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		<title>Look Up EPSG Codes From Well-Known-Text (WKT) / prj Files With Prj2EPSG</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/look-up-epsg-codes-from-well-known-text-wkt-prj-files-with-prj2epsg</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OpenGeo announces Prj2EPSG, a free online service that can look up the EPSG (European Petroleum Study Group) code for a coordinate system based on:

A WKT (Well-Known Text) description. e,g, copying and pasting WKT text into the box:




yields the EPSG code 4326.

A .prj file, often found with shapefiles or other geographic data files to define the [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2009/online-coordinate-conversion-and-epsg-code-lookup' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Online Coordinate Conversion And EPSG Code Lookup'>Online Coordinate Conversion And EPSG Code Lookup</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/mgrsutmlatitude-longitude-converter' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: MGRS/UTM/Latitude-Longitude Converter'>MGRS/UTM/Latitude-Longitude Converter</a></li>
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		<title>UK Coordinate Converter</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/uk-coordinate-converter</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/uk-coordinate-converter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The UK’s Ordnance Survey has a free high-accuracy coordinate converter for transforming from GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude/WGS84) to OSGB National Grid (eastings and northings):

In addition to this single-coordinate-set converter, there’s an online batch converter, and additional converter options for coordinates in the Irish Grid (good for Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). There’s supposedly a [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/coordinate-converters-ii-worldwide-coordinate-conversion' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Coordinate Converters II &#8211; Worldwide Coordinate Conversion'>Coordinate Converters II &#8211; Worldwide Coordinate Conversion</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/mgrsutmlatitude-longitude-converter' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: MGRS/UTM/Latitude-Longitude Converter'>MGRS/UTM/Latitude-Longitude Converter</a></li>
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		<title>Two Online Map Scale Calculators</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/two-online-map-scale-calculators</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/two-online-map-scale-calculators#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cartography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the UT-Bureau Of Economic Geology’s Scale Calculator, enter a map scale and it calculates what a measurement on the map represents in reality, or what a unit distance translates to at that map scale:

There are also links at the top of the page to other calculators for area/distance conversion, and decimal degree / deg-min-sec [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/coordinate-converters-iii-two-freeware-converters' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Coordinate Converters III &#8211; Two Freeware Converters'>Coordinate Converters III &#8211; Two Freeware Converters</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2008/degree-minute-second-to-decimal-degree-converter' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Degree-Minute-Second To Decimal Degree Converter'>Degree-Minute-Second To Decimal Degree Converter</a></li>
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		<title>The Big List Of Image Registration / Georeferencing Software</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/the-big-list-of-image-registration-georeferencing-software</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/the-big-list-of-image-registration-georeferencing-software#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to use a raster map image in a GIS program, it needs to be calibrated so that the software will know the geographic position of every pixel in the image. This calibration data can be embedded in the file, as in GeoTiffs and MRSID files, or external as in worldfiles. If you [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2010/map-warper-georeference-and-export-a-raster-image' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Map Warper &ndash; Georeference And Export A Raster Image'>Map Warper &ndash; Georeference And Export A Raster Image</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/worldfile-basics' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Worldfile Basics'>Worldfile Basics</a></li>
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		<title>Online Coordinate Conversion And EPSG Code Lookup</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/online-coordinate-conversion-and-epsg-code-lookup</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/online-coordinate-conversion-and-epsg-code-lookup#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Synectics Technical Consulting comes an Online Coordinate Reprojection System; requires installation of the Silverlight 2 platform, available for Windows/Mac/Linux. Single point conversion only, unfortunately. Select the input and output projections by clicking on the “…” button next to each setting (default is OSGB 1936 for input, WGS84 geographic for output), then enter the coordinates [...]


