What's New in Global Mapper v21.1

Significant New Features

  • New Raster Reclassification analysis tool. This allows users to reassign pixel palette index values and can be used to replace values, group values together, and reclassify values to a common scale.
  • Built-in access to Blackbeard Data Services premium online oil and gas data, providing pipeline, well, and lease information
  • New cloud import and export functionality for accessing public Amazon Web Service (AWS) buckets, such as USGS Lidar data.
  • New Digitizer tool for setting the slope between individual vertices in a line feature.
  • Expanded vector feature shift functionality to include the option to apply a vertical offset.
  • New styling options for selected lidar points in the 3D View allowing both attribute coloring and selection state to be displayed.
  • Significant speed improvements to view shed calculation, especially on computers with a large number of cores.
  • Improved rendering speed when working with large raster/terrain layers on multi-core computers.
  • Significant reduction in the processing time when using the Batch Conversion/Reproject tool.
  • New tool for saving user settings allowing user interface customization and styles to be shared between computers.
  • New option to save and reload queries in the attribute search dialog box.
  • Improved raster transparency tool with a new option to select multiple colors to be transparent.

Significant New LiDAR Module features

  • New tool that finds the best fit match between lidar or point cloud layers and automatically shifts one to match the other. [Item #GM-7314]
  • New point cloud change detection tool that creates a new layer containing points that are significantly offset when comparing two point cloud layers. [Item #GM-6945]
  • New option to include a Z value for the control points used to shift a layer when rectifying point clouds and 3D models. [Item #GM-10369]
  • Improved point cloud generated by Pixels to Points process. [Item #GM-10385]
  • New tool for extracting utility poles from a point cloud containing appropriately classified points. The resulting point can either represent the top or bottom of the pole. [Item #GM-5938]

Map Layout Editor Changes

  • Added choice of 1:25000 to the drop-down list for Scale in the Map Layout Editor options. [Item #GM-10669]

LiDAR Changes

  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed issue with mesh created Lidar points missing some polygons when using the Poisson method. [Item #GM-10460]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added new quality setting 'Highest' to Pixels-to-Points dialog. This will generate a higher quality point cloud, ortho-image, and/or mesh. It will take longer to generate and result in a larger product though. It also may require too much memory to run on some machines, depending on the size and quantity of input images. [Item #GM-10001]
  • Add new option to use a user-selected terrain shader to color Lidar by Intensity values. [Item #GM-1991]
  • Added function to create points from selected Lidar Points. [Item #GM-9431]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Improved the Pole auto-classification process. [Item #GM-5938]
  • New styling options for selected lidar points in the 3D View allowing both attribute coloring and selection state to be displayed. [Item #GM-10324]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed Lidar spatial thinning when keeping only the minimum or maximum elevation sample within a region. Before it was just keeping the first point it encountered. [Item #GM-7314]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Fixed a problem selecting lidar points from Map Catalogs containing lidar layers. Affects these processes : [Item #GM-10488]
    • Change Lidar Class
    • Select Lidar by Distance
    • Select Lidar Points by Classification
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] When a Pixels to Points process fails, automatically try the alternate SfM method (i.e. Global if Incremental was selected, or vice-versa). [Item #GM-8023]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated Pixels to Points tool to automatically detect pre-calibrated DJI drone images and change the Camera Model to Pinhole in that case. [Item #GM-10401]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated Lidar 3D spatial thinning to keep the highest and lowest points within a column of cells to preserve the extrema of the data set. If all points in a column are within a single vertical cell, the median is used unless the Z spread of the values is over half of the vertical cell height, in which case the min and max points are kept. [Item #GM-7314]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Support directly ortho-rectifying drone images from Parrot drones. Now the camera orientation and relative altitude can be read from the Parrot XMP metadata format. [Item #GM-10296]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Add support for removing last clicked vertex when adding a mask in Pixels-to-Points tool by using Ctrl+Z. [Item #GM-10206]
  • Allow saving modified lidar layers contained in a map catalog back to their original files. [Item #GM-10364]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added manual pole classification Button to toolbar [Item #GM-10202]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added new pole auto-classification option to only classify pole coming from ground level. [Item #GM-5938]
  • Support read of LAZ v4 compressed files. [Item #GM-10277]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Improved ortho-rectification of images after running the Pixels-to-Points process when the P2P process calculates a significantly different camera focal length than what was specified for the camera. [Item #GM-10448]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added prompt to locate missing image files when loading a Pixels-to-Points workspace file (.gmp2p or .gmi2c) and a referenced image can't be found. [Item #GM-10230]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Moved the Lidar classification toolbar buttons into separate Manual Classification and Automatic Classification toolbars. [Item #GM-10426]
  • Fixed rendering issue when large amounts of Lidar are selected and you are zoomed out on it. [Item #GM-10702]
  • Fixed the selection of Lidar points with a box in the Digitizer Tool when the map view is rotated. [Item #GM-9882]

