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Выпустили бету. Первый переход через major-версию уже в составе BlueMarble.
Бета доступна в соответствующем разделе на официальном форуме.
Много новых фич. Позволю себе привести полный whatsnew, потому как он доступен только в составе инсталлятора.
Главные новые фичи - работа с базами (как я и предсказывал в теме про BlueMarble) и поддержка Garmin JNX (первая коммерческая программа, которая это умеет, хотя мне и не совсем ясно, как они с Garmin договариваются - код writer'а ведь - неофициальный.)

WHAT'S NEW IN Global Mapper v14.0
Global Energy Mapper Only Features

• Added option to Digitizer Tool to create a flattened site plan that smoothly transitions a set of areas into the surrounding terrain with an allowed slope and optional benches/terraces. This tool can also calculate the optimal flatten height such that the cut and fill volumes are approximately equal (i.e. no haul in or out of dirt required).
• Added a new group of online data sources (with limited usage for free) from Spatial Energy (http://www.spatialenergy.com <http://www.spatialenergy.com>). This includes Bing Maps data, among several other sources.

Significant New Features

• Added support for spatial databases (see list below) for both import and export.
  • ESRI ArcSDE (requires ESRI license on machine and 32-bit only)
  • ESRI File Geodatabase (includes raster and grid and all versions of file geodatabses, requires ESRI license on machine and 32-bit only)
  • ESRI Personal Geodatabase (requires ESRI license on machine and 32-bit only)
  • MySQL Spatial
  • Oracle Spatial
  • PostGIS/PostgreSQL
• Added new Terrain Analysis menu and moved functionality like contour generation, combine terrains, and watershed there from the File menu.
• Added option to calculate the volume between 2 terrain surfaces on the new Terrain Analysis menu.
• Added option to find ridge lines on loaded terrain data on the new Terrain Analysis menu.
• Added new Favorites toolbar that provides easy access to frequently used Digitizer/Edit Tool options. The new toolbar automatically tracks which features you commonly uses and makes some of those available. You can also customize it and choose which options to always make available. The currently selected favorite can be run by pressing a button or using the Ctrl+Enter shortcut key.
• Reorganized Digitizer Tool right-click menu, greatly reducing the size of the popup menu and making it much easier to find items.
• Added support for adding WFS (Web Feature Services) online data sources for dynamically loading online vector data sources.
• Added support for adding WMTS (tiled WMS) online data sources.
• Improved display of online sources at some display scales and also use less imagery for some DigitalGlobe exports.
• Added button on DigitalGlobe client ID specification dialog to allow easily estimating how much premium DigitalGlobe imagery that you would need to purchase for a particular export size and resolution. Also show coverage for each DigitalGlobe source as you highlight it in the source list.
• Update search dialog to allow selecting a specific set of layers to search in.

New Supported Formats

• Added support for exporting loaded data to CADRG/CIB format data sets.
• Added support for exporting loaded data to ASRP format data sets.
• Added support for exporting loaded data to Garmin JNX format data sets. This allows much larger data sets (like imagery) to be exported to compatible Garmin devices than the officially supported KMZ format. This option is part of the existing GPS menu item to send raster maps to a Garmin device and also as part of the list of raster formats from the File->Export->Raster menu command.
• Added support for exporting loaded terrain data to binary STL format data sets.
• Added support for exporting loaded line data to ZMap+ IsoMap Line Text files.
• Added support for loading NMF (ArcGIS Explorer map) format files.
• Added support for loading Cosmo-SkyMed SCS Radar Data in HDF5 Format.
• Added support for additional bands of VIIRS data in HDF5 Format.
• Added support for loading Cogent3D .imagery, .line, .point, and .poly files.
• Added support for loading generic text files with MGRS coordinates.
• Added support for exporting loaded contour line data to the AnuDEM contour .gen format.
• Added new export options for RAW and ERS (ERMapper) Grid formats. These were previously possible using the BIL export, now there are just explicit options to get the proper extension and options by default.
• Added support for text format files, like Arc ASCII Grid Files, larger than 4GB in size.

