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	<title>Free Geography Tools &#187; Google Maps</title>
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	<description>Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more.</description>
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		<title>Free Marine Chart Views, Plus An Online Waypoint/Route Editor With GPS Export</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/free-marine-chart-views-plus-an-online-waypointroute-editor-with-gps-export</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Marine GeoGarage site offers free online views of marine charts from the following countries: USA Bahamas Argentina Brazil Netherlands A  10-euro monthly subscription (free 14-day trial) gets rid of the ads, and adds charts for the following countries: UK and vicinity Canada Australia Choose the country from the list at upper-right: The slider controls [...]
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		<title>Generate Custom Color Code For Google Maps</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/generate-custom-color-code-for-google-maps</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Google Maps Colorizr website lets you set alternate colors for various features in Google Maps, preview the results, and then generate the Javascript code to implement that color change on your own maps. Start out with the original colors: At left, you can add feature/color sets with the “+” button, select from all the [...]
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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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		<title>View NGS Benchmarks, UTM Zones, PLSS Meridians And More In A Web Interface</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/view-ngs-benchmarks-utm-zones-plss-meridians-and-more-in-a-web-interface</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/view-ngs-benchmarks-utm-zones-plss-meridians-and-more-in-a-web-interface#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Surveying.Org website plots a number of useful survey-related data features in a Google Maps interface; select one or multiple data features to display with a checkbox. National Geodetic Survey Benchmark locations Takes a few seconds for them to pop up. The different symbols correspond to various classes of accuracy for the benchmarks, both horizontal [...]
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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>
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		<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>
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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>Nuke A City With The Ground Zero Mapplet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bit of a grim app, but the CarlosLabs Ground Zero Mapplet will show the effects of various-sized nuclear weapons on a number of preset world cities. Here’s the impact on Pittsburgh of the “Tsar Bomba” blast, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested at 50 megatons: Most other blast options are for much less, like [...]
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		<title>Two Javascript Mapping Libraries</title>
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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>Create Your Own Google &#8220;Map Envelope&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<title>Displaying GPS Data On A Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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