I've used the TerraServer site to see aerials of many tracks here in the
midwest. You can print from TerraServer. Blackhawk Farms (SW of Beloit
WI) and GingerMan Raceways (east of South Haven MI) are clearly shown,
as well as the RA views you mentioned.
I was able to able to capture an aerial for my Meadowdale Raceway
website ( www.meadowdaleraceway.homestead.com ). See the Maps page
there for some conformations of your comments about the inaccuracy of
many "track layout maps".
You can also spot the old Wilmot Hills and Lynndale tracks with some
searching.
RossFos
Mark Palmer wrote:
>
> I just discovered that Mapquest has added aerial photos of many locations to
> their web site. Some race circuits are shown, such as Lime Rock, Road
> America, and probably many others (haven't had time to look for too many
> yet).
>
> Anyone interested, go to mapquest.com, key in the address of the track, and
> if you see a "aerial photo" tab at the top of the map, you may be in luck.
> I found it easiest to zoom & pan using the graphical map until I zeroed in
> on the track location (some of the tracks are actually shown graphically on
> the "map"). Once I had the track in my sights, I switched to aerial photo
> (click on the tab). Some "maps" don't show the track location, so sometimes
> I had to switch to photo & search for the track that way. It sorta feels
> like planning a bombing mission in Afghanistan ...
>
> Tracks I've looked at so far: Lime Rock -- excellent photo; Pocono -- fair
> photo; Summit Point, NHIS -- no photo available; Watkins Glen -- photo, but
> you can't zoom in far enough to see much; Mid-Ohio -- the aerial photo is
> missing the section where the track would appear, I suspect the Porsche
> drivers have undertaken some secret operations here; Road America --
> excellent photo.
>
> Unfortunately, mapquest won't let you print the map, probably due to
> copyright issues. I couldn't even do a screen print (maybe someone else can
> figure out how to get around this & let us know).
>
> Why bother looking at aerial photos? Because, in my experience, nearly
> every graphical "track map" I've ever seen, of any track, is wrong. The
> accuracy of "track maps" is really awful, and makes it so much harder to
> learn the proper line. There are NO accurate maps of Lime Rock, NHIS, or
> Pocono for instance -- they all have very serious errors in many critical
> locations. The only thing you can trust for accuracy is an aerial photo.
>
> Mark Palmer
>
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