Digitizer Tool Changes

• Added new Favorites toolbar that provides easy access to frequently used Digitizer/Edit Tool options. The new toolbar automatically tracks which features you commonly uses and makes some of those available. You can also customize it and choose which options to always make available. The currently selected favorite can be run by pressing a button or using the Ctrl+Enter shortcut key.
• Reorganized Digitizer Tool right-click menu, greatly reducing the size of the popup menu and making it much easier to find items.
• Updated the toolbar buttons for creating new features to be active even if the Digitizer/Edit Tool is not active. If you select one of those options the tool will automatically activate.
• When using the File->Unload All menu command, reset the tool to the Zoom Tool if the Digitizer Tool is active so that the projection can also be reset and avoid confusion when the next file is loaded.
• Added option when rotating and scaling features to use the mouse to interactively rotate the features rather than specifying a specific rotation angle.
• Added option when selecting all areas that connect to a selected area to select only those immediately connected or those that can be reached with any connect path.
• Updated option to crop a selected area to a selected line to allow cropping multiple selected areas to the line.
• Added support for adding elevation statistics to selected point features (in addition to lines and areas which are already supported) using the Digitizer Tool. This includes adding SLOPE and SLOPE_DIR attributes, as well as ELEVATION, from the loaded terrain.
• Updated calculation of elevation statistics for area features to calculate the 3D surface area and store it as a SURFACE_AREA_3D attribute for each area.
• Fixed issue in v13.2 with slow performance (i.e. apparent lockup) trying to snap in the vicinity of area and line features with an extremely high (i.e. tens of thousands or more) number of vertices.
• Updated joining of lines with per-vertex timestamps (like tracklogs) to keep the per-vertex timestamps.
• When creating range rings around multiple selected point features and choosing the option to combine the results, immediately combine the results rather than waiting until a subsequent operation with the combine checkbox not checked.
• Updated options to select areas in other areas or to apply attributes to areas from other areas to allow just doing those that partially overlap and whose centroid is within a selected area.
• Updated the feature measure dialog to highlight the feature selected in the dialog on the map.
• Add a TIMESTAMP (as well as ELEVATION and DEPTH if applicable) attributes by default to points created with the Quick Point Creator feature from the position of a connected GPS device.
• Fixed change in orientation of line and area features when editing the segment lengths when the bearings are being reported relative to magnetic north.

Scripting Changes

• Added support for numeric and character looping in scripts using new VAR_LOOP_START and VAR_LOOP_END commands. This allows you to step through some range of numbers or characters in a script, including simple loop counters or numbers like coordinates.
• Added new CALC_ATTR script command to allow calculating new or updating existing attribute values in a script, including numeric calculations between an attribute an another attribute or a fixed value and appending or prepending text to existing attributes.
• Added new EDIT_MAP_CATALOG script command to allow creating new map catalogs and adding and removing maps from existing map catalogs from inside a script.
• Added support for TRANSFORM_FILENAME parameter for IMPORT command in script to provide a coordinate-to-coordinate (rather than pixel-to-coordinate like the GCP_FILENAME parameter) when loading a layer.
• Added support for specifying the SPATIAL_RES parameter for export commands as percent values rather than raw numbers, to easily allow adjusting native resolutions.
• Fixed issue with folders being created for each possible output when gridding even if no files end up being created there.
• Added option to mark duplicate features with a DUPLICATE=Y attribute by adding MARK_DUPLICATES=YES to the EDIT_VECTOR command rather than just marking them as deleted. You can specify IGNORE_ATTRS=YES to only match on geometry and not also attributes, but now specify DUPLICATE_ATTR parameters to indicate some attributes that do need to be identical.
• Allowed use of POLYGON_CROP_FOLDER_ATTR without also using POLYGON_CROP_NAME_ATTR to insert a folder into an output filename path.
• Updated SET_LOG_FILE command to add a version string and timestamp to the log file.
• Added new GRID_TYPE_PIXEL_SIZE_MAX parameter for EXPORT_RASTER and EXPORT_ELEVATION script commands to allow specifying that gridding should be done to a maximum pixel size, but then the actual pixel size shrank to get same-sized tiles that exactly cover the specified export bounds rather than making the last row and column of tiles possible go past the edge.
• Added support for providing a coordinate offset and scale (COORD_OFFSET and COORD_SCALE parameters) when exporting Lidar LAS files with the EXPORT_VECTOR command.
• Fixed issue with the EXPORT_RASTER command when running a script from a command prompt whereby if you only had vector data loaded it wouldn't be found.
• Fixed COMBINE_TERRAIN script command to by one pixel larger in size to better maintain the sample spacing.
• Fixed JOIN_LAYER command to work with formats other than Shapefiles.
• Added option (TIFF_NO_GTIFF_HEADER) to disable writing out a GeoTIFF header when exporting a TIFF file.
• Add option to prepend a blank line to the start of empty files being appended to with the GENERATE_PATH_PROFILE script command by adding an ADD_BLANK_LINE=YES parameter.
• Updated DIR_LOOP_START to allow specifying .. (two dots) as the FILENAME_MASK parameter for just looping over directories without needing to specify a file inside the folders.

