I don't have any experience with the client binary to speak of; but I've spent a bit of time playing with it on a semi-compatible server.
Here's a screenshot with showgrid on from the godclient:
GodClientInfoPacket.png
It does just show you the grid around the land tiles. Also when in god mode it allows you to drag map statics around. the difference in the two grid options is the order in which the grid is drawn I believe.
The view rects option shows a rectangle around dynamic and static objects when the mouse hovers over them, useful I suspect for world building.
You can drag statics in the god client.
I really do hope you find some evidence of these functions/features. There may be some functions in your IDA databases that are uncalled and are displaying as data sections; this was found in abundance in the Demo binary.
Here are some other related client features findings in this forum:
Statistics: Posted by Derrick — Thu Aug 25, 2011 12:07 am
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