jiminyC_fan
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All I can say is WOW!!!!! This is a GREAT thread!!!! I am learning something everyday about my Happy Place! I was really surprised about the Haunted Mansion. I thought the ride was inside the Mansion!!! When I first looked at the picture I was truly lost. Then the light dawned, and I realized what I was seeing. That is really Disney Magic!!!
Thanks so much for this!!!!!
All I can say is WOW!!!!! This is a GREAT thread!!!! I am learning something everyday about my Happy Place! I was really surprised about the Haunted Mansion. I thought the ride was inside the Mansion!!! When I first looked at the picture I was truly lost. Then the light dawned, and I realized what I was seeing. That is really Disney Magic!!!
Thanks so much for this!!!!!
°O°Joe;18222235 said:-Ghosts arent the only ones hiding in The Haunted Mansion. There are several Hidden Mickeys to be found as well. The ballroom scene features one of the most famous -- a plate and a pair of saucers on the dining table form Mickeys familiar silhouette.
We did the KTTK tour last October, trip report, and they said that the plates in the dining scene are not the official hidden Mickey and are actually placed that way by CMs. If you could pick up each plate, there is a picture of what the place setting is supposed to look like and whoever it is that checks that occasionally will return it to its correct position. So if the plates do make a "hidden Mickey" it's because someone has moved them since they were "fixed."
The official hidden Mickey is further back in the ride in the reaper's hand, that is according to the KTTK CM.
Cool thread, just wanted to add that those images aren't taken by satellite. They are oblique aerial photographs, notice how they are not directly top-down.
Microsoft said:Bird's eye view is a low angle, high resolution satellite view of a map area. Bird's eye view is available for many major metropolitan areas.
Wikipedia said:Bird's-eye Maps
One of the unique and distinguished features in Windows Live Maps is the bird's-eye maps (currently available in all major cities as well as their suburbs), where users can see any place (from four angles) as if they are flying on a plane (better experience than satellite images especially when exploring a city). These Pictometry images are very high-quality and you can see signs on tops of buildings, advertisements and other things very clearly. Christmas decorations could be seen in a December 2003 bird's-eye photo. Also, signs on or near buildings can sometimes be read depending on resolution and size (i.e. McDonald's sign, Mobil Gas sign, even store logos such as Wal-Mart signs).
Pictometry International is a Rochester, New York-based company that provides detailed aerial photography. Its images are taken at a 40 degree angle using a patented process. Its Electronic Field Study software allows a variety of measurements to be taken directly from the image, including height, distance and area as well as elevation and bearing. Its images can be overlayed with shapefiles and GIS information can be exported from the images as well.
The oblique photographs shows buildings, infrastructure, land from all sides. Pictometry also shoots directly overhead. In general, this results in much more detail than using satellite photography, because there are multiple perspectives, with overlap resulting in as many as 12 to 30 images of the same location.
The company's most numerous customers are state and local governments, which use images of cities, counties and entire states for such things as planning and development, emergency response (police, fire and 911) and property assessment. It also has applications in insurance, real estate, AVM, civil engineering, and utilities.
Imagery may be licensed by Pictometry directly.