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		<title>Earth Survey Plugin: NGS Benchmarks, PLSS Data, USGS Quad Data And More</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/earth-survey-plugin-ngs-benchmarks-plss-data-usgs-quad-data-and-more</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I posted about a free web app from Metzger and Willard that shows National Geodetic Survey control points (benchmarks) near a specific area, and lets you view data for those landmarks. I’ve just noticed that they’ve created a newer web app called the Earth Survey Plugin, running in a Google Earth browser [...]
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		<title>National Geodetic Survey Online Toolkit</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/national-geodetic-survey-online-toolkit</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Geodetic Survey has a set of links online conversion utilities for performing some basic geodetic conversions, including: High-accuracy state plane coordinate system (SPCS) conversions UTM/USNG/geographic coordinate conversions Magnetic declination Surface gravity prediction Azimuth/distance to a second position (or second position from azimuth/distance data) Position from a dual-frequency GPS data file Plus many more. [...]
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		<title>View NGS Benchmarks, UTM Zones, PLSS Meridians And More In A Web Interface</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/view-ngs-benchmarks-utm-zones-plss-meridians-and-more-in-a-web-interface</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Surveying.Org website plots a number of useful survey-related data features in a Google Maps interface; select one or multiple data features to display with a checkbox. National Geodetic Survey Benchmark locations Takes a few seconds for them to pop up. The different symbols correspond to various classes of accuracy for the benchmarks, both horizontal [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2011/earth-survey-plugin-ngs-benchmarks-plss-data-usgs-quad-data-and-more' rel='bookmark' title='Earth Survey Plugin: NGS Benchmarks, PLSS Data, USGS Quad Data And More'>Earth Survey Plugin: NGS Benchmarks, PLSS Data, USGS Quad Data And More</a></li>
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		<title>Lookup EPSG Coordinate System Code From PRJ/WKT File</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/lookup-epsg-coordinate-system-code-from-prjwkt-file</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/lookup-epsg-coordinate-system-code-from-prjwkt-file#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRJ files are often included with GIS vector or raster data, and define the coordinate system associated with the data using the Well-Known Text (WKT) format. The Prj2EPSG utility site lets you upload or paste PRJ file data, and looks up the standard EPSG code designation associated with it (or gives you a list of [...]
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		<title>Handy Set Of Online Calculators</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/handy-set-of-online-calculators</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[APSalin, a company specializing in “Software development and data management for radio and television broadcast engineering”, offers a free set of handy online calculators and reference materials: Converters to/from geographic/geodetic  –  Mercator  –  UTM &#8211; Cartesian coordinates NAD27 to NAD 83 converter (latitude/longitude only) Latitude/longitude DMS to decimal &#38; vice versa Great circle distance/bearing between [...]
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		<title>Compare Geographic Boundaries With Move Outlines</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/compare-geographic-boundaries-with-move-outlines</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can remember as a kid (way too many years ago) being impressed with a map of the lower 48 United States that had the outline of Alaska superimposed on top of it. The Alaska outline virtually covered the entire map, and there was a comment to the effect that,”Alaska is almost as large as [...]
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		<title>Multiple Coordinate Systems In Google Maps, Reverse Geocoding, And More With The Worldwide Coordinate Converter</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/multiple-coordinate-systems-in-google-maps-reverse-geocoding-and-more-with-the-worldwide-coordinate-converter</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/multiple-coordinate-systems-in-google-maps-reverse-geocoding-and-more-with-the-worldwide-coordinate-converter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clement Ronzon emails about his new website, The Worldwide Coordinate Converter (TWCC for short). Drag the globe-shaped icon to the desired location in a Google Maps interface, and get a pop-up balloon with the geographic coordinates for that spot, elevation in meters, and the nearest reverse-geocoded address: At right is a two-part coordinates box, with [...]
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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 [...]
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		<title>UK Coordinate Converter</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/uk-coordinate-converter</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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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 [...]
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		<title>Two Online Map Scale Calculators</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/two-online-map-scale-calculators</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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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 / [...]
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