3D Viewer Changes

  • Add support for setting default heights of 3D point models when adding them to Global Mapper, and set default heights of the models that we ship with an installation. [Item #GM-10562/GM-10559]
  • 3D point styles, without explicit height information, default to 10 meters. 3D point styles now scale to real world coordinates. [Item #GM-9414]
  • Record changes in fly mode when camera rotates, tilts, or moves vertically as well as motion in x and y directions. [Item #GM-9932]
  • Fixed problems with 3D viewer with display of path profile visualization when using the Ctrl+P hotkey that toggles it on and off. [Item #GM-10631]
  • Fixed problems in the 3D viewer with interactions between 2D Bounds Masking and 2D/3D View Linkage. 2D Bounds Masking now occurs whether 2D/3D Linkage is enabled or not. Fixed associated notification message. [Item #GM-9714]
  • Improve the display of some Lidar data in 3D with vertical units not in meters. [Item #GM-9102]
  • Address path profile exception problems in 3D. [Item #GM-9991]
  • Added new checkbox to the 3D View configuration that governs whether path profile visualization is enabled in the 3D viewer [Item #GM-10631]
  • Fixed issue preventing saving Fly-through as an AVI file and selecting Codec to Uncompressed. [Item #GM-9989]
  • Stop mouse moves on the 3D view from setting focus inappropriately. [Item #GM-10502]
  • Set path profile display to on in 3D viewer on new installation. [Item #GM-10627]

Path Profile/Line of Sight Function Changes

  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Allowing using the Delete key to mark selected Lidar points as deleted on the path profile dialog. [Item #GM-7094]
  • Restored hotkey functions when path profile view has focus (like Ctrl+U to unload all). [Item #GM-10458]

Analysis Function Changes

  • New Raster Reclassification analysis tool. This allows users to reassign pixel palette index values and can be used to replace values, group values together, and reclassify values to a common scale. [Item #GM-10009]
  • Added options for selection of Ratio, Percent, and Degrees choices when setting up Site Flatten Parameters. [Item #GM-10201]
  • Significant speed improvements to view shed calculation, especially on computers with a large number of cores. [Item #GM-10497]
  • Fixed issue when creating a Flattened Site Plane with a small slope value, that was flattening an area to a smaller bounding box than expected. [Item #GM-10422]
  • Fix ability to create create points for min/max elevation on a line feature when performing an Analysis/Measurement > Calculate Elevation/Slope Stats function. [Item #GM-10295]
  • Fixed issue with pan sharpening of color imagery with more than 3 bands creating incorrect results with lines through it. [Item #GM-10443]
  • Updated Contour Generation to support contour interval units other than 'Meters' and 'Feet'. Now non-whole units, like Centimeters, are supported. [Item #GM-8098]
  • Fixed issue generating an elevation grid from 3D line data when the export elevation units didn't match the native elevation units of the vector layer. [Item #GM-10795]
  • Watershed analysis allowed "Trace Flow from Selected Line(s)" option without any line features selected. [Item #GM-10286]
  • Fixed problem when creating a watershed area showing drainage to a point. [Item #GM-10283]

