Hey Mike, Some strange things are happening between Unknown and Unclassified features. One, it doesn't seem I can create an Unclassified feature. Creates it...
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RichardJ
rjack321
Mar 2, 2012 5:52 am
I have a USGS topo map which I would like the contours digitized from. There is no DEM available for this particular quadrangle as far as I can tell....
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 2, 2012 7:05 am
Hello RichardJ, While you could create very string areas from the contour line color on the topo, it would be a ton of work assigning elevations to those. Have...
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Jack Baker
fishmapman
Mar 2, 2012 3:41 pm
RJ If you well tell me what usgs drg quad I can digitized it very quickly and send back to you in the form of a shape file or polish format file. If you can...
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James
sleestacky
Mar 2, 2012 6:29 pm
Hey Mike, I know, bugging you again. Just a little gripe about the simple ascii text import/export. Now with import you can choose DD,DM or DMS. Nice but only...
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James
sleestacky
Mar 2, 2012 7:56 pm
Yes Mike, I'm a pest! but I just exported some features and when I opened up the file, all the features I had deleted were there. Looks like deleted features...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 2, 2012 8:29 pm
Hello James, You should be able to re-import the fully formatted file with the degrees symbols and such with the normal coordinate format option (i.e. X first...
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Global Mapper
global_mapper
Mar 2, 2012 8:37 pm
Jim, What version of GM are you using and what format are you exporting to? Thanks, Mike Global Mapper Guru gmsupport@... ...
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B.L.Shiva Kumar
shivakibl
Mar 3, 2012 2:48 am
Mike how to cut polygons within polygons, like clean, build function in command in Arc Shivakumar B.L ... From: Mike Childs...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 3, 2012 3:52 am
Hello Danny, You can do that by selecting the areas to cut (make holes) in a larger one with the Digitizer Tool, then right click and select the option to...
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B.L.Shiva Kumar
shivakibl
Mar 3, 2012 4:20 am
Thank you for quick response, It is already digitized and imported from cad. i have two layers 1. poly 2. text, which requires clean and build export to shape...
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Global Mapper
global_mapper
Mar 3, 2012 4:43 am
Jim, Never mind about the version, I'm assuming you were using a very recent one as I just found and fixed the issue that caused deleted features to be...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 3, 2012 4:47 am
Hello B.L.Shiva, Oh that is different than what I thought you wanted. It sounds like what you want is to assign the attributes from points to the area feature...
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B.L.Shiva Kumar
shivakibl
Mar 3, 2012 5:00 am
Sorry, I have many polygons within that have text values like a, b, c, d, etc..I want to attribute values like a,b,c,d, to the respective polygons as a field...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 3, 2012 5:10 am
Hello B.L.Shiva, The operation to add attributes to selected areas from loaded points should do that. Any attributes should be copied from the points to the...
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Jack Baker
fishmapman
Mar 3, 2012 10:03 pm
Richard I am in the process of making the whole lake and will digitize it for you. It will take my computer about four hours to process the file and make it ...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 5, 2012 12:57 pm
Hi, for future reference, I use a program called WinTopo that has a lot of raster image processing functions and automatic vectorisation of rasters. It can...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 5, 2012 1:02 pm
Hi, how do I add text to a map? I'm looking to add text of various sizes at locations to indicate names of places and features. I'm using GM 12.02. Thanks, ...
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James
sleestacky
Mar 5, 2012 1:26 pm
Mike, Just loaded the latest build. Correct, GM will import and parse the fully formatted file...BUT... only if the "Coordinate Delimeter" is set to "Comma",...
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samknightbmg
Mar 5, 2012 3:20 pm
Hello Carl, Adding text features is just like adding Point features. A text feature is simply a point feature with no symbol displayed. To create a new point...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 5, 2012 3:24 pm
Hello James, Yeah that is expected since the auto-detect will try each of the delimiters and look for valid numeric coordinate values. Since a fully formatted...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 5, 2012 3:55 pm
Hello James, I decided to change the priority order for auto-detecting delimiters since spaces can occur naturally inside coordinates but commas not nearly so...
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Ian Boag
ianboag
Mar 5, 2012 6:57 pm
I had the same problem. The solution I came up with was to generate PNG files (which can have transparent backgrounds). So I found someone to write me a bit of...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 5, 2012 11:13 pm
Thanks, that exactly what I did. GM doesn't scale text though with zooming. I mean it doesn't shrink text when zooming out. Are there any plans to allow for...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 5, 2012 11:21 pm
Hi Richard...I looked into this today and I found that the text doesn't shrink with the map: when you zoom out the place names don't shrink with the map. So I...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 5, 2012 11:27 pm
-what I meant to say was there is no feature to dynamically scale the text size. Currently it IS kept constant in screen pixels. Carl...
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Mike Childs
global_mapper
Mar 5, 2012 11:36 pm
Hello Carl, Actually there is a feature to keep a label a fixed height on the map vs a fixed height in pixels. When you specify the font you can check at the...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 5, 2012 11:52 pm
Thanks, I'll go check it out. That sounds like what I'm looking for. Carl...
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Carl
carllingard
Mar 6, 2012 12:26 am
Hi, would it be possible to create a GM script that writes a text file containing information about all point/text feature attributes? I need a script that...
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Ian Boag
ianboag
Mar 6, 2012 5:23 am
If I understand you correctly it's not even a script. Select the points you want to export and just export the vector data as a CSV. The easiest way to do the...
