30 Aug

Olympic Gold Medalist gives props to Google Earth

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Editor’s Note: The following article is excerpted from the On the Web blog at PC World.

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Google got some demure gold, promotion-wise: Olympic cyclist and Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong wrote that Google Earth was “inestimable” in helping her find a training route in Boise, Idaho, similar to the Olympic course in Beijing.

Armstrong tipped the hat (helmet?) in a guest post in the Google Lat Long Blog, which covers Google Earth and Maps. In it, she describes how at her married man’s urging, she took one of his GPS units put on her time trial ride back in December. After exporting the GPS and elevation data and loading it into Google Earth, she “was then able to trace the entire course from the comfort of my home half a world at a distance and find a similar route to train on back in Boise.”

Moral of the story? An innovative use of technology be possible to give you the acquire in everything from business to sports. And tech geek friends (or spouses) are great to obtain around.

Armstrong finished the post with more praise for Google, this proper time for Google Calendar. She writes that it’s a huge help in coordinating scheduling with her good economist and agent. It is a great tool, individual I use myself. If you do also, the Google Calendar Gadget (for use with Google Desktop or an iGoogle page) makes it ridiculously quick to add new events or order for money a epoch’s schedule.