About Us

Blue Marble Geographics is a GIS and geodetic software development company that provides cutting-edge yet accessible products designed for both novice and experienced geospatial professionals. For nearly three decades, the company’s products have been used and trusted by organizations around the globe — including government agencies, universities, and Fortune 500 companies.

Blue Marble’s expertise spans a broad spectrum of the geospatial technology sector with a particular focus on coordinate conversion, lidar and photogrammetric point cloud processing, geospatial software development, and user-driven product development.

Blue Marble’s products include Geographic Calculator®, the industry standard for precise spatial data conversion and advanced coordinate system management; Global Mapper®, an all-in-one GIS application with a comprehensive array of data processing and analysis tools; and Global Mapper Pro®, a suite of powerful tools for editing and processing lidar and photogrammetric point clouds from drone-captured images. All of these software tools are available for desktop, cloud, mobile, or software developer toolkits.

Mission Statement

We operate daily using the following core values developed over years of working with our global, diverse user community in the GIS software industry.

1. We believe in customer-driven software development. Our customers are the experts in GIS: the scientists with the know-how, the surveyors, and the software developers who know what they need. We listen to them.
2. We believe in doing good for others. At Blue Marble, we try to find ways to do something good every day. We want to make a positive impact on our customers, our local community, and our fellow citizens of the globe.
3. We believe in equal rights. We believe everyone deserves to be treated with respect and equality.
4. We are committed to employee success. We are committed to our employees for the long haul and to their work/life balance. We want our employees to enjoy coming to work and being a part of the Blue Marble team.
5. We love GIS technology. We enjoy the challenge of developing and improving cutting-edge software that solves business problems and technical challenges in a user-friendly, powerful interface.
6. We are committed to Maine. We are a Maine company, and we believe in the capabilities and strengths of Mainers. We feel this gives us a unique perspective and edge as a company from one of the more rural areas of the United States. Maine has a rich history in survey and GIS.