64 bits per pixel (4 color channels with 16
bits per channel). This type of imagery is often obtained from Digital Globe.
Sped up the display of stripped TIFF imagery with non-contiguous color planes.
Added the option to show/hide area and line vertex display on the right click
menu in the Digitizer Tool.
Added the ability to measure distance in nautical units (i.e. nautical miles).
Made the name of the currently loaded workspace (if any) be displayed in the
application title bar.
Modified the File->Save Workspace menu command to not prompt for a filename
if a workspace is currently loaded. The new File->Save Workspace As menu
command allows a workspace name to be explicitly selected if necessary.
Created a new Vector Options tab on the main Configuration dialog and moved all
vector data related options to it from the General tab. New options for the area
and distance measurement were added to the General tab.
Made area and line features created with the Digitizer tool have their
measurements created as default attributes. For example, new area features will
automatically have PERIMETER and AREA attributes created, and new line
features will automatically have LENGTH attributes created.
Fixed problems loading TIFF imagery with an invalid value for the number of
rows per strip.
Added the Minna (Cameroon) and Minna (Nigeria) datums.
Added support for the Dutch Grid (RD) projection and datum.
Fixed error when dragging imagery that needs rectified onto the Global Mapper
icon to launch it.
Improved speed of rendering very complex areas and also fixed bug drawing
those same areas (areas affected are those with at least 8192 vertices between the
area and its islands).
Added support for performing view shed analysis where the receiver height is
specified as a fixed height above sea level rather than a height above the ground.
Added display of some geometry information (i.e. vertex count, number of
islands) for vector features from most supported file formats when using the Pick
Tool.
Enhanced Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog to allow entry of the
water level in either meters or feet and to display the numeric values
corresponding to the various slider configuration to allow exact setup.
Made the Global Mapper type assigned to a feature be saved with the attribute
name GM_TYPE when exporting simple ASCII format files with attributes
enabled if the type name is different than the description.
Made the generic ASCII importer recognize the GM_TYPE attribute for reading
back in vector features with the same classification that they had in Global
Mapper.
Fixed problem with modified vector features saved to workspaces not being saved
again when that workspace is loaded and then saved.
Added batch conversions for MrSID to GeoTIFF and MrSID to JPG.
Add option in the Overlay Control Center to right click on an overlay and zoom
the view to that overlay.
Added the Lambert I, Lambert II, Lambert III, Lambert IV, Lambert II-Wide, and
Lambert-93 projections (these are widely used in France).
Increased the max resolution for creating screen captures to 16384 x 16384 from
8192 x 8192.
Corrected loading of ECW files with explicit false eastings and false northings
and grounds units of feet.
Made Global Mapper workspace files be available from the list of recently opened
files under the File menu.
FEATURE CREATION AND EDITING! There is a new Digitizer Tool that

allows you to edit existing vector features and to create new ones by drawing
them with the mouse.
IMAGE RECTIFICATION! You can now visually rectify imagery that has not
been placed on the earth. Use the new File->Rectify Imagery menu item, or
simply load the data file as usual. If it doesnt have geo-placement information,
you will be asked if you want to rectify the image for display. Currently, JPG,
TIFF, and PNG imagery can be rectified.
You can now save measurements created with the measurement tool so that they
can be saved to files and compared to other measurements.
Added auto-scrolling feature to allow easy scrolling by moving the cursor near the
view edge and clicking, regardless of which tool is active.
User-generated contour lines will now be stored in Global Mapper workspace
files.
Made downloaded User Manual files that are placed in a Help directory under that
used by Global Mapper be used rather than going online for the help.
Made the user be prompted to save a workspace if any overlay viewing options
have changed.
Improved contour generation be removing extraneous hanging segments in flat
areas and closing contour lines whenever possible.
Improved projection/datum support when importing/exporting MapInfo MIF/MID

files.
Made items selected with the pick tool stay selected as you pan and zoom around
without leaving the pick tool. This makes it easier to review exactly where an item
goes without having to zoom out and reselect it.
Enhanced the measure tool so that the cursor will snap to nearby vector features
(areas and lines) to facilitate measuring area and line features. This snap
functionality can be disabled by holding down the Ctrl key while moving the
mouse. Holding down the Shift key causes the snap to only snap to vertices along
the features.
Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the InRoads ASCII data format.
Added D-48 Slovenia and NAD27 (Canada) datums.
Added support for zooming in and out with the mouse wheel in the main map
view.
Fixed problems loading SRTM HGT files introduced in v4.77 release.

Made the Options display for generic ASCII files correctly display the elevation
options for elevation grids and the vector data options for ASCII files imported as
vector data (i.e. points, lines, and areas).
Added hotkeys for many menu items and common operations.

