Dave, thanks for the info. A reason for these links is that I am a collaborator with the Wikipedia articles on tracks. I haven't been there for three or four months, so these are good news.
I've corrected many times the "F1 Circuits" list there and also I included the "coordinates" link you can see in the top right corner of all current tracks.
Again, I encourage all of you to collaborate with the Wiki F1 track pages.
What is really interesting is that this kind of "coordinate link", that I posted on the current tracks Wikis, could become a permanent feature for most Wikipedia articles: it is under testing now by the Wiki "managers" (thanks to Magnus, who devised the
Google Hack - here the example for Gilles Villeneuve).
It allows you to see the track using a LOT of mapping software, really: Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSN World Atlas, Windows Live Local, Flash Earth, ACME Mapper, MapQuest, Multimap, GeaBios, Mcfly, NASA Blue Marble Navigator, Fourmilab, Norkart Virtual Globe, Map24, MapTech, USMapServer-WorldMapServer, GeoURL, Geocaching, WikiMapia, WhereTo, Panoramio, Near Realtime, Daily Terra, NASA + METAR, Daily Aqua, Topographie, NASA World Wind, and, of course, Google Earth. There are many more "local" map services, but "I've lost the track" of this work already.
This seems to be a work some people like, as I receive a couple of e-mails about that every day: actually, is a new way to display geographical information without having a GIS system installed in your PC, if you follow my drift.
Even ACCUS - FIA Inc.
president have been kind enough to provide me with the official list of FIA's approved tracks, thanks to the contact Paul Denbow provided to me. Paul is another member here (thanks again, Paul)! I can tell you I have started to see FIA with other eyes...
It is also most encouraging to find out the many racers and pilots that need a good track restitution (technical drawing) for the kind of tuning software I use in our humble karts here in Colombia and ask me about that (thanks again to Reca, our "Monza sensei", for that guidance).
Manchild, internet navigator extraordinaire, informed me (also today), before posting, that my page also appears as a reference in the finnish, spanish and galician wikipedias. MC also helped me to find another free host after my page blew the 5 Mb per hour limit... not bad for a page
that originated in a thread in this forum and takes less than 100 Kb. Thanks, Man.
And of course, thank you all guys, for your collaborations and your cordial and warm naggings...
As Tomba says: motivate your posts (I am tempted to add: ... and attack the post, not the poster!
).
BTW, I'd appreciate any help to export from KML/XML format to MySQL or Access and back. Any suggestions? I don't have much time for this kind of hobby and I am always in a hurry.
