Global Energy Mapper 14 with New Site Pad Placement Tool

Blue Marble Geographics (USA) has released Global Energy Mapper version 14. This release features an enhanced Site Pad Placement Tool and read/write support for ArcSDE, Personal and File Geodatabases, Oracle Spatial, PostGIS, MySQL Spatial and more. Blue Marble’s geospatial data manipulation, visualisation 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 organisations.

Global Energy Mapper is an enhanced version of Global Mapper with specific features and functionality designed for geospatial users in the energy industry. Released in partnership with Spatial Energy, Global Energy Mapper is fast becoming the go-to tool for energy companies needing a quick and easy to use solution for converting and editing geospatial data for remote sensing, survey and GIS work. Version 14 features a new group of online data sources (with limited usage for free) from Spatial Energy and e-Button for easy data ordering. This release also includes usability enhancements including a reorganisation of the Digitizer tool right-click menus by categories based on functionality.  There is also a new customisable Favorites menu for quick access to Digitizer tool functionality, organisation of import and export options. The new Terrain Analysis menu includes contour grid generation, the ability to combine surfaces, and watershed generation along with two tools for finding ridge lines and calculating the volume between two surfaces. Many new formats are added with this release, including support for writing CADRG/CIB, ASRP images and reading/writing Garmin JNX format files.

Along with the support for seven types of spatial databases and the ability to consume WFS (Web Feature Services) and WMTS (Web Map Tile Services) Global Energy Mapper can both publish and consume massive amounts of data. Delivering a tool with a total file format support of around 200 formats, at a starting price of less than four hundred US dollars makes it a truly complementary utility for any GIS toolbox.