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Download Online Imagery/Topo/Terrain Maps
Global Mapper User's Manual
The Download Online Imagery/Topo/Terrain Maps command allows the user to download mapping data from
numerous built-in and user-supplied sources. This includes premium access to high resolution color imagery
for the entire world from DigitalGlobe, worldwide street maps from OpenStreetMap.org, as well as seamless
USGS topographic maps and satellite imagery for the entire United States from
MSRMaps.com/TerraServer-USA. In addition, access is provided to several built-in WMS (OpenGC Web
Map Server) databases to provide easy access to digitial terrain data (NED and SRTM) as well as color
satellite imagery (Landsat7) for the entire world. You can also add your own WMS data sources for access to
any data published on a WMS server.
This is an extremely powerful feature as it puts many terabytes of usually very expensive data right at your
fingertips in Global Mapper for no additional cost (with the exception of access to the un-watermarked
DigitalGlobe imagery, which is not free). Note that this feature requires Internet access to work.
When you select the menu command, the Select Online Data Source to Download dialog (pictured below) is
displayed. This dialog allows you to select the type, or theme, of data to download, as well as the extents of
the data to download. You can either select to download the current screen bounds, an area to download
around an address, specify a lat/lon bounds explicitly, or select to download the entire data source.
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