Description Blue Marble Group, which does business as Blue Marble Geographics, develops software for geographic information systems (GIS) and other mapping applications. The company's products (including Blue Marble Desktop and Geographic Calculator) enable the conversion, manipulation, and translation of geospatial data for use in such applications as database and computer-aided design software. Customers come from such industries as civil engineering and oil exploration. Blue Marble was established in 1993 by Jeff and Eva Cole. The company is owned by its officers. The "blue marble" of the company name refers to Earth, as seen from outer space.