Fixed problems exporting lines that have been reprojected to Shapefiles.
Fixed printing of custom symbols.
Fixed problem with print to white background option not working in v4.76.
Added support for loading very large Arc/Info Binary grid files.
Added the ability to import area features from generic ASCII text files.
Added support for reading tiled TIFF data with elevation data.
Added support for user-defined types.
Added support for the Kentucky State Plane zone.
Added support for loading TAB/TIFF and TAB/MrSID combinations.
Added several S-42 datums for various eastern European countries.
Made workspaces save/restore the view as well as the files loaded.
Improved display of National Atlas road layer data in SDTS format.
Added support for BSQ and BIP data formats.
Made contour lines not draw over other line types.
Made most line types save the appropriate attribute codes into DLG-O files when
they are exported to files of that type.
Made display of path profiles always ignore earth curvature. Only line of sight
analysis can use earth curvature display.
Added support for black and white TIFF images that are missing the bits per
sample TIFF tag.
Fixed problems writing large elevation values to decimeter or centimeter USGS
DEM files.
Fixed problems selecting a lot of files at once when adding files to a Batch
Convert operation.
Made scales and any current measurement be saved when capturing the screen to
an image file.
Added two new color blend modes, Apply Color and Apply Color (Reversed).
These blend modes can be useful for colorizing high-resolution grayscale imagery
using lower resolution color imagery, such as LandSat photos.
Added an additional option to the Generic ASCII import to allow specification of
a criteria for determining which grid points should be treated as invalid when
creating an elevation grid from a 3D point data set. By default, all grid points are
treated as valid, but you can now adjust that setting so that only grid points within
a certain threshold of an actual data point are treated as valid.
Added support for the Hammer-Aitoff, Wagner VII (Hammer-Wagner), New
Zealand Map Grid, and New Zealand Transverse Mercator projections.
Added support for the Nahrwan and New Zealand Geodetic Datum 2000 datums.
Made Simple ASCII Text exports with attributes include the area, line, or point
styles as attributes.
Made the Generic ASCII Import recognize area, line, and point style attributes
associated with the features in order to allow for coloring and symbology to be
read. See the help file for details on what attributes are recognized.
Fixed problem loading some point types from E00 files.
Improved descriptions and type assignments for international GNS point names
data sets.
Added support for GeoTIFF files in the State Plane Projection which do not have
feet as the linear units.
Made area labels exported to Landmark Graphics format maintain the same
position as the labels are displayed on the screen.
Add support for directly loading the projection from the metadata files
accompanying the LandSat data at http://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/.
Fixed loading of custom sections of the GLOBE data set.
Improved display of polyline vertices.
Removed Sphere Radius as a parameter when specifying a projection since that is
implied by the datum.
Improved display of Transverse Mercator and UTM projections so that data far
from the central longitude is not displayed. This fixes the problem with lots of
spurious areas being displayed when viewing large data sets.
Made Shapefile options (label field, area type, line type, and point type) be saved
to workspaces and settable in script files.

Made Generic ASCII file line and point types selections be saved to workspaces
and settable in script files.
Made Global Mapper support additional projections and datums from the PRJ
format.
Added a new Point Styles tab to the Configuration dialog allowing the user to
select what symbol to use for a given point type, whether or not to label points of
a given type, and the ability to select bitmaps or icon files to use as custom
symbols.
Sped up display of translucent or blended overlays.
Added the option to display gridded elevation values on the status bar in either
native file units, metric or statute units. This setting can be found on the Vertical
Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
Made the overlay blend mode be saved in workspace files.
Fixed problem with labeling areas after reprojecting vector data.
Added the ability to reproject when batch converting SDTS DEMs to USGS
DEMs.
Made the generic feature info dialog displayed for most vector features resizable.
Made the color intensity setting be applied correctly when exporting new imagery
files (it was being ignored before).
Made elevation values from overlays not marked as anti-aliased not be
interpolated on export.
Added option to ignore clearances at the start and end of a path when performing
line of sight analysis.
Greatly sped up the display of lat/lon grid lines when a large portion of the earth
is loaded.
Limited display when UTM is the current projection to prevent the display of data
more than 10 zones from the selected zone as it was highly distorted at that point.
Added options to ASCII import to allow the user to specify a number of columns
to skip at the beginning of the line as well as the ability to specify a scale factor
and offset to apply to coordinates.
Added advanced blending capabilities to the rendering of raster data. You can now
apply Photoshop style blending (i.e. Hard Light, Multiple, Screen, etc.) to loaded
elevation and raster data.
Fixed problems with printing on some printers.
Fixed DXF label size when saving a DXF file in arc degrees.
Fixed exporting of 3D DXF mesh files via scripts.
Added an option to export the RGB color value of each point during an XYZ Grid
export of loaded elevation data.

