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Jan 28
2009
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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
