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	<title>Free Geography Tools &#187; Google Earth</title>
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		<title>Geodetic Tools For Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/geodetic-tools-for-google-earth</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, I posted about a web app from Metzger and Willard that offers useful info like PLSS data and a topo quad index in a Google Earth plugin interface. Poking around their site further, turns out they have a page called Earth Survey, a set of KML network links that installs those features [...]
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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>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/earth-survey-plugin-ngs-benchmarks-plss-data-usgs-quad-data-and-more#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>
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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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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2009/a-look-at-the-new-usgs-quad-format' rel='bookmark' title='A Look At The New USGS Quad Format'>A Look At The New USGS Quad Format</a></li>
<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/plotting-public-land-survey-system-locations-in-google-earth' rel='bookmark' title='Plotting Public Land Survey System Locations In Google Earth'>Plotting Public Land Survey System Locations In Google Earth</a></li>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[DEM]]></category>
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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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		<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>Satellite Prediction/Tracking In Google Earth/Maps</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/satellite-predictiontracking-in-google-earthmaps</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The SightSpaceStation website offers some eye-catching satellite position tracking and position web apps. Set your home position in Google Maps (scroll, then click on the home icon near the top): And get a table of upcoming International Space Station (ISS) flyovers near your home location, with “good” ones (good chance of spotting it with your [...]
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		<title>Another Earth Updated To Add Historical Imagery</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/another-earth-updated-to-add-historical-imagery</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/another-earth-updated-to-add-historical-imagery#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago, I posted about Another Earth, a site that loads two Google Earth views side-by-side, and lets you either view two locations separately for comparison, or synchronize movements between the two. I said that it was very useful as-is for comparing geographical features, but would be awesome when it added the ability to [...]
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		<title>Two Javascript Mapping Libraries</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/two-javascript-mapping-libraries</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cartographer: Free Javascript libraries (MIT License) for generating basic thematic maps. Choropleth Pie charts Cluster Links to additional live examples at the website. You can hard-code data values, or retrieve them from an online source like a Google Spreadsheet. Cartoview: Open source software that “makes building and editing maps a breeze&#8230;”. I wouldn’t go quite [...]
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		<title>Two Google Earth Views In One Browser Window With Another Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/two-google-earth-views-in-one-browser-window-with-another-earth</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another Earth puts two Google Earth plugin windows into a single browser view, and lets you control the view in each either independently, or synchronized with each other. So you could have one view from the top, and a second from an angle, like Mt. Everest: A control panel lets you synchronize/copy parameters like location/heading/tilt/altitude [...]
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		<title>Near-Real-Time US Airline Flight Visualization In Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/near-real-time-us-airline-flight-visualization-in-google-earth</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/near-real-time-us-airline-flight-visualization-in-google-earth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New from Google, a Google Earth network link that shows near-real-time US flight positions, full 3D position: Mouse-over a plane, and see the route it’s taken up to that point in blue: Click on a plane, and get a pop-up with flight info, on-time status: Click on “Download flight path”, and download a KML time [...]
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		<title>Crowdsourcing And Coordinating Data Collection With Handheld GPS Units</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/crowdsourcing-and-coordinating-data-collection-with-handheld-gps-units</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got an email today from someone with a data collection/coordination/assembly problem. They have multiple people out in the field with Garmin GPS units recording data, and bringing it back to a central location for collation/combination when they’re done. Since Garmin GPS units have limited capabilities for data storage – coordinates, name, comment, date and time, [...]
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