Added support for exporting loading elevation grid data to STL format files.
Added the option to modify the translucency of loaded raster and elevation grid
data. This allows an overlay to be partially see-through so that some of the
underlying layers can be seen blended with the layers on top.
Made view sheds be created so that you can initially see through the covered areas
to the data underneath.
Added support for reading PNG images with world files.
Added support for displaying the current cursor coordinates in MGRS (Military
Grid Reference System) coordinates. To display coordinates in MGRS, select the
MGRS option from the Position Display Format list on the General tab of the
Configuration dialog.
Added support for entering the bounds for exporting data in MGRS (Military Grid
Reference System) coordinates.
Added display of the current datum to the status bar.
Added new file type selections to the file open dialog for All Elevation, All
Raster, and All Vector data formats.
Added support for ENVI DEMs with 2 bytes per elevation sample.
Added support for automatically loading British Grid and Swedish Grid
projections from GeoTIFF files.
Added support for the GDA94, Indian 1954, and Indian 1975 datums.
Added an option to DXF export to force exported lines to have a thickness of zero
to avoid problems with Microstation.
Made some minor printing improvements and bug fixes.
Made user-selected projections and elevation units be saved in workspaces so that

they dont have to be re-entered when loading a workspace.
Added British Grid support.
Improved handling of PLSS DLG data. Now township, range, and section
numbers are displayed as labels for the section polygons.
Added a new area type, Survey Section, to better support PLSS data from the
USGS.
Added support for loading ENVI DEM format data.
Reduced memory usage when loading GLOBE data sets such that the entire world
can be loaded at once.
Allowed for contours to be generated at intervals other than whole numbers, for
example 0.5 meters.
Added the ability to export simple ASCII text files for vector data from scripts.
Improved generic ASCII import by maintaining the elevation for each coordinate
specified in the file. This extra data can then be maintained to 3D shapefile
exports.
Fixed default GeoTIFF and JPG export bounds to not add an extra pixel of data
having the background color on the right and bottom of the generated images.
Fixed problems with loading grayscale BIL image data.
Fixed problem with MrSID imagery being shrunk by one pixel when loaded.
Fixed display of ERDAS Imagine .img files with less than 8 bits per pixel.
Added support for USDA SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic Database) files in
DLG-3 format. These files can be obtained from
http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/ssur_data.html.
Added import of elevation data from 3D DXF files.
Improved automatic detection of name and description fields from MapInfo files.
Made the Generic ASCII Text export write a very large negative number for
invalid elevations rather than 0.0 so that the invalid elevations can be easily
discarded on import.
Fixed problem writing out projection files introduced in v4.70.
Added VRML export support.

Added support for user-defined elevation shading. The user can now create new
elevation data shaders on the Shaders tab of the Configuration dialog or by
selected the Add Custom Shader option from the Shader dropdown on the
toolbar.
Added export of elevation data to 3D DXF Point file.
Made false easting and northings stored in GeoTIFF files be stored in the correct
linear units rather than always in meters.
Added the option for registered users to disable the Click Here to Download
Data button that is displayed when no data is loaded. The option is available by
right-clicking on the image.
Fixed problems with some elevations in large flat areas being discarded when
gridding 3D point data.
Made area data with identical classifications be sorted in the order that the layers
are ordered in the Overlay Control Center. This provides users with more control
over how areas are layered on the display.
Added progress display while exporting BMP files.
Made elevations in Arc ASCII Grids be stored with one digit after the decimal
point to allow for more precision.
Made the DGN level number be used as the description for features imported
from DGN files.
Made the scale and elevation legend be drawn using a slightly smaller font.
Made empty attribute lists not be exported to DXF files.

Fixed problem with the latitude for some UTM and Transverse Mercator
projections in the southern hemisphere.
Added auto-detection of SDTS DEMs marked as NAD27 that are actually in Old
Hawaiian Mean or the Puerto Rico NAD27 flavors.
Allowed DXF files with minor formatting problems to be loaded.
Fixed problem exporting elevation data mixed with texture mapped raster layers
to any of the raster formats (i.e. GeoTIFF, JPEG).
Fixed problems drawing some very large MrSID image files.

Improved the speed of exporting reprojected MrSID image files to other formats.
Made the scale go away when it zoomed in too far to show any tick marks.
Made degree coordinates be stored with 8 digits after the decimal place rather
than 6 when written to text files.
Added support for reading extremely large JPG images.
Fixed error writing angular projection parameters to GeoTIFF files when the
angles
were not on even degree boundaries.
Fixed problem in view shed analysis when the transmitter height was specified in
feet rather than meters.
Improved selection of elevation range for vertical GeoTIFF data that do not
explicitly
indicate a valid elevation range.
Added the MGI Austria datum.
Added access to the FAQ under the Help menu.
Made all characters be preserved when exporting labels to DXF files. Previously,
any diacritic or other special characters were being converted to underscores.
Fixed several bugs with printing on older versions of Windows (95/98/Me and NT
4.0).
Added the option to display a scale on the map.
Added the option to display an elevation legend on the map.
Added new menu option and toolbar button to link to data download sites on the
web.
Added instructive graphics display in the center of the map display when no data
is
loaded.
Vastly improved printing.

