Have you ever asked yourself if there’s an easier and more efficient way to analyze and process your GIS data? Join Blue Marble Geographics for a free lunch and learn focused on doing just that while staying within today’s tight budgets. This educational session will answer your questions and provide you with a new perspective on how to be successful with easy-to-use, low cost GIS software. From the planning level on up, there are many ways to be more efficient with Global Mapper and reduce costs with no annual licensing fees. Global Mapper is a GIS data processing application used worldwide and developed locally by Maine’s own Blue Marble Geographics. Global Mapper offers access to an unparalleled variety of spatial datasets and provides just the right level of GIS functionality to satisfy both beginners and experienced GIS professionals.
Equally well suited as a standalone spatial data management tool and as an integral component of an enterprise-wide GIS, Global Mapper is a must-have for anyone who deals with maps or spatial data.
During these Lunch and Learn sessions, you will be introduced to tools within Global Mapper that:
• Leverage the new LiDAR data available from the USGS and Maine Office of GIS
• Learn how to access free data sources online and save them off as local files
• Learn how to import and export all common GIS formats from Esri Shapefiles and Autocad Dwg to Google KML and all types of spatial databases
• Learn how to use the powerful 3D viewer in Global Mapper to better visualize your GIS project.
• Leverage built in analysis tools such as contour grid generation, water shed analysis, line of sight and view shed tools, and much, much more

