USGS - dlgv32 Pro Viewing Software

What is new in version 10.02 (January 28, 2009)

Added ability to easily create strike-and-dip points by right-clicking in the Digitizer Tool. You can now place your strike-and-dip points and specify the dip value, azimuth angle, and symbol to use and get the appropriate symbology displayed on the map.
Added support for adding custom area fill styles from image files. New fill styles can be added on the Area Styles tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added support for rotating point symbols by a user-specified angle. This option is on the Point Styles tab of the Configuration dialog as well as on the edit dialogs for point features.
Added support for specifying that lines should draw a particular number of meters in width. Line width selections on the Line Styles tab of the Configuration dialog and anywhere else that you setup a line drawing style now include an option to specify a fixed width in meters for the line.
Added new input option to distance/bearing/COGO input for lines to allow one-handed-input using the number pad with either quadrant/bearing/distance input or distance/bearing input. Also added support for entering DM or DMS bearings as decimal values, like 40.3020 for 40 degrees, 30 minutes, and 20 seconds.
Added new right-click options to the Area Styles, Line Styles, and Point Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog to allow saving the current style settings to a file and restoring style settings from a file.
Added support for loading SOSI format files (commonly used in Norway).
Added ability to easily shift loaded data by some fixed distance by right clicking on them in the Control Center and selecting a new option to shift the selected layer(s).
Made GPX files with links pointing to local image files behave just like JPG files with EXIF positioning data and show the image when you click on the point with the Feature Info tool. The linked images will also export to KMZ files.
Added new Slope Direction shader to allow coloring loaded terrain files by the direction that the slope faces (the coloring can be setup on the Shader Options tab of the Configuration dialog). You can also now export slope direction values to Float/Grid files.
Added new option to only display area labels when the label is completely contained within the parent area to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added ability to display any custom 'elevation' units string that you want on the elevation legend by right-clicking on the legend and selecting the option to specify a custom unit string.
Added new option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to always show vertices for features selected with the Digitizer/Edit Tool. This makes it easier to edit the vertices of area and line features without being overwhelmed by displaying all feature vertices.
Added built-in support for the Wisconsin County coordinate systems.
Added built-in support for Deir Ez Sor, Egypt Gulf of Suez S-650 TL, Estonia 1997, FD 1958, Herat North, ISN93, Jordan, Korean 1985, Korean 1995, Ocotepeque (Costa Rica), Reykjavik 1900, and Trinidad 1903 datums.
Added built-in support for the Clarke 1858, Danish 1876 and Clarke 1880 (IGN) ellipsoids.
Added built-in support for linear units of Clarke Feet.
Added EPSG codes for KGD (Korean Geodetic Datum) and Mercator projection used in Google Maps and Virtual Earth (code 3785).
Fixed problem with Dutch (RD) datum transformations in the v10.01 release.
Added support for decoding Bonne projections from OziExplorer .map files.
Added support for decoding projection names from ECW files stored as EPSG:epsg_code in the projection name and also encode unknown projections that way in exported ECW files.
Improved accuracy of KKJ datum conversions and added KKJ projection EPSG codes.
Added option to Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog when matching the elevation scale to the draw scale to allow users to enter a vertical exaggeration to apply.
Updated the set position dialog to have an elevation field when editing the location of a single vertex from a 3D line or area feature using the Digitizer Tool.
Improved decoding of waypoints from GPS TrackMaker .gtm files. An appropriate symbol should now be assigned if possible and the correct naming is now used.
Don't use EXIF information from JPG files if you open the files with the File->Rectify Imagery menu command to force rectification.
Fixed crash when loading Terrascan .bin files from v10.01 release.
Added new Ctrl+Shift+D shortcut key to toggle the display of deleted features.
Allow initialization of custom shaders from other custom shaders in addition to the Global Shader and also added option to re-base and offset the elevation values used in a shader.
Fixed problems with labels for very short lines not showing when zoomed way out on them.
Reduced memory requirements for loading Helava DEM format files.
Fixed color problems with CMYK-encoded JPG files from Adobe Photoshop.
Fixed problem generating iso-height contour areas in some rare situations.
Added support for overriding the default naming convention for Lidar class names using a lidar_classes.txt file enumerating Lidar classes and the new name to use for those classifications.
Fixed problems with some features being missing when loading some ESRI personal geodatabase (.mdb) files, like those from the NHD.
Updated KML import to support color specified for icons.
Added support for loading clutter and height files similar to MSI Planet but with .cl or .he extensions and a List file rather than a Index file.
Allow the Control Center dialog to be resized to be more narrow.
Drastically sped up the loading of Canada3D files.
Updated distance/bearing input dialog to allow bearings to be specified with formats other than decimal degrees (like DMS, DM, etc.).
Added new option to the Options menu on the Path Profile/LOS dialog to allow modifying the start distance for the distance scale in the path profile graph.
Fixed problem with default line simplification not being applied during contour generation unless you actually click on the Simplification tab.
Corrected half-pixel shift in the placement of loaded GXF files.
Fixed problem reading palette color labels with spaces in them from .pal files.
Increased the number of recently opened files that are remembered on the File menu from 4 to 6.
Made the Search->Search by Attributes dialog always display the current number of selected items.
Added option to feather blend to the outside of a polygonal boundary rather than to the inside.
Allowed cropping a raster layer to multiple selected polygons when using the Cropping tab on the options dialog for the layer.
Fixed error reading some MapInfo MIF/MID format files.
Added support for .jgwx as a JPG world file extension.
Made the dialog displayed when editing multiple features at the same time be resizable.
Updated the create/flatten terrain from areas option of the Digitizer Tool when treating the area elevations as relative to the ground perform the relative adjustment of the terrain at each sample location within the area rather than picking a single representative elevation for the entire area. This is useful for adjust all elevation values within an area feature by some amount.
When loading files that have contrast adjustment automatically applied, make them use a shared contrast adjustment by default. This makes loading multiple high color (i.e. 16-bit per color channel) files adjust them consistently automatically rather than doing a separate adjustment for each image.
Added new right-click option to the Control Center to allow easily setting the current view/export projection to the native projection of the layer that is right-clicked on.
Corrected placement of text points from DGN v8 files.
Added support for rotated text from DGN v8 files.

What is new in version 10.01 (November 13, 2008)

Added support for loading JPG files with embedded EXIF GPS position data. These files will be loaded as point features with picture icons. When you select one of these with the Feature Info Tool, the JPG image will be displayed.
Added support for tracking and managing multiple GPS devices via an input GPS data stream including $PRAVE sentences. With a compatible receiver, you can now use Global Mapper for fleet management. There is a new Manage GPS Devices option under the GPS menu that provides extensive functionality for managing the collection of GPS devices being tracked.
Added new Color Grade tab to raster options dialog to allow complex manipulation of color channel values and saturation for loaded raster files. This allows 'grading' each color channel from a specified input range for a color channel to a specified output range.
Added button to the toolbar for the Search->Search by Attributes menu command.
Added option to add X and Y coordinate attributes to selected point features via the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.
Added new option to the distance/bearing/COGO input to close a path using the 'compass rule' and to edit the start location.
Added ability to right click on a point in the Search by Attributes dialog and start a new distance/bearing/COGO line from that point.
Added support for loading PDS/Vicar format data, which is commonly used by NASA for planetary data sets.
Added new item to the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool when area features are selected to populate the attributes of those areas from the attribute tables of a single point contained within those area features.
Added new Advanced Creation Options sub-menu to the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool when area and/or line features are selected. This menu now contains the options to create lines from area, create areas from lines, create terrain from areas, as well as a couple of new options (see below).
Added option to the Advanced Creation Options menu of the Digitizer Tool to create new point features at the centroid of selected area features.
Added option to the Advanced Creation Options menu of the Digitizer Tool to create new point features from the vertices of selected area and line features.
Added new options to the right-click menu option of the Digitizer Tool for creating rectangular/square area and line features by manually entering the rectangle coordinates.
Added new built-in point types for LIDAR point types to make it easier to filter out different LIDAR points loaded from LAS and Terrascan LIDAR files.
Added support for adding multiple custom symbols at once when adding custom symbols on the Point Styles tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added automatic positioning of OSGB 10K grid cells in TIFF format.
Added ability to select which layers to load from an ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) file.
Added built-in support for the Double Stereographic and System 1965 (Uklad 1965) projection systems.
Added built-in support for IRENET95, Malongo 1987, PRS92 (Philippines Reference System 1992), and SWEREF99 datums and associated EPSG projection codes.
Added new EPSG codes for Swedish Grid (3021 and 2400).
Added built-in datums for each of the custom Minnesota county ellipsoids as well as for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
Added more accurate 7-parameter datum transformations for Kertau 1948 and Timbalai datums.
Allowed use of linear units other than meters (i.e. feet) for New Zealand projections.
Corrected definition of Guam State Plane zone.
Added option when shifting selected features with the Digitizer Tool and selected control points when rectifying imagery to shift based on a distance and bearing as well as fixed X and Y offset distances.
Added Speed and Bearing display for each leg in the Feature Vertices dialog when a time-stamp is present for each vertex (i.e. such as GPS tracklogs).
Added support for getting positioning information for raster files (like JPG, etc) from a greater variety of KML files.
Sped up display of dense point data sets with labels. This was slower in v10 due to new automatic label placement feature.
Added new right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow zooming to the selected feature(s).
Increased the size of the displayed elevation and lat/lon position on the GPS Information dialog.
Fixed problem decoding projections from MapInfo files with units other than meters and specified false easting/northing values.
Made Feature Edit dialog resizable.
Made types that are disabled in the type filter on the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog not show up in the Feature Edit dialog.
Added support for loading JPEG2000 files from associated .TAB files.
Added display of target compression ratio to metadata display for ECW and JP2 format images.
Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that use $IN* sentences rather than $GP* sentences.
Corrected zone number used for GeoTIFF files for the Mississippi West State Plane zone.
Updated date fields imported from DBF files to use 4 digit years.
Made Surfer BLN files be automatically detected and imported with no user intervention.
Made Delft 3D .ldb files be automatically detected and imported with no user intervention.
Added support for reading place point features from OpenStreetMap (OSM) files.
Fixed problem with attribute display in Search by Attributes dialog when loading new files with the dialog open.
Added new line drawing style, "Solid with Black Edges".
Fixed bug in v10.00 which caused vector features to not be selectable if any fixed screen position layers that are set to always draw on top are loaded.
Modified the bearing display in Global Mapper to be based on the Position Display Format selection on the General tab of the Configuration dialog. So if you have that set to DMS, your bearings should show up that way as well.
Added support for MPR/MPH files larger than 2GB.
Reduce memory requirements for loading large ENVI DEM format files.
Fixed problem in v10.00 release with users being prompted to confirm projection for NAD83-based projections from old-style PRJ files or prj.adf files.
Added support for loading truncated Lidar LAS files.
Added support for loading very large 16-bit BMP files.
Corrected color display in the status bar as you move the cursor around the map over loaded TIFF files.
Added support for additional flavors of MODIS data in HDF format, like the SST (sea surface temperature) data.
Fixed problem with some new line styles from v10.00 not drawing properly when used as area borders.
Corrected rotation of text labels from some DXF files.
Fixed problem with multiple consecutive spaces being reduced to a single space when reading in attributes from ASCII text files.
Made the text '\n' be interpreted as a newline character in attribute values read from ASCII text files.
Added LEVEL_DESC attribute to features imported from DGN v8 and later files if the file contains a text description for the level of the feature.
Fixed problem with translucency setting not always working with TIFF files in map catalogs.
Made NAME and LABEL fields be preferred for labeling over fields that just start with NAME or LABEL when loading Shapefiles.
Added support for addition font style information from attributes using FONT_STYLE, FONT_WEIGHT, and FONT_PLACEMENT attributes.
Changed name of automatic MODIFIED_DATE attribute to MOD_DATE to avoid attribute name length issues with Shapefiles.

What is new in version 10.00 (August 21, 2008)