Digitizer Tool Changes

  • New Digitizer tool for setting the slope between individual vertices in a line feature. [Item #GM-9933]
  • Expanded vector feature shift functionality to include the option to apply a vertical offset. This allows shifting 3D vector and Lidar layers in the Z direction when using the Control Center right-click SHIFT option. [Item #GM-10601]
  • When using the Finding Nearby Points tool, there is now an option to save the points as an ESRI shapefile as well as a .csv, or .txt file. [Item #GM-10289]
  • Updated point features created when finding line intersections to go in their own layer. [Item #GM-10265]
  • Modified the "Adjust Elevations to a Single Slope" process to be applied to vector features without requiring elevation layers. [Item #GM-10217]
  • Added functionality to apply an offset to elevation values of selected features/vertices [Item #GM-3784]
  • Made creation of skeleton lines from areas copy over attributes and labels from the area they are created from. [Item #GM-10235]
  • Added an option to Create Areas from Lines so the user can specify whether or not islands need to be coplanar with the areas that enclose them. [Item #GM-9787]
  • When creating coverage bounding boxes/polygons from layers, fixed issue with duplicate areas being created. Also group the generated layers together so they can be easily turned on and off. [Item #GM-10339]
  • Fixed problems when running the 'Crop selected area to selected line' command using complex line shapes. [Item #GM-7535]
  • Fixed Sampling a Line at a Fixed Distance to produce more precise positioning. [Item #GM-1234]
  • Fix issue with the Cancel button on the Edit Attribute/Value dialog when modifying a Feature. [Item #GM-10512]
  • Fixed a problem with the "Create Point Features Along Selected Features" using a single fixed distance of 0 that did not place a point at the beginning of the line. [Item #GM-10459]
  • Fixed issue creating points inside an area (e.g. Create New Points at Centroids of selected Area , Create Randomly Distributed Points within selected Area) using different projections for the area and the points. [Item #GM-10165]
  • Fixed problem when editing a vector feature contained in a Map Catalog layer and selecting the Map Catalog to save the modifications to. Previously, the feature would disappear. [Item #GM-10635]
  • Fixed the labels on point features created along a line. [Item #GM-10701]
  • Fixed issue with text and attributes being corrupted when combining lines when the layer code page is different than the system code page and non-ASCII text is used. [Item #GM-10520]
  • Fixed issue where selecting layer features via the Control Center would only work once [Item #GM-10255]
  • Fixed error calculating elevation/slope statistics from a 3D line when also saving min/max elevation points. Also updated those min/max elevation points to use different symbols for the minimum and maximum points. [Item #GM-10291]
  • Apply code page when pasting features to a new layer. [Item #GM-10489]

Scripting Changes

  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated LIDAR_COMPARE script command to allow finding changes between point clouds, with new points being copied to a new layer. [Item #GM-6945]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added LIDAR_AUTO_FIT script command to allow automatically fitting one Lidar point cloud to another. [Item #GM-10727]
  • Updated the SHIFT_LAYER script command to support 3D transformations of Lidar, 3D vector, and 3D model data. The new HAS_3D_POINTS parameter is used to indicate that 3D control points are provided. [Item #GM-9005/GM-10507]
  • Fixed issue in scripting when running the EXPORT_VECTOR command and cropping features using the GLOBAL_BOUNDS and USE_EXACT_BOUNDS parameters that would not would not crop fully out to the specified bounds. [Item #GM-10312]
  • Added the ability to filter Lidar by intensity in script commands. [Item #GM-10342]
  • Added "SIMPLIFICATION_UNITS" to "EDIT_VECTOR" to allow a user to pick the threshold unit when using "SIMPLIFICATION". [Item #GM-9992]
  • Updated the EDIT_MAP_CATALOG script command to support parameters from the IMPORT_ASCII command when adding generic text files to the catalog. [Item #GM-10294]
  • Fixed a problem running the 'Creating Areas from equal values' via a Script that was not setting the area colors correctly. [Item #GM-10521]

