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I have just been made aware of a neat application that can be added to your mapping toolbox, Google Ozi. 

 Google Ozi allows you to easily download Google Maps images and save them to large JPG or TIFF files with an Ozi .map file for calibration.  This file than can be easily loaded for display into Global Mapper.    I have created a short demonstration below see the link below (no audio).

The application is available at http://www.zubak.sk/GoogleOzi/ 

Enjoy and let me know what you think of Google Ozi!

Video Tutorial: Global Mapper and Google Ozi

 

 

 

 

 

For Immeadiate Release:

LizardTech, a division of Celartem Inc. and a provider of software solutions for managing and distributing geospatial content, announced the integration of its MrSID Generation 4 (MG4) SDK into Global Mapper version 11.01.

Until recently, Global Mapper's customers were not able to load point cloud datasets that were compressed to MrSID Generation 4 using LiDAR Compressor into Global Mapper. However, with the addition of support for MG4 in Global Mapper version 11.01 users can load point cloud datasets compressed to MrSID Generation 4 for use in volumetric analysis, contour generation, and visualization.

"Adding MG4 integration to the latest version of Global Mapper is just another step to ensure that our customers have as many mapping tools possible at their fingertips," said Mike Childs, Global Mapper Software LLC. "Based on user feedback, we believe this integration with LizardTech will bring added value to our customers."

"LizardTech's goal is to give customers tools for using their point cloud data compressed with LiDAR Compressor in the applications they use every day," said Jon Skiffington, LizardTech's director of marketing. "Many of our customers use Global Mapper, but were not able to use it with MrSID files created in LiDAR Compressor. Now our customers can easily load point cloud datasets compressed to MrSID Generation 4 into Global Mapper."

Global Mapper Software LLC is pleased to announce the availability of Global Mapper v11.01 at http://www.globalmapper.com/global_m...etup_v1101.exe . Just download that file and run it to install v11.01. It will install over any existing Global Mapper v11.xx version. If you need the 64-bit version you can download and install that from http://www.globalmapper.com/global_m...1101_64bit.exe .

Numerous significant enhancements and bug fixes have been made to Global Mapper for this release. The most significant changes are described below:

• The 3D Viewer now supports displaying 3D vector features in space above or below the terrain surface. You can also extrude 3D area features to create building-like displays.
•  Added new GPS menu option to send any loaded data map directly to a compatible Garmin GPS device, such as a Colorado or Oregon handheld, for display as a raster map on the unit. This allows display of anything, including imagery, on compatible Garmin GPS devices!
• Added support for creating buffer areas some fixed distance around selected area and line features. This option is available from the Advanced Feature Creation submenu of the right-click menu in the Digitizer Tool.
• Updated map layout to support adding text anywhere on the map.
• Allowing sorting search results by any attribute rather than just the name.
• Added support for controlling at what zoom levels a map layer will appear, similar to the functionality available with a map catalog. You can configure this by right-clicking on a layer in the Control Center and selecting the new option to setup what zoom levels a map will display at.
  

All of the other numerous changes are listed in the What's New document that is displayed during installation.

Note that this is a free upgrade for registered users of any Global Mapper
v11.xx product. Registered Global Mapper v10.xx users can purchase an
upgrade for only $116 US from the Purchase page at http://www.globalmapperforum.com/global-mapper-version-11.html

Global Mapper LLC has just announced that Global Mapper version 11 FINAL release is now available for download.  Version 11 is a major release that includes many improvements to the UI, improved processor support and now GeoPDF support!  That's right, Global Mapper now supports the import and export of GeoPDF files!

 

 

Major New Improvements

• Created native 64-bit version of Global Mapper, allowing users of 64-bit versions Windows to work with much larger data sets. This can be downloaded from http://www.globalmapper.com/global_mapper11_setup_64bit.exe .
  
•  Support for importing/exporting GeoPDF files!
  
• Added map layout support for easily adding margins and north arrows to your map and setting up the display and location of the distance scale and elevation legend.
  
•  Support for exporting loaded vector data to DWG files.
  
•  Built-in DigitalGlobe imagery access was significantly improved with much more worldwide data available.
  
• Added free built-in access to global street-level maps from OpenStreetMap.org via the File->Download Online Imagery menu command.
• Added support for exporting multi-band GeoTIFF files with 8 or 16 bits per band.
  
