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		<title>Back Soon</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 02:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Been a long field season this year, which has kept me away from this site. Not over yet – still have one more session left, running through the end of next week. Then I’ll be back home, and hope to get this site cranking again soon.<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design For GIS – A Review Of The Second Edition</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I mentioned to a friend that I had just received a review copy of the new second edition of Making Maps by John Krygier and Denis Wood, and she exclaimed, “Oh, our university GIS department loves that book!”. No surprise – since its publication in 2006, the first edition has a become a staple [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>3D Textured Models From 2D Photos With PhotoFly</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: PhotoFly is now 123D Catch; click here for the main product page. A few years ago, Microsoft make a big splash with Photosynth, a program that analyzes 2D photos of an area, computes their relative orientation, and lets you view them in a quasi-3D environment. Here’s a live Photosynth of the London Eye: PhotoSynth [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Portable Version Of The Open Source GIS gvSIG</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[gvSIG is a full-featured open source GIS program, written in Java; I’d go so far as to call it one of the two leading open source GIS programs currently available (Quantum GIS is the other). Version 1.11 was released recently, with standard installers available for both Windows and Linux (and a special installer for Mac). [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Geodetic Tools For Google Earth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Earth Survey Plugin: NGS Benchmarks, PLSS Data, USGS Quad Data And More</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[coordinate conversion]]></category>
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		<title>Free Tools For Garmin Custom Garmin Vector Maps XIX: TypWiz, The Best TYP File Editor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>LightSquared And The FCC – Still Doing Their Best To Destroy GPS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in February, I had a long post about the FCC’s conditional approval of LightSquared’s wireless broadband proposal. This waiver was vigorously opposed by the GPS industry because tests by Garmin showed that it would seriously disrupt GPS in areas where it was implemented. Read the post for a full rundown, but briefly LightSquared’s plan [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I first heard about the crowdmapping platform Ushahidi a few years ago; it’s an open-source app/platform that can collect/collate geotagged data in real-time from mobile observers, or delayed reports over the web. The data can then be mapped, viewed on a timeline, and analyzed. One significant obstacle to using the platform was the need to [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>National Geodetic Survey Online Toolkit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leszek Pawlowicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The National Geodetic Survey has a set of links online conversion utilities for performing some basic geodetic conversions, including: High-accuracy state plane coordinate system (SPCS) conversions UTM/USNG/geographic coordinate conversions Magnetic declination Surface gravity prediction Azimuth/distance to a second position (or second position from azimuth/distance data) Position from a dual-frequency GPS data file Plus many more. [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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