Online Source Changes

  • Built-in access to premium online Blackbeard Tanuki oil and gas data services, providing pipeline, well, and lease information. [Item #GM-10254]
  • Added support for tiled online sources with any Equirectangular (lat/lon Geographic) projection, regardless of datum. You can also customize the number of rows and columns that exist at the minimum zoom level for the source. [Item #GM-10452]
  • Fixed issue in v21.0.0-v21.0.1 with online terrain sources prompting the user to select the elevation units to use. [Item #GM-10527]
  • Improved display of online layers with contrast adjustment enabled. Now all tiles will use the same adjustment rather than separate for each tile. Also fixed error loading workspaces with a contrast adjusted online layer. [Item #GM-10449]
  • Improve performance of REST Feature Service downloads. [Item #GM-9595]
  • Fixed crash exporting online sources to ECW or JP2 format files. [Item #GM-9837]
  • Improved automatic selection of projection SRS to use when loading WMS sources. [Item #GM-10647]

Projection/Datum Changes

  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Allow providing 3D control points to do a best-fit 3D transform on loaded 3D models using the Rectify option from the Control Center. [Item #GM-10507]
  • Added new built-in zones to the Korea TM projection for the Modified belt zones (EPSG codes 5173-5177). Also improved accuracy of datum transformations involving the Korea 1985 datum. [Item #GM-10465]
  • Improved accuracy of reported enclosed area for very large area features (more than 5 degrees tall) when the current projection is Geographic (lat/lon) or a severely distorted projection like Mercator or Equirectangular. [Item #GM-10598]
  • Fixed issue in v21.0.0-v21.0.1 loading WKT PRJ files with a space before the UNIT tag. [Item #GM-10301]
  • Fixed crash creating point from Tools->Coordinate Converter when no data was loaded. [Item #GM-10358]
  • Fixed issues with RSO projections from WKT PRJ files coming in rotated and at the wrong location. [Item #GM-10397]

Format Specific Changes

  • New cloud import and export functionality for accessing public Amazon Web Service (AWS) buckets, such as USGS Lidar data. [Item #GM-9386]
  • Specify which attributes to include and attribute order when exporting to CSV, text and vector XYZ files. [Item #GM-10745]
  • Added functionality to save changes to vector features from layers contained in a Map Catalog. [Item #GM-2412]
  • Greatly improved draw speed of some ECW files. [Item #GM-10604]
  • Added ability to export 3D models to KMZ/KML files [Item #GM-9714]
  • Fixed issue with terrain GeoTIFF files prompting for elevation units even when already specified in workspace or Use for All selected. [Item #GM-10335]
  • Fixed bug in scripting command to export to KML files using the KML_TILE_SIZE and KML_GEN_INDEX_FILE parameters. [Item #GM-9881]
  • Improved import and export of FBX file format. [Item #GM-9084]
  • Allow specifying custom vertical unit label in HDF5 Definition. [Item #GM-9965]
  • Added support to write and read line features to and from FBX files. [Item #GM-8424]
  • Updated SPS format import to include point index field in POINT_IDX attribute. [Item #GM-10468]
  • Fixed batch converter to correctly export certain formats (i.e. GeoTIFF) to ECW format. [Item #GM-9950]
  • Fixed problem with Aquaveo SMS workspace not restoring data table and time slice selection settings in workspace. [Item #GM-9369]
  • Fixed problem with labels not appearing in exported PDF files when using some code pages. [Item #GM-7999]
  • Added an option when exporting to 3D PDF to use vertical exaggeration setting from 3D viewer. [Item #GM-1533]
  • Fixed problem with slow loading of some workspaces containing large number of vector features. [Item #GM-10229]
  • Fixed issue loading KMZ file from NASA Worldview web site where embedded filenames contain a ':" character. [Item #GM-10157]
  • Fixed problem loading some 3D models from .DAE files [Item #GM-10346]
  • Fixed issue exporting to FBX file format if there were not both vector and elevation data. [Item #GM-10426]
  • Filter out invalid line and areas when importing from DXF/DWG. [Item #GM-9714]
  • Fixed problem where KML files were not loading in the correct location. [Item #GM-10346/GM-10305]
  • Fix a problem where export to raster format fails when the data to be exported is all meshes. [Item #GM10549]
  • Added warning message when attempting to shift features contained in Map Catalogs. [Item #GM-9803]
  • Fixed detection of byte order in Unicode text files that use a BOM (byte-order marker). [Item #GM-10698]
  • Fixed issue exporting GeoPackage files with file names that contain Unicode characters. [Item #GM-10246]
  • Fixed export of data crossing the ATM (anti-meridian) to KML/KMZ raster formats. [Item #GM-3210]
  • Always display PDF Import options dialog. Show a message in the prompt area in the case where the PDF file does not contain any layers. [Item #GM-10267]
  • Fixed issue with the 'use for all' options not being maintained when non-default options are chosen when loading multiple 3D model files at once. [Item #GM-10357]
  • Fixed issue exporting map layout elements (i.e. scale, legend) when exporting to a raster KML/KMZ file with internal tiling. [Item #GM-9893]
  • Fixed issue with missing elevation values when loading PDS terrain of the moon with mostly negative values. [Item #GM-10441]
  • Fixed issue with map catalog elevation units and ranges not being saved and reported correctly. [Item #GM-10411]
  • Fixed handling of vector locations for PDF files with Adobe spatial information. [Item #GM-10470]
  • Fixed issues with corrupt BSB exports when the chosen palette size was exactly a power of 2 (i.e. 16, 32, 64, etc.) [Item #GM-10256]
  • Fixed export to CSV using ECEF coordinates when the points being exported do not have an elevation value associated with them. [Item #GM-10599]