Made line features exported to the ESRI Shapefile format be clipped to the
requested export bounds before being exported.
Added the ability to re-order loaded overlays for drawing. To do this, simply right
click on the overlay that you want to move in the Overlay Control Center and
select whether to move them up or down in the list (and thusly the draw order).
Made the overlay control center resizable.
Changed the extension for JPEG world files from .jpgw to .jgw to make it more
compatible with other software packages.
Added support for (Geo)TIFF files with color channels stored separately rather
than
contiguously.
Added option to automatically adjust the contrast of images converted during the
(Geo)TIFF to GeoTIFF batch converter.
Fixed some problems loading or placing some LULC data and added better
automatic
detection of LULC data sets.
Added support for International Feet units in PRJ files.
Fixed program crash when creating some elevation grids from 3D point data.
Added ability to create an elevation grid from 3D elevation points in the Generic
ASCII Text importer. This allows one to import any random collection of
elevation data points and automatically triangulate and grid them. The result can
be exported to any of the supported elevation and raster formats, can have line of
sight and view shed analysis performed on it, and can have contour lines
generated from it.
Added an option to control the quality setting for exported JPG files. In addition,
the default quality setting has been decreased so as to generate much smaller JPG
images without a noticable loss in quality.
Added option to export black and white GeoTIFF files.
Added additional NAD27 datums to list of available datums for State Plane
projections.
Modified GeoTIFF import to ask the user to select the projection for GeoTIFF
files for which the projection could not be determined, rather than aborting the
load.
Fixed problem in the loading of TIFF files with a large number of rows per strip
that caused too much memory to be used.
Fixed shapefile export to actually reproject point features when necessary.
Added menu item to allow for the batch conversion of SRTM elevation data to
vertical GeoTIFF format files.
Improved accuracy on NAD27 datum conversions.
Doubled the speed at which auto-contrast statistics are calculated.
Fixed problem in view shed analysis with some swept angle values when
performing a subset of the entire view shed.
Added an option to export loaded raster and elevation grid data to JPG format
files.
Added option to view shed analysis to only analyze a user-specified angular
subsection of the view shed region.
Added ability to add loaded and in-view files when doing batch conversions.
Added the ability to specify the classification assigned to point and line features
created from files imported from the generic ASCII importer.
Made GeoTIFF export cancelable.
Fixed problem with any datums based on the International datums (i.e. ED50).
Added the ability to view multi-band BIL images, such as some LANDSAT
imagery.
Added datums for the major planetary bodies in our solar system.
Added a new shader, the 'Slope Shader' that allows terrain to be colored based on
the slope or gradient of the terrain, rather than the elevation. The user can
configure the colors to use for various slope values.
Allowed for the use of imported generic ASCII text files with workspaces.
Added new script command IMPORT_ASCII to support loading generic ASCII
text files from scripts.
Fixed problem with auto-clipping collars when the datum of the current view
projection is not the same as the datum of the image whose collar is being clipped.
Fixed placement of coordinate line attributes when using the Generic ASCII
importer. Previously they would be associated with the next line in the file rather
than with the coordinate in the line they were read from. This only affected
imports which treated all coordinates as point features.
Made the projection selector dialog when importing remember the last selection
picked and use it as an initial setting.
Added an option to the GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command to allow
it to save land usage codes from any loaded LULC data sets in addition to the
elevation for each point along the path.
Fixed bug with coordinate calculations using the ED50 (European 1950) datum.
The wrong ellipsoid had been referenced resulting in an error in the northing
value that resulted from coordinate conversion calculations.
Increased the precision that coordinates are stored in, resulting in the preservation
of sub-meter resolutions.
Forced Terragen exports to always generate square terrains, which should make
the exported results work much better with the latest Terragen versions.
Added support for exporting vector data to Landmark Graphics, MapGen,

MatLab, NIMA ASC, Surfer BLN, and Tsunami OVR format files.
Added the ability to load data from generic ASCII text files in a multitude of
customizable formats. This provides easy access to a large amount of data that is
not already in an industry standard vector data format.
Fixed error when exporting ECW data to other formats.
Added an E00 to DXF batch conversion option.
Added an ESRI Shapefile to DXF batch conversion option.
Improved File->Capture Screen to Image command so that larger images could be
created.
Fixed problem with loading DLG-Os with contours that do not have any elevation
values or contour intervals.
Fixed problem in SVG export that occasionally caused lines with a stroke width
of 0 to be generated, thus creating invisible lines.
Corrected placement of attribute labels for when exporting reprojected vector data
to DXF format.
Fixed problems loading some E00 grid files.
Improved handling of TIFF files that have positioning information but either no
projection info or incomplete projection info in the TIFF file itself.
Made the auto-clip collar functionality first check for an FGD file that explicitly
lists the collar bounds before trying to heuristically determine them.

----------------------------1) Added new view shed tool that allows for the
calculation of the area visible from a transmitter
placed on loaded elevation grid data.
2) Allowed for the loading of GTOPO30 data directly
from .tar.gz archives.
3) Made the elevation of the point under the cursor
always be displayed in the taskbar even when a
raster layer is on top of the elevation data.
4) Fixed bug introduced in v4.60 that prevented the
loading of ECW files from the web and workspaces.
-----------------------------
1) Added support for loading SRTM .hgt files.

