Blue Marble Geographics is a developer and provider 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 first software product, the Geographic Calculator, 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 is still the basis of all of their software tools and is now available as the key component of the Blue Marble Desktop. The Blue Marble Desktop, released in 2007, is the platform or interface for working with all of Blue Marble's current GIS transformation tools including in-depth coordinate transformation, vector, CAD, LiDAR, raster and spatial database support in one combined interface. All of this functionality can also be found in Blue Marble's software developer tool products known collectively as GeoCore including GeoCalc, GeoTranslate, and GeoTransform. Blue Marble's focus is on highly accurate mapping as evidenced by their new product line and services offering including applied geodesy training, consulting and software development.
Blue Marble is a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium and TechMaine.
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