Blue Marble Geographics Global Mapper

Description

Global Mapper is a GIS program that allows you to view and convert vector, elevation, and raster data. It was developed for Windows.

The application supports over 250 different raster, vector, and elevation data types, such as 3DS Max, Blender, OBJ, COLLADA 3D, ERMapper Compressed Wavelet, ESRI Shapefiles, LandXML, and GeoJSON. You can also import or export spatial databases including MS SQL Server, Oracle Spatial and ESRI ArcSDE.

For data processing, Global Mapper provides batch processing that allows multiple selected files to be converted, reprojected, gridded, and renamed. It also gives you the feature extraction tool that can be used to analyze areas that match a color or color range that are within a certain elevation or have a specified slope layer.

Global Mapper is used by beginners and professionals and competes directly with other GIS applications developed by ESRI, GeoMedia, and MapInfo. The GIS tool supports a large variety of data types and provides helpful tools, such as feature extraction and batch processing. Global Mapper is still a good choice, even though it lacks the same features as ERDAS IMAGINE.

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