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	<title>Simulator GIS - Darb Dabney's OpenSim</title>
	<link>http://blog.simgis.com</link>
	<description>Multi-user Virtual Environments as Geospatial Information Services</description>
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		<title>The new Darb: 32 months old, and tier-free!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not to ever underestimate the value of a good location, I&#8217;m happily Linden$ed-out and set free of tier starting next month.  Somehow the word got out:
After a 32-month run of parcel ownership in Gualala, Vitersonus, Amida, and finally Stanford, I&#8217;m keeping a postage stamp in Gualala, a boat ramp in Amida, and a tiny refuge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/06/25/the-new-darb-32-months-old-and-tier-free/</link>
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		<title>My Second Life tier will soon be history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometime, it just isn&#8217;t worth it.  Such is my new view of tier, in the context of what matters to me with immersive 3D and GIS.  For about six months I&#8217;ve continued my hold on some land in the classic Stanford sim of Second Life, without quite being able to work out the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/06/22/my-second-life-tier-will-soon-be-history/</link>
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		<title>Some thoughts on geography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[updated 2009 05 26
I&#8217;ve been waiting for some property boundary issues to resolve in SL, and it&#8217;s sort of pitiful to see how long that can take.  It&#8217;s with ever more regret that I find myself on the Mainland.  But that hasn&#8217;t kept lots of real-world interesting stuff from taking shape.
The following video is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/05/24/some-thoughts-on-geography/</link>
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		<title>Something new for Earth Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#60;&#60;updated 20090424&#62;&#62;
As my patience with Second Life wanes, and I wait for more architectural input for my next SL build project, I have a dark OpenSim server with no fixed IP.  I&#8217;m having stability issues with the Linux SL client, but have upgraded the workstation to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope.  Google Earth client there is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/04/22/something-new-for-earth-day/</link>
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		<title>Terrain Tenacity, fresh ortho pixels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Terrain has been in the mix for me quite a bit these past four weeks.  I&#8217;ve worked on pushing ESRI ArcGIS 3D Analyst to its limits of masspoint digestibility, trying hard to bring everything into focus at the same time that everything is sinking down to NAVD88 datum.  An abundant set of waterlines and terrain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/03/25/terrain-tenacity-fresh-ortho-pixels/</link>
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		<title>Governor terminates Berkurodam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the ongoing mainland cleanup, the abandoned Berkurodam site has been restored to its natural state.   Governor Linden has packed the BART station safely into my Lost &#38; Found folder, and she&#8217;s made an attractive -looking open space where once there was a highly urbanized build.
When notified of the demolition, we dispatched [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/02/27/governor-terminates-berkurodam/</link>
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		<title>Civic Center terrain version 0.9 &#8211; dumped in Stanford region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The terrain forge was fired up tonight, and the virtual dump truck made dozens of runs into immersive reality.  Compared with OpenSim where terrain megaprims can be fine-tuned to the precise size requirement, in Second Life I must back-calculate the scale from actual terrain sculpties.  Apparently my trusty Gene Replacement 40-meter spheres can be induced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/02/24/civic-center-terrain-version-09-dumped-in-stanford-region/</link>
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		<title>Terrain on tap &#8211; OpenSim on deck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s some progress on a couple of project fronts.  I&#8217;ve started assembling some USGS terrain for a 1:10 scale Level 1 build that could involve more OpenSim regions than I&#8217;ve ever stood up on one machine before.  Snapshot of progress is here, with a goal of 304 OpenSim regions for the model.  I expect that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/02/16/terrain-on-tap-opensim-on-deck/</link>
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		<title>Opensim aside, Darb is going to miss Robin Linden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading more than writing these past couple of days, I have really felt both an in-world and RL sadness to know that Robin Linden is leaving the Lab.  My first use of the SL client was in 2006 10, so I&#8217;m not much of an SL oldie, although I was at Burning Man &#8216;98 and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/02/06/darb-is-going-to-miss-robin-linden/</link>
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		<title>SIMGIS Move: OpenSim for workbench, SL for presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Down in the &#8220;basement&#8221; a server awaits a bit of configuration to become an OpenSim lab to support the Marin Civic Center development.  How nice it would be to load terrain into a portion of a Second Life region, but alas&#8211;it seems unavailable to those of us without Estate controls.  The 1:1.00 scale terrain will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.simgis.com/2009/02/03/simgis-move-opensim-sl-presentation/</link>
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