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Are you familiar with the Bing website?
As far as I can tell, it is a site owned by Microsoft which provides maps and other information. It used to be called Live Search, but now its called Bing.
One of the features I like on Bing is the Birds Eye View.
The maps of Disney World offer these feature.
Heres a link to the site, in case you want to give it a try yourself (click on "Bing")
Bing
I go on Bing from time to time to study things from the air.
The Fort Wilderness aerial photos had not been updated for a while.
But, recently, I noticed that there are new images for parts of the Fort.
What is interesting is that depending on what direction you view the aerial shot from, sometimes you get an older image, and sometimes you get a newer image.
Let me show you what I mean.
Lets look at the Meadow Swimming Pool.
When you look at the pool from this angle, you see the pool as it used to be before the 2009 update:
But, if you ask Bing to rotate around to look from another direction, this is what you see:
Here we see that the pool construction is under way. You can see that the slide and water tower are in place, but that there still is no water in the pool, and the splash zone work is just beginning. Based on the state of the construction completed at this time, we can safely say that this image was taken in mid-March, 2009.
As we continue to look at the pool from different angles, this is what we see:
I dont know about you, but I find this interesting to look at.
We can do the same thing over on the 600 loop.
Here is how things looked before the bulldozers arrived:
In case you need some help orienting yourself, that is the Meadow Trading Post at the top of the photo, and the Bike Barn would be at the left. This is how things looked before the 600 loop expansion.
In this photo, we can see that the construction is well under way. It looks like the new road is in, and the pads have been poured:
Here is a closer look from that angle:
And, here we are looking at it from another angle (600 loop is now on the left, Bike Barn on the right):
When we rotate around to another angle, the construction has not yet begun:
We can do the same thing at the dog park. Heres how things used to look:
Now, from this view, you can see the outline of the fence and also the new sidewalk:
Heres a closer look from the same angle:
When we look from this direction, we see the dog park:
But, from this angle, we cant see the dog park yet (but you can clearly see the raised area which remains from the Fort Wilderness Rail Road:
The last area we will look at on this post is the secret area up at the front of the Fort. This is an off-limits area just off the Fort entrance. This is the Area 51 of the Fort. Whatever they do back there besides keep the golf carts, its a big secret. Do not ask any questions about it. It used to be just a bunch of modular buildings, with no apparent connection to the Fort. But, they use part of it now to store the rental golf carts. This is the area I am talking about:
In the photo above, we can see that there are modular buildings in this area. There is no space for golf carts, just car parking. Same thing in these photos:
In these views, however, we can see that the modular buildings have been removed, and space has been created for the golf cart operation:
You may notice that there is prep work being done in the three photos above for installation of new modular units. Those units have, in fact, been installed, but the installation was done after these images were taken, so we will have to wait until Bing updates again before we can see the new modular units from the air.
If you find anything interesting on Bing, why dont you share it here?
TCD
As far as I can tell, it is a site owned by Microsoft which provides maps and other information. It used to be called Live Search, but now its called Bing.
One of the features I like on Bing is the Birds Eye View.
The maps of Disney World offer these feature.
Heres a link to the site, in case you want to give it a try yourself (click on "Bing")
Bing
I go on Bing from time to time to study things from the air.
The Fort Wilderness aerial photos had not been updated for a while.
But, recently, I noticed that there are new images for parts of the Fort.
What is interesting is that depending on what direction you view the aerial shot from, sometimes you get an older image, and sometimes you get a newer image.
Let me show you what I mean.
Lets look at the Meadow Swimming Pool.
When you look at the pool from this angle, you see the pool as it used to be before the 2009 update:
But, if you ask Bing to rotate around to look from another direction, this is what you see:
Here we see that the pool construction is under way. You can see that the slide and water tower are in place, but that there still is no water in the pool, and the splash zone work is just beginning. Based on the state of the construction completed at this time, we can safely say that this image was taken in mid-March, 2009.
As we continue to look at the pool from different angles, this is what we see:
I dont know about you, but I find this interesting to look at.
We can do the same thing over on the 600 loop.
Here is how things looked before the bulldozers arrived:
In case you need some help orienting yourself, that is the Meadow Trading Post at the top of the photo, and the Bike Barn would be at the left. This is how things looked before the 600 loop expansion.
In this photo, we can see that the construction is well under way. It looks like the new road is in, and the pads have been poured:
Here is a closer look from that angle:
And, here we are looking at it from another angle (600 loop is now on the left, Bike Barn on the right):
When we rotate around to another angle, the construction has not yet begun:
We can do the same thing at the dog park. Heres how things used to look:
Now, from this view, you can see the outline of the fence and also the new sidewalk:
Heres a closer look from the same angle:
When we look from this direction, we see the dog park:
But, from this angle, we cant see the dog park yet (but you can clearly see the raised area which remains from the Fort Wilderness Rail Road:
The last area we will look at on this post is the secret area up at the front of the Fort. This is an off-limits area just off the Fort entrance. This is the Area 51 of the Fort. Whatever they do back there besides keep the golf carts, its a big secret. Do not ask any questions about it. It used to be just a bunch of modular buildings, with no apparent connection to the Fort. But, they use part of it now to store the rental golf carts. This is the area I am talking about:
In the photo above, we can see that there are modular buildings in this area. There is no space for golf carts, just car parking. Same thing in these photos:
In these views, however, we can see that the modular buildings have been removed, and space has been created for the golf cart operation:
You may notice that there is prep work being done in the three photos above for installation of new modular units. Those units have, in fact, been installed, but the installation was done after these images were taken, so we will have to wait until Bing updates again before we can see the new modular units from the air.
If you find anything interesting on Bing, why dont you share it here?
TCD
