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There is an ultrl_marathon — „TransEurope-FootRace“ . The race is run from Bari, Italy to Nordkapp, Norway. It’s held from April 19th to June 21st 2009 about 4.700 km in 64 Stages.

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March is the season which Taiwan’s Indian azalea comes in full bloom. Along the sides of National Taiwan University’s most famous Royal Palm Boulevard, Indian azalea attracts numerous watchers flocking for flower viewing. NTU also holds “Azalea Festival” at the same time, which has already become a major annual event. I think that it would be a pretty good idea to take tours with Street View, but Taipei’s Google Street View is still under construction. At the fastest, the website will take several months to be established. I can’t wait until then, so I think to myself, “Why don’t I set up one?” I’ve just learned some 360 degree panoramic photography techniques recently from a fellow blogger, walker, so I decide to experiment with scenes of NTU’s Royal Palm Boulevard.

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Early 21^st of Feburary morning,

There are 240 elite runners standing in front of starting-line of 100 kilometers ultra-marathon challenge race at city Kaohsiung Taiwan .

The race start at five o’clock in the morning, It’s still dark and cold, all the runners has to run from Kaohsiung city cultural center to Shi-Chung-Hsi hot spring resort hotel in Pintung, Within 14 hours is the qualify time for each runner,

The race close at 19:00 sharp.

Mr. Hsueh Ching-Kuang（Backmantony） is the only retro-runner in this race, He spend 13 hours, 20 mimutes, and 43 seconds to run 100 kilometers during the race.

Finnally, There are 200 runner finished the race, and Tony was place at No.145.

Actually, He is the only person to challenge the 100 kilometers in this world！

And He is training for his next 1000 kilometers RETRO RUN challenge around the

Formorsa Island already,

Soon we will look and see what happen in Taiwan ,

What happen retro-running challenge field about Backmantony！

Let us just wait and see what happen in Taiwan！

BackmanTony writes the history with retro-running. For expressing to his esteem, I used my most familiar Google Earth to record this courses, if the above video can not meet your need, I prepare another video(800 x 640) from my webserver. Or you can download this KMZ Collection , enter the Google Earth 5.0 to watch voluntarily.

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There are more than 450 urban planning areas in Taiwan. If we could apply Google Earth to every urban planning area for those who need it, this would be a very pleasant thing. I studied urban planning during college, and I became very familiar with Google Earth applications. Since I had a 2001 version of urban planning illustration handy, I took some time and energy and spent four months to complete this project. I used county and city as units, converted every urban planning shape file through coordinates and legends one by one to kml files, then I applied javascript program and browser plugin for everyone to search.

<This post was translated to English by Christine Cheng>

In the year 2006, high speed rail was introduced in Taiwan, connecting from the northern city Taipei to the southern station Zhouying. There is a total of eight stations, ranging about 350km. The fastest train can arrive within 90 minutes. This route has changed the way Taiwanese travel long distance, and the original flight courses have almost been terminated entirely.
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Sun Moon Lake is located in the center of Taiwan and is the island’s largest lake. It is a beautiful alpine lake, divided by the tiny Lalu Island; the eastern part of the lake is round like the sun and the western side is shaped like a crescent moon, hence the name “Sun Moon Lake”.

In my article posted in July “aeroFoto Formosa in Google Earth in a browser“, I showed Taiwanese aero photographer chi’s pictures in Google Earth Browser Plugin. In recent days, I find PhotoOverlay can be displayed by plugin as well. Therefore I give it a try with 22 Sun-moon Lake pictures.

Although Browser Plugin shows PhotoOverlay, the API functionality is not complete. For instance, “zooming bar” and “close” of controller on top right corner don’t work. Fortunatelly, I can zoom with mouse wheel. But I have to figure out another way to close photo viewer. I add a placemark file so that you can entre Snapshot View of the placemark and close photo viewer. Then you are able to fly to spots one by one with left hand side placemarks. Double click the icon on the centre of screen to entre PhotoOverlay mode. Thereafter you can zoom with your mouse wheel and fly to another aero-photo by the pervious operation.