•  Added support to combine area features, find the intersection of area features, and crop line and areas features to a crop area on export to some vector formats.
  
•  Added real-time display of current cursor information (location, distance, elevation) to 3D Path Profile dialog. In addition, you can now also click to define a sub-path on the 3D Path Profile dialog and get information about that sub-path displayed.
•  Added support for scaling point symbols, adding custom point symbols from PNG, GIF, JPG, and (new vector) .gmsym files, and easily creating symbols of custom sizes and colors for common shapes, like dots, squares, etc.
  
• Added toolbar for Digitizer/Edit Tool to make it easier to perform many commonly used operations.
  
•  Added ability to create new line features by tracing them without clicking at each vertex with the Digitizer/Edit Tool.
  
•  Added ability to rotate and scale features using the Digitizer/Edit Tool.
  
• Added support for numerous new formats, including MrSID MG4 LIDAR, Vertical Mapper (MapInfo) Grid/Clutter, QCT, QED, HTF, SPS, BAG, and many others.

You can read the whole list of over 200 improvements made to Global Mapper version 11 here, but even better than just reading some list is to download the program and try it out for yourself!

And don't worry, you can install Global Mapper Version 11 along side your other versions of Global Mapper and they will run concurrently.  No worries of losing your files or settings.

 Purchase v10 - v11 upgrade only $116.10

 

Purchase Global Mapper v11 for only $296.65

 

 

Screenshot of a GeoPDF support in Global Mapper 11:

 

Screenshot of the New Digitizer Toolbar in Global Mapper 11:

 

Screensht of OpenStreetMap.org Support in Global Mapper 11:

 

Global Mapper Software LLC is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta of Global Mapper v11.00 at:

 

Just download that file and run it to install v11.00. It will install alongside any existing Global Mapper version, so you don't have to worry about losing what you're currently working on.

Among the numerous significant changes in this first v11.00 beta are the following:

• Created native 64-bit version of Global Mapper, allowing users of 64-bit versions Windows to work with much larger data sets. This can be downloaded from http://www.globalmapper.com/global_m...etup_64bit.exe
• Added free built-in access to global street-level maps from OpenStreetMap.org via the File->Download Online Imagery menu command. 
•  Added real-time display of current cursor information (location, distance, elevation) to 3D Path Profile dialog. In addition, you can now also click to define a sub-path on the 3D Path Profile dialog and get information about that sub-path displayed.
• Added support for scaling point symbols, adding custom point symbols from PNG, GIF, and JPG files, and easily creating symbols of custom sizes and colors for common shapes, like dots, squares, etc.
• Added toolbar for Digitizer/Edit Tool to make it easier to perform many commonly used operations.
•  Added ability to create new line features by tracing them without clicking at each vertex with the Digitizer/Edit Tool.
• Added ability to rotate and scale features using the Digitizer/Edit Tool.
• Added support for numerous new formats, including Vertical Mapper (MapInfo) Grid, QCT, QED, HTF, SPS, BAG, and many others.
  
  

 

All of the other numerous changes are listed in the What's New document that is displayed during installation.

Prior to the v11.00 release we also plan on adding several other major features, including a map layout tool for more easily creating finished maps, PDF export, DWG export, access to better world-wide imagery, support for combining area features, and support for exporting new multi-band files.

Here is a temporary registration key so that you can try everything out in the beta for 14 days:

RegName: DEMO_07152009
RegCode: 1087803518

While we plan on officially releasing v11.00 in about 1 month, for those of you that just can't wait to purchase new licenses and upgrades to existing licenses, you can purchase those now from

$296.65 - Purchase Global Mappper v11: http://www.globalmapperforum.com/purchase11

$116.10 - Upgrade Global Mapper v10 - v11: http://www.globalmapperforum.com/upgrade11

Pricing for upgrades from v10 is $129 $116.10 US per license and pricing for new licenses are $349 $296.65 US for a single license with price breaks for multi-license purchases.

 

Bob wrote me asking how to import a GDB file into Global Mapper.  Because Global Mapper doesn't support reading GDB files directly, we need to get the file into a format that Global Mapper does support.  Thanks to Garmin Mapsource which is delievered with most Garmin handheld GPS units we can save the GPB file into many different formats.  One of the best formats to use is GPX which Global Mapper easily reads. 

On the menu toolbar look for "File - Save As" and the change the dropdown file type to GPX.  Be sure to delete the letters GDB from the saved file before selecting save.

