Gardiner, Maine – July 17, 2012 - Blue Marble Geographics (www.bluemarblegeo.com) will be exhibiting at the Esri International User Conference in San Diego, CA from July 23-26, 2012. Come and visit Booth 1207 to see first-hand the latest enhancements found in Blue Marble Desktop 2.5. The latest version features Geospatial PDF support, speed improvements for vector processing, new LiDAR updates with enhanced read and draw functions, support for .LAS v1.4 and much more. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation and conversion solutions are used worldwide by thousands of GIS analysts at software companies, universities, oil and gas companies, civil engineering, surveying, technology, enterprise GIS groups, government and military organizations.

Blue Marble Desktop 2.5 will be showcased during the daily exhibition hours. Stop by Booth 1207 for a free demonstration of the latest feature enhancements to all modules available within Blue Marble Desktop (Geographic Calculator, Geographic Transformer, and Spatial Connect). Scheduled for release later this month, Blue Marble Desktop 2.5 will feature Geographic Calculator 7.8 and Geographic Transformer 6.4 . Within the Calculator, the newly enhanced Point Database Job will now allow users to perform multiple column conversions and visualize grid displays directly within the job itself. Additionally, the updated BigTiff file format support in the Transformer will allow for files of 4GB or larger to be processed. These added features will allow users to complete jobs faster and more efficiently, providing a greater return on their software investment. To complement the Blue Marble Desktop, Global Mapper 13.2, a recent addition to the Blue Marble line up, will be available for demonstrations as well. This utility is a robust viewer for hundreds of file formats and much more.

“We always have a great time at the ESRI UC,” stated Blue Marble president Patrick Cunningham, “There is a huge return on the feedback we get from the attendees at a show of this size. We look forward to exhibiting every year.”

About Blue Marble Geographics: Blue Marble Geographics of Gardiner, 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 expertise and is the developer of The Geographic Calculator and GeoCalc SDK, as well as Global Mapper. The company has been writing GIS software tools and solutions for over 18 years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.