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		<title>Convert A Shapefile Into A Google Fusion Table</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Fusion Tables is a free service from Google that lets you visualize, map, analyze and combine data. Standard data formats for import are spreadsheet data (including direct export from Google Docs), CSV and KML files. But you can use the Shape to Fusion website to convert shapefile data directly into Fusion Table format, including [...]
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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>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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<li><a href='http://freegeographytools.com/2009/thematic-mapping-engine-api-for-displaying-your-own-data-in-google-earth' rel='bookmark' title='Thematic Mapping Engine API For Displaying Your Own Data In Google Earth'>Thematic Mapping Engine API For Displaying Your Own Data In Google Earth</a></li>
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		<title>World Vector Data (VMAP0 and VMAP1) In Shapefile Format</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/world-vector-data-vmap0-and-vmap1-in-shapefile-format</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/world-vector-data-vmap0-and-vmap1-in-shapefile-format#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About three years ago, I posted about Penn State’s Digital Chart Of The World Server, which hosted old 1991/1992 VMAP0 world vector data from the National Geospatial Agency in E00 format. More recent data is available directly from the NGA, some of it in the higher-resolution VMAP1 dataset not available from Penn State, but the [...]
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		<title>GISCloud &#8211; An Online Geographic Information System Application</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/giscloud-an-online-geographic-information-system-application</link>
		<comments>http://freegeographytools.com/2010/giscloud-an-online-geographic-information-system-application#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been playing around a bit with GISCloud, a web-based GIS program. Looks interesting, and promising, but still has serious limitations. Feature set includes: Raster and vector data display Vector layer import and editing, including shapefiles, MapInfo, KML, tab-delimited and GPX Built-in datafile coordinate reprojection; recognizes prj files, and lets you select the output coordinate [...]
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		<title>Free Vector Country Borders, Administrative Boundaries, And Soon More</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/free-vector-country-borders-administrative-boundaries-and-soon-more</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wish I’d known about this site when I was hunting for a high-res border outline for the province of Umbria in Italy. The Global Administrative Boundaries website offers free vector GIS data for country borders and administrative areas within those borders. Data is available in geographic coordinates (lat/long), WGS84 datum, in multiple formats: Shapefile KML [...]
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		<title>Habitat Digitizer Extension For ArcGIS</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/habitat-digitizer-extension-for-arcgis</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stumbled across this the other day, and while I don’t currently have the need for it (or a copy of ArcGIS to try it out on), it sounds useful enough to post about. NOAA’s Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment offers a free extension for ArcGIS called the Habitat Digitizer: The Habitat Digitizer Extension is [...]
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		<title>Convert Shapefiles Into SVG Format With Thematic Coloring</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/convert-shapefiles-into-svg-format-with-thematic-coloring</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, I covered an online application from indiemapper that converts shapefiles into SVG format, a standard format for vector illustration programs like Adobe Illustrator or the open source Inkscape. One drawback of that site was the inability to color/shade the SVG output based on shapefile attribute data. Ken Hardy has a Perl [...]
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		<title>MapTool Goes To Version 2&#8211; Elevations, Areas, And Distances In Google Maps</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/maptool-goes-to-version-2-elevations-areas-and-distances-in-google-maps</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve covered Zonums Software free online application MapTool before; the original version let you determine the elevation of a point in a Google Maps interface, as well as measuring the length of a multi-segment path or drawn polygon, but not much more. Zonums has recently updated this application to  MapTool 2, which adds some really [...]
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		<title>LandSerf &#8211; Google Earth And GPS Functions</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2009/landserf-google-earth-and-gps-functions</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In previous posts, I reviewed LandSerf’s raster terrain analysis functions and vector functions. Today I’ll wrap up with a short review of LandSerf’s Google Earth and GPS functions. Google Earth: The most notable Google Earth functionality is the ability to export vector data, either imported or generated by the program, into KML vector files. So [...]
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