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		<title>Great Introductory GIS Tutorial And Screencast Series</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/great-introductory-gis-tutorial-and-screencast-series</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Land Affairs, Eastern Cape, South Africa has created a terrific tutorial series on GIS called “introducing GIS”. PDF worksheets and video screencasts cover topics like vector and raster data, attributes, topology, coordinate systems, map production and spatial analysis in a clear and easy-to-follow fashion. The worksheets are freely distributable under the terms [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Sampling Design Tool Extension For ArcGIS</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/free-sampling-design-tool-extension-for-arcgis</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/free-sampling-design-tool-extension-for-arcgis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sampling Design Tool is another free ArcGIS extension from NOAA’s Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment, the source of the Habitat Digitizer Extension I posted about last week.  Key features (from the PDF manual):

Spatial sampling –sampling and incorporation of inherently spatial layers (e.g.
benthic habitat maps, administrative boundaries), and evaluation of spatial
issues (e.g. protected area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Vector Country Borders, Administrative Boundaries, And Soon More</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/free-vector-country-borders-administrative-boundaries-and-soon-more</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/free-vector-country-borders-administrative-boundaries-and-soon-more#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wish I’d known about this site when I was hunting for a high-res border outline for the province of Umbria in Italy. The Global Administrative Boundaries website offers free vector GIS data for country borders and administrative areas within those borders. Data is available in geographic coordinates (lat/long), WGS84 datum, in multiple formats:

Shapefile
KML (Google Earth)
MDB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portable GIS 2.0 Released</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/portable-gis-2-0-released</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/portable-gis-2-0-released#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little more than a year ago, I posted about the release of Portable GIS 1.0, aka &#8220;GIS on a stick&#8221;, a suite of portable GIS programs that could be installed on a thumb drive and run from any computer. Jo Cook of Oxford Archaeology has just released version 2.0, which offers more features, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat Digitizer Extension For ArcGIS</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/habitat-digitizer-extension-for-arcgis</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/habitat-digitizer-extension-for-arcgis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled across this the other day, and while I don’t currently have the need for it (or a copy of ArcGIS to try it out on), it sounds useful enough to post about. NOAA’s Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment offers a free extension for ArcGIS called the Habitat Digitizer:
The Habitat Digitizer Extension is designed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GUI For Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) Plus Added Geophysics Tools</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/gui-for-generic-mapping-tools-gmt-plus-added-geophysics-tools</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/gui-for-generic-mapping-tools-gmt-plus-added-geophysics-tools#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is a collection of 60-odd command line tools for manipulating gridded and vector data, and creating high-quality output in EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) format. Working with it in command-line format isn’t the most user-friendly experience. Mirone offers a far-more accessible GUI interface to GMT’s features, and adds a few geophysics-related capabilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FalconView Released As Open Source</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/falconview-released-as-open-source</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/falconview-released-as-open-source#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FalconView is the Windows mapping part of the Air Force’s Portable Flight Planning Software (PFPS), under development by Georgia Tech since 1994; see this link for an interesting history of the politics of software development in the military. This mapping part, stripped of all mission planning components, has recently been OK’ed by the Air Force [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Map Maker Gratis: Free Map Editor</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/map-maker-gratis-free-map-editor</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/map-maker-gratis-free-map-editor#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Map Maker Gratis is the free version of the professional $400 GIS and map editor Map Maker Pro. I’ve been meaning to try it out for a while, since even the free version has a very strong feature set. From the website:

Unlimited number of layers, raster and vector.
Colour, mono, and grey-scale bitmap backgrounds.
Large range of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Disaster Response Map Symbols</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/disaster-response-map-symbols</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/disaster-response-map-symbols#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MicroDEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cartography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Portuguese chapter of the Association Of Volunteer Emergency Response Teams, in collaboration with Peter Guth and Donald Springer, is working to create a general-purpose set of symbols useful in mapping the position and condition of infrastructure, resources and incidents during emergency situations. You can download these Disaster Response Map Symbols as a True Type [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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