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Harness the power of Blue Marble’s three geospatial data conversion toolkits – all in one package! GeoCore gives software developers the coordinate transformation and definition powers GIS experts have come to rely on with the GeoCalc® library, plus the ability to handle all of your raster and vector file format and geometry needs with GeoTranslate® and GeoTransform®. One simple package and one easy to use interface!

Our 2012 release, has many new features. Read about them under the various developer tool pages. Each section has a 'What's New' area that will provide you with current information. Some of the highlights include:

• New vertical height offset method, and support for eight new height models.
• Accuracy measurements have been added to all datum transformations.
• Support for larger LAS transformation and rendering
• A new CAD to CAD converter supports block and cell preservation

Read on to learn more or Download your copy today!

GeoCalc 6.5 is the latest offering of our coordinate transformation "engine" that performs on-the-fly coordinate transformations as well as geodetic calculations. When used within any GIS, surveying, engineering, or mapping system, GeoCalc provides highly accurate and dependable geographic coordinate transformations and geodetic calculations. GeoCalc employs a high-level parametric database model to efficiently store and retrieve coordinate system, map projection, ellipsoidal, geodetic datum transformation, and unit parameters. If you care about highly accurate mapping, then GeoCalc is essential for your product or project.

Blue Marble Desktop created with the tools in GeoCore

GeoTranslate 5.2 is the latest version of Blue Marble vector translation and manipulation technology. We have supported geometry based format translation for well over a decade in our Geographic Translator desktop software and our GeoObjects developer tool kit. GeoTranslate takes this to the next level with a cross platform C++ library that will seamlessly interact with GeoCalc and GeoTransform. With this toolkit, users can read and write many of today's most popular vector file formats. In the latest version, you can handle large LiDAR formatted datasets for vertical transformation and quick rendering. Users are also granted direct access to a wide variety of geometry objects, which can be created and manipulated on-the-fly. Along with these geometry objects, users are granted access to the metadata and attributes that are commonly associated with these geometries. Additionally this architecture makes it easy for users to write their own file format support out of the box.

When it comes to raster image file transformation, manipulation, and translation, GeoTransform 6.2 is the toolkit you need. With this library, users can read, write, compress, and manipulate many of today's standard GIS raster image file formats, including non-visual raster datasets such as DEMs, DTEDs, and raster binary grids. There is even functionality to render images to a standard Window handle. The SDK also adds powerful mosaicking and tiling capabilities to the single image transformation interface from previous releases. Clipping interfaces allow you to manage, manipulate, and process large datasets like never before.

Now combined into GeoCore, the features of these three software development kits give you an easy to use, affordable option to quickly create a robust spatial data management application that can work with both raster and vector data accurately.