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of gis software products focused on data translation . they provide software products and services for working with gis data in different formats and for addressing the unique challenges associated with geospatial data . blue marble s focus is on highly accurate mapping as evidenced by their new product line and services offering including applied geodesy training 1 consulting and software development . blue marble is a member of the open geospatial consortium and techmaine . 2 contents 1 products 1.1 geographic calculator 1.2 global mapper 2 company history 3 references 4 external links products edit geographic calculator edit blue marble s first software product the geographic calculator 3 was developed in 1992 and released in 1993 . the geographic calculator is a coordinate conversion library with a database of coordinate mathematic objects including projections coordinate systems datums elipsoids linear and angular units . the tool is primarily used to translate map coordinates from one system to another . the geographic calculator quickly grew in popularity over that first decade and has maintained its reputation as the best coordinate conversion solution on the market . in 2004 the underlying geocalc library was re written and in 2007 a new version was released as the blue marble desktop . 2013 saw a rebranding of the blue marble desktop back to the geographic calculator . 4 blue marble incorporated all of the functionality of the blue marble desktop including the geographic transformer translator and spatial connect products into the new geographic calculator . this did away with the confusing versioning and introduced an easier to follow annual naming convention with one or two service pack updates between releases . the all in one interface of the geographic calculator enables users to complete a number of geodetic and geospatial transformation functions on various types of data in the same interface with unmatched accuracy and accountability . the enterprise collaboration tools such as workspaces and network folders enable consistency and repeatability of highly accurate data translation across your organization . global mapper edit global mapper is a geographic information system gis software package currently developed by blue marble geographics that runs on microsoft windows . global mapper handles both vector raster and elevation data and provides viewing conversion and other general gis features . global mapper has an active user community with a mailing list and online forums . in 1995 the usgs was in need of a windows viewer for their data products so they developed the dlgv32 application for viewing their dlg digital line graph vector data products . between 1995 and 1998 the dlgv32 application was expanded to include support for viewing other usgs data products including drg topographic maps and dem digital elevation model and sdts dlg and sdts dem data products . 5 the development process is described in detail in the usgs paper titled a programming exercise . in 1998 the usgs released the source code for dlgv32 v3 .7 to the public domain . in 2001 the source code for dlgv32 was further developed by a private individual into the commercial product dlgv32 pro v4 .0 and offered for sale via the internet . later that same year the product was renamed to global mapper and become a commercial product of the company global mapper software llc . the usgs was distributing a version of the software under the name dlgv32 pro global mapper . blue marble acquired global mapper llc at the end of 2011 . 6 mike childs the original developer of global mapper continues to work for blue marble as a lead developer . in 2013 blue marble released a major version update to global mapper that also introduced the new global mapper lidar module . 7 the global mapper lidar module offers optional enhancement to base global mapper application and provides numerous advanced lidar processing tools e.g. automatic point cloud classification automatic extraction of buildings trees and powerlines cross sectional viewing and point editing custom digitizing or extraction of 3d line and area features etc. . as of 2016 the latest version of global mapper available is v17 .2 . 8 on june 22 2016 the global mapper mobile application was released for ios devices . 9 company history edit blue marble geographics was established in 1993 and was originally located in gardiner maine . 10 the company founder retired in 2003 and patrick cunningham took over as president adding employees and re focusing the product offering over the next few years . in 2008 they received the governor s award for technology company of the year at the techmaine technology awards showcase . 11 blue marble is one of a handful of geospatial or gis software companies to come out of maine in the nineties . the company s founder studied at the university of maine at orono and like other well known gis companies from maine its roots are tied to the surveying and forestry programs of the university of maine . after years of growing the company has moved its home office to hallowell maine . 12 references edit applied geodesy training . www.bluemarblegeo.com . retrieved 2016 03 04 . techmaine . the geographic calculator blue marble software rebranding u.s. geological survey spatial data transfer standard . mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov . retrieved 2016 03 04 . deveaux 2011 07 30 . blue marble geographics leaders llc . www.leaders llc.com . leaders llc . retrieved 2016 03 04 . gakstatter 2013 09 23 . global mapper v15 released with extension interface and powerful new lidar tools geospatial solutions . geospatial solutions.com . geospatial solutions . retrieved 2016 03 04 . download global mapper 17.2 new release . monde geospatial geomatics gis remote sensing gps surveying arcgis qgis . 2016 05 20 . retrieved 2016 06 22 . global mapper mobile now available for ios devices . sensors and systems . 2016 06 22 . retrieved 2016 06 22 . bbb business review for blue marble geographics . bbb serving eastern massachusetts maine rhode island and vermont . retrieved 2016 03 04 . blue marble geographics receives top honors at techmaine awards gala . archived from the original on september 17 2011 . retrieved 2008 06 23 . blue marble geographics buys larger hallowell building to support gis tool sales growth . mainebiz . retrieved 2016 03 04 . external links edit official website coordinates 44 13 49.50 n 69 46 32.00 w 44.2304167 n 69.7755556 w 44.2304167 ; 69.7755556 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blue marble geographics & oldid 739259424 categories 1993 establishments in mainecompanies based in kennebec county mainecompanies established in 1993computer companies of the united statesearth sciences data formatshallowell mainegeographic information systemsgis software companiessoftware companies based in mainehidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from august 2009articles 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