What's New In Diamond Maps November 2024

GNSS: Direct Connect	The Diamond Maps Offline app now supports direct connections to more GPS/GNSS devices. You can now connect to the Juniper, Eos, Sparkfun, Bad Elf, Asteri, Leica, and Trimble devices directly from the iOS or Android versions of our Offline app. See GNSS Setup for device specific instructions.
GNSS: NTRIP	The Diamond Maps Offline app now has an NTRIP client built into it. For more about this see GNSS Setup.
GNSS: Pole Height	You can now correct for the pole height of your GNSS device on the GPS setup screen.
	Cemetery Plots: A new grid drawing tool allows you to draw an array of uniformly sized rectangles onto the map. This tool was designed for drawing cemetery plots. You will find this new tool on the draw toolbar for any layer that supports areas.
GNSS: Move To GPS	The Android and iOS Offline apps now have the ability to move an existing point to your current GPS location.
Offline Sync	The offline app has a more robust sync process to prevent lost data when trying to synchronize over a poor internet connection.
Select & Modify	A new selection method has been added to the Select and Modify tool. You can now select all features that are inside of an area feature already drawn on the map such as a parcel, or service district boundary. See Select and Modify.
	Use the new Elevation Profile tool found on the Menu to generate an elevation profile graph for any path that you draw on the map. See Elevation Profile.
Offline Imagery	If you have a local imagery layer in your Diamond Maps online, you can now view those same background images in the offline app.
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What's New In Diamond Maps December 2023

Geocoder	The Import CSV Points tool will now plot points based on an address.
New Map Wizard	If you frequently make maps for other communities then you may find this useful. When creating a new map, click "Choose A Template" to make the new map like another map. See Managing Maps
More Account Managers	You are no longer limited to only 8 account managers.
Printing	Large Format Printing now supports custom imagery layers and allows you add a simple title.
Sewer Lateral Tool	The new Sewer Lateral Tool will prompt you to type in the distances to each lateral and then Diamond Maps will place a tick mark at each distance making it easier to draw each lateral at its exact location.
New Map Permission	A new account level setting allows you to give everyone on your account the ability to create new maps so that the account manager isn't the only one who can do so.
Set Field Value	The Set Field Value action associated with the Select and Modify tool now lets you assign values to multiple fields all at once.
MULTIPICK Field Type	Customize your forms with the new Multipick field type
Add Fields From Template	Add a predefined set of fields to a layer using the "Add Fields From Template" link on the Add/Remove Fields screen.

What's New In Diamond Maps December 2022

The long-awaited iOS app is complete

The Diamond Maps Offline app is now available in both the Apple and Android app stores. For instructions on how to use it see here.

This new help system

We have combined all of our help articles and videos into a new searchable knowledge base. Plus we have several new videos and How-To articles. You can switch to the full-screen version of the help system here. But don't worry, we still provide free live chat and phone support.

Canada Server

We now have a separate server in Quebec for our Canada customers who have sensitive information that needs to be hosted in-country. If you are not already using ca.diamondmaps.com and want your data moved to that site let us know. For our US customers, your data is still hosted in the US.

Classify by range

The color-coding tool now has the ability to color code by ranges of values. See Color Coding for more about how to do that.

Add/Rem

Fields

Rearrange field order with drag and drop.

The Add/Remove Fields screen now allows you to re-order your fields by simply dragging and dropping. No more clicking up-up-up-up-up.

Trimble Mobile Manager Interface

If you are using a Trimble GNSS device then you will be glad to know that you can now connect Diamond Maps directly to the Trimble Mobile Manager app for a more robust connection and more metadata than before. And GPS Metadata fields are now automatically created in your layer when marking new points with any GPS/GNSS device.

The Shapefile Export has a couple of new options including 1) the ability to select just a portion of your map to export, and 2) the ability to reproject the exported data to a different projection.

Imagery layers

Locally provided imagery can now be shown on-top-of the Google Imagery instead of in-place-of, resulting in a more continuous view when working with small custom imagery sets.

Shift Google Imagery

If you suspect that the Google Imagery in your part of the world is off by more than a foot, let us know. We have a new method of applying local corrections to this layer based on either survey control points or your own high-precision GPS points. Read more here.

Email Aliases

Want to create logins for staff who don't have their own email address? See How to Add a New User for instructions on creating aliases like bob+bbutil@gmail.com