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	<title>Free Geography Tools &#187; MicroDEM</title>
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		<title>Varying-Angle Terrain Views With Terrain Bender</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/varying-angle-terrain-views-with-terrain-bender</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/varying-angle-terrain-views-with-terrain-bender#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DEM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standard terrain visualization programs like MicroDEM or 3DEM typically give you the option of viewing terrain either from top down: Or from an oblique angle, looking in one direction: Terrain Bender offers you the ability to warp the terrain so that you can combine both views in a single image; this is analogous to the [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2010/converting-dem-files-to-asc-format-for-terrain-bender-creating-matching-raster-overlays' rel='bookmark' title='Converting DEM Files To .asc Format For Terrain Bender; Creating Matching Raster Overlays'>Converting DEM Files To .asc Format For Terrain Bender; Creating Matching Raster Overlays</a></li>
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		<title>Merging Raster Imagery With MicroDEM</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/merging-raster-imagery-with-microdem</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/merging-raster-imagery-with-microdem#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use to recommend the TatukGIS Viewer as a good free program for merging raster imagery and export it in georeferenced full resolution, but as last week’s post indicated, the latest version of it drops this functionality. Someone asked me for a recommended free alternative, and for now I’d pick MicroDEM for that. It does [...]
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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2007/embedding-and-extracting-worldfiles-with-microdem' rel='bookmark' title='Embedding And Extracting Worldfiles With MicroDEM'>Embedding And Extracting Worldfiles With MicroDEM</a></li>
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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[cartography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KML]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MicroDEM]]></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 [...]
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MapWindow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MicroDEM]]></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>Options For MGRS Coordinate Conversion And Viewing</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/options-for-mgrs-coordinate-conversion-and-viewing</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/options-for-mgrs-coordinate-conversion-and-viewing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MicroDEM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My visitation logs show a surprisingly large number of visitors interested in converters for the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS), the standard geocoordinate system used by members of the NATO Alliance. So I thought I&#8217;d do a quick roundup of previous links/posts related to MGRS, and then talk about another program that might be useful [...]
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		<title>Creating &quot;Transparent&quot; Topo Map Overlays For Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-transparent-topo-map-overlays-for-google-earth</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-transparent-topo-map-overlays-for-google-earth#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MicroDEM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I used MicroDEM&#8217;s ability to create GIF Google Earth overlays with transparency to create selective overlays of MicroDEM terrain analysis products. But you can use this ability with any georeferenced raster image, including topo maps, as long as the areas of the graphic you want to have transparent are white. One [...]
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		<title>Google Earth Ground Overlays With GIF Transparency</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/google-earth-ground-overlays-with-gif-transparency</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/google-earth-ground-overlays-with-gif-transparency#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I talked about using MicroDEM to easily create Google Earth ground overlays, images draped over Google Earth terrain in the correct position, like this terrain-shaded topo map (viewed in Google Earth): But you can also create a Google Earth ground overlay in MicroDEM as a GIF with transparency, where any part [...]
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		<title>Creating Google Earth Ground Overlays From Georeferenced Images</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-google-earth-ground-overlays-from-georeferenced-images</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/creating-google-earth-ground-overlays-from-georeferenced-images#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google Earth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Google Earth, a ground overlay is an image that&#8217;s been imported into the program and &#8220;draped&#8221; over terrain as a substitute for the default imagery. In the Free and Plus versions of Google Earth, you have to position the overlay manually to put it in the right geographical context, stretching and rotating it until [...]
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		<title>Goofing Around With Pan-sharpening</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/goofing-around-with-pan-sharpening</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/goofing-around-with-pan-sharpening#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
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		<title>Embedding And Extracting Worldfiles With MicroDEM</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/embedding-and-extracting-worldfiles-with-microdem</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2007/embedding-and-extracting-worldfiles-with-microdem#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GIS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As described in a previous post, the TatukGIS Viewer has the ability to open image files along with their associated worldfiles, and then convert the image to a GeoTiff with the worldfile georeferencing data embedded it. It can also open a georeferenced image file like a GeoTiff or MRSid, and then save it in JPG, [...]
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