Version 15.2
tjhb
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Congratulations to Mike and the rest of the programming team on the new point release. There is masses of useful innovation in it--more than in a full version upgrade with most software.
Tim
Tim
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Tim,
Thanks, this did end up being the largest release ever in terms of pages on the 'What's New' at almost 20 pages!
Thanks,
Mike
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Hello,
Long "What's New page"! That's great for users. I've been browsing through it in the past couple of days.
A big thanks from my end for the SQL support in the Scripting Environment. Other new features are also great, but this one stands out for me.
Cheers to all, -
Yes in this case SQL means MS SQL Server support, not SQL parsing or anything like that.
Thanks,
Mike
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Thanks for confirming that Mike. Sounds very useful.
Even so I can't find a mention in the release notes for 15.2 (dated 19/5/2014) of any change in the scripting interface for databases, or a reference to SQL Server in the in the current scripting reference. I'm probably holding it upside down. Where should I look? -
P.s. I also love the new look of the BM website. Looks like a new CMS has been used. Very clean! Fast as well. The new graphic on the GM download page is also beautifully simple, and informative. (Almost Tuftean. If someone didn't know what GIS meant, that graphic would go some way towards showing them.)
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P.p.s. The documentation for spatial database support now seems to be materially out of date (but in a good way!).
The beginning of the topic has no reference to SQL Server—Global Mapper can import vector data from and export vector data to the following spatial databases:- Esri ArcSDE Geodatabase
- Esri File Geodatabase
- Esri Personal Geodatabases
- GeoMedia Access Warehouse (import only)
- MySQL Spatial
- Oracle Spatial
- PostGIS/PostgreSQL
- Spatialite/SQLite
—and its absence seems to be maintained through the subsequent pages. - Esri ArcSDE Geodatabase
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Lastly (for now), I note that my bookmark for the GM scripting reference was out of date.
I have been using Global Mapper Scripting Reference. This link is still live, but now points to an outdated version of the scriptng reference. For example, it contains no reference to the IMPORT_SPATIAL_DB command.
The Resources page has a link to the new version, in a nice new format: GlobalMapper. That version does include the new commands.
I've updated my bookmark—but I won't be the only one who needs to. Perhaps the old link should be removed, or redirected. -
Actually the link you have should be the master, it just seems that one of the commands was somehow lost from the master. We should have that updated shortly.
Thanks,
Mike
Global Mapper Guru
geohelp@bluemarblegeo.com
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This might be an explanation (of sorts).
If you go to GlobalMapper and in the left pane click on Scripting reference, then on Script commands, you see two lists of commands, one in the tree in the left pane, one in the right pane.
The two lists should match, but they don't. ([EDITED] There are 11 items in the left pane which do not appear in the right pane. I haven't compared contents.)
In the right-hand pane, we see at the top the statement "The following Script Commands are available in Global Energy Mapper". Oops. Is that the reason for the mismatch? Or is that one list has been updated, the other not? -
I missed this and can't find a reference--can you point me in the right direction? (Perhaps "SQL" here may mean SQL Server, not SQL the language?)
Oh, sorry for that I was referring to the Server part but also to the somehow close resemblance that came with the new conditional processing in the Scripting Environment. The new commands "IF/ELSE_IF/ELSE/END_IF" have great potential now that you can use them for conditional execution. -
I've updated the Scripting Reference at Global Mapper Scripting Reference with the spatial database commands. We are working to avoid the duplicate work and different documentation for future releases.
Thanks,
Mike
Global Mapper Guru
geohelp@bluemarblegeo.com
Blue Marble Geographics for Coordinate Conversion, Image Reprojection and Vector Translation -
Cool Mike. As mentioned above, there is this anomaly too, in the version at GlobalMapper.
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Ah looks like some parameters are mistakenly listed as top-level commands. I'll pass that on to the documentation support.
Thanks,
Mike
Global Mapper Guru
geohelp@bluemarblegeo.com
Blue Marble Geographics for Coordinate Conversion, Image Reprojection and Vector Translation -
Thanks Mike. Maybe the most trivial issue that has come across your radar in quite a while.
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