Issue of unit selection on distance scales

scrutton

I have GM 9.03 installed with both General "Distance Measure Units" and Projection "Planar Units" set to nautical miles. My current application is a marine environment where folks measure distances in nmi and depths in metres.

The issues are as follows:

1. For some reason the 3D (bathymetric) transect plot is showing up with the range scale in kilometres, and I have no way to change it.

2. The only options available for the distance scale on the main plot seem to be kilometres and statute miles.

Am I overlooking any buried options that would help me set these to nmi? Assuming it's not covered. I have recollections that I could get nmi to show up back in GMv8, but if not, could this please be added?

Regards,

Jeff

global_mapper

Jeff,

The distance scale in the path profile dialog has always been either metric or statute based on what the elevation units were displayed in. I have decided to de-couple those and make the distance scale, both on the path profile dialog and on the main map view when a scale is displayed, depend on the currently selected distance measure units (which includes nautical units). However, we have now moved onto v10 release and this change affects enough stuff that I can't easily put it in a new v9 build, so for now you'll have to wait until v10 is released (or in beta) to get this change.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

Thanks,

Mike
Global Mapper Support
support@globalmapper.com

scrutton

Mike,

I'm pleased to hear the scales will be simplified and rationalized. Looking forward to V10... my next application will probably use kilometres and feet.

Thanks,

Jeff