GPS Tracking Changes

  • Added options during GPS tracking or adding way-points to make the GPS bearing relative to current heading. [Item #GM-3493]

Rendering/Style Changes

  • Fixed Elevation Legend for Slope Shader with Custom Range so it shows values slightly beyond the specified limits. [Item #GM-4710]
  • Applied specified label distance for all label locations. [Item #GM-10444]

User Interface

  • Updated layer re-rectification from Control Center to NOT display the layer being rectified in the Reference View by default. You can change this behavior with the Options->Draw Rectified Layer in Reference View menu command on the Rectification dialog. [Item #GM-10553]
  • New option to save and reload queries in the attribute search dialog box. [Item #GM-9619]
  • two new options under "help" drop down for importing and exporting user settings. [Item #GM-8961]
  • Fixed issues with the value of attributes that aren't displayable in the current Windows language not showing on the Attribute Editor dialog. [Item #GM-10472]
  • two new checkboxes under Configuration->General->Advanced that give you the option to shut off the popups for "One or more layers has a different group..." and "There are unsaved changes in at least one..." messages. [Item #GM-9110]
  • New view option to close all none primary views. [Item #GM-9398]
  • Moved the 'Edit HDF5 definition' command to the tools menu [Item #GM-9960]
  • Fixed Help window so it doesn't show on top of non-GM Windows when GM doesn't have focus. [Item #GM-10189]

Misc. Changes

  • Fixed crash when performing Batch Conversions and the the "Show Batch Conversion Progress" checkbox was unchecked. [Item #GM-10719]
  • Added support for saving queries on Search Vector Data dialog [Item #GM-9619]
  • Fixed issue with modifications to islands/holes in areas not saving to workspaces. [Item #GM-10606]
  • Updated vector / Lidar rectification to store the transformation equations that have been applied to a layer in the metadata list. [Item #GM-10534]
  • Added a tip to suggest using Map Layout Editor for printing. [Item #GM-6514]
  • Fixed issue in animate control to skip over hidden layers. [Item #GM-9941]
  • Fixed issue where the default animation run time configuration setting accepted negative numbers, non-integers. [Item #GM-9925]
  • Improved raster transparency tool with a new option to select multiple colors to be transparent. [Item #GM-5884]
  • Fixed issue where the shader drop-down list did not display the newly created custom shader name. [Item #GM-10453]
  • Fixed an issue in the "Search->Find Address" function's "Create Points from Geocoded Addresses" process which would place points in the generic User Created Features layer instead of the user's specified layer. [Item #GM-10425]
  • Fixed an issue saving a buffer area to a User Created Features layer with an incorrect projection. [Item #GM-10309]
  • Allow user to return directly to mesh creation dialog if a possible error/performance problem is detected. [Item #GM-10333]
  • Disable certain Attribute Editor functionality when editor contains Lidar data. [Item #GM-9137]
  • New tool for saving user settings allowing user interface customization and styles to be shared between computers. [Item #GM-8961]

