Several people have written that they were unable to get to
the Global Mapper web site. I tried it again and it came up, but
when I refreshed the page I got a notice that it was not currently
available, so I guess my apparent success the last couple of days was
indeed because it was in my cache. Hopefully they'll get their
problem solved and be back up soon. In the mean time the installer
is also available through third parties, like CNET
<http://download.cnet.com/Global-Mapper/3000-2054_4-10882360.html>.
Mark
Same here, and when going to the Googled search link it also go
there. It may be they got hacked and Mark has not refreshed the
website on his machine.
A quick look for whois notes for the domain www.globalmapper.com
shows that the domain owner info was updated on the Dec 9th from
it's old owner to Godaddy.com. This could be a source of the confusion.
Terry H.
[email protected] wrote:
this gets weirder and weirder.
When I click Mark's globalmapper link it takes me to this security
web site: http://sec-center.com/
When I type in the address by hand I get the same thing.
-Vivian
-------------- Original message from Mark Minton
<[email protected]>: --------------
> Pete Lindsley said:
>
> >The Global Mapper link in Mark's note apparently today is a
> redirect to something else, which looks suspiciously like an
> "eastern" web site. A few hours later it just gave an error
"Internal
> Server Error" http://www.sec-center.com/vb/ leads to: something
> else. Virus perhaps? Hopefully they will get rid of the bad stuff so
> we can see their web site.
>
> That is very bizarre. I cut and pasted that URL
> from the Global Mapper web page that I
> had just opened on my computer. I just tried it again and it works
> fine. I wonder if Pete has a virus that is usurping URLs, which I
> think someone mentioned recently. Or maybe the Global Mapper site
> was temporarily hit by something. In any event, if my URL doesn't
> work or looks suspicious, just type in the characters or Google
> Global Mapper and you should get their site as one of the first
> couple that come up. I find their software, even the somewhat
> limited free version, to be the best for using USGS topo map TIFF
> images. (One annoying limitation of the free version is that
> printing and saving views are disabled. This is easily circumvented,
> however, by capturing a screen image ("print screen" key on a PC) of
> the view you want to print, and then pasting it into an empty image
> in a photo program like the excellent and free IrfanView
> . You can then manipulate that captured
> image to crop out borders, etc., leaving you a simple topo snapshot
> that can be printed and saved.)
>
> Mark Minton
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