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Creating Elevation Maps (mentioned on Show #19)

May 31st, 2006 | By | Category: General

Listener Neal sent in a great tutorial on creating elevation profile maps without the use of a GPS. The instructions are contained in Show #19 and its show notes. The accompanying tutorial files can be found in the following locations:

Screen Shots (showing how to set-up each of the programs mentioned in the tutorial)

Sample Google Earth (kmz) Files (these are the “before” files)

The Resulting Elevation Profiles (these are the “after” files)

Thanks, Neal!

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  1. Paul June 7th, 2006 1:32 pm

    Neal, could you elaborate a bit on how to create the route. I’m trying to use Google Earth Plus using the Add Path option to make a route, but it does not appear to work when I save it as a KML file and follow the rest of the instructions.

  2. Fredcaster June 7th, 2006 1:51 pm

    Paul,

    Thanks for your ecomment. From other e-mails I have received it sounds like others are having the same problems. I haven’t actually installed the software and done this myself (shame on me, right?), so I will need to do so and find out where the problem lies. In the meantime, I will e-mail listener Neal and find out what he knows about the problem.

    Thanks again. I will get back to you and the rest of the listeners very shortly with a fix.

    All the best.

    David

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