The Tour de France, a three weeks bicycle race has a unique position in the sports world. In 2013, even the 100th year of this prestige event was hold. Over 110-year history, people could notice unique stories and duels in particular periods, which the sports world will never forget. Also many places where the races took place entered the history of Tour de France. Our attempt on this web page was to point out the spatial context of this event using advanced technologies for the purpose of distribution of historical facts on the Internet. On this webpage we have tried to capture the historical and spatial dimensions of Tour de France in a general form and thus offer not only to the expert community a new view of this unique sports event.

By developing the website we did not want to supplement the existing quantities of websites dealing with historical overviews, but we wanted to apply techniques and methods that will consolidate all information obtained within space (a map) or show in a graphical form. When developing our solution, we focused (in addition to standard tools for website development) on the application of advanced Google products and services. In graphic visualization we relied on the application of the Google Chart Tools service, and in the cartographic interpretation we applied several services and formats, such as Google Geocoding API, Google Maps API v3, KML (Keyhole Markup Language) and Google Distance API. Just the application of such tools and services allows the integration of spatial aspect into historical statistics and facts, which is crucial for the geographical community in the analysis of various phenomena.

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Authors of this webpage VB & MK