Hi Joern,

Thanks for showing up here and thanks for your comment.

I know you published yours, yours, yours, and that is good like this,
when I published mine it was also because it's mine, mine, mine!

Regarding the encoding, thanks for the tip. I had no time to care about it until now and description is generated through a small script not taking care of encoding and not able to do any conversion.

My work is still under construction. You will notice some tracks have snooth tracks following exactly the roads (these are finished) and others are more like yours (under construction).

I plan to discard unnecessary information or put it in a separate placemark to make my version smaller.

My main idea is however to get the most accurate track information as possible as this will be the base for live tracking of the race.
I will grab real time progress information from the web (normally km from start) and find the corresponding location on the track to update a network link, say every 20-30 seconds.

So basically there are 2 tasks to be completed:

1) finish the tracks.
(Here your help is much apreciated by reporting errors in the tracks)

2) Find the best live ticker to grap position information.
( Give me a hint!)

for 2) we have to consider that I am not able to extract information from a Flash site, which most are. So if you have a way of extracting the content of a website in flash, tell me.