Added support for importing ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) files.
Added support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files, which allows working with (Geo)TIFF files larger than 4GB.
Added support for selecting/changing the layer that features are in when editing existing features and creating new ones with the Digitizer Tool.
Added new Coordinate Convertor option under the Tools menu to allow easily converting a coordinate between any two supported projections/datums/units.
Added ability to Search Vector Data dialog to limit your search to the existing search results. This effectively allows you to query on multiple attributes/values.
Added support for creating new feature coordinates based on distance/bearing and/or COGO values from a start location using the Digitizer Tool.
Added more control over placement of labels for point features. Now when choosing the font to use for point features, you can also choose where to place the label for the point relative to the point location. An automatic setting will try different locations to try and make the label fit.
Added a large collection of new available line styles to use when rendering line features or area feature borders.
Added option to crop a loaded raster layer to the currently selected area feature to the Cropping tab of the Raster Options dialog accessible from the Overlay Control Center.
Added support for loading IKT track files generated by MagicMaps software.
Added support for loading Gravsoft Grid format files.
Made automatic collar cropping work for BSB charts.
Added arrow buttons to the Overlay Control Center to make it easier to change the overlay draw order.
Alphabetized the area, line, and point type lists on the * Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog and on the vector type options dialog.
Added new 'Pseudo Natural Color' blend mode to combine the color channels in a layer using a common algorithm for generating natural color imagery from CIR imagery.
Added options when editing multiple features to rename attributes and also to copy the values of one attribute to a different attribute.
Added options to the View menu to save the current view with a name and then restore named views from a list of the saved views with names.
Added option to the View menu to restore the last drawn view. This allows you to back up through up to the last 20 drawn views.
Added option to the View menu to zoom the view to a particular sample spacing (pixel size).
Added support for extracting positioning information for image files from KML files. This allows you to load KMZ files that contain embedded raster images.
Added option when creating an elevation grid when loading Lidar data formats (like LAS and Terrascan files) for the user to specify options such as the grid tightness, whether or not to fill to the entire bounds of the data, and whether or not to only consider ground-shot points in the gridding process.
Added new option to initialize custom elevation shaders from a palette file.
Made the distance scale displayed on the main map view and on the path profile dialog use the currently selected distance measure units. This allows display of nautical and other units on the scale.
Added option for fixed screen layers to force them to always be drawn on top of other layers (including grid lines and user created features) regardless of the layer order in the Control Center. This is useful for forcing things like legends to always be display on top of other data.
Added new option when pasting features from the clipboard to not clear the clipboard after pasting the features (shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+V).
Added option when printing to select the area to print rather than just always using what is on screen.
Significantly improved the speed and reliability of accessing the Landsat7 Global Imagery Mosaic data layer through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.
Added built-in access to several new aviation chart (GNC, ONC, TPC, and JNC) layers through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.
Added new option to the Font selection dialog to control the label fill background mode. Now you can force the background to be transparent, which allows labels centered on line features to be drawn with no filler behind them if you want.
Added built-in support for the MSTM (Mississippi Transverse Mercator) and New Brunswick Double Stereographic projections as well as a configurable RSO (Rectified Skew Orthomorphic) projection.
Added built-in support for the ED87, JAD69 (Jamaica 1969) and JAD2001 (Jamaica 2001) datums.
Improved accuracy of datum conversions involving the Tananarive datum by using improved conversion parameters from IGN.
Fixed accuracy problem with ED50 (Spain and Portugal) and OSGB36 datum conversions very close to and just east of the prime meridian.
Improved accuracy of datum conversions involving the Bogota Observatory (Bogota 1975) datum.
Allow the Azimuthal Equidistant projection to cover the entire world rather than just half the world around the projection center.
Added support for users to add their own EPSG codes definitions or modify the existing ones by modifying the epsg_codes.txt file in the Global Mapper installation folder.
Added recognition of additional EPSG codes for projections (like MGI/Balkans).
Updated EPSG projection definitions for State Plane Illinois zones (FIPS 1201 and 1202). New codes 3435 and 3436 are for these zones using feet units and existing codes 26971 and 26972 now use meters as units.
Added support for two extra false easting/northing attributes to the State Plane projection system to support users that use a State Plane projection system with an extra scale factor (such as for ground vs. grid coordinates) and then apply an XY offset to the coordinates after that.
Added zones 6-9 for Gauss Krueger Germany (3-degree zones) projection.
Added additional S-42 (Pulkovo 1942) datum specializations and made the base S-42 (Pulkovo 1942) datum automatically select an appropriate specialization to use.
Added support for easy creation of multi-line text for area and point features by adding the text '\n' to display labels for points when creating/editing them with the Digitizer Tool.
Allowed the label for area features to be rotated.
Automatically combine address ranges for Tiger 2007 line segments that have multiple address ranges to make address searching more effective.
Added support for additional MTFCC (feature type) codes from Tiger 2007 data so that features like state and county boundaries can be automatically classified on import.
Added new selection mode to the Digitizer Tool. If you hold down the 'I' key when dragging a box, only features that are completely contained within the box will be selected. This is useful for things like selecting a point feature on top of a line or area feature.
Fixed problem with per-vertex time-stamp values being lost in some cases when graphically moving or deleting vertices with the Digitizer Tool.
Added new built-in point type 'Address Label'. You can disable this type to turn off the center address labels automatically applied to downloaded online sources, like TerraServer-USA and DigitalGlobe.
Added new built-in area type 'County Subdivision'.
Added option to maintain the map location under the cursor position when using the mouse wheel to zoom. You can do this either by checking the option on the Advanced list on the General tab of the Configuration dialog or holding down the Ctrl key when scrolling the mouse wheel.
When importing generic ASCII text files, make the default attribute list for the type being assigned to a feature automatically be applied to the attribute list for that feature.
Added automatic type and style assignment from attribute values when loading DBF point files.
Updated the 'Find by Name' dialog to allow recentering on a feature without showing the bullseye icon if you hold down the ALT key when double-clicking on an item.
Added new Ctrl+Alt+L shortcut key for automatically copying the current point/cursor coordinates to the clipboard in the current selected projection with a tab separated the X and Y coordinate values.
Corrected placement of ECW/JPEG2000 files that use a projection code of TMNEWYEM. They were previously very slightly shifted.
Fixed problem with elevations sometimes not being saved when recording a tracklog for a connected GPS device.
Added support for loading latest GNIS (USGS Geographic Names) database from http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm.
Increased precision of lat/lon coordinates displayed on the status bar.
Improved automatic detection of alpha channels and non-standard color channels when loading ECW and JPEG2000 (JP2) format files.
Changed font used for elevation legend and distance scale display text so that it can display correctly on all systems, regardless of language.
Fixed problems loading 24-bit RGB MPR/MPH files.
Fixed error when trying to load DBF files greater than 2GB in size.
Made gridded elevation grid generation from loaded vector data automatically overlap the edges during generation to generate a smooth, non-overlapped output.
Fixed problem when gridding elevation grid generation and manually specifying the sample spacing to use.
Fixed problem loading SID files with corrupt world files accompanying them.
When loading generic ASCII text/CSV files, keep a name/label column as both an attribute value and the display label if multiple attributes exist to allow easily changing what attribute(s) to display as the label.
Added automatic detection of grid cell registration type (i.e. pixel-is-point or pixel-is-area) for netCDF grids like those created using GMT.
When importing files from a script/workspace, warn the user if a file does not exist.
Improved detection of invalid (void) values for elevation GeoTIFF files that use very large negative numbers for invalid values and the files do not contain any valid data.
Added support for loading palettes from Idrisi SMP files.
Added automatic detection and correction of incorrect State Plane zone encodings in some .aux files, such as those produced by a New York imagery site.
Fixed problem reading the timestamp for tracklog points from GPX files that are on the 31st day of a month.
Fixed problem with TriangulationLib.dll files sometimes not being installed by auto-downloading them if needed.
Fixed rare error loading some DNC data sets.
When importing ASCII data files, automatically detect lines with a series of 999.0 values and allow the user to treat these as feature separator lines rather than coordinates.
Sped up import of GML files, particularly when importing lines or areas with a lot of vertices.
Drastically improved speed when displaying some NAIP 2008 JPEG2000 imagery.
Added support for using TFWX files as world files for TIFF files.
Added display of the area covered by the screen to the View->Properties dialog.
Added option to Download Online Imagery menu command to delete the caches for the various sources.
Added Alt+R as a shortcut key to save the current view.
Improved decoding of block labels and attributes from some DXF files.
When assigning areas to be islands in other areas with the Digitizer Tool, allow the user to add areas as islands even if they are not completely contained within the topmost area at the clicked location.
Changed the cursor used when selecting features with the Digitizer Tool to a crosshair from a pointer.
Added new Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut key to the Digitizer Tool to activate move mode.
Allow 2 line features that do not share a common endpoint to be combined by automatically adding a line segment connecting the 2 closest ends of the line when using the Combine Selected Line Features command in the Digitizer Tool.
Added display of some projection information on the Metadata tab of the metadata dialog for layers and also in the output of the EXPORT_METADATA script command.
Allowed use of the Delete key to delete ground control points from the rectification dialog.
Fixed problem loading some MapTech BSB charts with unusual projections (like Polyconic).
Fixed problem with image rectification that would occasionally cause polynomial rectification to be used instead of triangulated even if triangulated (piecewise-affine) should have been used.
Corrected half-pixel shift when loading SRTM30 and SRTM30+ files.
Added Ctrl+S as a shortcut key to the image rectifier dialog to save the GCP list to a file.
When loading a GCP file in the image rectifier dialog, prompt the user to remove all of the current control points if there are any.
Improved display of some BSB charts that cross the anti-meridian.
Fixed error loading some NITF imagery data sets that use JPG2000 compression.
Improved positioning of NITF imagery that uses RPC (polynomial-based) positioning.
Prompt the user to specify whether 16-bit JPEG2000 and ECW files are elevation or imagery files rather than just assuming they are elevation.
Improved resizing of main map window so that the map data is not constantly redrawn as you drag the window to a new size.
Increased the size of the displayed elevation on the GPS Information dialog.
Fixed problems reading some TIFF files larger than 2GB in size.
Added new shortcut key (Ctrl+1) to zoom the map to the full detail for the raster/elevation map at the center of the screen.
Added new option to always display line labels on the center of the longest segment of the line to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. This prevents line labels from jumping around as you zoom and pan around.
Added new option to only snap to area and line vertices by default when drawing new features to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. Holding the 'V' key when drawing the new features will toggle this behavior.
Enable snapping to existing features when inserting vertices into existing area and line features using the Digitizer Tool. The shortcut key to stay in "insert vertex" mode was changed to the 'I' key from ALT since the ALT key is used to disable snapping behavior.

What is new in version 9.03 (April 28, 2008)

Added support for loading Tiger 2007 Shapefiles with full attribution and automatic styling and type assignment from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html.
Added support for loading Vulcan3D triangulation files.
Added support for loading OpenStreetMap (OSM) format vector maps.
Added support for loading NITF data sets using JPEG2000 compression.
Added ability to add per-vertex elevations to features that don't already have them.
Made the vertex display dialog automatically highlight all vertices that are selected in the dialog on the map.
Made the Search by Attributes/Name dialog automatically highlight all of the result features that are selected on the map.
Added option when generating elevation grids from vector data to ignore zero elevation values.
Added automatic recognition of potentially iconized road names when editing road features. This allows you to do things like enter a road name of 'I-35' and have it automatically be recognized as an interstate highway iconized road name.
Added new option to the File menu of the rectification dialog to allow easily saving a world file that represents (if possible) the transformation defined by the currently provided control points.
Added option to the vector filter dialogs to save and restore a filter to a file.
Added yards and chains as available units of measure when using the Measure Tool.
Added built-in support for the MGA (Map Grid of Australia) projection.
Added built-in support for the Aratu and Camacupa datums.
Improved accuracy of OSGB36 datum conversions by using the OSTN02 tables.
Made Bonne projection work properly when the origin latitude is in the Southern Hemisphere.
Added support for decoding Albers Conic projections from Ozi .map files.
Added support for correcting the projection of multiple raster files at once (only if all of the raster files being corrected have the same projection to start with).
Fixed problem with displaying the equator grid line when using the Van der Grinten projection.
Fixed problems encoding and decoding Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area projection to/from GeoTIFF files.
Added option to the Shader Options tab of the Configuration dialog to reverse the color order of the selected shader (previously only the HSV shader was reversible).
Added support for reading the track style information written to GPX files by the ExpertGPS software application.
Added new right-click option to the Feature Info dialog to allowing easily zooming to the extents of the selected feature.
When an elevation legend is displayed, make selecting the View->Full View menu command zoom the map so that the elevation legend does not obscure any of the loaded data.
When editing existing elevation values on the custom shader dialog, edit the value in the selected elevation units rather than always in meters.
When digitizing new point features, display the distance from the last digitized point to the current cursor position in the status bar.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow drawing dots at line endpoint locations (this is a subset of the existing option to display all area and line vertices).
Fixed problem that prevented the description of the 'User Created Features' layer from being modified in some situations.
Fixed bug with enabling transparent colors for gridded elevation maps that made them disappear in some cases.
Added support for parsing coordinate values that use commas rather than periods for the decimal separator character.
Sped up exports to ECW and JPEG2000 files from map catalogs.
Fixed snapping to existing line and area feature boundaries when the data being snapped to is in a different projection than the current view projection.
Made the display label for selected area features be displayed if the option to only highlight the border of selected areas is selected.
Improved default elevation unit selection when loading multiple files so that it doesn't always default back to meters.
Fixed problem with some grid line labels being drawn at strange angles.
When drawing new line and area features with the Digitizer Tool, render the vertices if we are displaying the vertices for other line and area features.
Made the Feature Info dialog display the enclosed area in addition to the length in the Geometry field for closed line features.
Allowed band selection for NITF imagery with 3 or more bands of data.
Made the bit depth be displayed in the metadata list for MrSID and NITF imagery.
Added support for WMS servers using secure HTTP (i.e. https:// addresses).
Improved accuracy of area calculations when using the Mercator projection.
Added support for per-vertex elevations for area features from Shapefiles in all cases (previously only simple areas with no holes were supported).
Made the calculated error at each control point in a rectification be saved in a GCP file saved through the File menu on the rectification dialog. It will be the last column for each control point.
Improved great circle distance calculations by using the more accurate Vincenty algorithm.
Fixed remaining problems loading portions of some Erdas Imagine .img grid files with floating point samples.
Fixed problem with gap showing up between lines that end at the same location.
Added built-in point types for bank and restaurant.
Added built-in line type for invisible boundaries (such as those commonly found in Tiger/Line files).
Fixed rare problem with very long vector lines or large area features not printing correctly.
When loading KML/KMZ files, use the folder names from the files to automatically assign Global Mapper types if possible (i.e. if a matching type name exists).
Fixed problems loading some complex entities from DXF and DWG files.
Made default attribute lists be applied when changing the feature classification of multiple features at a time.
Corrected placement of image files positioned using world files with rotation.

What is new in version 9.02 (February 22, 2008)

Added support for exporting any loaded data into tiles for use in Microsoft Virtual Earth. In addition, an HTML file will also be created allowing immediate viewing of the maps. The menu option for creating the tiles is under the new File->Export to Web Formats menu.
Moved web mapping formats, like Google Maps, World Wind, etc., to a new File->Export to Web Formats menu from existing export menus.
Added Vertices button to the Feature Info dialog to allow displaying and editing the location and per-vertex elevations for line and area features and displaying per-vertex time stamps for line features.
Added ability to apply elevation values from loaded terrain data to point features using a right-click option in the Digitizer/Edit tool.
Added new right-click menu option in the Digitizer Tool to allow easily shifting (offsetting) selecting features by some distance.
Added ability to combine multiple attribute values into the display label for features on the vector layer options dialog available from the Overlay Control Center.
Added new external control interface to allow external applications to control the view of Global Mapper and also display point features on the map loaded in Global Mapper. See the Developers page at http://www.globalmapper.com for details.
Added option to the path profile/line of sight dialog to allow matching the elevation scale to the distance scale.
Added support for selecting multiple colors as transparent for palette-based raster files.
Added new Palette tab to Options dialog for raster layers with palettes to allow easy display and modification of the palette used for loaded raster layers.
Added support for loading PCI Geomatics RAW files with AUX headers.
Added support for loading German Topo map files in MPR/MPH format.
Added support for loading block polygon ASCII data files from the Minerals Management Service department of the US Department of Interior (DOI).
Added support for loading TMC Location Database files from (point.dat and poffset.dat files).
Added support for loading Lowrance USR v3 files with depth data.
Added support for automatic detection and loading of PLS-CADD XYZ files.
Made the dialog for drawing a box around the area to export be resizable and also allow zooming and panning the map.
Added support for having lines a fixed width in meters based on attribute values named WIDTH_M or LINE_WIDTH_METERS.
Made time stamps for each vertex in a GPS tracklog be saved if available when tracking a connected GPS device or when loading a tracklog from a GPX file.
Added new options to hide all offscreen layers and close all hidden layers to the right-click popup menu in the Overlay Control Center.
Added built-in support for the Belge 1972 (Belgian Lambert 1972) grid system, Laborde (Madagascar) projection, and Transverse Mercator (South-Orientated) projection.
Added built-in support for the NGO 1948 datum based on the Oslo prime meridian vs. Greenwich.
Added built-in support for the Tananarive 1925 datum based on the Paris prime meridian vs. Greenwich.
Added decoding support for some Polar Stereographic, Austrian Grid, and Norwegian grid EPSG projection codes.
Fixed Oblique Stereographic and Dutch Grid projections (they were broken in v9.00).
Fixed Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection to work properly with all datums. This fixes problems with the CORINE land cover data not lining up properly.
Fixed problems using New Zealand Map Grid with any datum other than NZGDA49.
Renamed some datums (i.e. ED50 and OSGB36) to make them shorter and reflect their more common usage.
Fixed problem loading new format (WKT) PRJ files with a datum using a meridian other than Greenwich (i.e. the NTF Paris datum).
Added support for decoding Vertical Near-Sided Perspective projections from OziExplorer .map files.
Fixed bug using the Aitoff-Wagner projection.
Added centifeet (hundredths of feet) as an elevation unit for export.
Made further improvements to triangulation and gridding to allow even larger data sets to be gridded.
When gridding 3D point data sets using the File->Open Generic ASCII Data File menu command, made the elevation specific options (like tightness threshold and grid spacing) appear on a separate dialog after selecting the ASCII options.
Added option to make specified export bounds be exactly maintained at the expense of the specified sample spacing (the reverse is the default) to the Advanced section of the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added new 'SPOT Natural Color' blend mode to combine the color channels in a layer using the common algorithm for generating natural color imagery from the SPOT HRV multi-spectral sensor.
Made the 'Copy to Clipboard' button on the Feature Info dialog copy the actual feature to the clipboard for pasting into Global Mapper in addition to copying the text attribution for the feature to the Windows clipboard for pasting in a text application.
Added new option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow auto-iconizing road feature names on import if they are recognizable icon names (like I-70, US63, etc.).
Made holding down the 'P' key when left clicking with the Feature Info tool only select area features (i.e. nearby lines and points will be ignored).
Made results on Search by Attributes dialog not include features in hidden layers or features with the types disabled for display.
Allowed splitting of selected area features at selected vertices with the Digitizer Tool when more than one feature is selected.
Fixed problems loading some projections from ECW and JPEG2000 files.
Added option to feathering to just crop to the specified feather boundary rather than actually feather-blending.
Added new Option menu command on the rectification dialog to allow displaying the transformation equations used for the specified control points.
Added new option to the Advanced Selection menu in the Digitizer Tool for easily selecting all of the island areas associated with a parent area and deselecting the parent.
Prompt for the type of 16-bit Erdas Imagine .img files (i.e. are they elevation data or imagery).
Improved loading of HATCH entities from DXF files.
Improved loading of text from MTEXT entities in DXF files.
Added option to Google Maps export to select the default Google Maps background layer that is displayed (i.e. street maps, imagery, or terrain).
Made the last searched address be remembered on the Find Data Online and Find Address dialogs.
Made point classification and intensity be available for Lidar points from Terrascan format files.
Made the Search by Name and Search by Attributes dialogs show a bullseye on the map when you double click on a search result.
Fixed bug with color intensity values not being used in some cases for some raster files.
Added option to the elevation grid generation dialog to allow the user to specify that they want the generated elevation grid to fill the entire bounding box of the input data rather than stopping at the convex hull of the data set. This should really only be used for data sets that very nearly fill the bounding box but have corners cut off or something.
Added support for reading raster layout information from .glcf data files.
Fixed problems loading portions of some Erdas Imagine .img grid files with floating point samples.
Added support for auto-detecting connected NMEA GPS devices running at 9600 baud (in addition to the standard 4800 baud).
Added support for getting positioning information for JPG files from JGC files.
Fixed problems loading CDF files where the pen goes up and down within a single string of coordinates.
Added new RP_RenderStarted and RP_RenderFinished functions to raster/elevation import plugin API to allow plugin DLLs to be notified of raster begin and end operations with the bounding box being rendered.
Significantly sped up the loading of line and area features with a lot of vertices from KML/KMZ files.
Fixed problems loading some new MicroDEM DEM format files.
Made elevation values from loaded terrain data be used when batch converting to Simple ASCII Text files and selecting to include elevation data.
Ignore duplicate point features in DXF BLOCK sections.
Slightly increased the precision reported for some measurements.
Added option to the right-click menu on the Overlay Control Center to allow disabling selection of vector features from a layer.

