Blue Marble Releases Global Energy Mapper v15 Featuring Geographic Calculator Functionality

Hallowell, Maine - October 1, 2013 - Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the release of Global Energy Mapper version 15. The release of this powerful GIS software for energy professionals offers many new features and improved installation procedures. The latest release will now allow users to leverage the power of the Geographic Calculator for advanced coordinate transformation functionality. 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 Energy Mapper is more than just a viewer capable of displaying the most popular raster, elevation, and vector datasets. It converts, edits, prints, tracks GPS, and allows you to utilize GIS functionality on your datasets in one low-cost software package. Now with the integration of the Geographic Calculator users can work with even more powerful coordinate transformation capabilities in Global Energy Mapper v15. If you have a current Geographic Calculator license you can activate GeoCalc in Global Mapper within the Global Energy Mapper module. This innovative portal between the softwares will allow users to leverage the power of the GeoCalc coordinate library, including unmatched coordinate transformation definitions, a direct connect to the online EPSG registry, dozens of Geoids and the ability to custom define an offset from a known Geoid.

"With this release we are excited to give users the ability to work with the GeoCalc datasources in Global Energy Mapper," stated Blue Marble President Patrick Cunningham. "Now users can have the flexibility and the power of our comprehensive coordinate transformation library for reliable and extensive, precise coordinate transformation."

With Global Energy Mapper v15 users of the Geographic Calculator can customize the GeoCalc datasource to meet the needs of their users or their company requirements and then make that custom datasource available in Global Energy Mapper. Users can create custom coordinate systems, best fit datum transformations for engineering systems, or even make a custom view file to limit the coordinate objects to an area of the world of your choosing. Additionally, administrative users may utilize custom or pre-defined geographic envelopes to guide their users with transformations. The new release allows you to leverage the power of the Geographic Calculator's administrative tools to create the coordinate datasource you need and make it available in Global Energy Mapper for highly precise coordinate conversion.

For a complete list of new features and enhancements visit www.bluemarblegeo.com or download Global Energy Mapper today.

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About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Hallowell, Maine 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, Global Energy 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:
Heather Poirier
Marketing Manager
Blue Marble Geographics
Hallowell, ME, USA
marketing@bluemarblegeo.com
800-616-2725
+1(207) 622-4622