About coaster-count.com

This document is only available in English!

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Registration
The coaster-count located on coaster-count.com is a spin off project in coorporation with the roller coastert community onride.de.
To participate in the count you have to register with Coaster-Count or our forum.
Once registered you can deal with your username on both Coaster-Count and onride.de.
Beside the same username both projects run completely seperated.

Coasterdata and counting
The data is based on the roller coaster database rcdb at www.rcdb.com.
Each track is counted separately, even moebius tracks (if you have to ride serveral times to ride whole track).
Identical coasters are marked and ony count one, nevertheless you can mark different loactions or different theming separately though.
For some people may not want to count traveling, alpine, butterfly, powered coasters, water coasters or undefined coasters, you can filter them out in the rankings.
The ranking is devided into the following sections: Starters, 50+, 100+, 150+, 200+, 300+, 500+, 700+, 1000+

Team
Boris Wachtmeister (Boris)
Daniel Warwas (Warwas)
Thomas Thumann (TT)
Thorsten Janke (Tejay)
Tim Herre (The Knowledge)
Volker Sauer (kmonster)
You are into coasters? Interested in joining the coaster-count-Team? Please email us!

Technical
All pages are full XHTML 1.0 and CSS valid and claimed for W3C-WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
Best view with Mozilla Firefox and 1024 pixel resolutions or higher.

Terms of use
As non traveling coaster data is based on the rcdb, here is a cut from the rcdbs terms of use:
"All data contained in the Roller Coaster DataBase is freely available to anyone with certain limitations.
You are encouraged to quote statistics from the database in USENET articles, magazine articles, etc.
However, if you use significant amounts of data we do request you to give credit where credit is due.
The rcdb grants permission for users to freely distribution the data contained within the Roller Coaster DataBase, providing the following conditions are met:
- No fee of any kind, however indirect, will be charged for its distribution.
- Data my not be distributed on CD-ROM or any other physical medium.
- The data may not be used to construct any kind of on-line database (except for individual personal use)."
The coaster data researched by coaster-count.com is freely available to anyone with the same limitations.
Users who are obviously cheating will be banned from coaster-count.
Users who have not been visiting coaster-count.com for over two month are not shown in the rankings. You will be informed by email before.

Credits
Thanks to Duane Marden for sharing the information stored in the rcdb.
Thanks to our Team for adding coasters that were actually not listed in the rcdb.
Thanks to Rainer Ziesche (razibo) for the onride.de spin off during starting period.
Thanks to Silvia Forghieri (Silvia Forghieri) e Bruno Lancetti (Bruno Lancetti) of parksmania.it for the italian version.
Thanks to Toon Kockx (El Quinte) for the translation into Dutch.
Thanks to Erick Bouchard (eryx) of ameworld for the translation into french.
Thanks to Martin Spies (martinspies for connecting with soroda.de.
Thanks to Simon Venin for connecting with ridesdb.com.

Operations
Volker Sauer
Bottroper Str. 19
45899 Gelsenkirchen
Germany

Dirk Lather
Louisenstrasse 72-82
61348 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Germany

Banner
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