What is new in version 9.01 (November 30, 2007)

Added support for exporting any loaded data into tiles for use in Google Maps. In addition, an HTML file will also be created allowing immediate viewing of the maps.
Made significant improvements to the triangulation and gridding of 3D point, line, and area data. Not only is the process now MUCH faster (especially for large triangulations), but it also now supports treating lines as constraints (i.e. breaklines), saving the generated triangulation as a separate vector layer, and making elevations for source vector features be relative to the elevation from loaded terrain data. You now also grid a much larger number of points at once (well over 10 million points have been tested with no problems).
Added fuzzy transparency support to allow for transparency for a raster layer to be set up so that all colors near a selected transparent color can be marked as transparent. This is useful for removing collars from lossy formats, like JPG, ECW, and MrSID.
Added support for loading RIK (Swedish Topo) format raster files.
Added support for loading OCAD format files.
Added support for loading MapTech PCX charts. Load these from the MapTech .hdr file in the ChartHdr folder.
Added support for loading OziExplorer .rte format files.
Added support for loading Garmin PCX5 .rte format files.
Added support for loading UKOOA format post plot data files. They are listed under the format SEGP1/UKOOA.
Added support for loading HF2/HFZ format elevation grid files.
Added new item to the Options menu on the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog to allow specification of how many sample points (either by number or by a spacing distance) to use when generating the path profile.
Allowed feather blending to use multiple polygons.
Added several new built-in symbols for different well types used in the petroleum industry.
Added option to have cells from DGN v8 and later files to be imported as point features at the cell's origin rather than be exploded into the features referenced by the cell. This option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added option to have the color number for lines from DGN v8 and later files to be add to the feature description text in addition to the level number. This option is in the Advanced section of the General Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added support for getting depth values from a connected GPS device that embeds $STDBT or $IIDBT NMEA sentences containing the depth values. For GPS devices that provide depth, the depth will be used as the Z coordinate for track logs rather than the elevation value.
Added option to Options menu on rectification dialog to automatically add control points at the image corners.
Fixed creation of attribute list when marking new waypoints from a connected GPS device. Previously the elevation and time stamp attributes were no longer being saved.
Fixed problem with elevation units other than meters not being usable for Lidar LAS and Terrascan files loaded as point cloud data sets.
When loading TIFF files with 4 color channels and the 4th color channel is of unspecified type, prompt the user to see if this should be treated as an alpha channel or an additional data channel (like infrared). This allows TIFF files created with Photoshop with an incorrectly marked alpha channel to be loaded and displayed properly.
When generating new area features from the bounds of layers in the Overlay Control Center, make those new areas have an attribute list consisting of the metadata from the layer.
Added the Winkel Tripel projection as a built-in projection.
Added built-in support for the BD72 (Belgium 1972), M'Poraloko (Gabon) and Google Maps datums.
Improved the accuracy of the ED50 - Spain and Portugal datum transformation by having it use a NTv2 transformation file.
Improved the accuracy of the MGI Austria and Potsdam (DHDN) datum transformations.
Added Indian Yard as an available unit for projections.
Allowed EPSG datum codes to be used to specify a datum on the projection selection dialog using the 'Init From EPSG' button.
Added support for decoding Polyconic (American) projections from OziExplorer .map files.
Made the map/chart type for CADRG maps (i.e. TPC, ONC, etc.) be included in the layer description and metadata for those maps.
Fixed problem with elevation override data not being applied to elevation WMS layers (like SRTM and NED) loaded from a script or workspace file.
Made Surfer CLR files saved from the custom shader dialog actually be compatible with Surfer.
Added support for correctly importing line and point features in Polish MP format files that have multiple Data0 coordinate records.
Added support for automatically cropping the collar of Canadian topographic maps with CanMatrix XML metadata files.
Made feather-blended elevation layers visually feather blend better in to underlying layers rather than just smoothly blending the elevation values.
When loading files from workspace, script, and map catalog files, if the file exists at the full path specified, don't check for a new location relative to the metafile location.
When rectifying imagery, allowed new control point values to be entered as lat/lon coordinates regardless of the native projection of the layer.
Fixed problem with manually specified grid spacing being ignored when flattening areas using the Digitizer Tool.
Added option to World Wind export to allow generating the filenames required by the Java edition of World Wind.
Updated area calculations to be done in the native units for a layer rather than always be done in lat/lon coordinates. This can make area calculations from Global Mapper for large areas more consistent with what you see in other applications.
Fixed bug with fill style not being read from generic ASCII files properly.
Fixed errors rendering ECW and JPEG2000 files to monitors with extremely high resolutions (typically multi-monitor setups).
Added option to Help menu to disable the automatic check for updates at application startup.
Added attributes for database linkages to loaded DGN files.
Improved the handling of break lines imported from DMDF format files.
Fixed problems loading some Garmin PCX5 files.
Added new File menu commands to the rectification dialog to allow loading control points and projection information from CompeGPS .imp and Touratech TTQV .cal files.
Added option to specify offset and scale values to apply to coordinates loaded from EMF format files.
No longer save the 'Render Areas', 'Render Lines', 'Render Points', and 'Render Area and Line Vertices' options from the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog between runs as this tends to cause confusion. The first three will always be enabled by default when you start Global Mapper and the vertex display will now always be disabled by default.
Corrected positioning of ENVI files that don't use the top left coordinate as their reference point.
Added support for loading ERS files with missing cell sizes. These are apparently defined as having a cell size of 1.0.
Made the full path to files be displayed in the Overlay Control Center for layers that do not have any description other than the filename.
Allowed selection of which bands are used from multi-spectral FAST-L7A Landsat imagery layers.
Added support for loading 16-color (4-bit per pixel) PCX files.
Made holding down the 'P' key when selecting a new location in the Reference View of the rectification dialog or when using the Measure or Digitizer Tools, cause the new location to be snapped to the nearby point features.
Made the default attribute list for a feature type be applied when changing the classification of an existing feature through the single feature edit dialog.
Added support for loading Ozi .map files with grid coordinates in multiple UTM zones.
Added support for modifying the default projection used when rectifying imagery by supplying a default_rectification.prj file in the Global Mapper installation folder containing the desired default projection.
Added Ctrl+R as shortcut key to restore last saved view.
Made the compression type used for TIFF files be displayed in the metadata for the file available from the Overlay Control Center.
Made the image collar specified in the "MainPolygonBitmap" section of CompeGPS IMP files be used when automatically cropping the collar of imagery loaded with positioning information from the IMP file.
Fixed problem with the 'Update GCP' button on the rectification dialog causing the name of the control point being updated to be lost.
Added ability to automatically add/update a MODIFIED_DATE parameter to vector features when they are modified. This option is found in the options list at the bottom of the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added control of the default search string used in the Search by Attributes dialog with a new string registry setting at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DefaultVectorSearchStr". The default value is '*'.
Made it possible to batch rectify ECW and JPEG2000 format files using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command.
Made LiDAR LAS support reading and writing projection information.
Added an 'Invert Selection' option to the popup menu when you right click on the search results list on the Search by Attributes dialog.
Made the Add/Update Feature Measures option in the Digitizer Tool report the combined length of all selected line features and the combined enclosed area of all selected area features at the end of the operation.
Added new 'Deleted Line' and 'Selected Line' line classifications so that users could modify the drawing style used for deleted and selected line features.

What is new in version 9.00 (8/28/2007)

Added direct access to high resolution Digital Globe, GlobeXplorer, and AirPhotoUSA imagery for the entire world through the File->Download Online Imagery menu command. Free access is provided to watermarked imagery for reference only, with access to un-watermarked imagery that can be exported to new files can be purchased.
Added ability to make area features partially transparent. Everywhere that you can edit an area style now has a transparency slider allowing you to adjust how translucent a solid filled area will be.
Added new option to the Color/Contrast Adjust option dialog for raster layers to allow specification that the contrast adjustment should be shared between multiple layers. This allows a consistent contrast adjustment to be applied to all images with that option checked.
Added support for feather-blending elevation layers in order to smoothly blend the elevation values of one layer with an underlying one near some edge (either a polygon or the rectangular edges of the top file).
Added support for loading DMDF (Digital Map Data Format) files, such as those used for Alberta DEM files.
Added support for loading vector data from EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) files.
Added support for loading Erdas .LAN format files.
Added support for loading PCX format image files.
Added support for loading point Arc Vector Coverage files (lab.adf).
Added option to the Vector Options dialog to allow selecting the attribute to use for elevation values for vector features. This is useful if you want to get elevation values from something other than the default elevation field for a layer.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to split an area feature into 2 pieces along the segment connecting 2 selected vertices.
Made the Search->Search by Attributes/Name/Desc dialog be "modeless" so that you can interact with the map underneath the dialog without closing the dialog.
Added new "Select All" option under the Edit menu to allow easily selecting all loaded vector features.
Added support for loading files in a fixed location relative to the screen with the position of the file being specified in width or height percentage values or relative to an absolute latitude/longitude value in addition to the previously available inches from edge values.
When specify custom crop bounds for a raster layer, allow control of which sides will be cropped through check boxes activating which edges to actually crop. The default is all edges.
Added a new "Hill Shading Shadow Darkness" control to the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog. This control allows you to control the maximum darkness of shadows (the default is black). With this setting you can cause the shadowing to be capped in high relief areas, thus allowing the use of other controls to better bring out detail in low-relief areas.
Added support for drawing the location for a connected GPS device as a circle or transparent triangle with a dot at the center for the GPS location. This support is provided by the new GPS->Vessel Shape submenu.
Allowed drawing of rectangle, square, circle, and ellipse shapes anchored at the top left rather than center with the Digitizer Tool by holding down the 'T' key when left clicking to start the shape.
Added option to the projection selection dialog to allow a projection to be initialized from an EPSG projection system code.
Made the parameters used for most grid system and zoned projections, like British Grid and UTM, be displayed in the attribute section of the projection selection dialog (which will be disabled for those projections).
Added support for the India Zoned Grid, Korean Grid, Krovak, Lambert (Marta), Lambert (NOAA), Marta Satellite, and Winkel I projections.
Added built-in support for the Dealul Piscului 1970, Ireland 1965 (with 1975 Adjustment), Korean Geodetic (KGD), Lisbon (DLx), S-JTSK, Solomon 1968 (GUX1 Astro) datums as well as a generic GRS80 ellipsoid datum.
Improved accuracy of the Beijing 1954, Hungarian Datum 1972 (HD72), NGO1948, and Portugese 1973 (Datum 73) datums.
Added Bessel (Modified) as a new built-in ellipsoid.
Added support for adding new ellipsoids to create custom datums from on the custom datums dialog.
Made the extra scale factor for State Plane projections be applied AFTER any false easting and northing values for the underlying projection for the State Plane zone, rather than before the false easting/northing values as before.
Made the area covered by the bounding box of a layer be reported as part of the metadata for that layer.
Fixed problem loading complex shapes from older (pre-v8) DGN files. This problem was introduced in the v7.04 release.
Improved decoding and encoding of some Lambert-based projections with default units of feet with ECW files.
Fixed garbled display of some rare ASRP/ADRG/USRP format maps.
Fixed problem with features being duplicating when copying and pasting selected features from multiple data layers at a time.
Made blending and translucency between layers within a map catalog work properly.
Fixed display of selected features when dragging a map to pan.
Fixed problem in v8.03 with some features in the a User Created Features layer not responding to the show/hide checkbox in the Overlay Control Center.
Fixed problems loading area and line features with more than about 200,000 vertices from Polish MP format files.
Fixed problems loading uncompressed CIB imagery.
Fixed problems with edited labels for Shapefile features not being saved to workspaces.
Added option to the GPS Status dialog to copy the current GPS location to the clipboard.
Added support for loading polyface mesh features from DXF files.
Added support for loading DXF files with nested BLOCK references.
Fixed problems handling some SPLINE entities in DXF files.
Added new View->Properties menu command to allow displaying properties about the current view, including bounds, scale, and resolution.
Made ERS files be used for positioning information if needed for additional formats, like JPG, ECW, TIFF, and PNG.
Increased the resolution of the color intensity slider on the raster options dialog and also made the current intensity value be displayed.
Made filenames in the Overlay Control Center be displayed with the same casing as they have on disk rather than always being all upper case.
Updated GNIS files to use the NAD83 datum as the USGS switched to that in 2005. In addition, GNIS files that use meters for elevation values will also handle those correctly and less error messages will be shown for GNIS files.
Fixed problem with the per-vertex elevation list for 3D area and line features not being maintained when copying and pasting those features.
Fixed problems with loaded data from some VPF data sets with only one tile of data, namely UVMAP3 data.
Fixed memory leak when generating an elevation grid from some loaded 3D vector data sets. This problem was introduced in the v8.02 release.
Added a new right-click option to the Overlay Control Center to allow you to save a workspace file containing just the selected layers and their settings.
Fixed error loading some RPF (i.e. CADRG/CIB) data sets.
Fixed file size error loading some Geosoft Grid files.
Made it possible to rectify MrSID files with the File->Rectify Imagery menu command.
Fixed error loading some DGN v7 or older files with tags in them.
When digitizing new area, line, and point features, notify the user if their features will not be displayed immediately after creating it due to vector display settings.
Make the default attribute list for the default classification be properly initialized when digitizing new features.
Make sure that the user wants to switch away from the Digitizer Tool if doing so would result in the loss of a significant number of digitized points.
Display progress while saving workspace files.
Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use multiple Schema directives to change the name of Placemarks.
Fixed rare problem with a handful of iso-height areas not generating properly during contour generation.
Made double-clicking on layers in the Overlay Control Center bring up the Options dialog for that layer. If you hold down the 'M' key when double-clicking the Metadata dialog will appear instead.
Added support for the Swiss Grid projection in ECW files.
Made automatic DRG-style collar cropping work for high latitude Canadian topo maps.
Added support for loading MSI Planet files with a .dat extension.
Made GML files from the UK Ordnance Survey load.
Allowed border and line widths up to 30 pixels wide (up from 10) to be selected.
Updated raster/elevation import plugin API to allow the plugin DLL to notify Global Mapper that the data in a layer has changed and needs to be redrawn, thus allowing for dynamically updating layers.
Reduced memory requirements for loading and displaying CMYK TIFF files.
Dramatically sped up the process of moving overlays to the top and bottom of the draw order when there are a lot of layers loaded.
Don't attempt to load DBF files from archive (.zip, etc.) files if they don't have obvious positioning fields in them.
In the location selection dialog, made the Latitude and Longitude fields initialize with the coordinates formatted according to the currently selected position display format. Also swapped the fields so that the Latitude is on top.
Made the elevation readout on the status bar display up to 3 digits beyond the decimal rather than just 1.
Made DEM files exported with the Geographic (Lat/Lon) projection write out full elevation profiles for every column, even if there are invalid data values at the beginning and/or end of the profile. This is to ensure compatibility with other software.
Added support for the user providing an explicit format and/or projection to use in the service name string when adding a new WMS data source. For example, if a data source is available in both JPG and PNG formats and you want to get the JPG data, use a service name of 'WMS&format=image/jpeg' when adding the data source. Use the SRS parameter to explicitly select a projection to use.
Added new right-click option to the Measure Tool to specify that no unit labels (like 'm' or 'ft') should be appended to the measure attributes added to new line and area features.
Added new advanced selection option to the Digitizer Tool to allow selecting all line features contained within a selected area feature.
Made the false easting/northing values for UTM projections in units other than meters be stored correctly when saved to WKT format PRJ files.
Made the list of user-provided web-based ECW links be stored in a text format in the user_web_files.wfl file rather than a hard to edit binary format.

