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		<title>Crowdsourcing And Coordinating Data Collection With Handheld GPS Units</title>
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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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		<title>MapWindow GIS Updated To Version 4.7; Next-Gen Version 6 Beta Available</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/mapwindow-gis-updated-to-version-4-7-next-gen-version-6-beta-available</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been over a year since I last posted about a version update (4.5) for the free Windows GIS MapWindow (topic of multiple previous posts). Just noticed that version 4.7 was released just a bit more than a week ago. Improvements since 4.5 include: Stability improvements, particularly when dealing with large numbers of shapes in [...]
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		<title>Assigning Attributes From A Polygon Shapefile To Another Shapefile</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/assigning-attributes-from-a-polygon-shapefile-to-another-shapefile</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/assigning-attributes-from-a-polygon-shapefile-to-another-shapefile#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s a recap of yesterday’s request from TD: Wondering if you know of an easy way to create centroids (points) from polygons &#8211; I am using MapWindow and various other free tools. What I am ultimately trying to do is assign attribute data (parcel #) to a polygon shapefile representing buildings.  In other words, for [...]
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		<title>Get DEM Elevations For A List Of Points</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/get-dem-elevations-for-a-list-of-points</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/get-dem-elevations-for-a-list-of-points#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DEM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[YP asks: …would you know an easy (and free) way to query a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) to get elevations for a list of points (potentially as many as a few thousand) Well, I know one way to do it with free software: 1. First, if it’s not already in shapefile format, you need to [...]
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		<title>New Stable Release Of MapWindow GIS</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/new-stable-release-of-mapwindow-gis</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/new-stable-release-of-mapwindow-gis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The open source GIS MapWindow (Windows only) has just put out its latest Stable Release (SR), version 4.5. This is the first SR in about 8 months. New features include: “Bookmark View” capability Ability to change map background color New string functions in DBF table editor &#8211; trim, substring, toupper, tolower Better Intellisense-like editor for [...]
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		<title>Importing Google Earth Imagery Into A GIS</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/importing-google-earth-imagery-into-a-gis</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/importing-google-earth-imagery-into-a-gis#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has gotten a very strong reaction from many people, mostly negative. They say use of Google Earth imagery in the manner outlined here is inappropriate, an illegal violation of the Google Earth EULA/TOS. More specifically, words like &#8220;theft&#8221;, &#8220;stealing&#8221; and &#8220;dirty&#8221; have been used to describe this. I feel that this use of [...]
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		<title>MapWindow GIS Version 4.4 Is Out</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/mapwindow-gis-version-44-is-out</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a brief note to say that the open source GIS MapWindow has reached version 4.4, and the new version is definitely a worthwhile upgrade if you already have the program. A whole bunch of shapefile editing capabilities have been added, there&#8217;s now an Undo function in the shapefile editor you can turn on, higher-resolution [...]
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		<title>High-Resolution Sea Level Rise Effects In Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/high-resolution-sea-level-rise-effects-in-google-earth</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/high-resolution-sea-level-rise-effects-in-google-earth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I posted on how to create an animated depiction of sea level rise due to a storm surge or global warming. Here&#8217;s a movie of the flooding for the Manhattan/NYC area: Got a note from Frank Taylor over at the Google Earth Blog saying that it looked pretty interesting, and that he would [...]
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		<title>Mapping Radio Coverage, And Viewing It In Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/mapping-radio-coverage-and-viewing-it-in-google-earth</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/mapping-radio-coverage-and-viewing-it-in-google-earth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 15:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JS writes, &#8220;I am doing a very small wireless operation in Catalonia, and it would be very interesting to have the coverage map of the antennas. Do you know any free (or cheap) tools to do that and place it on Google Earth?&#8221; I know of two free Windows tools useful in analyzing radio coverage. [...]
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		<title>Converting Raster Area Images Into Polygon Shapefiles</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-raster-area-images-into-polygon-shapefiles</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-raster-area-images-into-polygon-shapefiles#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, MicroDEM was used to create viewsheds from a DEM (digital elevation model), and plot them on top of either a DEM terrain image or a corresponding map loaded into the program. But it could be useful to export the viewshed data alone, either in raster or shapefile vector format, for use [...]
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