Blue Marble Solidifies Partnerships with International Resellers

Hallowell, Maine – December 17, 2013 – Blue Marble Geographics (bluemarblegeo.com) is pleased to announce their partnerships with PT. Duta Astakona Girinda of Indonesia, NIK Insaat Ticaret Ltd. of Turkey and SMC Synergy of South Africa. 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.

These international partnerships will provide customers with a direct resource for purchasing Blue Marble software. Additionally, these arrangements provide technical support options, which are beneficial in breaking language barriers and other regional challenges.

PT. Duta Astakona Girinda was founded in 1987 and is located in Jakarta, Indonesia. DAG provides spatial technologies and consulting services focused on system development and integration. DAG has been a reseller of Global Mapper and the Geographic Calculator since February, 2012. This unique partnership is very important considering the purchasing barriers between the United States and Indonesia.

NIK Insaat Ticaret Ltd. was founded in 1993 and is located in Istanbul, Turkey. NIK System department was established in 1996 to provide data and software for remote sensing environments. Today, NIK has three major divisions; Construction/Restoration, System and Art. NIK System has the biggest satellite imagery portfolio in Turkey and provides custom services in image processing as well as remote sensing. NIK Insaat Ticaret Ltd. has been a reseller of Global Mapper since 2012 and has recently translated a Turkish version of Global Mapper v15 making them the exclusive reseller of the translated software.

SMC Synergy has more than 20 years experience in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing applications in the Environmental, Agricultural and Mineral Exploration sectors. SMC Synergy has been in partnership with Blue Marble Geographics since April of 2013 and has recently been made an active reseller of Global Mapper for South Africa. SMC Synergy is a hands-on reseller that supports the development process of Global Mapper by testing the software and providing suggestions. On July 1, 2014 Blue Marble and SMC Synergy will promote their partnership and Global Mapper at the 2014 AficaGEO conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Come see how this unique partnership can benefit you.

“We are very excited to begin the process of establishing strong local partnerships around the world to help promote the use of Global Mapper,” stated Blue Marble President Patrick Cunningham. “These partnerships will provide local support for GIS professionals looking for a great low cost solution to today’s GIS challenges.”

About Blue Marble Geographics
Blue Marble Geographics of Hallowell, Maine 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 over twenty years and currently serves hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.