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</ol>]]></description>
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		<title>Convert/Reproject Shapefiles And KML Files To SVG Format With indiemapper</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/convertreproject-shapefiles-and-kml-files-to-svg-format-with-indiemapper</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/convertreproject-shapefiles-and-kml-files-to-svg-format-with-indiemapper#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shapefile]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[indiemapper is a promising-looking thematic mapping service that is supposed to come online shortly. But until then, they’ve released a free  online Flash application that lets you upload vector data (point, line or polygon) in KML or shapefile format, re-project it into one of 11 different projections &#8230;

Equirectangular
Mercator
Winkel Tripel
Robinson
Albers Equal Area Conic
Lambert Conformal Conic
Orthographic
Polyconic
Sinusoidal
Bonne
Cylindrical Equal [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/stand-alone-map-projection-viewers-iii-microdem' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Stand-Alone Map Projection Viewers III &#8211; MicroDEM'>Stand-Alone Map Projection Viewers III &#8211; MicroDEM</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2009/full-natural-earth-data-now-available-free-vector-and-raster-data-for-the-entire-world' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Full Natural Earth Data Now Available &ndash; Free Vector And Raster Data For The Entire World'>Full Natural Earth Data Now Available &ndash; Free Vector And Raster Data For The Entire World</a></li>
</ol>]]></description>
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		<title>PLSS Converters For The Western United States With DLLs, Code</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/plss-converters-for-the-western-united-states-with-dlls-code</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/plss-converters-for-the-western-united-states-with-dlls-code#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1.  The TRS-data site at Montana State University lets you enter PLSS data (Township, Range, Section, “TRS”) for one of 17 western US states (AR , AZ, CA, CO, ID, KS, MT, ND, NE, NM, NV, OK, OR, SD, UT, WA and WY), and get back the latitude/longitude for the center of that section. You’ll [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/coordinate-converters-iii-two-freeware-converters' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Coordinate Converters III &#8211; Two Freeware Converters'>Coordinate Converters III &#8211; Two Freeware Converters</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2008/more-degree-minute-second-converter-options' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: More Degree-Minute-Second Converter Options'>More Degree-Minute-Second Converter Options</a></li>
</ol>]]></description>
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		<title>Google Earth Coordinates In Multiple Projections With Plex.Mark</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/google-earth-coordinates-in-multiple-projections-with-plexmark</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/google-earth-coordinates-in-multiple-projections-with-plexmark#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By default, Google Earth uses latitude/longitude as its coordinate system, with WGS84 as the datum. In the Tools section, you can choose to display lat/long in decimal degrees, degrees/decimal minutes, or degrees/minutes/seconds. You can also set the displayed coordinate system to UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator)/WGS84, a coordinate system often used on maps. But for other [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/fast-lookup-of-the-state-plane-coordinate-system-id-for-any-us-county' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Fast Lookup Of The State Plane Coordinate System ID For Any US County'>Fast Lookup Of The State Plane Coordinate System ID For Any US County</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2009/online-latlong-%e2%80%93-utm-%e2%80%93-grid-coordinate-converter' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Online Lat/Long – UTM – Grid Coordinate Converter'>Online Lat/Long – UTM – Grid Coordinate Converter</a></li>
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		<title>Online Lat/Long – UTM – Grid Coordinate Converter</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/online-latlong-%e2%80%93-utm-%e2%80%93-grid-coordinate-converter</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/online-latlong-%e2%80%93-utm-%e2%80%93-grid-coordinate-converter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Earthpoint Coordinate Converter takes a geographic position in latitude/longitude, or in a number of grid coordinate systems, including:

UTM
MGRS/USNG and MGRS Polar
GeoRef

and converts it to all the other coordinate systems (including lat/long in decimal, DDMM and DDMMSS formats):

(Grid North is the deviation between true north and north along the map projection grid lines)
You also have [...]


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		<title>gMapExplorer &#8211; A Combined Google Maps / Google Earth Browser</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/gmapexplorer-a-combined-google-maps-google-earth-browser</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/gmapexplorer-a-combined-google-maps-google-earth-browser#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gMapExplorer from MicroPath is sort of a combined stand-alone Google Maps / Google Earth browser that adds some additional useful features. Windows only, and you’ll need to have the Google Earth plugin already installed on your system. Start it up, and you’ll see buttons in the upper-left-hand corner to let you switch between the [...]


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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/coordinate-elevation-distance-and-more-in-google-maps' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Coordinate, Elevation, Distance And More In Google Maps'>Coordinate, Elevation, Distance And More In Google Maps</a></li>
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</ol>]]></description>
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