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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>
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		<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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		<title>Quick &#8220;Hand-Annotated&#8221; Maps With Sketch-A-Map, Plus A Bonus Geocoder</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/quick-hand-annotated-maps-with-sketch-a-map-plus-a-bonus-geocoder</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need to quickly bang out a “hand-annotated” map, you could do worse than ESRI’s Sketch-A-Map site. You have the choice of three different map backgrounds to draw on: USGS topographic maps, with the scale type (1:24K, 1:100K, or 1:250K) determined by your zoom level Standard street maps (with some terrain shading) Satellite maps [...]
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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>
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		<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>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>Useful ArcGIS Explorer Add-Ins III</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/useful-arcgis-explorer-add-ins-iii</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One final set of add-ins for the excellent GIS data viewer ArcGIS Explorer, discovered by searching the site (since there doesn’t seem to be a gallery/catalog section for these on the site). Here’s the link to Part I, and here’s Part II. Table Viewer – Supposedly adds the ability to view tabular database data, a [...]
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		<title>Useful ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Add-Ins II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part I yesterday … GeoNames Find – Enter the name of a geographic feature, and ArcGIS Explorer will go the best fit for the entered name, as well as offering a full set of options. Find GNIS Features – Select a US state/county, and a feature type from the Geographic Names Information System [...]
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		<title>Useful ArcGIS Explorer Add-Ins I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday’s post was about the latest version of ArcGIS Explorer Desktop, ESRI’s digital globe and GIS data viewer. One of its major advantages over Google Earth is the ability to create “add-ins”, user-programmable plug-ins that add functionality. But there doesn’t seem to be a catalog/gallery of these add-ins at the ArcGIS site. Searching around, I [...]
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		<title>Hey, ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Has Turned Out Pretty Good!</title>
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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Inexpensive(?) Copies Of ESRI Products For Non-Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESRI&#8217;s GIS And Science blog posts about a new ESRI program to provide GIS software for non-profits: The program allows qualified nonprofit organizations to request up to 75 seats of ArcGIS Desktop and 2 seats of ArcGIS Server software per organization. Alternatively, organizations can choose from four levels of a special nonprofit organization enterprise license [...]
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