Creating buffers in Global Mapper

Buffer zones can be easily created in Global Mapper. The buffers can be merged and/or zoned depending on the parameters you choose during the creation.

The following steps can be used to create buffers using Global Mapper.

1. Start up Global Mapper and open up a data file or create some line work to create buffers.
   
   The figure below shows two line geometries.
   
   
   
   
2. Press ALT+D to activate the Digitizer Tool. Drag a box to select the geometries for buffering.
   
   The geometries are selected.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Press a right click on the mouse.
   
   A pop up menu appears.
   
   
   
   
4.  Choose Advanced Feature Creation Option | Create Buffers Around Selected Features.
   
   The Setup Buffer Area Creation dialog box appears.
   
   
5. In the Number of Buffer Zones for Each Feature field, type in a value e.g. 1.
   
6. In the Buffer Distance field, type in a value e.g. 100,
   
7. Toggle on or off Combine Overlapping Buffer Areas.
   
8. Click OK.
   
   The buffer(s) is created. By default the buffer(s) is created selected.
   
   
    

An example of a single, combined buffer is shown in the figure below.

An uncombined single buffers are shown in the figure below.

The figure below shows an example of combined buffers with multiple zones.