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Blue Marble Geographics Advances its Office-to-Field Platform with New Global Mapper Offering

New offering consolidates previously separate desktop GIS applications and services into single subscription, simplifying geospatial workflows and laying the foundation for deeper connections to field execution. Hallowell, Maine, September 28,…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Global Mapper 27, Bringing Industry-Standard Geodetics Into Every Workflow

New release reduces reliance on separate tools, enabling more geospatial work to be completed in a single environment HALLOWELL, Maine, April 15, 2026 — Blue Marble Geographics, a leading developer…

Blue Marble Geographics and Avenza Systems Unite to Bring Together Complementary Products in a Field to Office Geospatial Platform

The combined company offers high performance geospatial products accessible to a global base of professional and commercial users Hallowell, Maine April 7, 2026 — Blue Marble Geographics and Avenza Systems,…

Global Mapper v26.2 is Released with User-Driven UI & Enhanced Data Visualization Tools

The latest update delivers ease-of-use improvements for streamlined GIS workflows, dynamic visualization options, and broader file format support, including Phase One’s IIQ file type. Hallowell, Maine – October 7, 2025…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Global Mapper SDK 26.1

Hallowell, Maine – February 19, 2024 – Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Global Mapper Software Development Kit® (SDK) version 26.1. This latest update…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Geographic Calculator 2025 and Geographic Calculator Cloud

Hallowell, Maine – November 7, 2024 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Geographic Calculator® 2025, which includes the eagerly-anticipated release of Geographic Calculator…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases the Global Mapper SDK v26.0

Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Global Mapper® version 26.0 software development kit (SDK). Exciting updates to the SDK functionality include new file format…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Global Mapper v26.0 with New Deep Learning Image Analysis in the Global Mapper Insight and Learning Engine™ (Beta)

Hallowell, Maine – September 17, 2024 – Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Global Mapper® v26.0. The fall update to Global Mapper includes numerous usability…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Global Mapper Pro v25.1, including new automatic Ground Control Point Identification and Positioning for Drone Data Collection

Hallowell, Maine – February 13th, 2024 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Global Mapper Pro v25.1. This update brings a new ground control…

Global Mapper’s Custom Point Cloud Classification Training Tool Wins the 2024 Lidar Leader: Outstanding Innovation in Lidar Award

Hallowell, Maine – February 13th, 2024 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce that Global Mapper’s Custom Point Cloud Classification Training Tool has been selected by the team…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Global Mapper SDK v25

Hallowell, Maine – October 3, 2023 – Blue Marble Geographics is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Global Mapper Software Development Kit (SDK) v25. This new version includes…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Version 24.1 of the Global Mapper Software Development Kits

Hallowell, Maine – March 21, 2023 – Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 24.1 of the Global Mapper® and Global Mapper Pro® software development…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Version 24.1 of Global Mapper

Hallowell, Maine – February 14, 2023 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 24.1 for Global Mapper. This update includes a new tool…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Version 24.1 of Global Mapper Pro

Hallowell, Maine – February 14, 2023 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of v24.1 for Global Mapper Pro. This new update includes improved power…

Blue Marble Geographics releases Global Mapper version 24

Enhancing data mosaicking, Global Mapper v24 introduces histogram matching for raster imagery. Hallowell, ME — September 27, 2022 — Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to announce the release of Global…

Blue Marble Geographics Releases Version 23.1 of the Global Mapper Standard and Pro Software Development Kits

The version 23.1 Global Mapper software development kits are updated to include support for streamed Entwine (EPT) data sources and the creation of contour lines directly from lidar data. Hallowell,…

Blue Marble Geographics releases Global Mapper version 23

Global Mapper v23 continues Blue Marble’s tradition of user-driven development incorporating new highly requested tools and functionality. Hallowell, ME — September 21, 2021 — Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to…

Blue Marble Geographics® releases version 22 of Global Mapper® and the Lidar Module® Software Development Kits

Hallowell, Maine — October 8, 2020 – Blue Marble Geographics® is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 22 of the Global Mapper® and Lidar Module® Software Development Kits…

Blue Marble Geographics releases version 21.1 of Global Mapper and the Lidar Module

Blue Marble Geographics releases version 21.1 of Global Mapper and the Lidar Module Blue Marble Geographics — February 19, 2020 — Blue Marble Geographics® released version 21.1 of its all-in-one…

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