What's New In Diamond Maps November 2025
Unlimited Layer Templates |
Create a layer for any purpose that you can imagine. Just describe what you want and we will create it for you with a little help from AI. See Create Custom Layer |
Work Order Notifications |
You can now configure your work order layer to automatically send out email notifications when work orders are created or completed. To set this up, go to Layers - Work Orders - More - Setup Notifications |
EOS GPS |
The Diamond Maps Offline App will now interface with the EOS Tools Pro app. Compared to directly connecting to an EOS Arrow, this alternate interface method allows you to keep the EOS Tools Pro app running. See Connecting an Arrow to Diamond Maps for instructions. |
Leica GPS |
The Diamond Maps Offline App will now interface with the Zeno Connect app. Compared to directly connecting to a Leica FLX100 Plus, this alternate interface method allows you to keep the Zeno Connect app running. See Connecting A Leica - FLX100 Plus To Diamond Maps for instructions. |
Vivax Metrotech Locator |
The Diamond Maps Offline App will now interface with the vLoc3 RTK-Pro locator by Vivax Metrotech. See Connecting A vLoc3 RTK-Pro To Diamond Maps for instructions. |
Utiliguard Locator |
The Diamond Maps Offline App will now interface with the Utiliguard 2 RTK locator by Subsite Electronics. See Connecting A Utiliguard 2 RTK To Diamond Maps for instructions. |
Rycom Locator |
The Diamond Maps Offline App will now interface with the Pathfinder Locator by Rycom Instruments. See Connecting A Rycom Pathfinder To Diamond Maps for instructions. |
Muni-Link |
We can now synchronize meter information from your Muni-Link billing software to your meter layer in Diamond Maps. Other billing systems that we integrate with include Sequoyah, CUSI, and Ampston |
Column Widths |
You can now adjust the column widths of the browse screen when viewing a list of features. |
Payments |
We now accept ACH and a variety of other payment types if you would rather pay by some method other than check or card. |
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. |
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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. |
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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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New Help Videos |
Establish Sewer Cleaning Zones |
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