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		<title>Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design For GIS &#8211; A Review Of The Second Edition</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/making-maps-a-visual-guide-to-map-design-for-gis-a-review-of-the-second-edition</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I mentioned to a friend that I had just received a review copy of the new second edition of Making Maps by John Krygier and Denis Wood, and she exclaimed, “Oh, our university GIS department loves that book!”. No surprise – since its publication in 2006, the first edition has a become a staple [...]
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		<title>Portable Version Of The Open Source GIS gvSIG</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/portable-version-of-the-open-source-gis-gvsig</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/portable-version-of-the-open-source-gis-gvsig#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[gvSIG is a full-featured open source GIS program, written in Java; I’d go so far as to call it one of the two leading open source GIS programs currently available (Quantum GIS is the other). Version 1.11 was released recently, with standard installers available for both Windows and Linux (and a special installer for Mac). [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2010/gvsig-version-1-10-released' rel='bookmark' title='gvSIG Version 1.10 Released'>gvSIG Version 1.10 Released</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2010/oa-digital-version-of-gvsig-1-9-is-out' rel='bookmark' title='OA Digital Version Of gvSIG 1.9 Is Out'>OA Digital Version Of gvSIG 1.9 Is Out</a></li>
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		<title>Convert A Shapefile Into A Google Fusion Table</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/convert-a-shapefile-into-a-google-fusion-table</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/convert-a-shapefile-into-a-google-fusion-table#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Fusion Tables is a free service from Google that lets you visualize, map, analyze and combine data. Standard data formats for import are spreadsheet data (including direct export from Google Docs), CSV and KML files. But you can use the Shape to Fusion website to convert shapefile data directly into Fusion Table format, including [...]
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		<title>GeoCommons Goes Into High Gear</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/geocommons-goes-into-high-gear</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/geocommons-goes-into-high-gear#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted late last year about GeoCommons, a free service for uploading and displaying free publicly-accessible geographic data. Run by GeoIQ (formerly FortiusOne), this is the free public version of their commercial GeoIQ geographic data visualization service. If you haven’t been following their recent posts on their blog, you may have missed the huge number of [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2008/entering-multiple-datasets-for-a-single-set-of-garmin-custom-pois' rel='bookmark' title='Entering Multiple Datasets For A Single Set Of Garmin Custom POIs'>Entering Multiple Datasets For A Single Set Of Garmin Custom POIs</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='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>
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		<title>Free Books From The National Academies Press</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-books-from-the-national-academies-press</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-books-from-the-national-academies-press#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cartography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SlashGeo posts on the June 2nd announcement by National Academies Press that all their PDF book titles are now freely available for download, or for online reading. National Academies Press is the publishing arm of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. A search using geography-related [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2010/everything-sings-maps-for-a-narrative-atlas' rel='bookmark' title='Everything Sings: Maps For A Narrative Atlas'>Everything Sings: Maps For A Narrative Atlas</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/simple-guide-to-embedding-google-maps-my-maps-on-your-own-webpage' rel='bookmark' title='Simple Guide To Embedding Google Maps &quot;My Maps&quot; On Your Own Webpage'>Simple Guide To Embedding Google Maps &quot;My Maps&quot; On Your Own Webpage</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2009/new-books-for-geography-fans' rel='bookmark' title='New Books For Geography Fans'>New Books For Geography Fans</a></li>
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		<title>Cheap GeoPDF To GeoTiff Converter For Garmin Custom Map Imagery</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/cheap-geopdf-to-geotiff-converter-for-garmin-custom-map-imagery</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/cheap-geopdf-to-geotiff-converter-for-garmin-custom-map-imagery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Garmin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USGS is well on its way to having updated all its 1:24,000 scale topographic maps (the classic 7.5-minute series) to digital format. As of today, the coverage map looks like this: Areas covered in red are full topographic maps in in digital format; areas in yellow are “Digital Maps”, which have transportation features, boundaries, [...]
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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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		<category><![CDATA[ESRI]]></category>
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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>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>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/sharegeo-open-geo-data-repository#comments</comments>
		<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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