This request may sound quite far-fetched, but I'm currently in the process of designing the first park of my proposed Disney theme park, the Magic Kingdom. This park measures 138 acres-- the same as Disneyland Paris. What I'm trying to do is design all the sections of the park to fit together and total exactly 138 acres in land area. This is almost impossible, since I have been trying to compare this against WDW's Magic Kingdom (107 acres) and other Disney parks, and come up with calculations from what I measure on a map-- and so far, I am getting nowhere! Does anyone know how to do this in a better way, or should I just design my renderings first, section by section, and worry about land area later?
Another dillema I have run into was comparing the area of buildings in other WDW parks (ie: EPCOT's Living Seas) to what they would cover on a Magic Kingdom map. I really appreciate your help and suggestions!
1. Don't worry about the exact sizes of the lands because they're not going to be the same size anyways (frontierland tends to be larger because it has the great big river and main street tends to be smaller because , well, it's just a street) Do some renderings first, figure out the number of bulidings and paths are then you can adjust the overall park size to get the exact right size
2. I've drawn all the park plans pretty accurately, they're at my yahoo club http://groups.yahoo.com/group/disneyworldmodelersclub/ It would be pretty useful. Unfortunately they're not all at the same scale which will be a pain in your cross referencing question.
3. To get plans of the parks at the same scale try getting sattelite photos by going to globeexplorer (color but there's a watermark) or terraserver (black and white). (actually you can get globe explorers photos without a watermark if you go to mapquest and register). If you downloand a photo of one park then pan/ scroll to the other you'll get both parks at the same scale and you'll be able to overlay them.
