GPS/GIS

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Add GPS to your laptop:

http://mydellmini.com/forum/integrated- ... -t167.html

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Toolbox you can use with Radarsat

http://www.array.ca/nest/tiki-index.php


If you don't know what Radarsat is, it's one of Canada's commercial satellites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADARSAT-1

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Tom Tom and Garmin's stock tanks after Google's announcement of a free car GPS software suite:

http://www.wiseandroid.com/NewsItem.asp ... &itemid=37

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Showing some info collected in Google Maps:

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/201 ... -york.html

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SiteTopo -- Excellent 3D contour program useful for viewing drawings, contouring, and basic water analysis:
http://www.sitetopo.com/


CADTools is a plug-in for AutoCAD that simplifies 3D work:
http://www.glamsen.se/CadTools.htm



AutoLisp tutorials:
http://www.jefferypsanders.com/index.html

AutoLisp file to export coordinates from CAD file:
http://www.cadtutor.co.uk/forum/showthr ... ht=routine

Tips and Tutorials:
http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18960

CAD forum:
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php

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Satellite imagery of the Earth's gravity field:

http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/06 ... p-of-Earth

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Digital Mapper

http://www.globalmapper.com/

Really awesome program that maps just about everything. I'll yet to throw a file at it that it couldn't open.

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Open maps and GPS Sat nav for your bicycle:

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/09/2 ... or-Cycling

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Lightsquare cell signals now confirmed to block GPS signals:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23486

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That leaked report?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... utrage.ars

Yeah, Lightsquared not too happy about it.

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If Iran downed that drone by sending false GPS signals to trick it into thinking it was in Afghanistan, that's pretty impressive:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=23533

It would either mean that the drones don't use the military encrypted stream, that Iran has cracked it, or they've figured out how to resolve it at a level acceptable for flight (ie. like civilians eliminating S/A through post-processing).

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Lightsquared cell network will likely interfere with the $8 billion system used for keeping airlines in the skies:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news ... s-told.ars

How the FCC approved Lightsquared is beyond me.

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Lightsquared barred by FCC from operating:

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/02/ ... g-airwaves

Guess that's what happens when you buy satellite spectrum and try to sneakily make it terrestrial.

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GPS unit that triangulates when it loses signal:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepe ... ammed.html

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Open sources maps:

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12 ... developers

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application- ... ers-198012

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

http://www.osgeo.org/

http://www.mapfish.org/

http://openlayers.org/

http://www.geomoose.org/

http://mapbox.com/tilemill/

http://www.geoext.org/

http://jqvmap.com/

http://modestmaps.com/

http://prag.ma/code/htmapl/examples/cri ... index.html

http://stamen.com/

http://mapnik.org/

http://www.antigrain.com/

http://mapbox.com/

http://mapbox.com/wax/tilejson.html

http://www.gpsbabel.org/

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

http://downloads.cloudmade.com/