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	<title>The Geo Factor</title>
	<link>http://www.thegeofactor.com</link>
	<description>The Geography of Business, The Business of Geography.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Geography of Personality</title>
		<link>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/23/geography-of-personality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Geo Awareness</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Demographics</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Fun</dc:subject>
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Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal carries the article, The United States of Mind: Researchers Identify Regional Personality Traits Across America which discusses findings published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science.
In A Theory of the Emergence, Persistence, and Expression of Geographic Variation in Psychological Characteristics researchers from  the University of Cambridge,  University of Texas at Austin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should You be Making Maps?</title>
		<link>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/12/who-should-be-making-maps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Maps</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Geo Awareness</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Education</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Mash-ups</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>FortiusOne</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Google</dc:subject>
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A couple of recent blog discussions reminded me of an age-old controversy around computers. Computers automate tasks and allow wider information access, making it easier for more people to do more things with more information. The computer tools continue to improve as more data goes online, thereby accelerating this ongoing trend. Clearly, this has changed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3D Cities to Virtual Worlds</title>
		<link>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/10/3d-cities-to-virtual-worlds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/10/3d-cities-to-virtual-worlds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>ESRI</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Autodesk</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Bentley</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>OGC</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>standards</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Microsoft</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Google</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Social Networks</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Virtual Worlds</dc:subject>
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Recently, The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) adopted version 1.0.0 of the OpenGIS® CityGML Encoding Standard as an official OGC Standard. According to OIGC, CityGML is an open data model framework and XML-based encoding standard for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D urban models. Also, CityGML is an application schema of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the GeoEye-1 Launch on Saturday</title>
		<link>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/05/watch-the-geoeye-1-launch-on-saturday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/05/watch-the-geoeye-1-launch-on-saturday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>sensors</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Imagery</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>GeoEye</dc:subject>
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It&#8217;s not every day there&#8217;s a launch of a remote sensing satellite, and one we can watch online too.

According to GeoEye, GeoEye-1 is world&#8217;s highest resolution commercial imaging satellite, with resulting imagery as good as ½ meter resolution and 3 meter positional accuracy. Additional capabilities include the ability to revisit any location on the earth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who in GIS/LBS is an Outsider?</title>
		<link>http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/09/02/who-in-gislbs-is-an-outsider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Uncategorized</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, no one wants to be an outsider. Especially in my area of the world, Washington, DC. However, with the presidential election, it is suddenly in vogue to be considered an outsider. With all of the swirl around McCain/Palin being reformers and outsiders from the “Washington establishment” and Obama being the candidate of “change”, I [...]]]></description>
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