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		<title>Excel Add-On For Map And Data Visualization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claude Henri-Meledo writes to tell me about BeGraphic Lite, a free data visualization tool for Microsoft Excel. I don’t currently have easy access to Microsoft Excel (I&#8217;m working in OpenOffice exclusively), so I can’t try it out, but it looks interesting. It apparently does a wide variation of data graphics, not just maps; these include: [...]
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		<title>A Basic Raster Image GeoMetaData Extractor/Viewer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many raster image formats commonly used in GIS applications have metadata embedded in them that georeferences the pixels (assigns them a coordinate location), and often includes other information like the coordinate system, origin, and datum. Some GIS programs will let you view some or all of this metadata, others won&#8217;t. I&#8217;ve written a simple GUI [...]
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		<title>GISVM &#8211; A Virtual Ubuntu Linux GIS Workstation</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/gisvm-a-virtual-ubuntu-linux-gis-workstation</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GISVM is a Ubuntu 8.04 Linux distribution packaged as a virtual machine, an OS that can be run in a window inside of another OS like Windows, Mac OS X, or even another Linux distribution. It contains a number of open-source GIS packages already installed, including: uDig gvSIG Kosmo FWTools / OpenEV MapServer PostGIS It&#8217;s [...]
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		<title>Create Your Own Gapminder Animated Charts</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/create-your-own-gapminder-animated-charts</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gapminder is a flash-based tool for creating animated charts based on various parameters and indicators, including geographic areas. Here&#8217;s a TED talk showing examples of uses by its developer, Hans Rosling: Up until recently, you could look at Gapminder charts for specific datasets at the website, but not create your own. Google, which bought the [...]
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		<title>The Big List Of Free Metadata Software II</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/the-big-list-of-free-metadata-software-ii</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing on from the first post in the series &#8230; MetaCat: &#8220;Metacat is a flexible metadata database. It utilizes XML as a common syntax for representing the large number of metadata content standards that are relevant to ecology. Thus, Metacat is a generic XML database that allows storage, query, and retrieval of arbitrary XML documents [...]
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		<title>The Big List Of Free GIS Programs &#8211; S Through Z</title>
		<link>http://freegeographytools.com/2008/the-big-list-of-free-gis-programs-s-through-z</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final part of the series. Part One, Part Two, Part Three. All parts will be regularly updated as more programs come to my attention. SAGA Type: Freeware, open-source Platform: Windows, Linux Last update: 2007 Personal experience: Medium Can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;m a big fan of the interface, and some of the modules aren&#8217;t fully [...]
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		<title>The Big List Of Free GIS Programs &#8211; N Through R</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part three of this series (part one, part two). Natural Resources Database (NRDB) Type: Freeware, open-source Platform: Windows Last update: 2007 Personal experience: Minimal Description NRDB is a free GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to provide people in developing countries with a powerful yet simple tool to assist in [...]
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		<title>The Big List Of Free GIS Programs &#8211; I Through M</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A continuation of this list from the first post. Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) Type: Freeware (formerly commercial), open-source Platform: Windows Last update: 2006? Personal experience: Minimal I plan to look at this one in greater detail in the future &#8211; looks like it has some really useful capabilities. Here&#8217;s a list of [...]
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		<title>The Big List Of Free Basic GIS Programs &#8211; A Through H</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The backlog of topics for this blog continues to grow beyond my ability to keep up with it, and current work demands make it unlikely I&#8217;ll be able to catch up soon (though I should still be able to put up new posts at about the same rate). So I thought I&#8217;d do a quick [...]
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		<title>GIS-Oriented Linux Distributions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leszek Pawlowicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank over at VerySpatial.com wants to know where the GIS-oriented Linux distributions are. Well, here are three four: GIS-Knoppix: A GIS-oriented version of the bootable Knoppix Linux distribution, but can be installed on your computer as well. Has GRASS, OpenJump, qGIS, MapServer, Thuban, and a bunch more. Host-GIS: A Linux distribution designed around MapServer; comes [...]
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