Global Mapper Toolbars

This section briefly reviews the menus and commands in order to understand the basic purpose of each.

The toolbars provide quick mouse access to many tools used in Global Mapper.

Turn on and off the display of any toolbars from the View > Toolbars sub-menu. The drop-down at the end of each toolbar provides access to Customization of the toolbars, including adding new buttons and showing text labels.

File

• Open Data Files
• Connect to Online Data
• Save Workspace
• Map Layout Editor
• Configure
• Control Center
• Overview Map
• Command Search

Scripting

• Script Builder
• Script Editor
• Favorite Scripts

Navigation

• Zoom (Alt+Z)
• Pan (Alt+G)
• Zoom In
  
• Zoom Out
  
• Restore Last View (Ctrl+Backspace)
• Full View

Selection

• Digitizer Tool (Alt+D)
• Select by Drawing Polygon
• Clear Current Selection
• Select Labels

Tools

• Digitizer Toolset
• Measure Tool (Alt+M)
  
• Feature Info Tool (Alt+P)
  
• Search Vector Data
• Mobile Data Management
  

Analysis

• Create Elevation Grid
• Create Contours
• Calculate Cut and Fill Volume (Ctrl+Alt+M)
• Path Profile (Alt+L)
• Create View Shed (Alt+V)
• Create Water Shed
• Solar Shadow Calculations
• Combine/ Compare Terrain Layers
• Create Density Grid (Heat Map)
• Create 3D Fly-through
• Enable Terrain Painting
• Image Paint
• Generate Breaklines

Viewer

• Add 2D Map Views
• Rotate Map
  
• Image Swipe
  
• Show 3D View
  
• Link 2D and 3D Views (Ctrl+Shift+3)
• Display Water Level
• Increase Water Level
• Decrease Water Level
• Enable/ Disable Hill Shading
• Dynamic Hill Shading
• Shader Drop-down Menu

GeoCalc

• Enable GeoCalc Projection Mode
• Auto-select GeoCalc Transform
• Launch Geographic Calculator

Favorites

• Favorites Drop-down
• Run Selected Command (Ctrl+Enter)

Digitizer (Create)

• Disabled by default, see: Digitizer Toolset
• Create Point/ Text Feature
• Create Line Feature (Vertex Mode)
• Create Line Feature (Trace Mode) (Shift+T)
• Create Area Feature
• Create Rectangle/ Square Area Feature
• Create Circle/ Ellipse Area Feature

Digitizer (Advanced)

• Disabled by default, see: Digitizer Toolset
• Create Distance/ Bearing/ COGO Line
• Create Range Rings / Ellipses
• Create Regular Grid of Features
• Create Strike-and-Dip Point
• Vectorize Raster
• Cut Selected Area(s) From Another Area
• Spatial Operations
• Right Angle Draw Mode (R)
• Ortho Draw Mode

Digitizer (Edit)

• Disabled by default, see: Digitizer Toolset
• Move Selected Feature(s) (Ctrl+Shift+M)
• Rotate Scale Feature(s)
• Display Area/ Line Vertices (Shift+V)
• Move Selected Vertices
• Insert Vertex
• Combine Line Features
• Split Line At Selected Vertex
• Create Points From Line/ Area Vertices
• Create Lines From Areas
• Create Areas From Lines
• Combine Selected Areas
• Crop To Selected Areas
• Create Buffer Around Selected Features

GPS

• Start Tracking GPS (Ctrl+T)
• Stop Tracking GPS
• Keep GPS\ Video Vessel on screen
• Orient View to GPS \Video Heading
• Mark Waypoint (Ctrl+M)
• Mark Waypoint from Averaged Position
• Display GPS Info
• Sky View
• Mark Waypoint at Offset

Animate

• Start
• Stop
• Slower
• Faster
• Add
• Remove

Deep Learning (Beta)

• *Requires Global Mapper Pro*
• Land Cover Classification
• Object Detection
• Fine-Tuning

Mango

Mango

 

Lidar Toolbars:

*Requires Global Mapper Pro*

Lidar

Drop-down

Selection

Classification

Lidar (Manual Classification) Deprecated

This toolbar has been replaced by the Manual Classification tool.

Additional Toolbars:

Control Center Toolbar

Attribute Editor Toolbar

Sort Features

Script Editor Toolbar

3D Toolbars

Path Profile Toolbars

Map Layout/ Cartography Toolbars