editing multiple point attributes

Treebeard

I have a bunch of points and I want to label them with a particular attribute. My problem is the number of sig figs in the attribute (0.00000000000e+000). How can I modify all of these points at the same time to and reduce the attribute to say 4 sig figs? Every point has a different value for this attribute so I am not trying to make them all the same, just want to modify the precision of the label without having to modify each point individually.

Thanks!

global_mapper

We plan to add more direct support for attribute formatting in a future release, but for now you can right-click on the layer in the Control Center and select the CALC ATTR command, then assign the attribute back to itself and multiply by 1. This will reformat in a good way for a number and remove trailing zeroes, so it should look much better.

Thanks,

Mike
Global Mapper Guru
geohelp@bluemarblegeo.com
Blue Marble Geographics for Coordinate Conversion, Image Reprojection and Vector Translation

Treebeard

it would be nice to cut and paste the attribute data from the search command into excel, (which can be done), then perform attribute modifications and cut and paste back into the search table in GM, it does not appear this is possible (paste from excel back to GM in search attribute table)?

global_mapper

There is not currently any way to cut-and-paste anything from Excel other than just a single text entry. In the future we plan to add more direct editing of the attribute table, but for now the CALC ATTR option that is built-in is the best way to do attribute calculations, but it is more limited than Excel of course.

Thanks,

Mike
Global Mapper Guru
geohelp@bluemarblegeo.com
Blue Marble Geographics for Coordinate Conversion, Image Reprojection and Vector Translation