Theme Park NearMap Images

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

As requested - here are the latest nearmap images of the parks.

Feel free to add any requests, although i can't guarantee how fast I can get to them. If anyone else has nearmap feel free to contribute!

Movie World - 1 September 2015

Wet N Wild - 1 September 2015

Sea World - 1 September

Dreamworld - 23 April 2015

Adventure World - 22 November 2015

Kraken - 22 November 2015

Aussie World - 2 September 2015

Edited December 7, 2015 by AlexB

[AUSTHEMEPARKS]

Would like to see nearmaps of Wet N wild Sydney, Jamberoo and Funfields when you get the time too!

[Jay Jay The Jet Plane]

Thanks for the pics Alex 

[themagician]

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

If you could include the scale, and the date on these, it will help with comparisons later on.

[Brad2912]

Not being a near map expert myself, what is the update rate? Once/twice a year? Noticed April being the most recent of DW vs Sept/Nov for the others

[themagician]

This isn't really anyway of predicting when they will update it. I used to think it was every couple of months, but then some times it's been 6 months, and then other times, just a month. And some years and locations get more updates than others 

[Reanimated35]

2 hours ago, Brad2912 said:

Not being a near map expert myself, what is the update rate? Once/twice a year? Noticed April being the most recent of DW vs Sept/Nov for the others

Depends when someone pays them to fly over the area again. 

[iwerks]

Thanks for the pics, Alex.  Looks like Freefall is back up at Adventure World.

[Tim Dasco]

All I am going to say is google earth lately in some places have pictures 10 days apart. Not all are the best HD quality. But just saying...

[Reanimated35]

Google Earth isn't as consistent as Nearmap. The DNRM plugin for Google Earth also has images in some areas from this year, again, not as recent as Nearmap though. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Yeah I have no idea why sometimes it's a month ago and sometimes 6. it is more frequent than Google, but hard to predict - perhaps some areas had cloud cover when the last satellite pass was made - this would explain why MW was September but DW was April. You rarely get any cloud in Nearmap images, so i'd say thats probably the reason for the lack of update to DW.

[mba2012]

15 minutes ago, AlexB said:

Yeah I have no idea why sometimes it's a month ago and sometimes 6. it is more frequent than Google, but hard to predict - perhaps some areas had cloud cover when the last satellite pass was made - this would explain why MW was September but DW was April. You rarely get any cloud in Nearmap images, so i'd say thats probably the reason for the lack of update to DW.

Are they satellite images though? I know google uses images taken from planes, I'd assume Nearmap would do something similar. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

NFI - although according to the Wiki they use a Cessna with a hyperpod attached.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NearMap

A unique exclusive process of imagery capturing, processing and publishing is used. Traditionally, high resolution aerial imagery has to be captured by a low altitude flying aircraft, then the data is manually processed and stitched together digitally to create a PhotoMap, a slow process which can take months to complete. nearmap speeds up this process by using their own engineered camera capture equipment, named a 'HyperPod', which is attached to Cessna 210 light aircraft, which fly at a high altitude, enabling entire cities to be captured in a day or two. Once the imagery is captured, it is processed through super computers which run software known as 'HyperVision' which automatically processes and stitches together the many individual photographs captured into one virtually seamless PhotoMap. These PhotoMaps are then hosted on nearmap's end user web portal, known as 'MapBrowser'. Along with traditional top-down photography, the HyperPod is also able to capture oblique aerial photographs from 4 different angles and digital elevation model data at the same time.

The provider currently covers 2.26 per cent of Australia's landmass, with coverage primarily for capital cities and major regional towns. Special imagery may be flown for events such as natural disasters, for example, 2 cm resolution coverage of Brisbane and Ipswich during the 2010–2011 Queensland floods. Imagery is normally updated for 60% of Australia's population regularly (6+ times per year for metropolitan ares) at a 7.5 cm (3.0 in) average resolution and an additional 15% every three months at a 10 cm (3.9 in) resolution.

[grrofunger]

19 hours ago, iwerks said:

Thanks for the pics, Alex.  Looks like Freefall is back up at Adventure World.

It is but wasn't operational late last week

[Reanimated35]

12 hours ago, AlexB said:

Yeah I have no idea why sometimes it's a month ago and sometimes 6. it is more frequent than Google, but hard to predict - perhaps some areas had cloud cover when the last satellite pass was made - this would explain why MW was September but DW was April. You rarely get any cloud in Nearmap images, so i'd say thats probably the reason for the lack of update to DW.

Unless they've changed since the free version - they don't do satellite images. They said they would update every 6-12 mths unless someone asked & paid them to fly sooner. Obviously weather and ATC requirements may change that schedule.

They use a Cessna 210N Centurion II with a high res camera attached to take the "aerial photography"  

 

 

Edited December 9, 2015 by reanimated35

[pin142]

Explains the cost of subscription.

[ABYSS]

I know that this thread is quite old, not sure if my request will be answered but I will give it a go anyway. I was wondering if someone could supply updated images if Adventure World in Perth. Thanks Alex.

[Tim Dasco]

@ABYSS the most updated images were posted in the Mi3 thread.

[ABYSS]

5 minutes ago, Tim Dasco said:

@ABYSS the most updated images were posted in the Mi3 thread.

Alrighty, guess it hasn't updated since.

Edited July 8, 2017 by ABYSS

[grrofunger]

23 hours ago, ABYSS said:

Alrighty, guess it hasn't updated since.

No, it hasn't.

I just checked for you.

[ABYSS]

1 minute ago, grrofunger said:

No, it hasn't.

I just checked for you.

Thank you for making the effort.