2) Added support for loading DGN files with 3D features.
3) Made 3D path profile/line of sight operations take
place along great circles rather than straight lines
in the coordinate plane. This change only has a
noticeable effect on relatively long paths.
4) Added an option to the (Geo)TIFF to GeoTIFF batch
conversion to allow clamping the export bounds to
the nearest 3.75' lat/lon boundary to allow for
the automated removal of tiny sliver collars when
projecting to geographic lat/lon.
5) Added the ability to load GeoTIFF files directly
from .tar.gz, .tgz, and .tif.gz archives.
6) Fixed problem that caused maps to disappear when
changing the datum for State Plane projections.
7) Fixed problem loading files with .tar.gz or .tgz
in the filename but not at the end that were not
in fact archive files.
----------------------------1) Added support for importing MicroStation DGN files
(from MicroStation versions prior to v8).
2) Fixed error in line of sight calculations due to
incorrect earth curvature calculations.
3) Made any current distance lines/areas or path profile
lines rendered on the map be included when printing.
4) Doubled the density of the elevation grid lines on
the 3D path profile/line of sight display. Every
other one is labeled.
5) Added a horizontal grid to the 3D path profile/
line of sight display so that distances along
the profile can easily be determined.
6) Improved the export speed of MrSID data to GeoTIFF
format files.
----------------------------1) Added the ability to export loaded elevation
grid data to a Terragen terrain file.
2) Added the Guam 1963 and Potsdam datums.
3) Added the filename for which a projection is
needed for when asking the user for the
projection of file from which the projection

could not automatically be determined.
4) Made the export bounds of images with the
collar clipped off be automatically shrunk to
remove the collar.
5) Made the vertical exaggeration setting be
saved between program invocations.
6) Added an option to allow the auto clipping
of the collars off of DRGs during a
(Geo)TIFF to GeoTIFF batch convert/reproject.
7) Added a new script command (GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE)
that allows for the generation of 3D path
profile XYZ files between specified points on
loaded elevation grid data.
8) Made all GeoTIFF exports except DRG palette exports
use the currently configured background color for
areas in which no data exists. DRG palette exports
will continue to use white for no data areas.
9) Added the option to abort GeoTIFF exports if the
projection could not be saved.
10) Added support for exporting additional NAD27
datums to GeoTIFF files (i.e. NAD27 Alaska).
----------------------------1) Added support for exporting GeoTIFF images
with a 256 color palette optimized for the
colors in the images. This allows you to
achieve good results with a minimal amount of
space.
2) Added a batch convert/reproject option for
converting (Geo)TIFF images to GeoTIFF images
with a different projection and/or palette.
3) Added the Swedish Grid projection.
4) Added the RT90 datum.
5) Fixed import of shapefiles with empty polyline
or polygon features.
6) Updated GNIS support for the latest files
available from the USGS.
----------------------------1) Added MapInfo MIF/MID export support.
2) Added support for loading NIMA GNS point text
database files.
3) Added South American 1969 datum.
4) Corrected Egypt 1907 datum.
5) Added auto-detection of datums mis-identified
as NAD27 CONUS in GeoTIFF files.
6) Added support for GeoTIFF images with 32-bits
of color information per pixel.
7) Fixed problem on projection selector dialog with
State Plane zone list not being updated to reflect
the list of available zones when the datum was changed.
8) Improved handling of DLG-O carrying contours with
multiple elevation values. Now the elevation
resulting in the highest contour classification is
used rather than the first elevation in the list.
9) Added auto-detection of Wisconsin DRGs from the
Wisconsin DNR that are in the Wisconsin Transverse
Mercator 1983/91 projection rather than UTM.
----------------------------1) Fixed problems loading MapInfo files for which
the projection/datum could not be automatically
determined.
2) Improved handling of shapefiles with incorrectly
oriented polygons.
3) Added coordinate scaling and offset options to
XYZ grid export options.
----------------------------1) Added the ability to load MapInfo MIF/MID and
TAB/MAP files.
2) Added international feet as a viable option for
state plane zone projections and removed the
state plane zone table option for horizontal units
as it did nothing.
3) Added Egypt 1907 datum.
4) Added option to save name, description, and other
attributes when exporting loaded vector data to
XYZ vector files.
5) Removed option to modify the semi-major and
semi-minor axis of projections as the ellipsoid
implied by the datum selection covers those
values.
6) Added ability to save/load Oblique Mercator

