Elevation Profile in Google Earth: You can see elevation profile of a line-string or track in Google Earth.
You can create Track and Multitrack by authoring KML documents or by importing your GPS data (from a number of GPS receivers or file formats such as GPX) into Google Earth. Using the time slider, you can animate position and orientation of an object and show a line tracing the path. Version 5.2 was a major new release that added/changed the following:
Google Earth is a free program from Google that combines satellite imagery, maps and the Google search to a huge amount of geographic information at your fingertips.