SPOT Tracking For 2009 Senior Contest at Seminole Lakes, Florida

Hi Mark,

I'm looking forward to trying it in Google Earth. I just upgraded to the
latest version of Google Earth today, but I can't seem to get the link below
to work. It simply opens a text file in my browser window. I tried saving
the text into a text file with a .kml extension and double-clicking on it.
Google Earth tries to open it, but it gives an error as follows:

Google Earth Error
Open of file seniors.kml failed: Parse error at line 1, column 2: XML or
text declaration not at start of entity.

I imagine I'm doing something wrong. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Paul Remde

"MarkHawke7" wrote in message
...
Related to this topic, I've been able to enhance my application so
that it can now output KML quite nicely. I put together a small kml
file that contains network links for showing the SPOT trackers,
current task and the other turnpoints. This file can be opened by
Google Earth for viewing. Google Earth is by far the best depiction
of this information as I'm able to rotate the airplane symbols to show
the general direction of travel of each participant. John Leibacher
has graciously agree to host the kml file to allow for easy access.
The link to it is:

http://soaringweb.org/TP/Seminole/se...acking_map.kml

For those whose computers just aren't quite up to the task of running
Google Earth. The original page is still available at:
http://www.soaringpilot.org/snspotmap.htm

The only thing it doesn't show is the rotated icons.

Enjoy!!

-Mark