By doing this little project, i’ve learned about writing XML documents and how easy it can be and how big of a pain it could be.  Also this project stresses the way I used to code.  For example, a 750 KB file with 6,000 data points works flawlessly.  Toss in a 10 meg file with 54,000 data points and  you will see real quick that handling data is alot different.

Things I’ve Learned:

• Redim Preserve statement is a bad bad bad idea if called once per loop.  It basically creates an array thats bigger (or smaller), copies the old array to the new array (2x memeory consumption), then destroys the old array.
• Better to Add items all at once vs one at a time on List View Boxes (still learning to program this one).
• Google Earth is picky when it comes to <document> and <Document> …

This program for the most part is complete, once I fine tune it and get everything running smoothly, I will see about the website side of this project. 

This program will convert any non password protected excel document into a comma seperated value file. You can supply options to run it externally from another script or use the interactive menu by supplying the -m option.

Disclaimer: I am not responsible for what this may do to you, your computer, car, home, life, cat, dog, mother, father, etc. Use this at your own risk.

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