What's New in Global Mapper v21.0

Significant New Features

  • The Global Mapper MangoMap Extension. This new data sharing tool allows users to publish maps to MangoMap online map site directly from Global Mapper. The MangoMap Extension allows users to quickly and easily share online maps in a new and powerful way.
  • Global Mapper Mobile 2.0. The Mobile 2.0 release for iOS and Android features many free updates and a new Pro version available for purchase. Features include streaming online data, expanded projection support (for packages exported from Global Mapper 21), many UI enhancements, GeoPackage and GeoPDF support, Enterprise licensing and much more. Refer to https://bluemarblegeo.com/products/global-mapper-mobile.php for more info.
  • Improved feature label creation and management including assigning labels to their own layer and individual label editing and moving.
  • Improved layer management with target layer selection now available in all vector feature creation dialog boxes.
  • New tool for identifying local peaks and depressions in a terrain layer.
  • New tool for recording a fly- and walk-mode path in the 3D Viewer as a line feature, which can be used to create a fly-through recording.
  • Improved layer template creation for form-based data collection. This is especially useful when collecting data in the field on Global Mapper Mobile.
  • Keyframe animation allowing the display of a sequence of layers to visualize change over time.
  • New option to replace a mesh's texture with a different one or to remove it altogether in the 3D Viewer.
  • New option to calculate Strahler's stream order as part of watershed analysis.
  • New function to add a specified slope to vector features.
  • New option to create a textured 3D model from terrain and draped imagery
  • New option to allow the export of Global Mapper Mobile package files (for use in Global Mapper Mobile) in the current display projection (requires Global Mapper Mobile 2.0)

Significant New LiDAR Module features

  • New masking option in the Pixels-to-Points tool to eliminate uniform background colors from images. This is especially useful when attempting to process oblique images that contain sky. [Item #GM-7763]
  • Reorganized Pixels-to-Points dialog box with larger Image Preview window. [Item #GM-9935]
  • Improved orthoimage and point cloud quality when created from a mesh (3D Model) during the Pixels-to-Points operation using the 'High' quality setting. [Item #GM-10001]
  • New option in the Pixels-to-Points tool for orthorectifying each camera image.
  • New function for displaying the approximate ground coverage polygons for selected images in the Pixels-to-Points tool. [Item #26339]
  • Support for deriving image locations (EXIF information) from external text files such as those reported from RTK or PPK. [Item #GM-7811]
  • New Pixels-to-Points option for harmonizing colors in input images that have inconsistent contrast to produce better reconstruction results.
  • New tool for panning the Image Preview in the Pixels-to-Points dialog box by dragging with the middle mouse button.
  • New Pixels-to-Points tool for identifying images that may contain ground control points based on their location.
  • Speed improvements when gridding LiDAR with large gaps. [Item #17693]

New Supported Formats

  • Added support for GEBCO 2019 Data and SID Grids [Item #26283]
  • Added support for HDF5 files from Copernicus Global Land Service. Valid data sets include LAI, FCOVER, FAPAR, LCCS, NDVI, SSM, GDMP, DMP, LST, LSWT(see https://land.copernicus.eu/global/ for details of these types of data sets) [Item #GM-6693]
  • Added support for importing NetCDF (HDF5) files from GEBCO [Item #GM-9734]
  • Imports HECRAS plan HDF5 files (*.Pxx.HDF)to show 'Depth' and 'Water Surface' data [Item #26065]
  • Added ability to export 3d models to 3D PDF. [Item #25648]