What is new in version 8.03 (4/28/2007)

Added support for loading GML format files.
Modified the Overlay Control Center to display a checkbox next to each layer for controlling the displayed state of the layer. This replace the previous text of "(Displayed)" and "(Hidden)" used for each layer and also provides an additional mechanism to turn the layer on and off.
Added new option on the "Select Online Data Source to Download" dialog to specify the download location as a lat/lon and a radius.
Added new menu commands to the Options menu on the Path Profile/Line of Sight dialog to allow users to manually specify the range of elevation values displayed. This options allows for consistent results between multiple profiles if desired.
Added option when drawing line or area arcs to have the arcs be a fixed radius rather than drawing them.
Added option to the Generic ASCII Import dialog to allow the specification of a column to break area/line features on when the value of that column changes. This allows importing formats like the Landmark polygon format that runs all of its features together but changes a feature index in a particular column to indicate a new feature.
Added option to save custom shaders to Surfer CLR format files when editing them. When coupled with the current ability to initialize a shader from a Surfer CLR file this provides an easy way to makes copies of custom shaders.
Added a new line type ("Digitizer Tool Line") that controls the drawing style used when digitizing new line and area features with the Digitizer (Edit) Tool.
Added option to the transparent color picker dialog for palette-based files to save the palette to a .pal file.
Allow color band setup for TIFF files with just 3 color bands.
Fixed slowdown in rendering/exporting TIFF files. This was introduced in v8.02.
Fixed rendering of TIFF files with overview layers when raster display options are changed from the defaults. This problem was introduced in v8.02.
Added built-in support for the Tananarive Observatory 1925 and Yacare datums.
Corrected datum conversions involving the Hermannskogel datum.
Fixed problems with not being able to change the label attribute used for Shapefile features that have a 'LABEL' attribute associated with them.
Fixed reading of altitude values for waypoints in somee Garmin PCX5 .WPT format files.
Made most of the metadata for SDTS vector layers be available on the main metadata tab for that layer to allow easy copying to the clipboard.
Fixed problems with translucency, blending, and feathering over the top of TerraServer-USA data layers.
Fixed vertical flip of some GMT grids in netCDF format.
Added Projection tab to the Options dialog for raster and gridded elevation layers to allow easily changing the native projection interpretation of the coordinates for that layer. This allows you to easily correct files that have the wrong projection/datum used for them at load time.
Made the vertices of holes/islands in areas be displayed when displaying area and line vertices.
Fixed rare problem decoding some sections of Arc Binary Grid format files.
Made online data display more responsive to canceling the render with the ESC key.
Added support for reading MultiGeometry features from KML files.
Added support for reading vector features from KML files that use a Schema directive to change the name of Placemarks.
Added support for loading some additional Moss/Genio format files and made *.inp be a recognized file mask for that type of file.
Fixed crash when generating contour lines at only the 0 height contour.
Allowed .clr palette files for BIL/BIP/BSQ format files to be delimited with commas, tabs, or semi-colons in addition to spaces.
Added support for additional NITF format imagery files, such as those using JPG compression.
Improved the name displayed for Arc Vector Coverage layers in the Overlay Control Center.
Added support for loading new tab-delimited GNIS format files.
Made graphic group codes for 2D lines and points from DGN v7 files be used as elevation values.
Made the 'z' scan range value for 2D lines and points from DGN v8 files be used as elevation values.
Added support for reading 8-bit palette and grayscale Intergraph COT format files.
Fixed half-pixel shift of GeoTIFF files that were forcefully positioned using a world file rather than embedded positioning information.

What is new in version 8.02 (3/11/2007)

Added the ability to load layers (like graphic images) to be displayed at a fixed location on the screen rather than tied to earth coordinates. This allows you to add things like headers and watermarks very easily. There is a new File menu command called "Open Data File at Fixed Screen Location" that allows this.
Added the ability to copy features selected with the Digitizer Tool to the clipboard and then paste that copied data into any running instance of Global Mapper by using the new Edit menu options.
Added new right-click option to the Search->Search by Attributes dialog to allowing copying the selected features to the clipboard. Those features can then be pasted into any running instance of Global Mapper by pressing Ctrl+V.
When triangulating and gridding 3D vector data, like LIDAR and XYZ data, made all sample locations outside of the bounding polygon of the input data to be discarded to avoid the spurious data outside of the bounds.
When triangulating and gridding 3D vector data that includes area features with height values, make any regions inside an area feature be flattened rather than just treating the area features as 3D lines. This allows making good elevation grids from things like buildings as well as allows easily flattening an area like a lake.
Added option to smooth generated contour lines to improve their appearance. This option is enabled by default.
Allowed Global Mapper to use up to 4GB of RAM on 64-bit Windows. On 32-bit Windows Global Mapper (like all applications) is limited to 2GB of RAM.
Added option to rotate point labels when selecting the font to use for points of a particular type.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to create/flatten terrain within any selected area features that have an elevation value associated with them.
Allowed quick insertion of multiple vertices in selected features with the Digitizer Tool by holding down the ALT key when adding vertices. This will cause you to stay in insert vertex mode rather than reverting back to the default mode.
Allowed modification of insert vertex behavior to insert vertices on the existing selected line feature if the SHIFT key is held down when adding vertices. This allows you to emulate the behavior of releases earlier than v8.01 if you prefer things to work that way.
Allowed quick deletion of selected vertices with the Digitizer Tool. Simply use the CTRL+DELETE hotkey to delete selected vertices. This saves having to right-click and select the delete vertices option from the popup menu.
Added new right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow selecting all of the selected search results with the Digitizer Tool to allow further editing after closing the dialog.
When reversing the order of line vertices also reverse any left or right type attributes like addressing attributes.
Added option to add address attributes to selected point features using addressing information from the nearest line feature to those selected point features.
Added the Cassini Malaysia (state zones), Hungarian National Grid (EOV), Lambert Cylindrical Equal-Area, RSO East Malaysia (Borneo), RSO West Malaysia (Peninsular), and Two Point Equidistant projections.
Added the ATS77 (Nova Scotia), Hungarian 1972 (HD72), and Indian (Nepal) datums.
Added the ATS77, Everest 1830 (1967 Definition), and Everest 1956 ellipsoids.
Added support for supplying an extra scale factor to State Plane projections. This allows for using things like grid vs. ground coordinates.
Modified the Timbalai 1948 datum to use the Everest 1830 (1967 definition) ellipsoid internally.
Fixed problem with Hotine Oblique Mercator A projection acting exactly like a Mercator projection.
Corrected false northing value for Lambert IV Corse projection.
Corrected central meridian for the Quebec MTM Zone 2 projection.
Added ability to specify a scale factor for Mercator projections.
Improved handling of some Lambert France projections in GeoTIFF files.
Fixed decoding of Ireland 1965 datum from TAB files.
Fixed problem from v8.00 release that caused some PRJ files to not be loadable.
Fixed problems with northing values for a handful of State Plane zones, like the NM East zone with the NAD27 datum.
Fixed problems with saving and restoring the Hotine Oblique Mercator B and the derived Michigan Georef projections to/from PRJ files.
Fixed problems saving projections using a "longitude of pole" or a "true scale latitude" parameter to new format PRJ files.
Made the current view scale be display on the status bar.
When running the cursor over line features with recognized addressing attributes the address under the cursor will be displayed on the status bar.
Added support for points to have dot or square symbols of any size and color when loaded from a file. Symbol attributes now support symbol names of DOT_CUSTOM_[SIZE]_[RED]_[GREEN]_[BLUE] and SQUARE_CUSTOM_[SIZE]_[RED]_[GREEN]_[BLUE] where the [SIZE] value is the radius in pixels of the dot or square, and the [RED], [GREEN], and [BLUE] values represent the color to use.
Made any text rotation and size be obeyed when loading DXF files.
Made fixed size text and text rotation angles be saved to exported DXF files.
Added 'inches' as a supported elevation unit.
Added support for additional NTF grid formats, like the LandRanger DTMs.
Added new right-click option to the Measure Tool to save the current measure text to the Windows clipboard.
Added option to show pixel coordinates of the current mouse location in the topmost raster layer in the status bar. This option is in the Advanced Options section on the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
Added new option to the Advanced Options section on the General tab of the Configuration dialog to specify that default display label fonts should use the OEM character set (code page 437) rather than the ANSI character set (code page 1252). This option can be helpful if you are having problem with accented characters not displaying correctly from some data sets (those data sets encoded in code page 437 rather than 1252).
Made the Z-level value for custom area types be stored in the custom_area_types.txt file. This allows the user to customize the Z-ordering of custom area types to get them to draw where they want. Currently this requires editing the custom_area_types.txt file and editing the value in the 7th column. A value of 0 will cause the type to draw below all other area features.
Fixed problems loading text from some DGN v8 files.
Fixed error when loading some DGN v8 files with raster data in them.
Made the last selected type be remembered on the Area Styles, Line Styles, and Point Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog.
Made the 'Restore Default Settings' button on the General tab of the Configuration dialog also restore the vertical display settings to their default values.
Made alpha channels from ECW files be used.
Fixed conversion of offset and min/max elevation values in feet units on Alter Elevations tab of the raster Options dialog when pressing the Apply button.
Fixed export bug when using blend modes and transparency at the same time.
When rectifying, made holding down the CTRL key and right-clicking in either the zoomed or reference map views zoom the clicked view out to the full extents of the available data.
When rectifying, made holding down the SHIFT key when left-clicking in the reference map view with a lat/lon projection in arc degrees clamp to the nearest 30 second interval rather than the nearest 1 minute interval.
Made the correct elevation for 3D point features imported from DXF block entities be used.
Made HATCH and SOLID entities be loaded from DXF files.
Allowed loading of RPF (i.e. CADRG, CIB, etc.) files with absolute file paths.
Added support for using positioning and projection information from Fugawi JPR files.
Added support for loading multi-patch Shapefiles.
Added option when printing to specify an extra margin. This is useful when printing to things like a PDF file that do not have any natural margins.
Fixed problem with label settings not being saved to workspace files when changing the label attribute of Shapefiles to 'No Name Field'.
Removed error about bad OziExplorer .map format when loading MapInfo .tab files from which the projection cannot be automatically determined.
Added ability to directly load Ozi .map files to load the referenced imagery.
Made the last used State Plane zone be remembered in the projection selection dialog.
Added a new option ("Mark Sides of Roads with Addressing Information") to the option list at the bottom of the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog. If checked, any roads that are recognized to have addressing information available on one or both sides will have "hair" drawn on the side(s) of the line where that address information is available. This option can be useful for determining the coverage of your addressing data.
Made the default face name used by labels in Global Mapper be stored in the registry and editable there. The 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Global Mapper\DefaultFaceName'registry key now holds that value and can be edited via regedit to change the default face name for all labels.
Added support for loading some additional Moss/Genio format files.
When using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command, made the control point list for each file automatically be initialized to the control points found in any associated .gcp file.
When using the File->Rectify Imagery menu command, added an option to control whether or not rectified imagery is displayed in the reference view when rectifying multiple images. Unchecking this can speed up the process when rectifying lots of imagery.
Fixed problems selecting some line features at some zoom levels.
Made information about the feature/location under the cursor be displayed in the status bar regardless of what the active tool is. For tools like the Digitizer/Edit tool the feature information will be displayed after any instructions.
Made the 'Feature Type' value for selected features be displayed in the Feature Info dialog. The 'Description' value will only be displayed if it is different from the 'Feature Type' value.
In the vector Search dialog, replaced the 'Feature Description' searchable field with the more useful 'Feature Type' field that always reflects the type of the feature.
Added support for loading Erdas Imagine .img files directly from archives (.zip, .tar.gz, etc.) files.
Made additional SEGP1 format layouts be supported.
Added an option to map catalogs to control whether or not the map bounding boxes are displayed when a map itself is not displayed.
Added band selection support for BIL, BIP, and BSQ files and their derivatives.
Added support for additional band setups for GeoTIFF files (i.e. 5 band 8 bit-per-sample files, etc.).
Fixed access violation with 16-bit tiled elevation TIFF files.
Allowed custom lat/lon grid spacing to be specified in DD MM.MMMM and DD MM SS.SSSS format in addition to DDD.DDDDD.
Improved accuracy of distance calculations.
Made the custom color palette on the color selection dialog for the View->Set Background Color menu command be remembered between runs.
Made county and state boundary lines automatically be classified when imported from Tiger/Line files.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to "Hide Labels that are Partially Offscreen". This makes sure that you always get complete labels and is very useful if you are gridding vector data being exported to a raster format to ensure that you get a seamless set of tiles.

