Blue Marble to Exhibit at URISA GIS/CAMA for the First Time, Highlighting Global Mapper's affordable price point for all GIS software users

Hallowell, Maine - March 4, 2013 - Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) will be exhibiting at Booth 19 at the upcoming URISA GIS/CAMA conference from March 4 - 7th in Albuquerque, NM. Blue Marble will showcase the benefits of Global Mapper as a low cost, all-in-one GIS software solution for GIS/CAMA professionals. Blue Marble's geospatial data manipulation, visualization and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software, oil and gas, mining, civil engineering, surveying, and technology companies, as well as governmental and university organizations.

Global Mapper is a powerful and user friendly tool for working with GIS data. It's affordable starting price point, intuitive user interface, support for some two hundred unique geospatial file formats and support for a variety of free online data sources is quickly making Global Mapper the GIS tool of choice for appraisers who may not want to learn an entirely new software program. Blue Marble will demonstrate how new users can quickly come up to speed with the tool, accomplish what they need with their GIS data and move on to the next job. The Blue Marble Team is excited to showcase all of their products at the GIS/CAMA conference, which include the Geographic Calculator 2013, Global Mapper, GeoCore, GeoCalc, and the Global Mapper developer toolkits, to all attendees.

"We are pleased to be able to attend GIS/CAMA for the first time," stated Blue Marble President Patrick Cunningham. "We know our tools can help our users be efficient and productive at a great return on their investment and we are excited to share that information with appraisers and GIS professionals in the New Mexico area."

Version 14.1 of Global Mapper introduces a host of new functionality including massive LiDAR point cloud support, enhancements to the digitizer tool including a new option to create a coverage area (concave hull) for loaded or selected point features, a tool for creating a line "skeleton" from area features, and many additional enhancements and improvements. Also included in this release, is a new water level analysis function for better flood plain modeling and a tool for creating Voronoi/Thiessen polygons for the spatial analysis of loaded point features. Global Mapper 14.1 includes support for many new file formats such as GeoMedia MDB, DWG 2013, MapBox, MBTiles, and RMaps SQlite files for use on Android mobile devices. Also new to v14.1 is the introduction of USB dongle licensing, which brings flexible license access to those users who may require it during field work.

About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Hallowell, ME is a leading developer and provider of software products and services for highly accurate geospatial data conversion solutions. Blue Marble is known for their coordinate conversion and file format expertise and is the developer of The Geographic Calculator, GeoCalc SDK, Global Mapper and Global Mapper SDK. The company has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over twenty years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

Contact Information:
Danielle Caron
Blue Marble Geographics
Hallowell, ME, USA
daniellec@bluemarblegeo.com
800-616-2725
+1(207) 622-4622