Hallowell, Maine – January 15, 2013 - Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) released the Geographic Calculator 2013 today, merging the various modules of the Blue Marble Desktop into one software application. 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.

With the release of Geographic Calculator 2013, Blue Marble retired the concept of separate modules under separate licenses through the Blue Marble Desktop. All of the features available in the Blue Marble Desktop are now available as the new powerful Geographic Calculator 2013, including all of raster processing and spatial database tools found in Geographic Transformer and Spatial Connect modules. Now users can have all the tools necessary for in-depth, accurate coordinate transformation and geomatic operations on any type of GIS data all in one application! The Geographic Calculator converts individual coordinates, point databases, and map files from virtually any coordinate system, datum, and map projection to any other. With the added functionality of the Geographic Transformer, Calculator users can now convert, tile, mosaic, resample, reproject, and clip raster images singularly or in batch with the full coordinate power of the Geographic Calculator. Additionally, existing software support & maintenance subscription holders for Transformer will now have access to Geographic Calculator functionality at no additional cost.

Geographic Calculator 2013 also introduces a new streamlined license manager tool with automatic online licensing, the BMG Reprojector for the FME Workbench (additional license required), a new quick launch for Google Earth and new Geoid definitions.

"We are pleased to release the Geographic Calculator 2013," stated Blue Marble President Patrick Cunningham. "We are turning a corner with this release focusing in on the functionality of the Geographic Calculator as an all-in-one solution for geospatial data conversion focused on users within the geomatics field. It’s exciting for us to be in a unique position which allows us to add key features for our global customer base without affecting their bottom line."

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, Global Energy Mapper, and Global Mapper SDK. The company has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for twenty years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.

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