What is new in version 8.01 (11/6/2006)

Added new tab to the Options dialog for some multi-spectral raster files (currently only GeoTIFF files with more than 3 bands of data and Erdas IMAGINE, ECW, JPEG2000, and MrSID imagery with 3 or more bands of data) to allow controlling which bands are used for the red, green, and blue color channels during display.
Added support to check for new releases of Global Mapper, both automatically and manually using a new Help menu option.
Added support for feather blending raster data to a polygonal boundary rather than just along selected edges. This makes it much easier to feather blend the border of a large collection of adjacent files.
Added option to associate a list of default attribute/value pairs with each area, line, and point classification on the * Styles tabs of the Configuration dialog. If a default attribute list is provided for a type any new features created with that type using the Digitizer Tool will automatically add those default attribute/value pairs.
Added support for loading DWG files. imagery.
Added support for importing data from WAsP .map format files.
Added support for loading NTF-format contour files as supplied by the UK Ordnance Survey.
Added support for loading KINGDOM planimetric polygon files like those used by SMT (Seismic Micro-Technology) software.
Added option to shift all of the control points for a file when rectifying imagery or vector data. This effectively provides an easy way to shift a file by a given distance.
Added Apply button to the image rectification dialog to allow the results of repositioning a layer to be immediately seen in the reference map window.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to automatically create vertices at the intersections of selected line features.
Improved behavior of vertex insertion into area and line features so that the new vertex is inserted at the clicked location rather than the nearest point on the feature to the clicked location.
When inserting new vertices in selected line and area features with the Digitizer Tool, automatically select the newly added vertices to allow easy moving and joining of them.
Added option when creating range rings with the Digitizer Tool to create a "multi-ring" by combining the outer rings of multiple range rings into a single combined boundary.
When adding range rings and point features are selected, added option to add the new range rings at the selected point locations.
Changed behavior of moving features and vertices with the Digitizer Tool so that the move operation is terminated once the feature(s)/vertices are moved. This is to prevent inadvertently moving the features again.
Fixed problems in Digitizer Tool with horizontal and vertical snapping not working properly for the last vertex added to line and area features.
Changed "point-in-polygon" selection hot key from ALT to the 'P' key. Now if you hold down the 'P' key when left clicking to select with the Digitizer Tool, the top-most area feature containing the clicked location will be selected.
Made holding down the ALT key when selecting features and/or vertices automatically put you in Move mode after the selection, thus providing a quick way to manually reshape or move features.
Made features in Polish MP files that do not have data at level 0 still be loaded.
Added support for loading the Z coordinates for 3D area features from most 3D shapefiles.
Made overwrite of existing workspace files fail-safe by not writing out the workspace to the existing file until the workspace save is complete and error-free. This prevents any errors during a workspace save from wiping out an existing workspace file that was being overwritten.
Dramatically sped up the loading of map catalog files with lots of files in different projections.
Made State Plane projections with NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums be properly saved and loaded from PRJ files.
Added support for loading ECW and JPG2000 files with more than 8 bits per color channel, including elevation-based files.
Added support for decoding some additional NITF imagery formats, in particular 2-band 16-bit per band imagery.
Added POSGAR94 (Argentina) datum.
Added support for loading MrSID imagery with more than 8 bits per color channel.
Fixed display of ADRG/ASRP/USRP data sets with 4-bit count RLE compression.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to have only the border of selected area features highlighted.
Added support for decoding and encoding Lambert France projection codes from GeoTIFF files.
Added support for automatically decoding projection and datum information from text metadata files accompanying Mexican topo maps.
Fixed rare problems loading some NOS/GEO format files.
Fixed problems loading positioning information from Touratech (TTQV) .cal files where the first pixel control point is at (0,0). Also added support for automatically decoding Swiss Grid projections from those files.
Expanded support for FAST-format Landsat imagery to allow the direct loading of panchromatic, VNIR/SWIR, and thermal imagery without needing a _MTL.FST header file.
Fixed problem with line vertices showing up slightly offset from the line when zoomed way in on line features that are also being reprojected.
Improved display of 4-band Digital Globe QuickBird imagery with 8 bits per color band.
Removed special TIFF and GeoTIFF metadata pages and placed all of the information on the main metadata page so that the information could be easily copied to the clipboard.
Improved decoding of diacritic text from NIMA GNS point data files. The UTF-8 encoded text is now converted to the current system codepage for improved display of diacritic and other extended characters.
Fixed very slow display of some large tiled TIFF files.
Added JPEG2000 .jp2, BSB chart .kap, and Polish .MP files to the list of "Supported Commonly Used Types" list on the file selection dialog.
Added version to title bar.
Allowed for entry of azimuth and altitude light angle values at greater than integer precision on the Vertical Options tab of the Configuration dialog.
Moved the Configuration button on the toolbar to be next to the Overlay Control Center button as that is a more logical grouping.
Changed the globe button on the toolbar to launch the online TerraServer-USA/WMS data access dialog rather than going to the Find Data Online page at http://www.globalmapper.com.
When marking a waypoint from a tracked GPS location, automatically add elevation (if available) and timestamp attributes.
Fixed error message and lockup on Search->Search by Name dialog when searching on the last start letter (like 'Z') and having non-alphanumeric characters starting some of the strings.
Made State Plane projections be recognized from ECW files rather than using the base projection (like Lambert Conformal Conic).
Made the default projection system displayed for files for which the projection cannot automatically be determined be configurable. This default projection system can be set by saving a default.prj file in the Global Mapper installation folder.

What is new in version 8.00 (8/30/2006)

Added support for loading Polish MP format files like those used by the cGPSMapper application.
Added support for loading vector data from KML/KMZ format files.
Added support for loading NITF (National Imagery Transmission Format) format imagery.
Added support for loading Geodas Grid (GRD98) format elevation files.
Added support for loading some Intergraph COT format files.
Added support for loading CDF (GES Cartographic Data Format) files.
Greatly improved the raster layer options by adding support for color balancing (individual red, green, and blue adjustment), linear min/max contrast stretch, setting transparency for multiple layers at a time, feather blending (see below) and cropping to native bounds or by a given number of pixels.
Added feather blending support for raster layers to the Options available from the Overlay Control Center. This is an extremely powerful feature that allows smoothly blending raster layers with underlying layers. For example, you might have high resolution imagery on top of lower resolution imagery. With feather blending, you can smooth the sharp edge and make the transition at the border seamless.
Added support for having labels be displayed at a fixed height in meters rather than at the same size at each zoom level. This option is on the bottom of the font selection dialog when either selecting a font for a classification on one of the * Styles tabs on the Configuration dialog or when selecting a font for a feature when editing it.
Added option to always display the label for a particular feature or classification if labels are displayed. This option is on the bottom of the font selection dialog when either selecting a font for a classification on one of the * Styles tabs on the Configuration dialog or when selecting a font for a feature when editing it.
Added an undo option when digitizing new features with the Digitizer Tool or drawing new measurements with the Measure Tool. Simply press Ctrl+Z and the last vertex added to the feature/measurement being drawn will be removed.
Changed the snapping behavior in the Digitizer Tool so that snapping is disabled using the ALT key (rather than CTRL) and that snapping to vertices only is enabled by holding down the 'V' key (rather than SHIFT).
When digitizing new features or moving existing feature or vertices using the Digitizer Tool, made holding down the CTRL key make the new location be snapped vertically, holding down the SHIFT key make the new location be snapped horizontally, and holding down both the CTRL and SHIFT keys snap the location diagonally.
Added a new advanced selection option popup menu to the right-click popup menu for the Digitizer Tool when one or more area features is selected. This new menu has options for selecting all point and area features within the selected area(s), making it easy to select and edit features within a particular area.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool to allow creating new line features from the boundaries of selected area features.
When placing new range ring features with the Digitizer Tool, make the range ring center snap to existing features just like line, area, and point features do when drawing them. You can hold down Ctrl when placing the range ring to disable snapping.
When adding areas as islands to existing features with the Digitizer Tool, prompt the user for whether or not the original areas should be marked as deleted. Previously the original areas were always marked as deleted, but this is not always desired.
When rectifying imagery, made snapping to nearby vector data in the Reference Map view be turned off by holding the Alt key when left clicking rather than holding down the Ctrl key. This allows both snapping and zooming to a clicked location to be done by holding down the Ctrl key.
When rectifying imagery, made left-clicking in the Zoomed Image and Reference Image views drop a small red dot to visually indicate the click location.
In the image rectification dialog, made holding down the Ctrl key increase the pan size to a half screen when panning with the edge arrow on any of the map views.
Added support for the Bipolar Oblique Conic Western Hemisphere, Times, Old Israeli Grid, and New Israeli Grid projections.
Added Corrego Alegra, NID (New Israeli Datum), OID (Old Israeli Datum) and QND95 (Qatar) as built-in datums.
Added Clarke 1880 (Palestine), Clarke 1880 (RGS) and Sphere Radius 6371000 m as built-in ellipsoids available for use with custom datums.
Fixed problems using and saving the Quebec MTM projection for which support was added in the last release.
Made the names of state-plane zones listed on the projection selection dialog include the FIPS zone number of the zone.
Allowed the use of the NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums with State Plane projections.
Fixed problems decoding the Lambert France projections from old format PRJ files and workspaces.
Increased accuracy of OSGB36 datum conversions.
Made central meridian scale factor for Lambert Conformal Conic projections only be used in the 1SP (both first and second standard parallels the same) case since it can only be unity (1.0) in the 2SP case.
Fixed decoding of UTM zones in the Southern hemisphere from some new format PRJ files.
Fixed Transverse Mercator projections when used with datums based on perfect spheres (these would only have been custom datums based on a spherical ellipsoid).
Added option to custom shader dialog to allow initialization of a custom shader from a Surfer CLR shader palette file.
When saving a workspace with any gridded elevation data loaded, made the current shader and other vertical display settings be written to the workspace so that the view will be the same when the data is reloaded.
Added new advanced options list to the General tab of the Configuration dialog to allow selecting advanced options like treating DXF INSERT entities as points, automatically adding custom types for DXF layers, exporting old format PRJ files, preferring world file coordinates over embedded coordinates for GeoTIFF files, and prompting for whether or not 16-bit BIL data is imagery or elevation data.
Fixed reading of Shapefiles with PolygonZ and PolygonM shape types which don't have Z or M values for all features.
Allowed specification of the default elevation units to use for vector data with elevations from the Options button of the Overlay Control Center. This elevation units value will be used for any elevation values associated with vector features in that layer that do not explicitly contain a unit identifier (i.e. "ft" or "m").
When saving/updating feature measure information for polygon features that have islands/holes, include the area of the island features as a separate ISLAND_AREA attribute. Also subtract the area of those islands away from the total polygon area stored in the ENCLOSED_AREA attribute to give a true representation of the actual area covered by the polygon.
Greatly improved the load speed and reduced the memory requirements for most BMP format files.
Improved auto-assignment of type names based on feature descriptions when loading DXF files to handle type names with spaces or underscores in them.
Fixed error when saving a workspace file containing a map catalog with auto-collar cropping enabled.
Fixed problems decoding NMEA GPS streams where the only valid sentence is the $GPRMC sentence.
Fixed problem with the label background for labels set to display with filled backgrounds being white rather than the current view background color in some instances when raster or gridded elevation data is also being displayed.
Made the size of the vector search dialog be remembered between runs.
Allowed ECW and MrSID files without embedded positioning information to use positioning information from additional sources, like world files.
Replace underscores with spaces in waypoint names loaded from CompeGPS format files.
Made symbols for waypoints from CompeGPS files be automatically set if the symbol name for the waypoint matches a Global Mapper symbol name.
Fixed restoring of default drawing styles for area and line features from the tabs of the Configuration dialog. This has been broken since the v6.08 release.
Added support for reading coordinates from world files where the coordinates are separated with tabs rather than being on separate lines.
Made the list of layers in the Overlay Control Center be scrollable with the mouse wheel.
Corrected image registration via CompeGPS IMP files with control points in multiple UTM zones or in a UTM zone in the Southern hemisphere.
Improved decoding of CompeGPS IMP files using Lambert Conformal Conic projections.
Sped up the import of large DTED files.
Made symbol and type lookups by name work properly for types and symbols with accented characters.
Don't allow multiple custom shaders with the same name to be used.
Fixed loading of Arc ASCII Grid files with lines over 256 KB in length (up to a max of 2MB per line).
Fixed bug with display of raster layers texture mapped over loaded elevation layers that do not use the shared default shader.
Fixed bug in the encoding of area features in DLG-O files and allowed correct reading of incorrectly encoded DLG-O files with area features.
Fixed display of tiled 16-bit grayscale TIFF imagery.
Fixed recording of GPS tracklog when attached GPS device always reports an elevation of 0.
Fixed auto-contrast adjustment for some large images with 16 bits per color channel.
Made rotation values from BLW files used to position BIL files be used.
Added option to Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow hiding any extra text displayed below road icons, like alternate names for the road.
Added option to the General tab of the Configuration dialog to control whether or not grid lines should extend beyond the edge of loaded data.
Added support for 16-bit per color channel separated (Geo)TIFF files with more than 3 bands of data.
Improved rendering of some lat/lon data that crosses the anti-meridian (180 E/W), such as range rings.
Added option to the Measure Tool to have measured lines and areas be drawn along great circles rather than on straight lines (all measurements are always along great circles).
Fixed rare problem with min and max values being treated as invalid from some Surfer Grid files.
Made national wilderness and wildlife areas in 100K SDTS DLG files be detected and automatically classified as "National Park (Other)".
Improved positioning of imagery using Ozi .map files that reference the Swiss Grid projection.
Corrected positioning of imagery using Ozi .map files that specify a "map scale factor" (MSF) value other than 1.
Added support for reading text from MTEXT entities in DXF files.
Made link elements in GPX files be saved as attributes in the created features.
Fixed very rare lockup when creating an elevation grid from 3D vector point features or during ASCII file import.
Added Gridding tab when generating contours to allow breaking up the contour generation into multiple smaller pieces.

What is new in version 7.04 (5/5/2006)

