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		<title>Geodetic Tools For Google Earth</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Hey, ArcGIS Explorer Desktop Has Turned Out Pretty Good!</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2011/hey-arcgis-explorer-desktop-has-turned-out-pretty-good</link>
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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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		<title>Where&#8217;s The Path &#8211; UK OS Mapping Viewer And Tool</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/wheres-the-path-uk-os-mapping-viewer-and-tool</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GPX]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where’s The Path lets you display UK Ordnance Survey 1:50K topographic maps side by side with other kinds of maps, including: Google roads/satellite/terrain/hybrid OpenStreetMap 1930s and 1940s OS maps Cursor movement on one map is mirrored in another; you can import  GPX/KML files, and also draw features on the map and export them to in [...]
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		<title>Displaying GPS Data On A Website</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/displaying-gps-data-on-a-website</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Maps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got an email a few weeks ago from someone who wanted to post data taken with a GPS, in GPX file format, and display it as an embeddable map on his blog; he couldn’t find anything on that on the web. I offered one possibility, and he in turn suggested that I might put up [...]
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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>
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		<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>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/crowdsourcing-and-coordinating-data-collection-with-handheld-gps-units#comments</comments>
		<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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		<title>Removing Time Data Out Of A GPX Or KML File To Make It Work Right In Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/removin-time-data-out-of-a-gpx-or-kml-file-to-make-it-work-right-in-google-earth</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the process of writing yesterday’s post on Garmin Basecamp, I found an annoying flaw on how Google Earth handles GPX files. In a recent GPS talk I gave, I surprised some people when I told them that Google Earth can open some GPS-related formats like GPX, LOC and others directly; you just need to [...]
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		<title>Online Elevation Profiler</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/online-elevation-profiler</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Maps]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Krystian Pietruszka emails about his new Geocontext Profiler site, based on the new Google Maps API version 3. Place two markers on a Google Maps view by clicking, and get the elevation profile between them: You can add as many additional markers as you want in any direction; to fine-tune a marker position, just click [...]
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		<title>Another KML Circle Creator</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/another-kml-circle-creator</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both this site and KML-Circles appear to be down; try the GE Path program as an alternative. Posted a long time ago about the KML-Circles site, which lets you generate polygons/quasi-circles centered around arbitratry points in KML format for Google Earth and Google Maps. Lots of options at that site, perhaps too many if you [...]
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