Global Mapper 10 added support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files.

Global Mapper 10 provides a expansive set of features for viewing, displaying and converting mapsets at a fraction of the cost of some of the larger GIS suites. While it does not have a full functionality of, say, ArcGIS (most notably it lacks spatial analyses and the ability to select and edit based on table attributes), it does the basics extremely well and much more quickly than those other GIS packages. Customer support is without peer, with feature requests and bug fixes turned out almost immediately when presented in the users group distribution list.

Just annouced this morning is the exciting news that Global Mapper 10 has been released! This has been a much anticipated release for those who follow the Global Mapper Forum and the program updates.

Maybe you are asking yourself, why should I upgrade? Here are some of the improvements and newest features to Global Mapper 10.

Added support for importing ESRI personal geodatabase (MDB) files.

Added support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files.

Added more control over placement of labels for point features. Now when choosing the font to use for point features, you can also choose where to place the label for the point relative to the point location. An automatic setting will try different locations to try and make the label fit.

Added support for selecting/changing the layer that features are in when editing existing features and creating new ones with the Digitizer Tool.

Added KML/KMZ Super Overlay Support! This allows working with huge data sets in Google Earth. The option to automatically grid the data on the KML/KMZ export dialog enables this behavior.

Added support for creating new feature coordinates based on distance/bearing and/or COGO values from a start location using the Digitizer Tool.

Added option on the Gridding tab for exports to grid to the currently selected area features. This will create a separate export file for each selected area feature. Naming can be done using the display labels or an attribute of the selected area feature(s).

Added options when editing multiple features to rename attributes and also to copy the values of one attribute to a different attribute.

Added new Coordinate Convertor option under the Tools menu to allow easily converting a coordinate between any two supported projections/datums/units.

Added ability to Search Vector Data dialog to limit your search to the existing search results. This effectively allows you to query on multiple attributes/values.

Added a large collection of new available line styles to use when rendering line features or area feature borders.

Added option to crop a loaded raster layer to the currently selected area feature to the Cropping tab of the Raster Options dialog accessible from the Overlay Control Center.

Added support for exporting loaded vector data to the MapInfo TAB/MAP format.

Added support for exporting loaded 3D line and point data to the SEGP1 format.

Made automatic collar cropping work for BSB marine charts.