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Global Mapper’s Origins

You may know Global Mapper, but do you know how it was created? Mike Childs developed Global Mapper — known then as dlgv32 — as an intern at the USGS in 1997. Mike Childs joined our GIS podcast team to unpack Global Mapper’s origin story and discuss what’s made it such a fulfilling project to work on.

 

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