Global Mapper Mobile

  • Global Mapper Mobile 2.0. The Mobile 2.0 release for iOS and Android features many free updates and a new Pro version available for purchase. Features include streaming online data, expanded projection support (for packages exported from Global Mapper 21), many UI enhancements, GeoPackage and GeoPDF support, Enterprise licensing and much more. Refer to https://bluemarblegeo.com/products/global-mapper-mobile.php for more info.
  • Export Global Mapper Mobile Package (GMMP) in selected view projection. Global Mapper Mobile 2.0 supports projections other than Geographic.

LiDAR Changes

  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Add option to load Picture Point (i.e. JPG w/ EXIF) features as Orthoimages placed on the surface. There is available via a right-click Digitizer Tool option when one or more picture points are selected, or in the Pixels to Points Tool by selecting one or more images, then right-clicking and selecting to place them as ortho-images. [Item #GM-9301]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Automatic Pole Classification
  • Added addition fields to Lidar edit dialog, including return number/count, scan angle, scanner channel, point source ID, user data, and edge-of-flight-line. [Item #25931]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added new option to Pixels-to-Points dialog to create separate ortho-rectified image layers from each input image rather than creating a single seamless combined result. [Item #GM-7706]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated Pixels-to-Points to support generating geo-referenced results when the original input files are TIFF images with EXIF tags rather than JPG or PNG files. [Item #GM-8297]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Improved Pixels-to-Points dialog control point handling. Now images that likely contain a selected control point location will be labelled with green text. The options to move to the next/previous image with a control point can now include the images that likely contain the control point as well as those that the point has already been explicitly added to. [Item #GM-8142]
  • Added functionality in the "Apply Elevations to Selected Feature(s)" dialog to allow the user to select that elevations should come from lidar layers (if available). [Item #25928]
  • Added button to Lidar Manual Classification toolbar to change Lidar Class. [Item #GM-9726]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Show results of Lidar noise classification in dialog identifying count of high and low noise points, as well as by selecting the identified points with the Digitizer Tool. [Item #GM-9975]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Allow drag-and-drop of image or .gmi2c workspace files from Windows Explorer on to a Pixels-to-Points dialog. [Item #GM-9973]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Added right-click options to Control Points list on Pixels-to-Points dialog to load and save control points from/to a text file. [Item #GM-10049]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Changed the default extension for Pixels-to-Points workspace files to .gmp2p from .gmi2c. The old .gmi2c files will continue to work. [Item #GM-10031]

3D Viewer Changes

  • Meshes now render in 3D with respect to elevation settings, as when obtained from terrain. [Item #GM-9323]
  • Fix issues when point model uses "depth" as altitude mode setting. [Item #GM-9517]
  • Fixed several problems with GPS tracking in the 3D Viewer: GPS tracks and vessel are now rendered independently, and GPS track display now honors line styles that use dash patterns and/or background lines. [Item #GM-2968]
  • Fixed 2DM interior shading when shown in 3D viewer. [Item #25861]
  • 3D View now refreshes mesh features when various mesh properties change, such as mesh color, model placement, texture, etc. [Item #GM-9516]

Path Profile/Line of Sight Function Changes

  • Mouse wheel messages are now forwarded to the path profile view if the mouse is over it. [Item #GM-9142]

Digitizer Tool Changes

  • Improved speed when selecting large numbers of LiDAR points with the Digitizer Tool. [Item #17693]
  • Fixed calculation of a flattened site plan grid when flattening to the heights of an area with a single attribute-based elevation rather than per-vertex elevations. [Item #GM-10020]

Scripting Changes

  • Made command names in Global Mapper script files be case-insensitive, so you no longer have to write them in all upper-case if you don't want to. [Item #GM-9975]

