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Old February 8th 06, 01:56 PM
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"Walter Wright" wrote in message
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"Paul-S8" wrote in message
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Has anyone tried google earth to vie a ski area yet?


I carry a Garmin GPS with me while skiing. Amongst other things it records
a daily "track" of where I've been. On returning home I can upload these
tracks into Mapsource (a program that manages Garmin maps, waypoints,
tracks etc.) and view the tracks on a map. With the latest Mapsource there
is an option to "View in Google Earth" which launches GE then displays the
tracks in the appropriate place. You can then use GE to replay the tracks
as a "fly-by". Its quite neat although all of my tracks are in the French
Alps which are still very low resolution, and the GE images were taken in
the summer so there's not much snow about either. You get a pretty
accurate idea of the terrain though, especially if you exaggerate it a
little in the Options page (multiply by about 1.5 looks quite good).

The Andorra images look really great!

Walter


Wow, just wow, I didn't think it could get much better.

I have a garmin but won't be using it this year as I am trying the skido
think for my smartphone but I am hoping that I can do something with the
track data along the same lines. I think I will even suggest it to the skido
developers!!!!

Paul


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