Online Source Changes

• Added support for adding WFS (Web Feature Services) online data sources for dynamically loading online vector data sources.
• Added support for adding WMTS (tiled WMS) online data sources.
• Improved display of online sources at some display scales and also use less imagery for some DigitalGlobe exports.
• Added button on DigitalGlobe client ID specification dialog to allow easily estimating how much premium DigitalGlobe imagery that you would need to purchase for a particular export size and resolution. Also show coverage for each DigitalGlobe source as you highlight it in the source list.
• Added new SRTM terrain source hosted on globalmapper.com that is more reliable and much faster than the previous source hosted on a NASA/JPL server. The old source is still available with the text 'Backup Source' at the beginning of the source name just in case the new source is ever not available for any reason.
• Added support for merging WMS sources comprised of multiple layers into a single download if the WMS server supports it. This is useful for vector data available as different layers.
• Added drop-down lists to explicitly select the projection and file format to use when creating new WMS/WMTS sources so that you don't have to provide it as part of the service name anymore if you want something other than the default.
• Added support for adding custom tile-based sources that use quadtree naming (like Bing Maps). You just specify a custom URL string and use %quad for the quadtree name placeholder rather than %x, %y, and %z.
• Updated TMS web export to generate a tileset XML file rather than an HTML file.
• Added option to skip existing tiles for WorldWind Export, allowing you to split a large export among multiple running instances of Global Mapper.
• Fixed default display projection when loading the entire world of DigitalGlobe imagery. It was coming in for viewing as a UTM projection centered on the prime meridian if nothing else was loaded, which was not good for viewing much of the world.
• Made the WMS/WCS source selection dialog resizable.
• Moved the File menu option to load an ECW file from the Web to the online imagery download dialog as a new button.

Projection/Datum Changes

• Added Norwegian Transverse Mercator (NTM) zoned projection as a built-in projection.
• Added ED50 (Malta) and Sphere Radius 6378137 m as built in datums.
• Renamed Quebec MTM projection to MTM (Eastern Canada) to reflect that the projection is used for more than just Quebec.
• Updated Hotine Oblique Mercator/RSO projections that use Azimuth Point parameter to save to PRJ files as 'Longitude_of_Center' rather than 'Central_Meridian' so that Esri products will recognize it.
• Use TOWGS84 parameters in a WKT PRJ file to select an appropriate datum specialization for datums like ED50 that have lots of transformation parameters available.
• Updated New Israeli Datum transformation parameters based on official values from Israeli authorities.
• Added support for using a default.prj file in the App Data folder (see Help->About dialog to set) in addition to the .exe file path.