Format Specific Changes

  • Made high-bit-depth raster exports support resampling the values rather than always using 'Nearest Neighbor'. [Item #12034]
  • Added ability to export vector data to Esri File Geodatabase in without requiring that ArcGIS be installed. [Item #15624]
  • Added prompt for elevation units when loading elevation grid files that have a known projection system but no specified elevation units. [Item #15790]
  • Added a tool, HDF5 Definition Creator, to let the user define the data to extract from an HDF5 type file not in GM internal database. Works with HDF5 files containing defined latitude, longitude, and data tables with the same dimensions. [Item #19182/26210]
  • [LIDAR MODULE ONLY] Updated Feature Info Tool to show the approximate ground coverage when selecting image points that have enough camera information to determine coverage (i.e. drone images). [Item #26339]
  • Added ability to read multiple time slices from HEC-RAS simulation results output file (generally *.P??.HDF). Importing this type of file will read in all the geometry, and allow user to specify which time steps of the simulation to load, creating a layer for each. [Item #GM-9728]
  • Added multi-time slice layer importing for AquaVeo SMS, CORTAD, SPEI, and GRIB file formats [Item #GM-9909]
  • Fixed Openflight, Sketchup, and 2DM export file types to include vector layers in the User Created Features layers. [Item #26353]
  • Fixed problems loading some 3D PDF files. [Item #GM-9727]

GPS Tracking Changes

  • The GPS Status dialog allows the user to select a Waypoint Feature Point, and continually display the distance and bearing to that point. [Item #9761]
  • Add Option to Provide Active Guidance to a GPS Waypoint [Item #GM-342]

Rendering/Style Changes

  • Add ability to remove the texture from a mesh. A texture, once removed, may be restored while the mesh stays loaded in Global Mapper. [Item #GM-9672/GM-9668]
  • We now honor orientation settings when loading models referenced in a KML file. These are the "heading", "tilt", and "roll" sub-elements of the "Orientation" element. [Item #GM-9219]
  • Fix 2D renderer to handle mesh texture display when UV coordinates are outside the range of [0-1] [Item #GM-9656/GM-8171]
  • Fixed a problem where a copy/paste operation on a mesh feature that has a texture can result in the copy not having its texture. [Item #GM-9818]

Performance

  • Sped the display of tiled online image sources. [Item #GM-9982]

User Interface

  • Added function to search for layer names in the Layer Control Center. [Item #GM-9730]
  • Fixed a problem when exporting DEM to STL that caused the exporter to always scale coordinates that are in units of radians or degrees to integral values in order to accommodate low precision STL viewers. The user now has a choice as to whether to scale coordinates or export them as-is. [Item #GM-5994]
  • Cleaned up 3D model load dialog: model orientation and axis choices are easier to understand, and defaults for specific model types are pre-applied [Item #GM-8860]
  • Added right-click option on Feature Vertices dialog to display per-vertex timestamps in UTC rather than local time. [Item #26506]
  • Made the graph on the Histogram tab of the Configuration dialog automatically refresh when changing the band/attribute to display if the last update was quick (i.e. < 3 seconds). [Item #GM-9994]

Misc. Changes

  • Fixed export to raster formats when cropping to area features with holes/islands and including vector data in the export. [Item #GM-10175]
  • Fixed a problem when loading 3D models that use .bmp texture files. [Item #GM-9635]
  • Fix issue when loading a 3D model, and user chooses to skip an unresolved texture [Item #GM-9642]
  • Added an option to increase the scale of arrows on the quiver plot display. [Item #25663]
  • Added ability to restore position of a mesh feature if it was moved [Item #GM-9599]
  • Added option to "Specify projection when creating new layer." If left unchecked, then the current display projection will be used. [Item #GM-9848]
  • Removed unimplemented "Create Area from Track", "Mark Waypoint at Offset" , and "Create Line from Track" from GPS toolbar [Item #GM-9860]
  • Allow for feathering of features with holes (islands) [Item #25899]
  • Fixed issue with area edges showing up on crop polygon boundaries when exporting to a raster format (i.e. PNG) and including vector data and also cropping to other areas. [Item #GM-10175]
  • Added a warning message when attempting to run the EXPORT_RASTER with a PALETTE="MULTIBAND" statement. [Item #GM-9869]