Peter, I have just changed the Feature Info reporting for polygon features to also report the area of any islands or holes within the polygon separate from the...
4107
smart165999
Mar 28, 2006 1:20 pm
Hello, I'm using Global mapper to view 2005 Tiger line files but it seems that not all the lines and polygons that should be present are example: Congressional...
4108
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 28, 2006 6:51 pm
Andrew, I just tried loading a Tiger 2005 file and got Congressional District polygons (I loaded Johnson Co., KS). You do need to make sure to check the ...
4109
Ron Radzieta
ronradzieta
Mar 29, 2006 12:36 am
When I open a MapInfo .TAB file in MapInfo and in GlobalMapper vector "areas" are plotted the same color. Hence, both programs are accessing a color...
4110
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 29, 2006 1:43 am
Ron, The color that is displayed is part of the area drawing style, which you can edit with the area edit dialog. It won't show up as an attribute though. The...
4111
ronradzieta@...
ronradzieta
Mar 29, 2006 3:29 pm
I must have selected a text output format that only exports the coordinate data. I'm not at my computer right now so I can't confirm that it seems like one of...
4112
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 29, 2006 4:21 pm
Ron, Actually with the ASCII export if you choose in include attributes then the color and other drawing styles will be added as attribute values. You ...
4113
Ron Radzieta
ronradzieta
Mar 29, 2006 6:11 pm
The work around for now is to export to ascii as you specified, reimport as ascii and then export to shp. This will result in the styles becoming attributes...
4114
pelampe
Mar 29, 2006 10:14 pm
Hello, I have a shapefile with polygons that I'd like to colorize based on a value of a field in the attribute table. For instance, I have a field called...
4115
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 29, 2006 11:12 pm
Phil, You can use the Search->Search by Attributes menu command to search based on attribute value, then edit the results of the search and change the drawing ...
4116
tsnyderpe
Mar 30, 2006 3:53 am
Hello, I am new to Global Mapper and am learing some of the things it can do. I have finally figured out how to import points using a CSV file. I would like to...
4117
tsnyderpe
Mar 30, 2006 3:57 am
Hello Jim, I am new to Global Mapper and see by your points that you travel in my area. I am looking for a way to learn the ascii inputting of data. Any...
4118
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 30, 2006 4:41 am
Tom, I'd suggest having a look at the supplemental instructions on Generic ASCII Text file generation at ...
4119
Snyder, Thomas Scott
tsnyderpe
Mar 30, 2006 5:34 am
Thanks for the quick response and yes I have been looking at those files. Is then a script file necessary to (1) load the PRJ and then (2) load the point file?...
4120
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 30, 2006 6:18 am
Tom, It is not necessary to load the PRJ file explicitly. If the PRJ file is in the same folder as the point file and has the same name (i.e. points.prj to go...
4121
jim fosse
jim_fosse
Mar 30, 2006 7:01 am
Tom, From a previous post, you may also use a file by the name of default.prj in the same directory, if all of your files have the same projection. ... Jim,...
4122
Road
roadmapco
Mar 30, 2006 12:30 pm
Mike, Recently I got a SRTM30 file with the current description: http://geotorrent.org/details.php?id=40 WGS84 Geodetic 16 bit lossless JPEG 2000 file. A...
4123
André Gurgel
geobusca
Mar 30, 2006 12:44 pm
I really miss two checkboxes in the Search by Attributes dialog: - Case insensitive - Accent insensitive (where ç=c é=e ñ=n Ã=A and so on) Thanks. André...
4124
Snyder, Thomas Scott
tsnyderpe
Mar 30, 2006 1:15 pm
Aahhh, the light is going on. Got it, projection file same name as point file. Thanks Tom Snyder Victorville CA ... From: global_mapper@yahoogroups.com on...
4125
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 30, 2006 2:29 pm
Nima, Global Mapper does not currently support displaying elevation-based JPEG 2000 files. In my experience, this particular SRTM30 dataset is the only JPEG...
4126
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 30, 2006 3:38 pm
André, Thanks for the suggestions. The case-insensitive option was pretty easy to implement so I went ahead and added it. The accent-insensitive option is a ...
4127
Snyder, Thomas Scott
tsnyderpe
Mar 30, 2006 5:07 pm
For the example given I would like to find out what the last column means in: Here is an example of acceptable input and the shape that it produces: ...
4128
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 30, 2006 5:29 pm
Tom, The last column is the elevation of each point. That is completely optional, you can just leave it off if you don't have elevations for each vertex. Mike ...
4129
Stephan Viljoen
potskerf
Mar 31, 2006 6:57 am
Mike, Is it possible to move the name of a point/line/area feature without moving the feature itself? Sometimes when points are bunched up the names overlap. ...
4130
John Blair
johnb92246
Mar 31, 2006 11:03 am
I had the same problem. What I learned from Mike is that you can do the following using the edit box for a point: 1. Turn the name of the item off by leaving...
4131
RsH
torontorsh
Mar 31, 2006 1:48 pm
To be more precise, and feel free to correct me, that last number is the elevation in whatever unit measure you have selected. If you have selected meters, it...
4132
John M. Scroggins
scroggjm
Mar 31, 2006 2:50 pm
Can a long point label be forced to wrap to two lines, perhaps by embedding a line feed, or some other way?...
4133
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 31, 2006 4:58 pm
There is not currently a way to make multi-line labels other than creating multiple point label features. Of course this is not ideal since the text lines will...
4134
Global Mapper Support
global_mapper
Mar 31, 2006 5:21 pm
John, That is one way to separate the labels and works very well for horizontally oriented labels. If you want non-horizontal labels, the other approach is to ...
4135
John Blair
johnb92246
Apr 1, 2006 3:13 am
That seems like a good idea. I'll try it. I've been wondering how to label ridges in the Southern Appalachians. Now I know. Great help and I didn't even ask...
