Earlier this year I was able to borrow a drone from a friend and take lots of aerial photos from around Cincinnati's urban core. I've shared a few of these in other threads but here is a consolidated thread of some of the best.

 

 

Pendleton

 

 

 

 

 

Over-the-Rhine

 

 

Second Sunday on Main:

 

 

 

12th and Main:

 

 

 

 

Alumni Lofts/Ziegler Park construction:

 

 

 

Former Grammer's Place site:

 

 

 

 

Mercer Commons IV site:

 

 

 

Washington Park:

 

 

 

 

 

Music Hall:

 

 

Liberty and Elm site:

 

 

 

 

Queen City Radio:

 

 

 

 

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company theatre under construction:

 

 

 

Streetcar Maintenance and Operation Facility:

 

 

Rhinegeist rooftop:

 

 

Market Square development:

 

 

Vine Street hill:

 

 

 

Downtown Cincinnati

 

 

 

Central Parkway and Walnut development site (rumored Kroger tower):

 

 

City Hall:

 

 

222 West 7th (Federated Department Stores) garage:

 

 

 

Eighth & Sycamore tower under construction:

 

 

 

 

West End, Queensgate, Camp Washington, and I-75 Construction

 

 

 

 

Stargel Stadium:

 

 

Betts-Longworth Histric District:

 

 

Crosley Telecommunications Center and Town Centre Garage:

 

 

An unfortunate cul-de-sac in the urban core:

 

 

Developable parking lots:

 

 

 

Trains R Kool:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Industry:

 

 

Western Hills Viaduct:

 

 

 

I-75:

 

 

 

 

Camp Washington:

 

 

Crosley Building:

 

 

Uptown

 

Clifton Heights student housing land:

 

 

Corryville Kroger under construction:

 

 

Death and destruction! If it's historic, we'll implode it -- no questions asked! Pew pew!

 

 

 

 

This is the former site of the Glencoe hotel and row houses:

 

 

I-71 construction:

 

 

 

Pictures of the streetcars in the original paint scheme!

Fantastic.  You should consider submitting to Daily Overview.

 

http://www.dailyoverview.com/home2

So good.

I really love the rail yard pics, so cool!

Awesome set!

 

I knew that Glencoe Auburn was demolished, but I had no idea they also took down everything on Inwood and the south side of Wellington.

Fantastic!  I love the one looking down at Union Terminal.

Awesome set!

 

I knew that Glencoe Auburn was demolished, but I had no idea they also took down everything on Inwood and the south side of Wellington.

 

Yeah, a big apartment complex is going up there, like 200+ units.  The light beige apartment building right on Auburn has been renovated by I think Uptown Properties.  There was a 1960's-era plex behind it that has been demolished along with the historic buildings on Wellington. 

 

Top 10 photo threads on UrbanOhio for sure. Nice work. Thanks for sharing!

I barely recognize those new developments.

Great set! Very cool, especially the rail yard photos!

 

I'm just curious, did you submit this on any of the other urban forums? If so, do you have links?

I have not. The only other forum I sometimes share photos on is skyscrapercity.com and I might repost this thread there. But if you want to share this thread or some of the photos to other forums, feel free to do so!

I have not. The only other forum I sometimes share photos on is skyscrapercity.com and I might repost this thread there. But if you want to share this thread or some of the photos to other forums, feel free to do so!

 

I recently ventured back onto City-Data after a 2-year hiatus.  The same idiots are still on there.  It's still totally out-of-control compared to skyscrapercity and skyscraperpage.  Each of those has a lot less activity than city-data and skyscraperpage looks like it's down to a trickle of activity.  I guess most people have moved over to reddit or facebook. 

I'm glad you posted these for all to see.

Now that I've seen these awesome "Drone-view" photos, "Earthview" images are so vastly inferior. Thanks so much for posting them. How great it would  be if someday all aerial views were  like these or perhaps you could start your own company and expand your geographical reach. Smaller and more rural towns especially often lack streetviews (or provide very limited boundaries) and the earthviews provide little detail-if you want to see things from above, it doesn't get any better than the photos taken from the drone.  (unless you take to the air yourself in a helicopter or hot air balloon)

As drone technology improves, I could see Google (or a competitor) launching a fleet of drones that would take aerial imagery at a lower altitude than their current aerial views. This would be much higher resolution and could be updated more frequently, as they could just re-do a particular part of a city when a major new development happens. I'd be shocked if they're not already working on something like that.

 

The ramp that leads over the short tunnel is now in place and its incline from I-71 N is very steep.  It gives the impression of being the steepest off-ramp in the metro, but nobody has driven up it yet.   

These are so awesome!

It always amazes me when you hear about the stats on OTR and how it lost over 50% of it's original stock, yet when you do these rooftop ariels you can't help but see this massive collection of old buildings and really can't notice the widespread demolition that occurred..

 

I guess it becomes more apparent on certain blocks and certain streets, but it's nice that the destruction of OTR never came to the point where it was just 1 massive ocean of parking lots, with some historic buildings in between.

Fantastic !!

These are amazing; thanks for posting.

I saw a police officer check on people flying a drone off the edge of Mt. Adams this past weekend.  I'm sure that the people living in The Celestial are sick of people flying drones out of that parking lot.