Blue Marble Geographics
| Public | |
| Industry | GIS software |
| Founded | Maine (1993) |
| Headquarters | Gardiner, Maine, U.S. |
Key people | Patrick Cunningham (President) |
| Website |
bluemarblegeo |
Blue Marble Geographics is a developer and provider of GIS software products focused on data translation. They provide software products and services for working with GIS data in different formats and for addressing the unique challenges associated with Geospatial data. Blue Marble's first software product, the Geographic Calculator,[1] was developed in 1992 and released in 1993. The Geographic Calculator is a coordinate conversion library with a database of coordinate mathematic objects including projections, coordinate systems, datums, elipsoids, linear and angular units. The tool is primarily used to translate map coordinates from one system to another. The Geographic Calculator is still the basis of all of their software tools and is now available as the key component of the Blue Marble Desktop. The Blue Marble Desktop, released in 2007, is the platform or interface for working with all of Blue Marble's current GIS transformation tools including in-depth coordinate transformation, vector, CAD, LiDAR, raster and spatial database support in one combined interface. All of this functionality can also be found in Blue Marble's software developer tool products known collectively as GeoCore including GeoCalc, GeoTranslate, and GeoTransform. Blue Marble's focus is on highly accurate mapping as evidenced by their new product line and services offering including applied geodesy training, consulting and software development.
Blue Marble is a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium and TechMaine.[2]
Company history
Blue Marble Geographics was established in 1993 and is located in Gardiner, Maine. The company founder retired in 2003 and Patrick Cunningham took over as President, adding employees and re-focusing the product offering over the next few years. In 2008, they received the Governor’s Award for technology company of the year at the TechMaine technology awards showcase.[3] Blue Marble is one of a handful of geospatial or GIS software companies to come out of Maine in the nineties. The company's founder studied at the University of Maine at Orono and like other well known GIS companies from Maine, its roots are tied to the surveying and forestry programs of the University of Maine.
References
- ↑ the Geographic Calculator
- ↑ TechMaine.
- ↑ "Blue Marble Geographics Receives Top Honors at TechMaine Awards Gala". Retrieved 2008-06-23.
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Coordinates: 44°13′49.50″N 69°46′32.00″W / 44.2304167°N 69.7755556°W