Hey lama, holiday time

TimC said:

My new commute:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Coonabarabran-to-Siding-Spring-Observatory

Take a gandy at the elevation graph, lama. You'd enjoy 🙂

Oh that is superb! What an awesome way to start the day and one speedy return trip! Pick out some landmarks and enter it as a c2m climb. You can then keep track of your progression.. it'll also give me something to smash to bits when I come visit, just keep that Jono kid away from it :P

We're gunna miss you on the BR..

- Your consistency, showing up week in week out.

- Your progression from back of the bunch on that orange beast, to hanging onto the TT train all the way on a GIANT!

- For making people duck for cover the very moment we hear you attempt to shift down chain rings.

- Comical mechanicals - see above.

- Your honesty. Telling me I'm a bogan when I was using the phrase "yeah, but nar" too often. Very grounding, and very true (yes, that was me flooring it in the Commodore leaving the car park at Gisborne) 🙂

I hope there is a few bunches up there you can put some hurt into. And remember, nothing wins friends more then attacking them from the front on a friendly Sunday ride!!

Keep upright! (on the bike)
GPLama

On 2006-09-04, TimC (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

My new commute:

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Coonabarabran-to-Siding-Spring-Observatory

Take a gandy at the elevation graph, lama. You'd enjoy 🙂

(I'm still unsure as to which one of those small roads is the correct
turnoff to take -- may change when I find the correct one).

And here's the KML file for google earth:

http://rather.puzzling.org/~tconnors/Coonabarabran-to-Siding-Spring-Observatory.kml

(er, for those who don't know how to convert gpx files to kml files,
download and install gpsbabel: http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html )
(why can't googleearth just load a gpx file? It's got the right
filter in the download dialog, under linux, but does nothing once the
data is supposedly loaded.)

Set the height exageration factor to 3 (in options), and view from low
down on the horizon, to make it even scarier. Far worse than the 1/20
🙂 I'm looking forward (although I am told it is warming up badly now
-- might have to wait 6 months).

--
TimC
"I won! I won! I don't have to go to school anymore."
-- Eddy Merckx, after winning his first bike race

Quoted message said:

(er, for those who don't know how to convert gpx files to kml files,
download and install gpsbabel: http://www.gpsbabel.org/download.html )
(why can't googleearth just load a gpx file? It's got the right
filter in the download dialog, under linux, but does nothing once the
data is supposedly loaded.)

Coz GPX is a silllllllllly format! There are 2 (at least) ways of
specifying routes in GPX: "tracks" and "routes", both comprising
different XML tags.

I imagine Google Earth can only read one type, and it's not the type
that Bikely exports.

I guess I will have to bend to the masses and switch to the other one
for export (sigh) ;-)

Jules said:

> (er, for those who don't know how to convert gpx files to kml files,

Quoted message said:

download and install gpsbabel: gpsbabel.orgdownload.htmlOpen ↗ )
(why can't googleearth just load a gpx file? It's got the right
filter in the download dialog, under linux, but does nothing once the
data is supposedly loaded.)

Coz GPX is a silllllllllly format! There are 2 (at least) ways of
specifying routes in GPX: "tracks" and "routes", both comprising
different XML tags.

I imagine Google Earth can only read one type, and it's not the type
that Bikely exports.

I guess I will have to bend to the masses and switch to the other one
for export (sigh) ;-)

Either that or upgrade to the latest version of GE (4.0.1565 (beta) I'm running, anyway). A few weeks ago when I saw that you had added GPX export to Bikely I was going to shout to this group how much of a genius and all-round good guy you were Jules because we could now take our bikely routes (almost) instantly into GE. I didn't because it would be doubly stating the obvious that a) JULES IS A GENIUS, and b) you can open the GPX files directly in GE.

So, without further ado, and a few weeks late ...

A) Jules is a genius.
B) Did y'all know you can open the GPX files from Bikely directly in GE? (but ya might have to have the new version.

Mal

On 2006-09-04, MalP (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Either that or upgrade to the latest version of GE (4.0.1565 (beta) I'm
running, anyway). A few weeks ago when I saw that you had added GPX
export to Bikely I was going to shout to this group how much of a
genius and all-round good guy you were Jules because we could now take
our bikely routes (almost) instantly into GE. I didn't because it would
be doubly stating the obvious that a) JULES IS A GENIUS, and b) you can
open the GPX files directly in GE.

So, without further ado, and a few weeks late ...

A) Jules is a genius.
B) Did y'all know you can open the GPX files from Bikely directly in
GE? (but ya might have to have the new version.

[censored] haven't released the lunix version yet.

What's wrong with cross compiling anyway?

--
TimC
"We must use Tim as a tool, not as a couch." -- J F Kennedy
--screwtape on RHOD

TimC said:

On 2006-09-04, MalP (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Either that or upgrade to the latest version of GE (4.0.1565 (beta) I'm
running, anyway). A few weeks ago when I saw that you had added GPX
export to Bikely I was going to shout to this group how much of a
genius and all-round good guy you were Jules because we could now take
our bikely routes (almost) instantly into GE. I didn't because it would
be doubly stating the obvious that a) JULES IS A GENIUS, and b) you can
open the GPX files directly in GE.

So, without further ado, and a few weeks late ...

A) Jules is a genius.
B) Did y'all know you can open the GPX files from Bikely directly in
GE? (but ya might have to have the new version.

[censored] haven't released the lunix version yet.

What's wrong with cross compiling anyway?

Hey tim? Do you know of a linux compilier for flash actionscript?

Dave