projections to/from ESRI format PRJ files.
7) Fixed bug in script processing that made the
LOAD_PROJECTION command have no effect on
overlays loaded before the command.
8) Added the Michigan Georef projection.
9) Fixed problems with loading E00 files with
double precision polygons.
10) Made the GEN_TAB_FILE script parameter work for
the EXPORT_RASTER command as well as the
EXPORT_ELEVATION command.
11) Added coordinate scaling and offset options to
XYZ vector options.
----------------------------1) Made the daylight and gradient shader settings
be saved between program invocations.
2) Added support for additional 16 and 32-bit per
pixel GeoTIFF raster images that were being
falsely interpreted as elevation data.
3) Added support for displaying and exporting
RockWorks grid data sets.
4) Separated the raster/elevation export menu options
and vector export menu options onto separate
submenus under the main File menu.
5) Added support for the Swiss Grid (CH1903) datum.
6) Increased max resolution for Capture Screen to
Image command to 8192 x 8192. Note that the actual
limit that your machine supports may be less than
that depending on the capabilities of your video
driver and your Windows version.
7) Made line features exported to DXF, SVG, and XYZ
ASCII formats be clipped to the requested export
bounds before being exported.
----------------------------1) Fixed error message when zooming way out and
displaying grid lines.
-----------------------------
1) Added ability to display grid lines in either

latitude/longitude or in the current global
projection.
2) Allowed for reprojection of data during most
batch conversion operations.
3) Fixed 90 degree rotation on import of Surfer 7
binary grid files.
4) Added auto-correction of Hawaiian DEMs in the
Old Hawaiian datum that are mis-identified as
being NAD27.
5) Added auto-detection of California DRGs from
the Teale Data Center that are in Albers
Conic rather than the UTM projection.
6) Allowed for saving of WTM83/91 projections to
PRJ and GeoTIFF files.
----------------------------1) Added auto-contrast option for raster overlays.
This option uses a 2 standard deviation contrast
adjust to improve the display of dark images
or images with greater than 8 bits per color
channel, such as IKONOS satellite imagery.
2) Added support for the display of tiled GeoTIFF
imagery and GeoTIFF imagery with greater than
8 bits per color channel.
3) Added option to control whether or not road
lines are displayed "fat" when zoomed in on.
The option is on the Line Styles tab of the
4) Added additional options to scripting language
and workspaces to allow for saving of raster
options such as collar clipping, transparency,
auto-contrast, etc.
5) Fixed bug that occasionally caused a crash
on some Windows 9X systems when loading data sets.
----------------------------1) Added SDTS DEM to XYZ Grid batch conversion.
2) Added support for loading DTED (Digital Terrain
Elevation Data) format files.
3) Made the window position be remembered between
program invocations (in layman's terms, the
Global Mapper window will start in the same place

it was when it was closed last).
4) Improved XYZ vector export by allowing users to
specify the coordinate separator, feature
separator, and whether or not to include
elevations. In addition, when elevations are
requested but not present with a vector feature,
any loaded elevation data sets are used to
determine an elevation for the vertex.
5) Made the Help button for all of the export option
dialogs and the contour generation dialog go to
the appropriate section of the online manual.
6) Made the label configuration for area types
actually work.
7) Added some tip dialogs before exporting and
reinterpreting the projection of loaded overlays.
----------------------------1) Added option to turn labeling on/off globally.
This option is on the General Config tab of the
2) Added custom area styles. You can now customize
how areas of different types are drawn via the
new Area Styles tab on the Config dialog.
3) Improved loading of GeoTIFF files with projections
for which some parameters may be stored in
different fields than usual.
4) Added configuration options for shape files to
allow users to specify what attribute field (if
any) to use for feature names and what feature
type to assign to features in the file.
----------------------------1) Added GENERATE_CONTOURS command to scripting
language to allow for the generation of contours
from elevation data in a script.
2) Added support for binary DXF files.
3) Fixed handling of UTM projected data in the
Southern hemisphere.
4) Allowed for saving of projections using the
Australian Geodetic Datums (1966 and 1984) to
projection (PRJ) files.
5) Made SVG export group unclassified feature by

filename to allow for simple adjustment of styles
in output file based on the source file the feature
came from.
6) Added option to export loaded vector data to SVG
format from the EXPORT_VECTOR command in the scripting
language.
----------------------------1) Fixed odd display of DRGs when both the
auto-clip collar and the transparent options
are selected.
2) Fixed behavior of the transparent checkbox
in the Raster Options dialog.
----------------------------1) Fixed problem with Arc Binary Grid import
that prevented some grids from loading.
2) Added support for importing LINE entities
from DXF files.
3) Fixed bogus warning about unknown elevation
units when specifying the elevation units
in the EXPORT_ELEVATION script command.
4) Added new SET_LOG_FILE command to the scripting
language to support logging status, warning,
and error messages to a file during script
processing.
5) Improved description of loaded Arc Binary Grid
files in the Overlay Control Center and the
status bar.
----------------------------1) Made all SDTS attributes be maintained when
exporting SDTS data to shapefiles.
2) Fixed import of ERDAS IMAGINE datasets with
one channel of > 8 bits per sample.
3) Fixed display of elevation data when antialiasing of pixels is turned on.
4) Added support for importing Surfer 7 grid files.
5) Added Zoom In Micro and Zoom Out Micro commands
to the View menu to allow for zooming in and

