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Show elevation profile for a track in Google Earth Plug-in as with Google Earth Desktop #500

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Make a command to show elevation profile for a track in a KML loaded in the 
Google Earth Plugin.

This would be so great for all developpers !

Yes I know about elevation API or retrieving altitude from the plugin after a 
zoom on the area, I'm already building my own elevation profile but the fact is 
that the Google Earth Desktop Tool is very powerful and easy to use and it does 
not only displays elevation data but can also deal with heart rate etc... all 
the datas associated with the track, let the user choose which data to display, 
make zoom on the charts etc...

Great Tool with no effort !!!

Please port it to the plugin :)

Thanks

Original issue reported on code.google.com by go.anto...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2010 at 8:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There is a quasi straight workaround for your request but it will require some 
efforts to think about a kind of ruler (2 placemarks + 1 line) where you will 
implement a geodesic destination routine to programmatically get between these 
2 main points a serie of latlon, which you will further be able to retrieve the 
altitude thanks to ge.getGlobe(), providing that your view is close enough to 
get accurate elevation data.

Original comment by eky...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2011 at 12:31

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
eky, what website did you get the jpg from?
I also agree that custom profiles are very important.

Original comment by nater...@gmail.com on 23 Mar 2011 at 9:49