The FredCast - Show #30
Links
Intro
1. Music: "Happy" by Jimmy Bratcher
music.podshow.comwww.jimmiebratcher.com
Podcast Awards Results
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New Podcasts
1. The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast
www.the-spokesmen.com
2. The Official MS150 Podcast
www.ms150baytobay.com
*- MS150 Bay to Bay Bike Tour - October 7-8, 2006
News
1. Eneco Tour - August 16-23, 2006
www.enecotour.com
*- Prologue - Stefan Schumacher Wins
*- Stage 1 - Boonen wins stage, takes lead
*- Stage 2 - Quinziato wins stage, Boonen stays in lead
*- Stage 3 - Boonen wins stage, retains lead
*- Stage 4 - Hincapie wins stage, captures the lead
*- Stage 5 - Boonen takes stage, Hincapie stays in lead
2. Next ProTour Events
*- Grand Prix Ouest France - Aug. 27, 2006
www.comitedesfetes-plouay.com
*- Vuelta a España - Aug 26 - Sep 17, 2006
www.lavuelta.com
*- Tour of Poland - Sep 4-10, 2006
langteam.bikeworld.pl
3. More Names to be Released This Week in Puerto Affair
4. Floyd News
*- Father in Law
*- Support Floyd dot com
www.supportfloyd.com
*- Petition 1
http://www.petitiononline.com/floyd/petition.html
*- Petition 2
www.cyklistermotdoping.com—english
5. Tours Lose Sponsors
*- Tour de France - No more Skoda
*- Tour de Georgia - No more Ford
6. Phonak Gives Up and Folds
7. Swiss Investigate Jan Ullrich
8. Marion Jones Fails Drug Test
9. Tyler Hamilton Wins the Mt. Washington Hill Climb
Features
1. GPS Elevation Maps - New Instructions!
www.thefredcast.com—viewtopic.php
Hi All.

I've found a a new way to do this really easily. Well, relatively easily. Here is my procedure (note: this requires you to upgrade, as other have suggested here, to Google Earth Plus - See tinyurl.com—omx23):

1. Ceate a route using the Create a Path tool.

2. Save the completed path as a .kml file.

3. Open the .kml file in a text editor such as Note Pad.

4. Copy all of the text in the file from immediately before the <placemark> tag until immediately after the </placemark> tag/.

5. Go to [url=www.emaltd.net—index.asp]THIS SITE[/url] and paste the copied text into the first box (the one labeled GE PATH TO GPS PLOTS).

6. Click convert.

7. The resulting page will present you with new text. Copy all of the text within the box.

8. Make a new file in Note Pad and paste the copied text into the file.

9. Save the new file with UTF-8 encoding with the file extension 'kml'.

10. Follow the rest of the instructions previously given in [url=www.thefredcast.com]The FredCast Cycling Podcast[/url] for using GPS Babel, TopoFusion and GPSVisualizer.com.

I have done this multiple times and it has worked flawlessly each and every time. It is really easy and creates really cool elevation maps. For a sample, check out [url=www.thefredcast.com—Elevation.png]THIS MAP[/url] that I made.

2. New on the Net
*- Cyclogs - Thanks to listener Mick
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3. Shout Outs
*- Listener Dave and His Entega Grand Prix Photos
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Podsafe Cycling Music
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1. "Surf Babe" by Alamantra
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