Is the kml on www.letour.fr yours or antoher? And if no, has it been made with your support? It looks a bit the same

Arthur

P.S. Thanks a lot for the nice thing! How do you get live tracking into GE? Do you need Plus?

Hi PH_ART,

The Placemark from Letour is done by Google, based on my work.
I was contacted last week and wee agreed a cooperation.

You can see my name (The frist one) in the description of the placemark.

Live tracking is done completely outside GE!
I wrote a script which performs a series of steps:
1) downloads the letour.fr page
2) extract the current location (km to end)
3) lookup the position on the track to obtain coordinates
4) write the KML file (its pure text)
5) upload the files to the webserver
6) wait 10 seconds and restart.

Its a script written in REBOL containing about 80 lines of code.

For the work on the track I in fact use GE Plus for ease of editing tracks.
I principle one could do the same with any free GIS software.

By the way,

Notice that on todays stage 3 the track seems misalligned to the images until km 25!!

Well in Fact its the image which is missalligned!
The track is exactly following the road layer information, which is exact for all other hi-res areas.

Enjoy.

Lucifer,

Noticed that there are multiple views in the live track now! Thank you so much...

Now what would be really cool... If there were a way to integrate the live tour updates from the TDF site:

http://www.letour.fr/2006/TDF/LIVE/us/300/index.html

I have no idea if this is possible... maybe it could be done if those posts were RSS Feeds, which they are not.

Thanks again for the views options!

Still not able to use the live feature

Using a web anonymizer I was able to access your web site and the kml files, however using IE or GE fails to load anything.
It looks like funpic.de is blocking some subnets from Romania
(I tried from the office and also from home).

Hi Horace,

Sorry to hear not everybody can access the network link.

I will try to work out a solution, check your PM this evening.

Don't waste your time on this one. I can live without it, or I will download the files manually and then open them in GE.


Thanks anyway.

Later: I solved the problem by creating a separate folder in My Places with 'custom' network links. These are your links with the text 'http://concealme.com/nph-proxy.pl/000110A/' in front of them.

Hi,

I'm new here, I race in Canada. I have a computrainer I use for indoor training whih I can build any course with from GPS data. The more GPS data I have (Lat,Long,Altitude) at very tight intervals, I can duplicate the course the riders are on, and re ride the virtual road indoors over winter...

I am wondering if anyone has an archive of the live waypoints, and can I possibly get them?

Thank you in advance!

Chris

Hi Chris,

Nice Idea!

Well we have only the 2D coordinates for the Tour de France, That meen NO altitude, which is I would guess not so interesting to ride fully flat.

Basically you have the course from the Placemark.

If you need it in another format look at www.gpsvisualizer.com

Hi Lucifer,

I'm new to this google earth stuff, and just stumbled across the TdF for it!

By Placemarks, I am assuming those are the every 5km points??

You don't have coordinates from the Live feeds around that could be used as placemarks do you??

What I am thinking (And I know this would be tedious work) But if I had frequent placemarks, I *could* just mouse over the placemark, record the lat/long and altitude that way.. as I said very long, but well worth it in the end! I tried doing this on one stage and just following the path with the mouse and recording data... the only problem for me doing it this way is sometimes I got lost on the route to the next 5KM marker.. maybe I was looking at something wrong...

Anyways, full credit goes to you for this outstanding work!!

Thanks, and if you have any ideas for me on easier retrieval of the data, please let me know...

Chris