Blue Marble's GeoObjects® Map Display SDK Available Royalty Free

Gardiner, Maine - October 13, 2006 - Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) announces the GeoObjects® Royalty Free Promotion, available for a limited time. GeoObjects, Blue Marble's map display and data translation developer toolkit, is the display library behind much of their software. Blue Marble, known for their coordinate conversion technology, is also the creator of industry leading map display, image reprojection, referencing, gps tracking, and Internet mapping technology. Their technology is used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software companies, universities, oil and gas companies, civil engineering, surveying, technology, enterprise GIS groups, and military organizations.

GeoObjects is available through a limited time offer for developers of products and projects that require map display or map file translation. The cost of the developer tool kit and one year of annual support equals a total one-time fee of $3499 (For detailed terms and conditions see below). This is perhaps one of the best deals available today for developers of Windows based mapping software, so act now!

GeoObjects 4.1 is a high-performance, 32-bit COM control for spatial data access, display, and analysis. The design of the control allows a developer to quickly create high-end GIS applications on any Windows platform. Its ability to display and interact with most industry standard vector and raster file formats makes GeoObjects a must have for any GIS or software developer.

GeoObjects 4.1 has been expanded to include file format support on many levels. This includes the addition of S-57 nautical chart support, raster display, and expansion of vector file format translation to support Oracle database connectivity specifically for Spatial Data Object (SDO) geometry types. GeoObjects ships with a GeoConvert object that allows for map file translation for the industry leading map file formats such as ESRI Shape, AutoCAD DWG and DXF up to and including 2006, Microstation DGN, MapInfo MIF and TAB. The tool also supports Well Known Text (WKT) Coordinate Reference System definitions. Custom objects can be added to an overlay layer and written out as a map file for custom data layers. Users can then define their own object types as well as datum shifts.

About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Gardiner, Maine is a leading developer and provider of geographic software products that provide sensible solutions for users and developers of geographic data. Blue Marble has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over 12 years and currently serves over hundreds of thousands of customers world wide. Learn more at www.bluemarblegeo.com.

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Contact Information:
Blue Marble Geographics
Gardiner, ME, USA
info@bluemarblegeo.com
800-616-2725 / 207-582-6747
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