High Resolution Aerial View of Cedar Point

Well of course SOME employees are going to know, but the vast majority don't know.

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Anyone notice you can see Magnum sinking?
I thought it odd that Corkscrew's track is so hard to see.

My PC at work choked trying to view this pic. Viewed it OK at home. I suggest using AcdSee to view it because you can quickly click and move it around, also + and - on the keypad zoom in/out.

Where did this pic come from? The only aerial photos I've seen online are much smaller coverage areas when viewed up as close as you can get in this one, and when viewed from way out to get a larger coverage, that picture gets pixelated badly when you zoom in while viewing the pic (not using the website's zoom). Hope that makes sense. Of course, I haven't tried any aerial photo sites where you pay for the images.
Seems like most of the aerial photos are taken in fall/winter.

*** This post was edited by Raptor Pilot on 7/31/2002. ***

I'm guessing it's just the free USGS images "glued" together either by someone infinitely patient in Photoshop or someone who has Photostitch or a similar program.

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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com, Sillynonsense.com
"Let's stop saying 'don't quote me,' because if no one quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying." - Dogma, KMFDM

Actualy RaptorPilot and Jeff, it's from the Erie County Auditor. It's a digital orthographic view of the entire county taken in Spring of 2001. I used MrSid Viewer to view the file (it's 600MB) but programs like ArcView and such are capable, too. The primary advantage of this is that it's accurate and undistorted. It's been corrected and scaled, so effectively its an image as big as the county without distortions due to the curvature of the earth or the lens used on the camera. The reason I got it was for my senior architecture thesis, which is a Roller Coaster Museum in Battery Park in Sandusky. It cost me 2 or 3 dollars on CD.

-seth

I'm guessing it's just the free USGS images "glued" together either by someone infinitely patient in Photoshop or someone who has Photostitch or a similar program.

I've thought about doing this before, but didn't think it would turn out well.

Jeff said:

I'm guessing it's just the free USGS images "glued" together either by someone infinitely patient in Photoshop or someone who has Photostitch or a similar program.
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Jeff - Webmaster/Admin -
Why are you so negative? Have you actually looked at the free TerraServer images before?? The quality is nothing close to this images quality. You said it, your guessing.
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Does anyone know who the lucky people are that live in the houses on the hotel side of the parking lot?? bottom right side of the picture.

Dick Kinzel

I was wondering that myself, coasterfreaky... I had never noticed houses there before seeing them in this picture. I wonder if it ever gets annoying for them, hearing the screams and the sounds of coasters and such all day long and into the night, every summer?

I would love to hear the roar of coasters around my house. It's enthusiast music. for me anyway.

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