Fixed problem on some systems that would cause the application to disappear or crash when attempting to select a new file for loading or saving. This problem occurred on Windows XP SP2 systems which also had Adobe Acrobat Reader v7 installed. Apparently the installation of Acrobat Reader changed some built-in Windows behavior in a way that broke Global Mapper (and several other applications).
Made tag values be read in from DGN files and stored as attributes.
Made point features stored as 0-dimensional lines in DGN v7 files load correctly.
When exporting DGN files, made the level number used for exported features that originally came from a DGN file be maintained.
Added support for loading Japanese DEM (JDEM) .mem files.
Added support for loading SEGP1 seismic shotpoint format data files.
Added support for loading CompeGPS RTE, TRK, and WPT format files.
When loading Shapefile, MapInfo, and DXF format files, use the layer name/attributes to try and auto-classify features.
Added built-in support for the Quebec MTM projection.
Added support for western hemisphere zones when using the Gauss Krueger 6-degree zone projection.
Added built-in support for the LUREF (Luxembourg) datum.
Improved accuracy of the Dutch Grid projection and the Dutch (RD) datum.
Made the "Path Details" dialog for a 3D path profile display the along-ground distance (i.e. distance with elevation changes taken into account) as well as the minimum and maximum elevation values along the path.
Added support for loading USRP data sets (ASRP data with UTM coordinates).
Made all appropriate border pixels be marked as transparent in ADRG, ASRP, and USRP data sets.
Added button to the custom shader edit dialog allowing the elevation value for an existing elevation/color range be changed.
Added option to the Digitizer Tool when multiple point features are selected to identify any point features that are within a user-specified distance of other selected point features. This is helpful for finding duplicate points.
Display the height of any gridded elevation data in the status bar as you move the cursor around, even if the cursor is near vector data (the height will be appended to the nearest vector feature description).
When placing new point/text features or moving a single point/text feature with the Digitizer Tool, make the point snap to existing features just like line and area features do when drawing them. You can hold down Ctrl when placing the point to disable snapping.
Made CSV files created by the Lowrance SonarViewer software be automatically detected and loaded rather than prompting the user for input parameters.
Allowed DTED files with invalid column numbers in the data record to be loaded.
Added support for loading Geosoft Grid files with right-handed vector orientation.
Added automatic detection of world files that have an extra .txt appended to the filename.
Improved loading of ATTRIB values from DXF values.
Fixed loading of 3D LINE entities from DXF files where the start and end points had different elevations.
Made 3DFACE entities be loaded from DXF files.
Allowed "Crop to Selected Area Feature" option to be used when generating contours.
Added option when generating contours to control whether or not unit indicator suffixes should be appended to labels for the generated contour features.
Added Sphere Radius 6371204 m as an available ellipsoid for adding custom datums.
Fixed incorrect loading of some MSI Planet format height files (they would appear garbled).
Fixed errors loading some GPX files with extremely long text strings in them.
Fixed problem with missing lat/lon grid lines in some projections where the lat/lon grid is not valid over the entire data bounding box.
Fixed automatic removal of collars for files with very curved lat/lon boundaries, such as the Antarctica DRGs.
Fixed loading of attributes from MIF/MID files when one of the attribute names starts with "Index".
Improved rectification based on an OziExplorer .map file when that .map file has a UTM grid and each control point has both lat/long and grid coordinates or the .map file has control points that are marked as excluded.
When loading LIDAR LAS data, save the class of each sample point as an attribute.
Don't display POLYLINE entities from DXF files that are marked as 3D polygon meshes or polyface meshes.
When loading generic ASCII files with quoted fields, make sure the quoted fields are properly treated as a single field and that the quotes are removed for all fields. Also treat back-to-back double quotes as a single quote mark in the text that doesn't act as a field delimeter.
When loading generic ASCII text files and using column names from the first line of the file as attribute names, don't include attributes from non-coordinates lines.
Fixed some printing issues and improved printing performance when printing to large paper sizes.
Added a registry key to allow specifying that positioning information from TIFF world files, if available, should be preferred over the positioning data stored within TIFF file headers. If you create a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\TIFFPreferTFW DWORD value with the value set to 1, then the world file positions will be preferred.
Added support for reading and writing oblique stereographic projections from/to GeoTIFF files.
Added support for reading and writing Gauss Krueger (6-degree zones) projections using the Pulkovo 1942 datum from/to GeoTIFF files.
Added support for reading and writing the Potsdam/DHDN datum from/to GeoTIFF files as well as Gauss Krueger Germany (3 degree zones) projections with that datum.
Added checkbox to the ASCII import file to allow using the same configuration for all files during that load or batch convert operation.
Allowed positioning data from Ozi .map and CompeGPS .imp files to be used to position ECW files that do not contain embedded positioning information.
Corrected positioning of some non-WGS84 MapTech maps. In some cases the wrong datum would be used. Now if there is any doubt the user is prompted to select the correct projection.
Made user-defined projections be automatically decoded from MrSID files.
Made French Lambert projections be decoded and encoded from/to ECW files automatically.
Improved positioning of NOS/GEO format charts by positioning them using the specified native chart projection if recognized.
Fixed errors loading text from some single-precision E00 files.
Dramatically sped up the calculation of auto-contrast statistics for large MrSID files.
When loading MapInfo MIF/MID format files, don't set any numeric fields to have a value of 0 when their value is actually empty.
Fixed bug from v7.03 release that could cause discontinuities in rectified imagery that used the triangulated rectification method.
When displaying feature information for polygon features that have islands/holes, include the area of the island features as a separate item in the Geometry section of the Feature Info dialog. Also subtract the area of those islands away from the total polygon area to give a true representation of the actual area covered by the polygon.
Sped up contour generation when the elevation data being used comes from a map catalog or Global Mapper Grid files.
Added support for specifying a scale factor for Lambert Conformal Conic and Stereographic projections.
Added option to do case-sensitive searches with the Search->Search by Attributes menu command.
Fixed orientation of GPS heading arrow when the display projection is one in which north is not necessarily straight up.
Reduced memory usage for E00 files with lots of attribute values.
Fixed calculation of PERIMETER and ENCLOSED_AREA values for some range rings that had incorrect values stored.
Fixed decoding of UTM zone 60 projections from NASA LandSat .met files.
When rectifying data with vector data displayed in the Reference pane, made clicking near a vector feature automatically "snap" to that feature to assure exact matches.
Fixed rare problems loading some portions of Arc Binary Grid format files (technically, some 32-bit RLE encoded tiles with very large values were incorrectly decoded).
Made tracking of Garmin USB GPS devices work for newer devices, like the SP2720, that send some extra information when first connected.

What is new in version 7.03 (2/14/2006)

Added support for loading DGN v8 and later format files.
Added support for loading MapTech format files, including encrypted BSB files and other MapTech topographic maps and aerial navigation maps.
Added support for loading Idrisi format raster and elevation files.
Significantly improved the display of raster and gridded elevation data at intermediate zoom levels by always anti-aliasing the display when not zoomed into the pixel level of the data and not zoomed out so far that it doesn't matter much. There will be a slight performance hit for this, but the improvement in display quality seems worth it.
Made pressing the ESC key during a draw abort the draw as soon as possible.
Improved accuracy of the NAD27 (Canada), AGD66, AGD84, and NZGD49 datums by using the NTv2 grid shift method for sub-meter datum transformation accuracy.
Added generic NAD27 datum that will automatically use the most accurate local datum conversion based on the location being converted.
Added support for the Miller Oblated Stereographic projection.
Allowed use of the NZGD2000 datum with the New Zealand Map Grid projection.
Made additional datum codes, like those for the NTF datums, be recognized for GeoTIFF files.
Made ETRS89 datum be recognized in additional spellings from PRJ files.
Corrected small error when transforming the Rome 1940 datum to other datums. format files.
Added Clarke 1880 (Benoit) as an available ellipsoid for adding custom datums.
Improved loading of DXF files that have features in the BLOCKS section of the file.
Made the path profile/line of sight dialog maintain its size between showings, preventing the user from having to continually resize it to get the size they want for different path profiles.
Added option to the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow an arrow to be drawn along line features in the direction that they travel.
Made custom symbols from .ico files draw in their actual size instead of always using the default system size of 32x32.
Added new built-in point symbol, "Dot - Yellow".
Fixed problems loading some GPS TrackMaker files that have no waypoints in them.
Made degree symbols display correctly on Asian versions of Windows that weren't fixed in the earlier update.
Fixed problems with render progress on status bar not working properly with map catalog files.
Fixed problems with some maps that result in multiple layers, like ADRG files, in map catalogs.
Allowed custom per-layer shaders to work properly with map catalogs containing elevation data.
Fixed problems with some iso-height area contours not being generated in some rare cases when generating contours.
Fixed problems with elevation shading and display of the elevation legend when negative scaling factors are used on the Alter Elevations dialog.
Corrected half-pixel offset in placement of MrSID files with embedded coordinate information.
Allowed confirmation prompt when closing loaded overlays from the Overlay Control Center to be disabled so that it won't be shown again.
Fixed out of memory errors when zoomed in really far on some MrSID files.
Fixed loading of E00 files with empty annotations.
Added support for tracking NMEA GPS devices that use $EC* sentences rather than $GP* sentences.
Fixed determination of State Plane projection from Erdas Imagine .img files that use a negative zone number in the header.
Added right-click option to the Search by Attributes dialog to allow selecting all search results.
Made files opened by dragging them onto Global Mapper be added to the list of recently used files under the File menu.
When dragging multiple files onto Global Mapper to load them, make the "Use Selected Projection for All" checkbox option work if the user is asked for a projection.
Added a registry key to allow overriding where temporary files, like extracted archive contents and downloaded TerraServer tiles, are stored. If you create a HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GlobalMapper\TempDir string value with the folder that you want the temporary files to be based in, that folder will be used the next time that you run Global Mapper.
Added option to save the elevation legend in the main view to a BMP file by right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate option.
Added option to control whether or not unit labels (e.g. "m" or "ft") are displayed on the elevation legend. This setting can be changed by right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate option.
Fixed problem with grid line labels being cropped at the bottom when footer strings were used during printing.
Made new Explorer-style dialogs be used for all file selection.
Fixed crash when displaying metadata for map catalogs that contain elevation layers.
Fixed errors loading some tiled TIFF files with separated color channels.
Made dot symbols look better when printed.
When creating area features from selected line features with the Digitizer Tool, only prompt for name, attribute, and style information once, then use that information for all remaining areas created from the selected lines if no other information is available from the lines making up the area.
Made the count of selected features appear in the status bar when the Digitizer Tool is active and you are not actively working with the selected features.
Corrected decoding of New Zealand Map Grid projections from ECW files. They were being decoded as a closely-approximated Transverse Mercator projection.
Fixed loading of some ASRP-format data files.
Fixed errors loading DLG-O files with area features and non-contiguous element IDs for lines (these are very rare).
Fixed problem when doing multiple line connection operations from the Search by Attributes dialog that would result in extra long lines (they would loop over themselves) after the first line connection operation.
Made "Longitude of Pole" attributes for Polar Stereographic projections be saved and read from PRJ files.
Added support for a BOTTOM_UP parameter in BIL file headers to specify that the data starts at the lower-left rather than the top-left. Just add a line with the text "BOTTOM_UP Y" to the .hdr file to flip the data vertically.
Fixed problem with point features getting the wrong attributes from some E00 files.

What is new in version 7.02 (12/1/2005)

Added option on Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog to allow more control over the order that vector features are drawn in. You can now select to have the layer order in the Overlay Control Center take top priority for vector data, allowing vector layers to be drawn under raster layers and also allowing explicit forcing of vector layer draw order.
Added support for searching on address in the US under the Search menu.
Added option to download TerraServer data near an address.
Made transparency and translucency in PNG files be used.
Improved ease of digitizing lots of area, line, and point features by making the Digitizer Tool stay in the creation mode after creating a feature rather than forcing you to re-select the feature type to create each time. You still just need to right-click to cancel the current operation.
Added display of the number of points digitized so far when drawing a new line or area feature with the Digitizer Tool.
Added option to reverse the order of the vertices in selected line features using the Digitizer Tool.
Added option to find unconnected endpoints in selected lines with the Digitizer Tool. This provides an easy method of identifying connectivity problems in loaded data.
Fixed creation of duplicate attributes when editing multiple features at a time with the Digitizer Tool and adding a new attribute which already exists in some of the features being edited.
Added option to measure cut-and-fill volumes to the right-click menu when a single line or area feature is selected in the Digitizer Tool.
Vastly improved accuracy of RT90 (Sweden) datum transformations.
Added Indonesia 1974 and Bukit Rimpah datums.
Added support for using the French angular unit "grades" with the Geographic projection.
Fixed rare problems projecting between a State Plane projection and a Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
Fixed loading of Erdas Imagine .img files with embedded projection information. This was broken in the v7.01 release.
Added support for loading and saving Southern Transverse Mercator projections in ECW files.
Added support for using projection and positioning information from .TAB files for ECW files.
Added support for decoding New Zealand Map Grid projections from .TAB files.
Do not allow modifying the Origin Latitude for Mercator projections since it is not used (the latitude origin is always the equator for Mercator).
Made projection information from supplemental files (like .prj files) be used if available for GeoTIFF files that do not contain projection information internally rather than always asking the user to select the projection in that case.
Added GRS 1967 (Indonesia 1974), Sphere Radius 6378388 Meters, and War Office (McCaw 1924) as available ellipsoids for adding custom datums.
Fixed name of the "Everest 1830" ellipsoid in the custom datum dialog. It was being incorrectly listed as "Everest 1930".
Made Ctrl+Right Click in the Zoom Tool restore the last zoom scale.
Made the name of the map that a vector feature is in always be displayed in the Feature Info dialog for the feature.
Added button on the General tab of the Configuration dialog to allow restoring all settings to their default values.
Added support for tracking GPS devices on COM ports up to COM64 (previously the highest support serial port was COM16).
Made the COM port and baud rate settings for serial GPS devices be properly remembered between sessions.
Added shortcut key (Ctrl+T) for starting and stopping the tracking of a connected GPS device.
Added support for using new font attributes when reading generic ASCII text files. See the User's Manual section for that menu command for details on the new supported attributes.
Added ability to combine line features in the Search by Attributes dialog. Just select the lines to combine, then right click on them in the list and select the combine option that appears.
Fixed errors loading label points from some .e00 files.
Added support for rectifying ECW and JPG2000 files.
Added support for loading TAB-referenced raster files which do not have the same base name as the TAB file. You must select the TAB file to load for this to work.
If a color palette is specified in a TIFF header for files with a grayscale photometric interpretation, use the color palette rather than creating a grayscale one. Apparently some products, like ArcGIS, will create TIFF files in this way for some reason.
Made TEXT feature labels from MIF/MID files be read in and used.
Fixed loading of attributes from some DBF files that had padding bytes after the DBF header.
Added support for decoding DMS lat/lon values which use a hyphen as the separator.
Fixed really slow drawing of some rotated BSB files.
Fixed vertical flip of NTF-format grid files.
Added Landsat True Color links from resmap.com to the File->Open ECW File from the Web menu dialog.
Added support for reading in 3D DXF line features and saving the separate elevations for each vertex rather than using the elevation of the first vertex for the entire line.
Added ability to create regularly spaced tiles of elevation grids from 3D vector data when right-clicking on vector layers in the Overlay Control Center and selecting the option to create an elevation grid from the data. This makes it easier to deal with very large data sets that cannot be gridded all at once without running out of memory.
Added support for Global Mapper Package files larger than 2GB in size.

What is new in version 7.01 (10/11/2005)

Made the middle mouse button drag the map in all of the tools and not just the Zoom tool.
Added option to use an elevation shader other than the shared elevation shader selected on the toolbar for rendering an elevation layer. This option is available from the Options button in the Overlay Control Center.
Added and/or improved metadata display from the Overlay Control Center for most file types. The improved metadata display allows copying the metadata to the clipboard and easy viewing of projection information.
Added support for the NAD83 HARN/HPGN datums.
Improved accuracy of NAD27 Alaska, Old Hawaiian Mean, and Puerto Rico datums by adding support for using the NADCON datum conversion methods for those datums.
Improved accuracy of NTF France datums by adding support for using variable grid shifts depending on the location within France.
Added support for creating custom datums that use the 7-parameter Bursa-Wolfe datum transformation method (previously only the 3-parameter Molodensky method was supported).
Added built-in support for the Irish Grid projection.
Added support for yards as a linear unit.
Added support for millimeters as an elevation unit.
Corrected detection of UTM zones in the Southern Hemisphere from old-format ESRI PRJ files.
Improved decoding of some projections from OziExplorer .map files.
Added support for loading NTF-format grid files, such as those used for elevation data in Great Britain.
Added support for loading some FAST format imagery files, such as those used for L7A Landsat data in some parts of the world.
Made holding the X and Y keys when moving vertices or features with the Digitizer Tool, clamp the move horizontally or vertically.
When creating new line or area features with the Digitizer Tool, the length and enclosed area (if applicable) will be displayed in the status bar as the new feature is drawn.
When moving or joining vertices of line or area features with the Digitizer Tool, the length and enclosed area (if applicable) will be displayed in the status bar as the vertices are moved.
When creating a new line feature from a measurement in the Measure Tool, set the length of the measurement to also be the default display label.
When displaying length and other measurement strings, such as with the Measure Tool, remove any trailing zeroes from the length to make it more compact.
Added new hotkeys to the image rectification dialog. Now Alt+R will act like pressing the "Update Selected GCP" button, Alt+Q will move the GCP list selection up, and Alt+Z will move the GCP list selection down.
Improved the crosshair cursor used in the Zoomed and Reference views of the Image Rectification dialog.
Improved the symbols used in the image rectification dialog for displaying ground control points to make it easier to see the data behind the control point.
Corrected placement of Erdas Imagine .img files with a UTM projection in the Southern Hemisphere.
Added support for getting projection information for MrSID files from .aux files.
Added support for loading JPG files directly from .zip and .tar.gz archives.
Fixed loading of some Raster Product Format (RPF) data, like CADRG/CIB data, that had odd security descriptor values in the frame files.
Display a progress dialog when printing to show the progress of generating the high-resolution image to send to the printer.
Made zooming the main map view with the mouse wheel only zoom half as far as the zoom buttons on the toolbar.
Made the feature type lists on the Generic ASCII Import dialog be sorted alphabetically.
If the datum can not be determined from a GeoTIFF file, ask the user to confirm it if we can't determine the datum from some other source rather than just assuming the datum is WGS84.
Made auto-collar cropping work correctly for 1:63K scale Alaska DRGs.
Improved dialog that appears when TerraServer connections fail.
Improved display of elevation lines in the path profile dialog when the elevation range is small.
Fixed problems with the wrong font being displayed when editing custom area, line, and point types from the Configuration dialog.
Corrected datum used for VPF (e.g. VMAP, DNC) data. NAD83 was being used when it should have been WGS84. There was no position error however as those datums are the same positionally.
Fixed problem with the zoom scale changing after a print preview.
Fixed problem with grid lines not being saved to raster files or printed if no other vector data is loaded.
Allowed correct loading of elevation TIFF files that don't correctly specify their min/max elevation range.
Added option to clamp values outside the valid elevation range to the specified elevation range when modifying the valid elevation range of a layer from the Options button in the Overlay Control Center.
Added support for loading large TIFF files with YCBCR-encoding (usually JPEG-in-TIFF files).
When loading ECW and JPEG2000 files with apparently flipped Y coordinates, made it optional to flip the image vertically since it some cases that is not correct.
Added new red and yellow diagonal crosshair symbols.
Made features from Tiger/Line files include the CFCC (census feature class code) as an attribute of the feature if available.
Improved generation of range rings to always use a great-circle distance method if possible, even if the current projection is not Geographic.
Added support for automatically positioning imagery using ASTER browse .meta files.