out in smaller increments.
----------------------------1) Added ability to export loaded vector data
to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) format files
for display on the web.
2) Corrected display of elevation data when the
anti-alias pixel option is selected so that
the bounds of the displayed data matches
the bounds when the option is not selected.
3) Added option to all elevation exports and to
the EXPORT_ELEVATION script file command to
automatically fill in small gaps between and
within data sets by intepolating the surrounding
data. This option is enabled by default for
every elevation export.
4) Made all of the elevation exports consistent
in how they handle specified export bounds
and spatial resolution.
5) Added filename for which type could not
be determined to the overlay type selector
dialog.
6) Added grayscale palette to list of supported
palettes for GeoTIFF export.
7) Added support for 32-bit floating point
GeoTIFF DEMs (i.e. some ASTER DEMs).
8) Improved E00 import to allow for additional
files to be imported successfully.
9) Added option to generate a TAB file when
exporting GeoTIFF images from a script.
10) Made the assigment of attribute types to
fields in DBF files during shapefile export
be more intelligent.
11) Added option to shapefile export to generate
3D line features. Selecting this option will
use the assigned elevation for the line, if
available. Otherwise, it will attempt to
determine an elevation for each vertex by
examining any underlying elevation data.
-----------------------------
1) Added support for importing ERDAS IMAGINE

image (.img) files.
2) Enabled import of POINT entities from
DXF files.
3) Fixed yet another bug in the USGS SDTS++
library that was causing read access
violations loading some SDTS data sets.
4) Fixed import of GeoTIFFs that use the
Alber's Conic projection (the longitude's
were potentially incorrect before).
----------------------------1) Sped up export of MrSID and ECW data
sets by using a more intelligent
caching scheme.
2) Fixed bug that caused banding in the result
of the export of reprojected data
to GeoTIFF.
3) Fixed handling of GeoTIFF images using
non-standard projection/unit pairings
(i.e. UTM and feet).
----------------------------1) Added support for performing batch
conversions of SDTS DLG data to DXF and
Shapefile formats.
2) Added EXPORT_VECTOR command to the scripting
language that allows loaded vector data to
be exported the USGS DLG-O, DXF, and ESRI
Shapefile formats.
3) Added suppor for Global Mapper script files
(.gms) being passed on the command line. In
this case, the script runs and Global Mapper
immediately exits, allowing one to run
Global Mapper scripts in a non-interactive
manner.
4) Made index and intermediate contour lines
have different description strings and
therefore be in different layers when
exported to DXF format files.
5) Fixed half-pixel shift in GeoTIFF export.
6) Fixed progress reporting when exporting
GeoTIFF images with greater than 32,765

rows in the output image.
7) Added layer name (description) attribute to
DBF file generated during shapefile export.
----------------------------1) Fixed problems with loading GeoTIFF
images introduced in v4.38.
2) Made USGS DEM export maintain
exact user specified resolution.
3) Allowed for viewing of built-in
ECW web link URLs. You still cannot
edit the built in links.
----------------------------1) Added support for the ECW data
format. This includes loading files
locally or off the web (see the
new File->Open Web Image command).
2) Greatly increased speed of exports
involving MrSID data.
3) Fixed problem that caused (Geo)TIFF
files to stay locked until program
exit after being loaded.
----------------------------1) Added support for elevation grids in
E00 format files.
2) Modified SDTS DEM to DEM batch
conversion to not generate decimeter
or decifeet DEMs for elevations that
the native DEM format cannot handle.
3) Made XYZ export more intelligent about
how many digits it exports for
each coordinate in order to generate
smaller files without losing any
significant precision.
4) Fixed problem in Search By Name
dialog that caused double-click
rencentering to not work when the
global coordinate system was not the

same as the native coordinate system
of the file containing the object
being centered on.
5) Added help buttons to the raster
and elevation options dialogs as
well as the config dialog.
----------------------------1) Added online help! You can now select
the Online Help option under the Help
menu to open the Global Mapper manual
in your browser window.
2) Added ability to export vector data
(i.e. areas,lines,points) to XYZ
files containing the coordinates.
3) Fixed some minor bugs in E00 support
that was preventing some from loading
and causing attributes to not be read
in correctly for others.
4) Fixed problem that caused the "Full
View" option to not work properly after
overlays were closed from the Overlay
Control Center.
5) Removed reliance on specified control
points in DLG-O headers. Global
Mapper now calculates the data bounds
at load time to prevent problems
caused by incorrect control points.
6) Allowed for loading of PRJ files
that had no DATUM specified but do
have a spheroid field with a
recognized value (i.e. CLARKE1866).
7) Fixed 3D DXF Mesh export to generate
DXF files that work in more software
packages, such as AutoCAD.
8) Added the filename to the description
of SDTS DEM overlays in the overlay
control center.
9) Allowed for hiding/showing multiple
overlays at the same time from the
overlay control center.
----------------------------1) Fixed bug that caused vector feature

