Javascript from HELL!!! (probably the most beautiful code we have produced)

shiz.js

var map;
var chart;
var infowindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow();
var polyline;
var myParser;
var dataElevations;
var data;
var distance;
var mousemarker = null;
$.getJSON('https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26209821/stage_1.json', {}, function(data, status) { plotElevation(data); dataElevations = data});

// Load the Visualization API and the columnchart package.
google.load("visualization", "1", {packages: ["columnchart"]});

function initialize() {
  var myOptions = {
    zoom: 11,
    mapTypeId: 'terrain'
  }
  map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("map_canvas"), myOptions);

  // Create geoxml parser
  myParser = new geoXML3.parser({map: map, processStyles: true}); 
  myParser.parse('https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26209821/stage_1.kml');

}

// Takes an array of ElevationResult objects and plots the elevation profile on a Visualization API ColumnChart.
function plotElevation(results) { 
  chart = new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById('elevation_chart'));

  google.visualization.events.addListener(chart, 'onmouseover', function(e) {
    erowe = dataElevations[e.row].location
    elLocation = new google.maps.LatLng(erowe.ab, erowe.cb)
    if (mousemarker == null) {
      mousemarker = new google.maps.Marker({
        position: elLocation, 
        map: map,
        icon: "http://maps.google.com/mapfiles/ms/icons/green-dot.png"
      });
    } else {
      mousemarker.setPosition(elLocation);
    }
  });

  // Extract the data from which to populate the chart.
  // Because the samples are equidistant, the 'Sample'
  // column here does double duty as distance along the
  // X axis.
  data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
  data.addColumn('string', 'Sample');
  data.addColumn('number', 'Elevation');
  for (var i = 0; i < results.length; i++ ) {
    x = 131.6 / results.length
    data.addRow([(Math.round(x*i)).toString(), results[i].elevation * 3.2808399]);
  }

  // Draw the chart using the data within its DIV.
  document.getElementById('elevation_chart').style.display = 'block';
  chart.draw(data, {
    width: 677,
    height: 200,
    title: 'Stage Elevation Profile',
    legend: 'none',
    titleY: 'Elevation (ft)',
    titleX: 'Distance (mi.)',
    focusBorderColor: '#00ff00'
  });
}