What is new in version 7.00 (8/4/2005)

Added support for tracking real-time GPS locations from Garmin USB GPS devices.
Added option under the Search menu to allow searching loaded vector data on the name, description, or attribute values. The searching allows both text and numeric comparisons in the search criteria. Features can be edited and deleted directly from the search results.
Made the bearing from the start to the end of line features be added when creating new lines using either the Measure tool or the Digitizer tool.
Added ability to easily create rectangular, square, circular, elliptical, circular arc, and elliptical arc area and line feature using the Digitizer Tool. There are additional items on the right click popup menu for drawing these shapes.
Added option to create concentric range rings (i.e. circles of a given radius) on the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.
Added an option when editing vector features with the Digitizer Tool to add file link attributes by selecting files rather than manually typing the file names.
Made area features selected with the Digitizer Tool be drawn in their normal style during exports cropped to the selected area feature(s).
Made point feature labels be displayed even if the points are selected with the Digitizer Tool.
Added additional menus to the 3D Path Profile dialog to provide easier access to some of the options. Also made the path details be copied to the clipboard when displayed.
Added additional options to the 3D Path Profile dialog for controlling the from/to position display format and the coloring and style of the profile elements.
Fixed problems with the path profile tool when the loaded data is not correctly projected (i.e. the lat/lon readout in the status bar reads that the coordinates could not be determined).
When shift-clicking in the Reference pane of the image rectification dialog, made the selected coordinates be rounded to the nearest minute for lat/lon values and the nearest 1000 units for other projections.
Made the image rectification dialog start out maximized if the dialog was maximized the last time the user closed the dialog.
Made the Latitude and Longitude coordinate values in the ground control point list of the image rectification dialog be displayed using the current Position Display Format selection in the Configuration dialog.
When double clicking on a control point in the control point list in the image rectification dialog and the rectify coordinates are lat/lon values, format the projected X and Y coordinate fields using the current Position Display Format from the Configuration dialog.
While Shift-clicking in the Zoomed view in the image rectification dialog, automatically add the control point to the control point list use the clicked location.
When Ctrl clicking in the Entire Image view in the image rectification dialog, automatically recenter the Reference view if there are enough control points entered to convert the clicked coordinates to a ground coordinate.
Make layers that are hidden in the Overlay Control Center still be rendered in the rectify window when re-positioning that layer.
Added option to create area features from the bounds of the selected layer in the Overlay Control Center by selecting and then right-clicking on the layers that you want to create the bounds from.
Added support for loading data in the GPS TrackMaker (.gtm) format.
Added support for the Bonne and Cassini-Soldner projections.
Added support for non-zero central meridians when using the Gall Stereographic projection.
Added support for the Hartbeesthoek94 datum.
Added support for loading DTED files that have HDR and/or VOL records at the beginning.
Added support for loading ASTER HDF files with .hdf0 and .hdf1 extensions as well as additional variations of ASTER SWIR data.
Sped up display of TerraServer data that crosses UTM zone boundaries.
Added support for finding world files with a .wld extension when loading most imagery formats (i.e. BMP, JPG, TIFF, GIF, and PNG).
Corrected placement of Hawaiian data loaded from Tiger files (the NAD83 datum was being used rather than Old Hawaiian Mean).
Made the size of the feature info dialog be saved between sessions.
Fixed decoding of State Plane projections from new format PRJ files. The problem was introduced in the v6.09 release and made some PRJ files with State Plane projections decode the projection into the core projection rather than keeping it as State Plane. This should not have affected any coordinates.
Corrected incorrect interpretation of "Foot" string from new format PRJ files. Previously this was interpreted as US Survey Feet when it should have been interpreted as International Feet.
Fixed application crash loading some slightly odd .zip files.
Made additional digits of precision be stored for settings like custom grid spacing.
Manually compute the min/max sample values for USGS DEMs that have a non-unity Z resolution since they are often stored incorrectly, resulting in odd shading in Global Mapper. This will apply to things like decimeter and centimeter DEMs.
Made full extents of polar data reprojected from a polar stereographic projection to another projection be displayed whenever possible (previously the part nearest the pole and near the anti-meridian could get clipped off).
Increased the maximum number of grid lines that could be displayed when using the custom grid spacing setting.
Made TIFF files that use a transformation matrix for position information be automatically positioned rather than requiring rectification.
Made degree symbols display correctly on Asian versions of Windows.
Corrected drawing and zooming in on ECW and JPEG2000 files that have flipped Y coordinate values in the header.
Added option to contour generation to control whether or not small gaps in the data are filled (previously they always were).
Corrected display of zone numbers for Gauss Krueger Germany projection.
Only show the warning message about user-defined datums in GeoTIFF files being interpreted as WGS84 once each session.
When changing the current view projection, maintain the current view window if possible rather than zooming out to all loaded data.
Added option to initialize sample spacing values to the current screen sample spacing from the dialog allowing specification of sample spacing in units other than the current projection units when performing raster and elevation exports.
Added red, blue, green, and white dot symbols.

What is new in version 6.09 (6/8/2005)

Added support for loading Lowrance USR format files.
Made holding down the middle mouse button and dragging the mouse when the zoom tool is active drag the map just like the Grab-and-Drag tool does.
On the image rectification dialog, made the selected control point be displayed with a yellow X rather than a red X.
On the image rectification dialog, added an option (enabled by default) to display the labels for ground controls points on the zoomed and reference map views.
On the image rectification dialog, if you hold down the CTRL key when left clicking in either the zoomed or reference map view, it will cause the other of those windows to be recentered on the clicked location if enough information is available to determine a recenter location.
Added support for tracking GPS devices on serial ports COM10 and higher.
Added support for decoding Lambert Conformal Conic, Lambert Azimuthal, Albers Conic, and Mercator projections from BSB files to allow for better positioning when not many tie points are specified in the BSB/KAP file.
Added support for loading additional flavors of ASTER and MODIS imagery directly from HDF files.
Added support for nautical miles as a linear unit.
Added support for the NTF France datum with the Pantheon in Paris as the prime meridian.
Added support for the Interrupted Goode Homolosine projection.
Made grid line labels always draw at the edge of the screen.
Added option to display the elevation legend on the right side of the display window (just right click on the elevation legend to choose where it is displayed).
Added new right click option in the Digitizer tool to allow adding and/or updating the measurement attributes (i.e. LENGTH for lines and PERIMETER/ENCLOSED_AREA for areas) of the selected features.
Made curved line segments be correctly read from DXF files.
Added support for CMYK-encoded JPG files.
Allowed for the specification of positions in MGRS coordinates when manually entering a location, such as when positioning vertices or panning to a particular location.
Allowed multiple attribute/value pairs to be deleted at the same time when editing an area, line, or point feature.
Added button to the Feature Info dialog to allow selected features to be deleted in the Feature Info tool.
When specifying custom bounds for collar clipping, if more than one area is selected with the Digitizer Tool, use the combined lat/lon bounds of all selected areas rather than requiring that only one area be selected.
Added option to the GPS Setup dialog to allow reading a NMEA stream from a file.
Fixed reading of some ASRP data sets.
Fixed reading of some VPF data sets, in particular the Urban Area level VMAP data.
Allowed for loading of SHP files with invalid or corrupt SHX files.
Corrected coloring of the first and last vertex for area features. Also, if the start and end vertices for a line or area are the same, the start vertex is drawn green slightly larger than the end vertex in red so that it will be visible.
Made the start and end vertices for selected line and area features be colored green and red when highlighted with the Feature Info tool. Previously the endpoint colors were only changed when selected with the Digitizer Tool.
Added display of the complete filename for raster and elevation data in the Metadata dialog displayed from the Overlay Control Center.
Made transparent colors work with 16-bit per color channel imagery with auto-adjusted contrast.
If position information for an imagery file is provided via a world file, any rotation factor within the world file is now used rather than ignored. Previously, only TIFF files would use rotation factors from world files. Now they will be used for all imagery types (i.e. JPG, BMP, PNG, etc.).
Added Yes/No/All prompt for elevation vs. imagery TIFF files when the type cannot be automatically determined. This makes batch converting and loading these types of files much less of a hassle.
Made custom datum names stored in PRJ files be recognized.
Fixed problem setting the collar crop bounds from a selected area if the current view datum did not match the datum of the layer to be cropped.
Corrected detection of UTM zones in the southern hemisphere when reading projections from TXT metadata files.
Corrected display of interlaced GIF files.
Greatly sped up the load of very large USGS DEM format files.
Improved parsing of MGRS coordinates to allow for coordinate strings with no spaces.
Corrected half-sample shift of Helava DEM files.
Use registration points from ERS files if provided.
Fixed handling of negative and NULL values in DTED files.
Corrected reading of negative heights from one-byte per sample elevation BIL files.
Fixed reading of state plane zones from projection files that use FIPSZONE rather than ZONE to specify the zone number.
Corrected problem that in rare circumstances caused one pixel column or row to be left off of Arc Binary Grid files.
Added support for correctly positioning Arc ASCII Grid files that use XLLCENTER and YLLCENTER rather than XLLCORNER and YLLCORNER for their positioning info.
Fixed up to one pixel shift in both the X and Y directions when viewing MrSID imagery. Exporting from MrSID files had no shift.
Renamed the "Geodetic Datum 1949" to the "NZGD49" datum and improved the accuracy of translating from it to other datums.
Made ECW files use projection information from Ozi .map files if the projection information cannot be otherwise determined automatically.
Improved the quality of viewed ECW files so that you don't have to zoom in quite so far to see high detail.
Added support for loading ADRG and ASRP data sets in polar zones.

What is new in version 6.08 (4/18/2005)

Fixed TerraServer access after it was broken by changes to the teraserver-usa.com web site on April 16, 2005.
Renamed the "Pick Tool" the "Feature Info" and changed the icon to hopefully make it more obvious what the tool does.
Improved the info dialog displayed for selected features in the Feature Info Tool to display feature measurement information as well as add the ability to copy the feature information to the clipboard and edit the information.
Added ability to right click on attribute values in the Feature Info dialog displayed by the Feature Info Tool and either copy the attribute/value to the clipboard, open the value as a URL in a web browser, or open the value as a file either in Global Mapper or with Windows.
Added support for loading TIFF files compressed with the ZIP (Deflate) compression method.
Only automatically use OziExplorer .map files for positioning and projection information if they were specifically created for the specified file.
Added support for loading MODIS data directly from HDF files.
Added support for loading DHM25 (Swiss elevation grid) format files.
Added support for the Swiss Grid projection.
Added support for the ETRS89 datum.
Added option to custom shaders to allow the selected color ranges to automatically be stretched to the elevation range of the loaded data to allow emulation of some of the built-in shaders like the Atlas and Color Ramp shaders.
Corrected half-pixel shift of data files placed using ERS files.
Allowed the projection to be corrected even for raster file types that don't support rectification, like ECW and MrSID.
Drastically sped up the import of some Shapefiles that had lots of polygon features with holes in them.
When specifying custom bounds for collar clipping, added an option to initialize the lat/lon collar bounds to the lat/lon bounds of the currently selected area feature.
Added support for loading track lines from OziExplorer PLT files when the PLT file does not specify the number of points in the track line.
Store additional precision for some attributes in PRJ files.
When loading GeoTIFF and ECW files that have projection information specified in their header, check for a PRJ file to see if a more specific datum is specified than the one specified in the image header (i.e. NAD27 (Canada) rather than just NAD27).
Reduced memory usage of most types of vector data from 25-50%.
Allowed ECW files to be loaded from .tar.gz and .zip archives.
Added support for additional datums being read from and saved to ECW files.
Made SPLINE entities be loaded from DXF files.
Don't include spline control points when loading POLYLINE entities from DXF files.
When loading DXF files, any INSERT entities that are just block references will no longer be loaded as separate point features.
When loading DXF files, any features with a layer marked as frozen will be marked as deleted upon import. Display of these features could then be re-enabled by enabling the display of deleted features on the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.

What is new in version 6.07 (3/22/2005)

Replaced the help bitmap and "Click Here to Download Data" button when nothing is loaded with a set of large "Quick Start" buttons.
Added support for adding your own custom datums. Just press the "Add Datum" button on the Projection tab of the Configuration dialog to add a new datum transformation.
Added ability to modify attributes for multiple selected features using the Digitizer Tool. There is now a section on the edit dialog for working with attributes if you are editing multiple features at the same time.
Added support for loading ASPRS LIDAR LAS format files containing highly detailed elevation samples and either creating an elevation grid from them or rendering them based on their elevation using the current elevation shader.
Added support for loading ASRP (Arc Standard Raster Product) format data sets. Just load the TRANSH01.THF file to load the data.
Added support for loading ASTER L1A imagery in its native HDF format.
Added support for loading Hypack Matrix (.mtx) format elevation grid files.
Added support for loading Marplot MIE format files.
Added option to select the font to use for the header and footer text used during a printout. The new default header and footer font (Times New Roman) also allows accented characters to print correctly.
Made transparency information in GIF files be used if present.
Added support for directly loading the SRTM-30+ (SRTM-30 with bathymetry and holes filled) files available at http://topex.ucsd.edu/WWW_html/srtm30_plus.html.
Added support for the Gauss Krueger Argentina and Poland 1992/19 projection systems.
Added the RGF-93 datum for use with the Lambert93 projection for France.
Added support for the Campo Inchauspe datum.
Added support for loading RPF (CADRG/CIB) files in polar zones.
Added right-click option to the Measure tool to allow specification that distances should always be specified in the base units of a measurement type (i.e. meters or feet) rather than rolling over to larger units like kilometers or miles for long distances.
Fixed display of large collar when zoomed out on downloaded TerraServer imagery that crossed UTM zone borders.
Added support for decimal elevation precision for contour lines and spot elevations in DLG-O files.
Added support for loading Shapefiles that do not have an index (*.shx) file with them.
Added support for using an alpha channel stored in TIFF files (previously the TIFF files would load, but the alpha channel would be ignored).
Added support for automatically using Touratech calibration (.CAL) files when loading most imagery formats.
Automatically use positioning and projection information from OziExplorer .map files if present for imagery data that does not have the positioning or projection information specified in any other way.
Corrected half-pixel shift of rotated ASTER L1A/L1B imagery.
Removed change added in v6.01 to read features from the BLOCKS section of DXF files in addition to the ENTITIES section since for most files this resulted in unwanted features being loaded and apparently no other applications load features from the BLOCKS section.
Fixed problem reading azimuth angles and azimuth points for the Hotine Oblique Mercator projection from PRJ files. This problem was introduced in v6.06.
Fixed problem reading some USGS DEM files. This problem was introduced in v6.06.
Fixed occasional odd results generating contours when the global projection is using arc second or radian units.