selection to not work immediately after
zooming or panning with the keyboard.
2) Fixed importing of DXF files that
contained blank lines or LWPOLYLINE
entities.
3) Added option to customize the collar
boundaries used when auto-clipping the
collar off of DRGs. This is useful when
you wish to clip off more or less of the
image than the automatic selection does.
4) Added option to reverse the order of
colors when using the HSV shader.
5) Added support for Wisconsin Transverse
Mercator 1983/91 (WTM83/91) projection
in projection selector dialog.
----------------------------1) Added support for Arc/Info Binary
Grid files.
2) Added ability to capture the screen to
a PNG format image.
3) Added ability to save 3D path profile
information to an XYZ file.
4) Fixed bug that would cause the dragging
a box to zoom in while using a
geographic projection would zoom to
0 N, 0 E rather than the dragged box.
5) Moved earth curvature settings for path
profiling to line of sight dialog and
corrected handling of atmospheric
corrections.
6) Allowed for options to be set on multiple
raster/elevation overlays at a time from
the overlay control center. This is
particlarly useful when auto-clipping
the collar from lots of DRGs at a time.
----------------------------1) Added new path profile tool that allows
for the generation of a 3D elevation

profile along a line whenever elevation
data is loaded.
2) Added line of sight and earth curvature
calculation capabilities to the path
profile tool. This addition allows you
to set receiver and transmitter heights
and determine if there is a clear line
of sight between them.
3) Added ability to export elevation data
to a 3D DXF Mesh.
4) Added ability to load NIMA DEMs that
don't quite conform to the DEM standard.
----------------------------1) Vastly improved drawing speed of MrSID
images.
2) Fixed problem with your last directory
not being saved between program
invocations.
3) Fixed problem where double-clicking to
open a file resulted in the image being
zoomed in and off-center when first
drawn.
----------------------------1) Fixed error when loading workspaces in
which any of the referenced data files
are missing. Now you will just get a
warning and the remaining files in the
workspace will continue to load.
2) Fixed area measurement in square meters.
That option was previously being
misdirected to use acres instead of
square meters.
3) Upgraded distance measurement to allow
the selected points remain while zooming
and panning about with the keyboard.
This allows a finer degree of control
over what is selected.
4) Made 16-bit grayscale GeoTIFF images
be treated as elevation data regardless
of whether they conform to the vertical

GeoTIFF standard. This allows ASTER
DEMs to be treated as elevation data. If
not provided, the elevation units will
be assumed to be meters.
5) Fixed bug in alignment of Hawaiian LULC
data. The wrong UTM zone was being
selected for a couple of the LULC data
files covering the big island.
----------------------------1) Fixed handling of 16-bit grayscale TIFF
images. This means that you can now view
ASTER DEM GeoTIFF images.
2) Fixed a Windows resource leak that was
causing crashes after prolonged use.
3) Fixed problem in SDTS library that caused
some data to be corrupted when loaded.
----------------------------1) Added support for E00 format vector data.
2) Vastly improved the distance measurement
tool. You can now measure the length
of multiple segments as well as enclosed
area size. Right clicking allows one to
select the units of measurement as well
as to stop measuring.
3) Fixed handling of Hawaiian DLGs which are
marked as NAD27 datum but are actually
the Old Hawaiian Mean datum.
4) Added option to Line Style customization
to turn off labeling of lines of a given
type.
5) Added support for Albers Conic projection
in PRJ file handling.
6) Added support for colors to DXF import
and export. The display color of lines will
now be preserved in exported DXF (to the
extent that the DXF format allows) and
DXF files with color info in them will
draw using those colors.

----------------------------1) Added beta scripting language support. See
the web site for a reference. This feature
is currently under development and should
be used for evaluation purposes only.
2) Added custom line styles. You can now
customize how lines of different types
are drawn via the new Line Styles tab
on the Config dialog.
3) Added support for Shapefiles containing
*Z and *M shape types. The only unsupported
shape type is now MultiPatch shapes.
4) Added support for the Yuma Proving Grounds
NAD27 datum.
----------------------------1) Added workspace support! You can now save your
workspace (i.e. the files that you have loaded
as well as the current projection) to a
workspace to load later. You can find the new
commands under the File menu.
2) Fixed several problems with Shapefile import
and export. Exported Shapefiles should now work
properly in software other than Global Mapper.
----------------------------1) Added support for MrSID data files.
2) Fixed error message when doing search by name when
mixed-case labels are present.
3) Added option to DXF export to generate attribute
entities containing the names of exported objects.
4) Added option to DXF export to allow generation
of projection (PRJ) files.
5) Reworked "All Supported Types" filter in file open
dialog box to get around Windows-imposed limit
of 256 characters in filter string. Also moved the
"All Supported Types" option to first in the list
so that selected of it can be correctly remembered
when more types are added.

----------------------------1) Added support for the ETOPO2 data set.
2) Completely overhauled toolbars. There are now
four separate toolbars. Three contain all of
the functionality in the old toolbar. The fourth
contains shader related options.
3) Made some vertical shader options be stored in
the registry so that they can be remembered
between invocations.
4) Added option to specify the resolution of a screen
capture.

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