- Start up Global Mapper. Load in a polygon with holes.
The polygon is loaded. - On the keyboard, press ALT+D to activate the Digitizer Tool.
The cursor changes to a cross hair with the Edit label. - Click on the polygon.
The polygon is selected. - Mouse right click anywhere inside the map window.
A pop up menu appears. - Choose Advanced Selection Options | Select Island Areas in Selected Area Feature.
All the holes are selected. - Mouse right click anywhere inside the map window.
A pop up menu appears. - Choose Delete Selected Features.
The holes are deleted.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Removing holes from polygons with Global Mapper
Sometimes I want to remove the holes inside polygons. Global Mapper provides a convenient function to do the job. Here are the steps that I use:
Nice. It helps, I agree, but if you have another area within the selected one, it selects that feature as well, even if that is not a hole.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, If you want to do this (remove the holes)for an entire shapefile layer (area) it does not work.