What is new in version 6.06 (1/26/2005)

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 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.
Made left clicking without dragging in the Grab-and-Drag controller just recenter on the clicked position.
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 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 pipe-delimited files (GNIS files are available for download at http://geonames.usgs.gov/stategaz/index.html).
Fixed auto-adjusting the contrast for imagery with more than about 4 billion pixels (this is only very large image files).
Made the auto-clip collar functionality work for 3.75 minute DOQs.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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 is new in version 6.05 (12/6/2004)

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.
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.
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.
Fixed DBF attribute loading. In previous versions the attributes assigned to a DBF point were those for the previous feature in the DBF file.
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.
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.

What is new in version 6.04 (11/11/2004)

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 loading DBF (Dbase) format files with point data.
Added support for loading BT (Binary Terrain) format elevation grid files.
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 Austrian Grid and Molleweide 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.
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.
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 support for loading point features from INSERT entities in DXF files.
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 double-clicking on an attribute/value list item in the feature edit dialog bring up that attribute/value pair for editing.

What is new in version 6.03 (9/27/2004)

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.
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.
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.
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.

What is new in version 6.02 (9/13/2004)

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 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 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.
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.
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.
Made color intensity modification (i.e. lighten or darken) work for TerraServer data.
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.

What is new in version 6.01 (8/4/2004)

Fixed problems connecting to the TerraServer from some computers, especially those that go through a proxy server to get to the internet.
Added the NAD27 (Mexico) datum.
Fixed problems projecting between State Plane New Mexico Central zone and other projections.
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.
Fixed error loading NetCDF grid files that have a single character attribute value.

What is new in version 6.00 (7/28/2004)

Added support for loading TerraServer satellite imagery and topo maps 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. This function basically gives you access to the complete USGS DRG and DOQ archives as well as the new high resolution imagery for select urban areas for free from within Global Mapper.
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 loading the ZMap Plus format grid files used by Geographix products such as IsoMap.
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.
Fixed problems displaying some TIFF imagery with separate color channels, such as the multi-spectral Quickbird imagery from DigitalGlobe.
Improved accuracy of NAD27 CONUS datum conversions to well under a meter by using the NADCON datum conversion method rather than the multiple-regression 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.
Disabled display of warning messages when loading (Geo)TIFF files if the warnings don't have any negative consequences.
Corrected the Stereo70 projection for Romania. It was off by about 1 degree in latitude.
Added support for loading ERMapper grid files (.ers).
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.
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).
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.
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.

What is new in version 5.10 (4/18/2004)

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 support for correctly positioning DXF files with features that use a 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 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). This bug was introduced in v5.09.
Made the palette index of colors in the transparent color selection dialog be displayed in addition to the actual color value.

What is new in version 5.09 (4/8/2004)

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).
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.
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.
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 doesn't 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.
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.
Added an entry to the Overlay Control Center for the layer(s) containing any user-created 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.
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.

What is new in version 5.08 (2/12/2004)

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 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.
Made any extracted files be removed from the Global Mapper temporary folder on startup to make sure nothing gets left behind and wastes user's 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.

What is new in version 5.07 (12/14/2003)

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 what's 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.
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.
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.
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 they'd 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.

What is new in version 5.06 (10/30/2003)

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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.

What is new in version 5.05 (9/21/2003)

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 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 display of percentage complete in most progress display dialogs.
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.
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.

What is new in version 5.04 (8/27/2003)

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.
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).
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.

What is new in version 5.03 (7/23/2003)

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 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 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.
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).

What is new in version 5.02 (6/30/2003)

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 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).
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 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 generic ASCII importer recognize the GM_TYPE attribute for reading back in vector features with the same classification that they had in Global Mapper.

What is new in version 5.01 (6/3/2003)

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).
Corrected loading of ECW files with explicit false eastings and false northings and grounds units of feet.

What is new in version 5.00 (5/11/2003)

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 doesn't 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 D-48 Slovenia and NAD27 (Canada) datums.
Added support for zooming in and out with the mouse wheel in the main map view.

What is new in version 4.78 (4/14/2003)

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).

What is new in version 4.77 (4/13/2003)

Added hotkeys for many menu items and common operations.
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.
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 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.

What is new in version 4.76 (2/27/2003)

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.
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 Global Mapper support additional projections and datums from the PRJ format.

What is new in version 4.75 (1/25/2003)

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.
Fixed problem with labeling areas after reprojecting vector data.
Made the generic feature info dialog displayed for most vector features resizable.
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.

What is new in version 4.74 (1/7/2003)

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.

What is new in version 4.73 (1/1/2003)

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.
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 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.
Made some minor printing improvements and bug fixes.

What is new in version 4.72 (12/15/2002)

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.
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 problems with loading grayscale BIL image data.
Fixed problem with MrSID imagery being shrunk by one pixel when loaded.

What is new in version 4.71 (12/1/2002)

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.
Fixed problem writing out projection files introduced in v4.70.

What is new in version 4.70 (11/26/2002)

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.
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.
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.

What is new in version 4.69 (11/4/2002)

Fixed problems drawing some very large MrSID image files.
Made the scale go away when it zoomed in too far to show any tick marks.
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.
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.

What is new in version 4.68 (10/20/2002)

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.

What is new in version 4.67 (10/14/2002)

Vastly improved printing.
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 it up or down in the list (and thusly the draw order).
Made the overlay control center resizable.
Added support for (Geo)TIFF files with color channels stored separately rather than contiguously.
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.

What is new in version 4.66 (9/26/2002)

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 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.
Improved accuracy of NAD27 datum conversions.

What is new in version 4.65 (9/13/2002)

What is new in version 4.64 (9/12/2002)

Added the ability to specify the classification assigned to point and line features created from files imported from the generic ASCII importer.
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.

What is new in version 4.63 (8/28/2002)

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.
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.
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.

What is new in version 4.62 (8/20/2002)

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 problem with loading DLG-Os with contours that do not have any elevation values or contour intervals.
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.

What is new in version 4.61 (8/1/2002)

Allowed for the loading of GTOPO30 data directly from .tar.gz archives.
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.
Fixed bug introduced in v4.60 that prevented the loading of ECW files from the web and workspaces.

What is new in version 4.60 (7/21/2002)

Added support for loading SRTM .hgt files.
Added support for loading DGN files with 3D features.
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.
Added the ability to load GeoTIFF files directly from .tar.gz, .tgz, and .tif.gz archives.
Fixed problem that caused maps to disappear when changing the datum for State Plane projections.
Fixed problem loading files with .tar.gz or .tgz in the filename but not at the end that were not in fact archive files.

What is new in version 4.59 (7/14/2002)

Added support for importing MicroStation DGN files (from MicroStation versions prior to v8).
Made any current distance lines/areas or path profile lines rendered on the map be included when printing.
Doubled the density of the elevation grid lines on the 3D path profile/line of sight display. Every other one is labeled.
Added a horizontal grid to the 3D path profile/line of sight display so that distances along the profile can easily be determined.

What is new in version 4.58 (7/11/2002)

Added the Guam 1963 and Potsdam datums.
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.
Made the vertical exaggeration setting be saved between program invocations.

What is new in version 4.57 (6/30/2002)

Added the Swedish Grid projection.
Added the RT90 datum.
Fixed import of shapefiles with empty polyline or polygon features.

What is new in version 4.56 (6/17/2002)

Added support for loading NIMA GNS point text database files.
Added South American 1969 datum.
Corrected Egypt 1907 datum.
Added auto-detection of datums mis-identified as NAD27 CONUS in GeoTIFF files.
Added support for GeoTIFF images with 32-bits of color information per pixel.
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.
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.
Added auto-detection of Wisconsin DRGs from the Wisconsin DNR that are in the Wisconsin Transverse Mercator 1983/91 projection rather than UTM.

What is new in version 4.55 (6/4/2002)

Fixed problems loading MapInfo files for which the projection/datum could not be automatically determined.
Improved handling of shapefiles with incorrectly oriented polygons.

What is new in version 4.54 (6/2/2002)

Added the ability to load MapInfo MIF/MID and TAB/MAP files.
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.
Added Egypt 1907 datum.
Removed option to modify the semi-major and semi-minor axis of projections as the ellipsoid implied by the datum selection covers those values.
Added ability to save/load Oblique Mercator projections to/from ESRI format PRJ files.
Added the Michigan Georef projection.
Fixed problems with loading E00 files with double precision polygons.

What is new in version 4.53 (5/23/2002)

Made the daylight and gradient shader settings be saved between program invocations.
Added support for additional 16 and 32-bit per pixel GeoTIFF raster images that were being falsely interpreted as elevation data.
Added support for displaying and exporting RockWorks grid data sets.
Separated the raster/elevation export menu options and vector export menu options onto separate submenus under the main File menu.
Added support for the Swiss Grid (CH1903) datum.

What is new in version 4.52 (5/15/2002)

Fixed error message when zooming way out and displaying grid lines.

What is new in version 4.51 (5/14/2002)

Added ability to display and export grid lines in either latitude/longitude or in the current global projection.
Allowed for reprojection of data during most batch conversion operations.
Fixed 90 degree rotation on import of Surfer 7 binary grid files.
Added auto-correction of Hawaiian DEMs in the Old Hawaiian datum that are mis-identified as being NAD27.
Added auto-detection of California DRGs from the Teale Data Center that are in Albers Conic rather than the UTM projection.
Allowed for saving of WTM83/91 projections to PRJ and GeoTIFF files.

What is new in version 4.50 (4/29/2002)

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.
Added support for the display of tiled GeoTIFF imagery and GeoTIFF imagery with greater than 8 bits per color channel.
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 Configuration dialog.
Fixed bug that occasionally caused a crash on some Windows 9X systems when loading data sets.

What is new in version 4.49 (4/25/2002)

Added support for loading DTED (Digital Terrain Elevation Data) format files.
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).
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.
Made the label configuration for area types actually work.
Added some tip dialogs before exporting and reinterpreting the projection of loaded overlays.

What is new in version 4.48 (4/15/2002)

Added option to turn labeling on/off globally. This option is on the General Config tab of the Configuration dialog.
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.
Improved loading of GeoTIFF files with projections for which some parameters may be stored in different fields than usual.
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.

What is new in version 4.47 (4/7/2002)

Added support for binary DXF files.
Fixed handling of UTM projected data in the Southern hemisphere.
Allowed for saving of projections using the Australian Geodetic Datums (1966 and 1984) to projection (PRJ) files.

What is new in version 4.46 (4/3/2002)

Fixed odd display of DRGs when both the auto-clip collar and the transparent options are selected.
Fixed behavior of the transparent checkbox in the Raster Options dialog.

What is new in version 4.45 (3/31/2002)

Fixed problem with Arc Binary Grid import that prevented some grids from loading.
Added support for importing LINE entities from DXF files.
Improved description of loaded Arc Binary Grid files in the Overlay Control Center and the status bar.

What is new in version 4.44 (3/24/2002)

Fixed import of ERDAS IMAGINE datasets with one channel of > 8 bits per sample.
Fixed display of elevation data when anti-aliasing of pixels is turned on.
Added support for importing Surfer 7 grid files.
Added Zoom In Micro and Zoom Out Micro commands to the View menu to allow for zooming in and out in smaller increments.

What is new in version 4.43 (3/20/2002)

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.
Added filename for which type could not be determined to the overlay type selector dialog.
Added support for 32-bit floating point GeoTIFF DEMs (i.e. some ASTER DEMs).
Improved E00 import to allow for additional files to be imported successfully.

What is new in version 4.42 (3/7/2002)

Added support for importing ERDAS IMAGINE image (.img) files.
Enabled import of POINT entities from DXF files.
Fixed yet another bug in the USGS SDTS++ library that was causing read access violations loading some SDTS data sets.
Fixed import of GeoTIFFs that use the Alber's Conic projection (the longitude's were potentially incorrect before).

What is new in version 4.41 (2/27/2002)

Fixed handling of GeoTIFF images using non-standard projection/unit pairings (i.e. UTM and feet).

What is new in version 4.40 (2/24/2002)

Made index and intermediate contour lines have different description strings and therefore be in different layers when exported to DXF format files.

What is new in version 4.39 (2/21/2002)

Fixed problems with loading GeoTIFF images introduced in v4.38.
Allowed for viewing of built-in ECW web link URLs. You still cannot edit the built in links.

What is new in version 4.38 (2/20/2002)

Added support for the ECW data format. This includes loading files locally or off the web (see the new File->Open Web Image command).
Fixed problem that caused GeoTIFF files to stay locked until program exit after being loaded.

What is new in version 4.37 (2/13/2002)

Added support for elevation grids in E00 format files.
Modified SDTS DEM to DEM batch conversion to not generate decimeter or decifeet DEMs for elevations that the native DEM format cannot handle.
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.
Fixed problem in Search By Name dialog that caused double-click recentering 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.
Added help buttons to the raster and elevation options dialogs as well as the config dialog.

What is new in version 4.36 (2/6/2002)

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.
Fixed some minor bugs in E00 support that was preventing some from loading and causing attributes to not be read in correctly for others.
Fixed problem that caused the "Full View" option to not work properly after overlays were closed from the Overlay Control Center.
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.
Allowed for loading of PRJ files that had no DATUM specified but do have a spheroid field with a recognized value (i.e. CLARKE1866).
Added the filename to the description of SDTS DEM overlays in the Overlay Control Center.
Allowed for hiding/showing multiple overlays at the same time from the Overlay Control Center.

What is new in version 4.35 (1/30/2002)

Fixed bug that caused vector feature selection to not work immediately after zooming or panning with the keyboard.
Fixed importing of DXF files that contained blank lines or LWPOLYLINE entities.
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.
Added option to reverse the order of colors when using the HSV shader.
Added support for Wisconsin Transverse Mercator 1983/91 (WTM83/91) projection in projection selector dialog.

What is new in version 4.34 (1/27/2002)

Added support for Arc/Info Binary Grid files.
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.
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.

What is new in version 4.33 (1/17/2002)

Added new path profile tool that allows for the generation of a 3D elevation profile along a line whenever elevation data is loaded.
Added ability to load NIMA DEMs that don't quite conform to the DEM standard.

What is new in version 4.32 (1/1/2002)

Vastly improved drawing speed of MrSID images.
Fixed problem with your last directory not being saved between program invocations.
Fixed problem where double-clicking to open a file resulted in the image being zoomed in and off-center when first drawn.

What is new in version 4.31 (12/25/2001)

Fixed area measurement in square meters. That option was previously being misdirected to use acres instead of square meters.
Upgraded distance measurement to allow the selected points to remain while zooming and panning about with the keyboard. This allows a finer degree of control over what is selected.
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.
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.

What is new in version 4.30 (12/18/2001)

Fixed handling of 16-bit grayscale TIFF images. This means that you can now view ASTER DEM GeoTIFF images.
Fixed a Windows resource leak that was causing crashes after prolonged use.
Fixed problem in SDTS library that caused some data to be corrupted when loaded.

What is new in version 4.29 (12/16/2001)

Added support for E00 format vector data.
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
Fixed handling of Hawaiian DLGs which are marked as NAD27 datum but are actually the Old Hawaiian Mean datum.
Added option to Line Style customization to turn off labeling of lines of a given type.
Added support for Albers Conic projection in PRJ file handling.
Added support for colors to DXF import. DXF files with color info in them will draw using those colors.

What is new in version 4.28 (12/9/2001)

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.
Added support for Shapefiles containing *Z and *M shape types. The only unsupported shape type is now MultiPatch shapes.
Added support for the Yuma Proving Grounds NAD27 datum.

What is new in version 4.27 (12/2/2001)

Fixed several problems with Shapefile import.

What is new in version 4.26 (11/25/2001)

Added support for MrSID data files.
Fixed error message when doing search by name when mixed-case labels are present.
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 selection of it can be correctly remembered when more types are added.

What is new in version 4.25 (11/18/2001)

Added support for the ETOPO2 data set.
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.
Made some vertical shader options be stored in the registry so that they can be remembered between invocations.

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