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		<title>Panorama Generator For Parts Of Europe, Asia And Africa</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/panorama-generator-for-parts-of-europe-asia-and-africa</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/panorama-generator-for-parts-of-europe-asia-and-africa#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Generate a Panorama site lets you generate high-quality panorama views, with labeled peaks, for some areas of Europe, Asia, and Africa; moving your mouse cursor over the “Covered areas in Europe, Asia and Africa” link near the top of the page shows the coverage area: You have three options for setting the peak location: [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/panorama-peak-identification-and-viewsheds-in-google-earth' rel='bookmark' title='Panorama, Peak Identification And Viewsheds In Google Earth'>Panorama, Peak Identification And Viewsheds In Google Earth</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2010/new-at-heywhatsthat-solar-eclipse-simulator-webapp-for-iphone-and-android' rel='bookmark' title='New At HeyWhatsThat: Solar Eclipse Simulator, WebApp For iPhone And Android'>New At HeyWhatsThat: Solar Eclipse Simulator, WebApp For iPhone And Android</a></li>
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		<title>Search And Catalog Your Local GeoData (ArcGIS Users Only)</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/search-and-catalog-your-local-geodata-arcgis-users-only</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/search-and-catalog-your-local-geodata-arcgis-users-only#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw this post at the WeoGeo blog on Voyager, I was psyched. The free version of Voyager searches your hard drives for up to 5000 geodata files, catalogs/indexes them, thumbnails them, and makes them easily searchable and retrievable; paid versions increase that data limit, and offer more features (concurrent users, network storage searches, [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/get-esris-arcgis-92-and-arcpad-701-programs-for-free' rel='bookmark' title='Get ESRI&#039;s ArcGIS 9.2 and ArcPad 7.01 Programs For Free'>Get ESRI&#039;s ArcGIS 9.2 and ArcPad 7.01 Programs For Free</a></li>
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		<title>Free Open GeoData Server Package (With Geocoding)</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-open-geodata-server-package</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-open-geodata-server-package#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via geothought comes word of the latest project from the developer of OpenHeatMap, Pete Warden. The Data Science Toolkit wraps up a number of open-source data tools into a combined server/data package that you can install as a VMware image or Amazon EC2 package (downloads/instructions included). You can also set it up as a stand-alone [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/the-geonamesorg-geocoding-database' rel='bookmark' title='The Geonames.org Geocoding Database'>The Geonames.org Geocoding Database</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/reverse-address-geocoding-with-google-maps' rel='bookmark' title='Reverse Address Geocoding With Google Maps'>Reverse Address Geocoding With Google Maps</a></li>
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		<title>Government GeoData In ArcGIS-Compatible Form From GovMaps.Org</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/government-geodata-in-arcgis-compatible-form-from-govmaps-org</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/government-geodata-in-arcgis-compatible-form-from-govmaps-org#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESRI’s GovMaps.Org website (currently in beta), currently offers a searchable catalog of 88  data layers (and presumably growing) hosted at ArcGIS.com, mainly from the US Government, covering a wide variety of subjects areas. A random sampling: Crushed Stone Operations In The US NOAA_U.S. Historical Tsunami Database USA Congressional Districts USA Woody Biomass USGS Stream Gages [...]
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		<title>Monitor Ship Positions And Tracks Real-Time With MarineTraffic.Com</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/monitor-ship-positions-and-tracks-real-time-with-marinetraffic-com</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/monitor-ship-positions-and-tracks-real-time-with-marinetraffic-com#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Android]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re at all interested in maritime traffic, the MarineTraffic.com site is a terrific resource. And even if you’re not, it’s worth checking out as an example of how you can display real-time data in many different ways on one site using the Web. The main map view shows green gridded areas where the site [...]
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		<title>WeoGeo Addendum</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/weogeo-addendum</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/weogeo-addendum#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short addendum to my post last Thursday on free geographic datasets from WeoGeo: James Fee of WeoGeo points out in comments that in addition to free 30-day trials of all their paid cloud geo-library services, they also have a completely free library account available. Storage is limited to 100 MB, and direct access to [...]
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		<title>ShareGeo: Open Geo Data Repository</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/sharegeo-open-geo-data-repository</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Addy Pope of the University of Edinburgh writes to announce ShareGeo, a data repository for open geo data that is freely shareable and distributable. While it’s open for use by anyone, the datasets currently available show a not-surprising bias towardsUK-related data. You can search for data by date, subject, source, title, or more generally by [...]
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		<title>Free Geographic Datasets From WeoGeo</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-geographic-datasets-from-weogeo</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-geographic-datasets-from-weogeo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weogeo is a paid geographic data service that lets you create an online library of geographic data files, and share them with one or more users (free 30-day trial subscription available for the library, if you want to try it out). It also has a market side, that lets you put datasets up for sale [...]
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		<title>Hey, ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Has Turned Out Pretty Good!</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/hey-arcgis-explorer-desktop-has-turned-out-pretty-good</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, that’s not news to a lot of you, but it is to me. My last significant exposure to ESRI’s ArcGIS Explorer digital globe software (Windows only) was back when it came out, quite a few years ago. I tried it, and found it inferior to Google Earth in performance in 3D, and too complicated [...]
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		<title>If It Were My Home: Country Comparison Tool</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/if-it-were-my-home-country-comparison-tool</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/if-it-were-my-home-country-comparison-tool#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If It Were My Home plots the area of any world country of your choice on a Google Maps view centered around your current location (presumably determined by your IP address): And gives a comparison of basic demographic characteristics between your country and the one you’ve chosen: Clicking on any demographic parameter brings up a [...]
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