Global Mapper Toolbars

The toolbars provide quick mouse access to many tools used in Global Mapper. This page lists the toolbars and provides links to the contained tools.

Turn on and off the display of any toolbars from the View > Toolbars sub-menu. The drop-down at the end of each toolbar provides access to Customization of the toolbars, including adding new buttons and showing text labels.

File

• Open Data Files
• Connect to Online Data
• Save Workspace
• Map Layout Editor *requires Advanced
• Configure
• Control Center
• File Browser
• Overview Map
• Command Search

Scripting

• Script Builder *requires Advanced
• Script Editor *requires Advanced
• Favorite Scripts

Navigation

• Zoom (Alt+Z)
• Pan (Alt+G)
• Zoom In
  
• Zoom Out
  
• Restore Last View (Ctrl+Backspace)
• Full View

Selection

• Digitizer Tool (Alt+D)
• Select by Drawing Polygon
• Clear Current Selection
• Select Labels

Tools

• Digitizer Toolset
• Measure Tool (Alt+M)
  
• Feature Info Tool (Alt+P)
  
• Search Vector Data *requires Advanced
• Mobile Data Management *requires Advanced
  

Analysis

• Create Elevation Grid *requires Advanced
• Create Contours *requires Advanced
• Calculate Cut and Fill Volume (Ctrl+Alt+M) *requires Advanced
• Path Profile (Alt+L)
• Create View Shed (Alt+V) *requires Advanced
• Create Water Shed *requires Advanced
• Solar Shadow Calculations *requires Professional
• Combine/ Compare Terrain *requires Professional
• Create Density Grid (Heat Map) *requires Advanced
• Create 3D Fly-through *requires Advanced
• Enable Terrain Painting *requires Professional
• Image Paint *requires Professional
• Generate Breaklines *requires Professional
• Guided Breakline *requires Professional

Viewer

• Add 2D Map Views
• Rotate Map
  
• Image Swipe
  
• Show 3D View
  
• Link 2D and 3D Views (Ctrl+Shift+3)
• Animate Layers
• Display Water Level
• Increase Water Level
• Decrease Water Level
• Enable/ Disable Hill Shading
• Dynamic Hill Shading *requires Advanced
• Shader Drop-down Menu
• Lidar/Terrain Display Controls *requires Advanced

Favorites

• Favorites Drop-down
• Run Selected Command (Ctrl+Enter)

Digitizer (Create)

• Disabled by default, see: Digitizer Toolset
• Create Point/ Text Feature
• Create Line Feature (Vertex Mode)
• Create Line Feature (Trace Mode) (Shift+T)
• Create Area Feature
• Create Rectangle/ Square Area Feature
• Create Circle/ Ellipse Area Feature

Digitizer (Advanced)

• Disabled by default, see: Digitizer Toolset
• Create Distance/ Bearing/ COGO Line *requires Advanced
• Create Range Rings / Ellipses
• Create Regular Grid of Features *requires Advanced
• Create Strike-and-Dip Point *requires Advanced
• Vectorize Raster *requires Professional
• Cut Selected Area(s) From Another Area *requires Advanced
• Spatial Operations *requires Advanced
• Right Angle Draw Mode (R)
• Ortho Draw Mode

Digitizer (Edit)

• Disabled by default, see: Digitizer Toolset
• Move Selected Feature(s) (Ctrl+Shift+M)
• Rotate Scale Feature(s)
• Display Area/ Line Vertices (Shift+V)
• Move Selected Vertices *requires Advanced
• Insert Vertex
• Combine Line Features
• Split Line At Selected Vertex
• Create Points From Line/ Area Vertices
• Create Lines From Areas
• Create Areas From Lines
• Combine Selected Areas
• Crop To Selected Areas
• Create Buffer Around Selected Features *requires Advanced

GPS

• Start Tracking GPS (Ctrl+T)
• Stop Tracking GPS
• Keep GPS\ Video Vessel on screen
• Orient View to GPS \Video Heading
• Mark Waypoint (Ctrl+M)
• Mark Waypoint from Averaged Position
• Display GPS Info
• Sky View
• Mark Waypoint at Offset

Deep Learning

• Land Cover Classification
• Object Detection
• Fine-Tuning

Lidar Toolbar

Drop-down

Selection



Classification



 

Additional Toolbars:

Control Center Toolbar

Attribute Editor Toolbar

Sort Features

Script Editor Toolbar

New File

Open File (Ctrl+O)

Save File (Ctrl+S)

Save All

Undo (Ctrl+U)

Redo (Ctrl+Y)

Cut (Ctrl+X)

Copy (Ctrl+C)

Paste (Ctrl+V)

Toggle Bookmark

Next Bookmark

Previous Bookmark

3D Toolbars

Path Profile Toolbars

Map Layout/ Cartography Toolbars