• Updating pasting of features to show a dialog allowing you to control what layer the features on the clipboard are pasted to. You can now either paste to the original layer (if still loaded), always create a new layer, paste to the User Created Features layer, or select a loaded layer to paste to. There is also an option on the Edit menu to control whether or not the paste options dialog is displayed or if the last selected option is used.
• Reorganized the File menu to reduce its size, including moving the export commands to a popup menu and grouping some other related functionality together, in addition to moving spatial analysis functions like contour generation and combining terrain to their own menu.
• Added option for displaying the bearing of line and area segments on the map on the Vector Display tab of the Configuration dialog.
• Added option to calculate the areas that drain to and from selected line features when performing a watershed analysis.
• Updated watershed calculation to make the streams 3D lines and ensure that the stream elevation always flow 100% downhill, even through depressions.
• Updated watershed calculation to save an input flow attribute (IN_FLOW) for each stream and also renamed the MAX_FLOW attribute to OUT_FLOW.
• Added new custom Half Pie and Half Pie (Empty) point symbols that allow for custom sizes and colors for the same shape of symbol.
• Allow overwriting loaded Shapefiles with large DBF files. Previously you would get an error if trying to overwrite them if they were currently loaded due to the DBF file being held open.
• Added option to specify a bounding box to load when loading Lidar point cloud data. Useful for limiting your load to just a small region for very large Lidar files.
• Added option to GPS menu to draw a ring around the vessel location of a user-specified radius.
• Updated build of map legend based on an attribute of vector features to also check the default attribute list for the feature type, allowing you to assign alternate names for a feature type (like different language for built-in types).
• Added new right-click option to the 3D path profile dialog to create a 3D line feature from the active sub-path.
• Updated exports to KML/KMZ when using a Mars or Moon datum to stick with that datum to facilitate using the data in Google Mars or Google Moon.
• Updated image rectification dialog to make the mouse wheel work for zooming when in the reference image view if the mouse is in there rather than just always zooming the zoom map view.
• Added Heading (always instead of just when time available) and Total Length columns to Feature Vertices dialog showing the length along to the line to each vertex.
• Updated font selection dialogs for things like the distance scale and elevation legend to allow selecting any color and not just one of a few common colors.
• Added option when saving search results to the clipboard as text to save them to a file if they are too large to all fit on the clipboard.
• Made geocoding addresses from a file use Country and Postcode fields. The address search will also be tried without the postal code if the results are poor as for some reason the search will sometimes work better without the postal code than with it.
• Added option when batch geocoding addresses to copy any addresses that no match at all could be found for to the clipboard.
• Added option to hide layers that are inside the selected area features to the right-click menu in the Control Center (previously just an option to hide layers outside selected layers existed).
• Updated Control Center to move the selection to the layer below (or above if none below) the item(s) being deleted rather than moving it to the first layer in the list.
• Fixed rare incorrect coloring of some PDF files in the 64-bit version.
• Made holding down the Ctrl key when resizing the main map window maintain the same resolution rather than keeping the same bounds and changing resolution.
• Greatly improved performance when exporting from online sources that occasionally return invalid image files.
• Fixed some issues with SOSI export and added OBJTYPE to every feature exported to SOSI file.
• Updated ZMap Grid ASCII Export to use 5 columns of elevation rather than 3.
• Restored dynamic behavior of water level slider on 3D view options dialog.
• Fixed issue in v13.2 release with prompt for type of unknown files no longer being shown when using the File->Open Data File menu command.
• Fixed issue with map layout items disappearing when you cancel a KML/KMZ export.
• Fixed issue with small custom shape symbols being larger than specified when viewed in Google Earth after exporting to KML/KMZ.
• Improved recovery from errors due to setting 3D view texture and/or terrain size larger than your video card can handle.
• Fixed problems drawing some symbols from IoGas .gas files.
• Corrected slope attribute value display to show degrees rather than radians for equal value area creation on a slope grid.
• Added support for GDAL "no data value" tag (42113) when reading and writing elevation GeoTIFF files.
• Added option to generic ASCII text import to create areas from closed line features if no CLOSED attribute is specified for the feature.
• Fixed error loading high bit depth NITF files with embedded JPEG2000 images in v13.2.
• Sped up rendering of ECW, MrSID, and JPEG2000 images when zoomed out a bit on them. They are no longer automatically interpolated to improve appearance as it's not needed for multi-level formats like those.
• Updated row and column grid naming to allow starting on strings of more than one letters (like BY).
• Fixed issue with Control Center being impossible to find if you somehow drag it off the screen since the position is now remembered.
• Limit field length and allowed characters in exported DBF files (such as with Shapefile export) to 254 characters as ESRI products can't handle the full supported 255 character length and also can't handle any special characters in DBF field names.
• Fixed issue with "Never Anti-Alias Pixels" option in batch conversion not being obeyed if the automatic export resampling option is enabled (the default) on the General tab of the Configuration dialog.
• Fixed problems with cropping to selected areas during batch conversion and also gridding vector data, like Simple ASCII Text or Lidar files, as part of the conversion.
• Fixed issues with some .ntf files being recognized as NTF Grid files rather than NITF files and not loading.
• Corrected tiny (about 1 parts in 6 million) over-reporting of calculated area values.
• Corrected flight date written to Lidar LAS files to be days of year rather than days in month so it won't always be in January.
• Display FLIGHT_DATE for Lidar LAS files in the metadata dialog for the layer.
• Fixed issues in v13.2 that could cause some buffer areas to be created with spikes back to the original feature being buffered.
• Added keyboard access to GPS menu items Save Tracklog (Alt+G then S) and Mark Waypoint from Average Position (Alt+G then A).
• Updated SPS format load to auto-detect the format version if no header was provided so that the attributes can be decoded properly from SPS v2.x files.
• Corrected cell type written to ERS files exported along with floating point BIL elevation files.
• Updated raster KML/KMZ export so that if you have the box checked on the Gridding tab to create separate folders for each row that your KML/KMZ super-overlay export will create separate folders for the zoom levels and rows of tiles to avoid sticking huge numbers of files in a single folder for very large exports.
• Added Ctrl+Shift+S as shortcut for Save Workspace As.
• Corrected reporting of minimum clearance location for line of sight and also storage of line of sight to a KML file to save the great circle path it was calculated with rather than the straight line path. These can be significantly different for very long line of sight paths.
• Added metadata about layers that were combined and the combine operation used to new elevation layers formed by combining terrain layers. You can see these values on the Metadata dialog for the combined layer.
• Improved handling of loading multiple unknown file types at once by remembering the type selected if prompted. Also made MSI Planet files load regardless of filename.
• Allow exporting grid lines to a raster file even if nothing else is loaded.
• Made sea level display as blue in the Global Shader.
• Added support for loading JP2 files with no embedded position information but with an accompanying .aux.xml file with position information.
• Made the vector type filter dialog for the Map Layout dialog resizable and have right-click options on each type list for clearing or setting all types.
• Added option to GPX export to include all feature attributes and not just those officially supported in the GPX format.
• Support additional GML flavors, like new OSGB INSPIRE maps.
• Improved loading of LandXML files, including adding support for loading contour lines.
• Added support for using index.txt (and other index files from MSI Planet) to position most image formats, like BMP.

Моё почтение, аж глаза разбежались. Спасибо за новость.