Fun With Bing!

[SandrA9810]

that's pretty cool. funny how some spots have shaded areas and others cast a shadow.

 

[BradyBz12]

Whoah - this thread is getting cooler and cooler by the minute.

Love the idea of monitoring the Fantasyland expansion this way!

 

[SandrA9810]

So I clicked on "select parcel" to come up with the info on it... here's what it says for fantasy land.

LAND (MKT) VALUE $100,809,837
BUILDING VALUE $278,992,640
EXTRA FEATURE VALUE $4,091,048
MARKET (JUST) VALUE $383,893,525
ASSESSED VALUE $383,893,525

And Walt bought this land for a couple hundred an acre... that's one heck of jump...

 

[RvUsa]

The map is done. As promised, it is BIG. 33" x 49" at 300 dpi, which would make for a super-detailed print at that size. The PS file is over 450MB (flattened!)! And the good quality jpeg (8) is 45MB and compressed down to medium quality (jpeg 5) it is still 25MB... too large to share via my Google files page. I'll need to investigate large file hosting options. I may make a smaller version to print as a photographic poster print (like you can get at WalMart), which would be a much smaller file.

Shan, I may be able to have that on my photography site, I have unlimited storage, and can save things on there that have a digital download button, as well as a way to print HUGE pictures really cheap through a company called Mpix. Let me know if you are interested and I will look into it for you.

My site is www.bnbphoto.org, and is hosted on zenfolio, I have the pro account.

 

[Barnabus]

Sadly, it looks like when Live became Bine they updated their image files.

Changing the direction of the birdseye view over the disney land fill you could catch several of the 20K subs in various stages of being buried.

I will try and find those images.

This is where they were:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=nr28ch85zmc3&scene=36371821&lvl=1&sty=b

Also, supposedly, inside those containers are the remains of retired rides / technology that Disney feels are too proprietary to sell off in the normal channels. They are on their second or third layer of containers.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Sadly, it looks like when Live became Bine they updated their image files.

Changing the direction of the birdseye view over the disney land fill you could catch several of the 20K subs in various stages of being buried.

Barnabus- Thanks for that info! I never thought about there being a landfill at WDW, and I didn't know where it was. But, now I do. If you find those photos, please share them. I remember seeing photos of the 20K subs sitting in a boneyard somewhere, but I haven't seen any of them being buried.

I know one of the 20K subs ended up on Castaway Cay- the private island visited by the Disney Cruise Line. I have some photos of that sub.

TCD

 

[Pappy2Camp]

I know one of the 20K subs ended up on Castaway Cay- the private island visited by the Disney Cruise Line. I have some photos of that sub.

TCD

would you mind posting thoes? or link me to your already posted photos

thanks a bunch!

sadly i dont remember seeing the subs at Castaway

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Pappy2Camp-

Here is a link to a previous post of mine about the 20K subs.

If you are really interested in this topic, click on the link that you see in that post- there is a really cool website devoted to the 20K ride:

20,000 League Sub on Castaway Cay

TCD

 

[Barnabus]

Barnabus- Thanks for that info! I never thought about there being a landfill at WDW, and I didn't know where it was. But, now I do. If you find those photos, please share them. I remember seeing photos of the 20K subs sitting in a boneyard somewhere, but I haven't seen any of them being buried.
TCD

Hi TCD - yep the bonyard was east of MK and actually for a time you could see them in the images for that lot and at the landfill.

I just checked the Orange County Propery appraiser website, if you go to the landfill and check the 2004 images - low and behold - there are 10 of the subs prior to the shame of being buried. I will search for my images at home. In mine you could only ever see a couple of subs. They must have been the last two or three.

The other interesting detail is that it appears as though the Bing images are from sometime in 2007. I would have not guessed they were that old.

 

[Shan-man]

This resource is no longer available here, sorry.

 

[BradyBz12]

Very cool Shan - thanks!

 

[ambertides]

The secret is the Orange County GIS web site

here is a Link http://paraster.ocpafl.org/Webmap2/default.aspx

Cooool. I checked out Epcot. In 2007's you can see the flowers for F&G. Also the scaffolding for removing the hand from SSE.

And you can see the pizza place going up in Italy on this year's.

And if you go to MK and go waaaaaay back to 2004 you can still see the tracks for the 20k ride, even though it definitely wasn't open in October when we went that year.

 

[Tri-circle-D]

Hi TCD - yep the bonyard was east of MK and actually for a time you could see them in the images for that lot and at the landfill.

I just checked the Orange County Propery appraiser website, if you go to the landfill and check the 2004 images - low and behold - there are 10 of the subs prior to the shame of being buried. I will search for my images at home. In mine you could only ever see a couple of subs. They must have been the last two or three.

The other interesting detail is that it appears as though the Bing images are from sometime in 2007. I would have not guessed they were that old.

Are these the subs? (from OCPA 2004 images):

TCD

 

[Barnabus]

Are these the subs? (from OCPA 2004 images):

TCD

Yes, sadly, those are the subs. In Google Earth historical images there is a higher res image in color.

I am having trouble locating my birdseye images of those subs.

 

[RvUsa]

 

[SandrA9810]

The graveyard is also where Monorail Silver is. The one that caught on fire on the Epcot beam. Because they were going to the new ones, they just scrapped the whole thing to bring out Mark 6 silver.

 

[bama_ed]

Just covering it up with dirt?

Seems shamefulto me.

Destroy it....

Recycle it.....

Sell it....

Put it on display....

But cover it with dirt?...

Bama ED

PS-the subs show up in the Google Earth photos in the 6/26/03 photos

 

[Barnabus]

Just covering it up with dirt?

Seems shamefulto me.

Destroy it....

Recycle it.....

Sell it....

Put it on display....

But cover it with dirt?...

Bama ED

PS-the subs show up in the Google Earth photos in the 6/26/03 photos

I think by the time the subs ended up in the graveyard they were pretty stripped. All of the portholes/wiring/seats were removed and sold off. Basically if it could be removed it was.

I do think it is a shame that none of them ended up with private collectors though.

 

[bama_ed]

Wouldn't it have been a great idea if Disney had done with their submarine fleet what the Navy does sometimes with old ships? Strip them down, tow them out to sea and sink them as artificial reefs. It would be an honorable end to part of the Disney fleet. The PR would have been fantastic, on every local new channel, and more people would see it than would watch a tv commercial.

Okay I'm done - thanks Barnabus for alerting us to this in the first place.

Bama ED

 

[shoreline99]

Okay, i have finally gotten around to doing a couple of test plots of the high res FW aerial photo that Shanman sent me.

The ones shown here are 24x36 prints (approx). One is for the ShanMan and one is for my office wall. Sorry for the blurry photo, I shot it with my cell phone. The actual plots are very clear due to the hi-res image file (somewhere around 400 dpi on the 24x36).

I can make up to 36x48 prints but haven't run them that large yet to see how the resolution is. I haven't figured out a cost to make these yet, but if there is enough interest I will and let people know.

Anyone interested?