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

Hi Paul,
I bet your using IE, right? I asked John L to post it to his
webserver because he has the server mime types set so it "should" open
the "Save" box not just display the contents of the file. In Firefox
and Chrome, it opens the window that allows me to "Save" or let's me
open it google earth. However, you should be able to right click on
the link in the RAS posting and do a Save As. Then you should be able
to double click on the downloaded kml file and it will open in Google
Earth. If that doesn't work for you or anyone else, I can email it,
just let me know. But the save as should work. Saving it in your
browser probably doesn't keep all of the info in the file formatted
correctly.

Related to IE 6 though and previous posting. While it is working, it
is popping up error boxes that none of the other browsers or IE7+ seem
to be having a problem with. I'll look into that.

Later!
-Mark
On Mar 12, 9:39*am, "Paul Remde" wrote:
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

Mark,

I hope you aren't loosing any soaring time due to all the fettling you
are doing with this program!

Here at work, our computers have IE 6 and NO GOOGLE EARTH! Dang it!
Our employer didn't want to get into a lawsuit with Google over our
use of the "free" version of Google Earth, so they took it off of all
the computers. Sigh.

So, does anyone know if the race is on for today, Thursday, 12 MAR 09?

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

Hi Ray,

There are gliders out and about, so it appears that a race is on or at least
gliders are in the air.

You don't need Google Earth to view it in a browser using the link below.
http://www.soaringpilot.org/snspotmap.htm

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde

"rlovinggood" wrote in message
...
Mark,

I hope you aren't loosing any soaring time due to all the fettling you
are doing with this program!

Here at work, our computers have IE 6 and NO GOOGLE EARTH! Dang it!
Our employer didn't want to get into a lawsuit with Google over our
use of the "free" version of Google Earth, so they took it off of all
the computers. Sigh.

So, does anyone know if the race is on for today, Thursday, 12 MAR 09?

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Ray,

There are gliders out and about, so it appears that a race is on or at least
gliders are in the air.

Is that for today? There is a check in the box for March 10.


You don't need Google Earth to view it in a browser using the link below.
http://www.soaringpilot.org/snspotmap.htm

Good Soaring,

Paul Remde

"rlovinggood" wrote in message
...
Mark,

I hope you aren't loosing any soaring time due to all the fettling you
are doing with this program!

Here at work, our computers have IE 6 and NO GOOGLE EARTH! Dang it!
Our employer didn't want to get into a lawsuit with Google over our
use of the "free" version of Google Earth, so they took it off of all
the computers. Sigh.

So, does anyone know if the race is on for today, Thursday, 12 MAR 09?

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

Greg Arnold wrote:
Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Ray,

There are gliders out and about, so it appears that a race is on or at
least gliders are in the air.

Is that for today? There is a check in the box for March 10.


Looking again, I see the check mark is for Tuesday, March 12. But today
is Thursday the 12th. Hmmm.

On Mar 12, 10:43*am, Greg Arnold wrote:
Greg Arnold wrote:
Paul Remde wrote:
Greg,
Thanks for the heads up. Fat fingers on my part. It'll update in a
minute or so and say Thu, March 12, 2009 now.

Ray,
Nope, not keeping me from flying. A little bit of a distraction from
work maybe but not flying. :-)

Later!!

-Mark
Hi Ray,

There are gliders out and about, so it appears that a race is on or at
least gliders are in the air.

Is that for today? *There is a check in the box for March 10.

Looking again, I see the check mark is for Tuesday, March 12. *But today
is Thursday the 12th. *Hmmm.

Hi,

Thanks to some great help from Mark, I got it working.

I had to right-click on the link and save it to my computer, then change the
file extension to .kml (instead of .xml). Then when I double-click on it is
opens in Google Earth.

It is very, very, very cool!!!

Thanks Mark!!!

Now I just wish my friends Dick Andrews and Ron Clark had a SPOT in their
DG-1000.

Paul Remde

"Paul Remde" wrote in message
...
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