Today I hosted the network link on another server, here are the logs:

Just for those courious ones.

You where up to near 600 following the end of the race.


these users downloaded the main position KML 186521 times

All together there where about 500 000 hits (Yes, half a million!)
generating a traffic of nearly 1 Gigabyte.

Absolutely brilliant work, thank you! Fantastic!

July 16th, Stage 14

Visitors : 3110

Here are the statistics for July 18th

Visitors: 3682


And from Where:

Hi,

is it possible there's something wrong today??
In the Live - view is Tom Boonen in the attardes group but I thought he already stopped in the TdF.

Greetz

Hi Lunie,

Yes indeed you are correct, at the beginnig of the stage I again ran into on of these "Improvements" I put into the script.
(Well this time it was just a spelling error)

So the first update took yesterdays data and locked up...

After about an hour I was back home and corrected the script.

But now I promise! Everything is set up for stages 18 and 20 and I will not improve it any more!

It might be that at the beginning of the stage there are still odd data comming from this page:
http://rtl.lu/sport/tourdefrance/ecarts/

That is where I get the group information.

Actual position of the leader is fetched from:
http://www.letour.fr/2006/TDF/LIVE/fr/1800/dprofil.html

that has quicker updates.

Peter just informed me about the latest version of the Tour de France Placemark from www.letour.fr.

They have included a great model of the Arc du Triomphe at the arrival of stage 20

Have a look there this is a great improvement in the visuals for the last stage.

You can also have a look at

The Eiffel Tower
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6e345acdc9ba245811bf19f6258f4b2a

The Obelisque (Direct download)
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/d...t=ge&d=.kmz

Much more models at 3D Warehouse
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/

and the 3D Warehouse Network link
http://earth.google.com/3d.html

Ca c'est du tres bon travail...

This is a very good job...

Felicitation....