industry scientific software founded 1983 headquarters 809 14th street golden colorado usa 80401 key people patrick madison president dan smith lead developer website see tfm www.goldensoftware.com golden software llc is a privately held american company based in golden colorado . it develops and markets a small catalog of gis and scientific software . founded in 1983 golden software is one of the world s oldest software companies and the first to market three dimensional surface and contour mapping applications for the pc . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 external links history edit patrick madison a csm computer science instructor and dan smith a graduate student began a partnership in 1983 with the development of a printer interface language that took advantage of the full resolution available to dot matrix printers . their first commercial program plotcall transformed plotter instructions into dot matrix instructions compatible with over 20 commercial printers . 2 this opened the computer graphing and mapping market to the wider arena of users with inexpensive commercial printers . between 1985 and 1986 the company released two dos applications surfer a surface and contour mapping program and grapher a spreadsheet plotting application . in 1990 it released its first windows program mapviewer . their next product didger was released in 1996 . strater a subsurface log and cross section plotting application and voxler a 3d well and volumetric data visualization application began shipping in 2004 and 2006 respectively . in october 2014 general manager blakelee mills became ceo of golden software . patrick madison remained the company s president and dan smith remained the lead developer . golden software released its newest product raster tools in april 2016 . raster tools is an add in for esri s arcmap that creates raster data sets from xyz data . products edit golden software programs are used in a wide variety of professional geological applications . they have been described as user friendly and accessible . 3 not in citation given plotcall a dos graphics printing program surfer a surface and contour mapping program 4 grapher a plotting application mapviewer a georeferencing cartography program didger a georeferencing map and log digitizing and coordinate conversion package strater a well and borehole logging application voxler a 3d volumetric modeling and analysis program raster tools a raster creation add in for arcmap . references edit graham steve february 15 2007 . mapping a global business model . mile high news . p. 23 . pc the independent guide to ibm personal computers . pc the independent guide to ibm personal computers . san francisco calif. software communications c1982 . 3 170 381 . march 1984 . issn 0745 2500 . amantov aleksey . golden software products from ordinary geological tasks to experimental maps . retrieved 2008 10 24 . hincapie jaime omar 2008 . shallow geophysical techniques applied to archaeology economic geology and groundwater resources . proquest . p. 40 . isbn 9780549587835 . retrieved 2013 06 18 . golden software surfer surfer is a data contouring program that produces 2d plots from 3d scattered data . it can implement a variety of data gridding and filtering algorithms and it can display contour maps colored maps shaded relief maps and 3d surfaces . golden software history . retrieved 2014 08 04 . grant felix . visualisation golden software . software reviews . scientific computing world . retrieved 2008 10 24 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title golden software & oldid 740808004 categories software companies based in coloradoprivately held companies based in coloradocompanies based in coloradohidden categories use mdy dates from september 2011pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with failed verificationarticles with failed verification from june 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 september 2016 at 12 25 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view