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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+

Research
Thomas Thumann (TT)

Consultants
Dennis Kolodzeizik (AugustVonPolen)
Tim Herre (The Knowledge)

Technical care
Christoph Nählen (naehlen)
Volker Sauer (kmonster)

Former staff
Boris Wachtmeister (Boris)
Daniel Warwas (Warwas)
Georges Kesseler (Georges)
Thorsten Janke (Tejay)

Technical info
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Date format by international standard ISO 8601.

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. Please have in mind: The privacy options have no effect to the team.

Big THANKS go to
Duane Marden (Duane.Marden) for sharing the information stored in the rcdb.
Rainer Ziesche (razibo) for the onride.de spin off during starting period.
Silvia Forghieri (Silvia Forghieri) and Bruno Lancetti (Bruno Lancetti) of parksmania.it for the initial translation into Italian in 2005.
Toon Kockx (El Quinte) for the initial translation into Dutch in 2005.
Erick Bouchard (eryx) of ameworld for administrating the French translation.
Martin Spies (martinspies for connecting with soroda.de.
Simon Venin for connecting with ridesdb.com.
Riccardo Righi (Rickwally) for administrating the Italian translations from 2012.
Lucas Ferraz (lucazferraz) for administrating the Portuguese translations from 2012.
William Dwars (flatliner) for administrating the Dutch translations from 2012.

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