The Global Mapper application provides a number of top level menus that organize various categories of functionality inside of the application. This section briefly reviews the menus and commands in order to understand the basic purpose of each. Each menu will display an icon on the left column if the operation is also included in a toolbar as a toolbar button. The right side of the menu will show operations that have built-in keyboard shortcuts. Menu items that have a suffix of ... indicate operations that display an additional options dialog before performing the action.
The File menu handles importing, exporting and various saving operations, as well as scripting and batch conversion utilities.
The Edit menu provides high level copy, paste and select all options, primarily applicable to vector features.
The View menu contains various options that control navigation and the look and feel of the application.
The Tools menu contains utilities for connecting to and obtaining info about data, as well as select tools, and the application configuration options.
The Digitizer menu contains tools for the selection, query, editing, and analysis of vector data. Options become available in the menu based on the currently selected features. A filtered version of these options are also available in the right-click context menu when the digitizer is active.
The Analysis menus has advanced analytical tools separated by the type of data used in processing for lidar, raster, vector and terrain data.
The Layer menu contains options that operate on an entire layer selected in the control center. The options in this menu mirror those found in the context menu accessed with a right-click on a layer listed in the control center.
The Search menu contains options to search the attributes of vector data in various ways, or geocode address information with a web connection.
The GPS menu controls options for a GPS device connected to the computer.
The Deep Learning menu can be used to access the Deep Learning Analysis tools.
The Help menu contains documentation, online resources, licensing, updates and other advanced machine options.