Ian Austen passes this additional comment:
... a couple of small details to add to your ... run down
on cols. Cols only go up and over a mountain. So the climbs up to l'Alpe
d'Huez and Luz Ardiden--which dead-end at their summits--are not cols. Those
climbs have no title of any sort.
That being
Microsoft has updated its U.S./Canada mapping software. This is a database of all the
roads in the
U.S. and most of Canada.
Version 2002 is, on first look, a fairly significant improvement to the database. In
Ottawa, for
example, the 2001 edition would not let you cross the Portage Bridge
I've been using a $19.95 package that you can get at most gas station. It is
made by Mapart Publishing (www.mapart.com) and is basically a scan of the
paper map. The nice thing about it is that it shows all the bike paths and
you can measure a route with a few clicks.
While it shows several
Hi:
I just posted results for 3 more of the ABC TT results, including the
Sep 9 40km TT. Sep 9 was the final 40k TT - so this means that the OBC
BAR results are also finished and posted. You may check all of these
results on the obcweb.
Celia
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Does it include elevations or calculate grades?
Can it export to a GPS?
Tom
On Sunday, September 23, 2001 at 13:27, Bob Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote on [obc] Streets Trips 2002, saying..
Microsoft has updated its U.S./Canada mapping software. This is a database of all
the roads in the
Check out http://www.microsoft.com/streets/ for details.
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From: Tom Trottier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, 23 September, 2001 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [obc] Streets Trips 2002
Does it include elevations or calculate grades?
Man can climb to the highest summits; but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw
Montrose, Colorado to Durango, Colorado.
112 miles. 9200 feet climbing.
This was possibly the most anticipated day of the tour. I may change my mind when day
15 arrives, but the route card for day 11
