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ahecht
11-11-2004, 05:29 PM
As many of you have seen, I have been hosting aerial pictures of disneyland at http://zansstuff.com/aerialdl.html (someone posted a link to them back in April).

Recently, though my school, I got access to a large amount of recent USGS .3 meter resolution color images. I was able to extract over 150 images of the Disneyland Resort and stich them together into a very large, very high resolution image.

This new image has three times the resolution of the old one. What does this mean? Not only are people clearly visible, but lots of the little details, such as the Floral Mickey, the Casey JR R.R. topiary, and many christmas decorations are clearly visible.

You can download the new image from http://zansstuff.com/aerialdl.html. There are many sizes available, but the full resolution one is 10MB (although it's worth it).

I'm trying to pin down exactly when the pictures were taken. My guess is late 2003, since Tower of Terror is mostly completed but not open (the construction wall is still out in front), the holiday decorations are up (you can see the Christmas tree and wreaths on Main Street), the Mark Twain is in rehab, Tortilla Jo's still has construction walls around it, and they were in the process of painting Space Mountain white.

Some other things to look for are the California Screamin' train (I only see one), the two monorail trains, the Splash Mountain logs, the GRR rafts (and the spares off to the side), autopia cars, and the empty lounge chairs at all the hotel pools.

I was going to post these here earlier, but Cory Doctorow posted a link to my site on the front page of BoingBoing.net, which generated 55GB of transfers and almost 7,000 unique visitors in 16 hours. My ISP shut me down because I was slowing down their network (and they said I was just a few GB away from breaking the record). Thanks to DisneySites.com, I now I have the images back online, but please, don't submit the link to high traffic sites. Last thing I need is another Farking or Slashdotting.

D-lander 1956
11-11-2004, 05:45 PM
Very cooool! Makes you realize just how close the lands and attractions are to each other. Fun to look at and thanks for posting!! :D

Hakuna Makarla
11-11-2004, 06:35 PM
ahecht
Thank you so much for posting these. they look great! I enjoy looking at the pic and seeing if I recognize things. fun ! Thanks much

Permanecer Sentados
11-11-2004, 07:14 PM
Hmm... I went to DisneySites.com and can't seem to find the pix. Help plz?? :confused:

ahecht
11-11-2004, 07:59 PM
Hmm... I went to DisneySites.com and can't seem to find the pix. Help plz?? :confused:

The pictures are at http://zansstuff.com/aerialdl.html. DisneySites is providing bandwidth for the next few days.

MommyTo3Boys1Girl
11-11-2004, 09:02 PM
Very neat! THANKS

lynnspire
11-11-2004, 09:04 PM
WOW!! I never realized how big the jungle cruise actually was!!!

Disney Vault
11-11-2004, 09:57 PM
That is so cool! It will help me when building my DL for RCT3.

TempoNZ
11-12-2004, 12:07 AM
Can't wait to see your RT3 park :) Still getting the hang of the game myself. Managed to get about 5 hours play time in so far and loving every minute of it. There are some "issues" with ti but on the whole it seems really good.

Ps- The picture is brillient!!! Would love to get it done on to a poster (Might actually do that at work on Monday :) )

TruSlack
11-12-2004, 07:46 AM
oops, looks like the new site did get hit with the slashfark effect....

DISNEYloon
11-12-2004, 08:46 AM
NEAT-OOOOOOOOOOO Cool!

man, the Mark Twain boat ride lagoon takes up a TON of space!
also interesting how from the aerial view you see that Main Street, etc. are long/large buildings but from the ground it look like 'individual' buildings.

Thanks for sharing!

Vegitabeta
11-12-2004, 08:56 AM
Thanks!

This is really cool!

Andrew
11-12-2004, 08:57 AM
Nice. Thanks!

danyoung
11-12-2004, 09:36 AM
What a great pic - thanks for posting!

sediment
11-12-2004, 10:04 AM
The highest resolution pic shows the baseball diamond on the roof of ESPNZone really well.

the mad hatter
11-12-2004, 10:21 AM
Ariel shots are cool...thanks for posting those.


That is so cool! It will help me when building my DL for RCT3.

I'm am currently addicted to this game. There are many people building replica parks/rides on the official RCT3 forum here are some pics of different things....

http://img11.exs.cx/img11/6376/Shot85.jpg
http://img11.exs.cx/img11/3816/Shot86.jpg
http://www.remainseated.com/RSCOM/Games1.htm

zugzug15
11-12-2004, 10:24 AM
cool pics. however someone like me may only be interested in looking at either disneyland or california adventure or downtown disney. maybe you could save on bandwidth by splitting up the three.

SallySkellington
11-12-2004, 10:32 AM
Those pics are sooo cool! Thanks for sharing!

Disney Vault
11-12-2004, 11:01 AM
This is all I have so far. My park is just based on Disneyland because there is no way I could ever make a copy of it. I am new to the game and am still learning plus I like to add some of my own rides and scenery. So far this is all I have done. http://groups.msn.com/DisneysBiggestFan/shoebox.msnw?Page=Last

the mad hatter
11-12-2004, 11:06 AM
This is all I have so far. My park is just based on Disneyland because there is no way I could ever make a copy of it. I am new to the game and am still learning plus I like to add some of my own rides and scenery. So far this is all I have done.
Those are cool. I tried to make a POTC replica using the water ride but it went way too fast :(

TikiGeek
11-12-2004, 11:09 AM
Wow! The resolution in the 10 Meg. file is so good that I can see Rod Miller playing piano :D I noticed that these were taken during the time when SM was being painted white again. Very cool! :cool:

Disney Vault
11-12-2004, 11:41 AM
Those are cool. I tried to make a POTC replica using the water ride but it went way too fast :(
They are making a patch that should be out next week to fix that and many other bugs. Here is what is being fixed http://www.frontier.co.uk/games/rct3/faq.html