Hallowell, Maine – August 13, 2025 – Blue Marble Geographics continues to push the boundaries of GIS innovation with the latest releases of Global Mapper Pro®, now featuring powerful AI and deep learning capabilities through the beta Global Mapper Insight and Learning Engine™.
Global Mapper is an all-in-one GIS software solution driven by innovation, accessibility, and user feedback. The standard version offers robust tools for vector, raster, and terrain analysis. Global Mapper Pro® expands upon these tools to unlock advanced functionality, including terrain painting, photogrammetry, lidar analysis with automatic point cloud classification and feature extraction, Python scripting, and more.
The most recent version of the software, Global Mapper Pro v26.1, focuses on user experience, customization, and improving AI-based workflows. “This latest release includes exciting new updates to our AI-based tools,” states Product Manager Jeff Hatzel. “We have expanded our machine learning-based point cloud classification methods to include powerlines. Additionally, we have updated the Insight and Learning Engine’s deep learning image analysis tools with vehicle detection fine-tuning and custom model sharing.”
All users of Global Mapper Pro v26.1 have access to the Insight and Learning Engine (beta). With this deep-learning powered image analysis tool, users can create building footprints, detect and outline vehicles with bounding boxes, or classify land cover. Models can be fine-tuned or retained, then shared with other users.
These AI tools are also transforming lidar workflows. The automatic classification toolset now supports custom model training, allowing users to teach the tool to recognize specialized features such as swimming pools, airplanes, or golf bunkers. This award-winning technology streamlines processing and delivers highly accurate results for specialized workflows.
The new features in Global Mapper Pro 26.1 are designed to enhance productivity across industries—from infrastructure and utilities to environmental analysis and urban planning. Users can download the latest version today and experience firsthand how AI and GIS are coming together to accelerate geospatial insights.
Stay tuned for even more usability improvements coming this fall in Version 26.2.
About Blue Marble Geographics:
Blue Marble Geographics delivers powerful, affordable, and user-friendly geospatial software solutions: Global Mapper Pro®, Global Mapper Mobile®, and the Geographic Calculator®.
Global Mapper Pro supports over 350 file formats and offers an extensive set of advanced tools for terrain analysis, lidar classification, and machine learning-driven object detection. The software’s Pixels to Points® tool enables fast and accurate photogrammetric processing—transforming drone-captured imagery into high-resolution 3D models, point clouds, and seamless orthoimages.
For more than 30 years, Blue Marble’s products have been trusted by government agencies, universities, and Fortune 500 companies worldwide to streamline their geospatial workflows—all within a single, integrated platform. For more information, visit: www.bluemarblegeo.com
For further information please contact:
Laura Ramage
Account Manager
Blue Marble Geographics
[email protected]
+1-207-622-4656