You can then just drag and drop that GPX file into Global Mapper.

I made a quick video demo for you:

http://www.screencast.com/t/kxosgUvlb
 

 

 

Just announced today was the latest release to Global Mapper: version 10.02.  This release adds many many improvements and improved functionality to the Global Mapepr product.  Here is the list of the most significant new features:

• Added ability to easily create strike-and-dip (geology) 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.
• Added support for rotating point symbols by a user-specified angle.
• Added option to the Digitizer Tool to calculate the minimum, maximum, and average elevation values within selected area features.

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

 There are many other improvements as well.  You can read them in the "What's New" document displayed during installation.  To download this newest release just use this link:

http://www.globalmapper.com/global_mapper_setup_v1002.exe

Remember, this is a free upgrade to exisiting users with a 10.xx license.  If you would like to upgrade to version 10, you can do so for only $89 here:

http://www.globalmapperforum.com/upgrade-global-mapper.html

 

A very neat feature has been added to Global Mapper today!  Now you have the ability to rotate symbols.

You can try out this new feature by first downloading the latest Global Mapper build at:

 http://www.globalmapper.com/global_mapper10.zip

Simply open and extract it over your exisiting Global Mapper installation.

 The easiest way to create your own rotated symbol is to:

1) Open the configuration dialog box:

2) Select the "Point Styles Tab"

3) Select the Point Type and then specifiy the desired rotation:

 

4) Select the point feature and specify the point as the newly created or edited point style.

 

Just annouced this morning is the exciting news that Global Mapper Version 10 has been released!  This has been a much anticipated release for those who follow the Global Mapper Forum and the program updates.  

Maybe you are asking yourself, why should I upgrade?  Here are some of the  improvements and newest features to version 10 of Global Mapper. 

• Added support for importing ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) files.
• Added support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files.
• 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 support for selecting/changing the layer that features are in when editing existing features and creating new ones with the Digitizer Tool.
• Added KML/KMZ Super Overlay Support! This allows working with huge data sets in Google Earth. The option to automatically grid the data on the KML/KMZ export dialog enables this behavior.
• Added support for creating new feature coordinates based on distance/bearing and/or COGO values from a start location using the Digitizer Tool.
• Added option on the Gridding tab for exports to grid to the currently selected area features. This will create a separate export file for each selected area feature. Naming can be done using the display labels or an attribute of the selected area feature(s).
•  Added options when editing multiple features to rename attributes and also to copy the values of one attribute to a different attribute.
• 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 a large collection of new available line styles to use when rendering line features or area feature borders.
• Added option to crop a loaded raster layer to the currently selected area feature to the Cropping tab of the Raster Options dialog accessible from the Overlay Control Center.
• Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the MapInfo TAB/MAP format.
• Added support for exporting loaded 3D line and point data to the SEGP1 format.
• Made automatic collar cropping work for BSB marine charts.
  

You can find more changes by reviewing the "What's New" document that is displayed during install. 

 You can download a trial version of Global Mapper 10 to try some of these features for yourself.  Global Mapper 10 will run along side of any previous version so you can try out new features without the fear of losing data or workflows.

 You can also purchase an version 10 upgrade for only $89 or a full license for only $254 exclusively through Global Mapper Forum.

Global Mapper 10 Full	$254
Global Mapper 10 Upgrade	$89

 

 

 

 

 

In case you missed the annoucement yesterday in the forum.  Mike has announced that Global Mapper 10 Beta is now available for download.   This download will run along any currently installed copy of Global Mapper so you don't have to worry about it installing over your current registered copy of a previous version.  

What is so great about Global Mapper 10? Here are just some of the new features:

Coordinate Converter

Convert a single coordinate between any two supported projections

Search in exisiting results

When using the search by  "Attributes, Names and Descriptions" you can refine your search by limiting the new search to the exisiting search results:

 

 New! Border Styles

You can now add a border style to selected areas and polygons.

 

 Crop a raster to selected area feature

You can now crop a raster to a selected area or polygon.

There are many other improvements that have been made in Global Mapper 10 Beta and many more to come before the final release.

You can download a copy of Global Mapper 10 Beta here . 

If you would like to go ahead and purchase a version 10 upgrade license you can get one for only $89.   You can also purchase a full licensed copy of Global Mapper 10 for only $254 here.