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Infiltration Forums > UE Main > What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?(Viewed 17018 times)
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 20 on 1/30/2013 7:18 PM >
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Map posters plastering walls in my room with multi colour thumb tacks.



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 21 on 1/30/2013 8:39 PM >
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Posted by CaptainSqueaky
Map posters plastering walls in my room with multi colour thumb tacks.


"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down." -Mitch Hedberg (RIP)



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 22 on 1/31/2013 3:11 PM >
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Posted by macgruder
Google Maps database. Works well enough for me, except there are so many locations, it puts them onto more than one page, so overlaying multiple pages isn't possible (that I know of).


That IS a drag, but I mostly only use it to keep track of things. Data entry is done in Google Maps. When I want to actually LOOK at the map, I usually do so in Google Earth, which can handle everything.



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 23 on 1/31/2013 9:02 PM >
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I use bing and categorize places into cities if its a nearby state, or state if its a further state. My places in Europe or Canada are in a separate folder as well. And for local places that I find I put them into categorizes by county in my home state. It sounds complicated but it keeps things really organized. Bing has a fairly good birds eye view so its pretty helpful for scouting out parking and even entry sometimes.

I used to categorize it by type of location but once you get a lot of locations it becomes impossible to find anything in a certain area that way.



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 24 on 1/31/2013 9:15 PM >
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Posted by DJ Craig
I have hundreds of locations all over the US saved in my Tomtom GPS. Anywhere I'm driving, I can bring up a list in order of distance from my current location, or from my destination. I also have it set up so it makes a noise if I drive within a couple of miles of one.


That's pretty clever! I'm guessing you also have a backup on your PC somewhere?

Posted by Therrin
I just have a folder on my computer desktop labeled "UE Stuff" that has a thousand or so subfolders packed with all of my locations info.

As for a locations database the closest thing I have is using pushpins on Google Earth.


As I'm very interested in the history of these places, I have a similar folder loaded with all my research about the locations; newspaper clippings, videos, etc.

Posted by macgruder
Google Maps database. Works well enough for me, except there are so many locations, it puts them onto more than one page, so overlaying multiple pages isn't possible (that I know of).


That can be a bit annoying, but if you load it in Google Earth you should be able to see all of them at once.

Posted by arntzville

He sent me a PM about it on another forum asking about one of the locations. I guess it came up in a Google search even though I was 100% positive that I had set it not to do so.


Interesting, I'll have to look into that.

Posted by CaptainSqueaky
Map posters plastering walls in my room with multi colour thumb tacks.


That's the best way

Posted by arntzville


"I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down." -Mitch Hedberg (RIP)


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Posted by KMUE1991
I use bing and categorize places into cities if its a nearby state, or state if its a further state. My places in Europe or Canada are in a separate folder as well. And for local places that I find I put them into categorizes by county in my home state. It sounds complicated but it keeps things really organized. Bing has a fairly good birds eye view so its pretty helpful for scouting out parking and even entry sometimes.

I used to categorize it by type of location but once you get a lot of locations it becomes impossible to find anything in a certain area that way.


Interesting, I didn't realize Bing had the ability to categorize - or are you just creating separate maps?



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 25 on 1/31/2013 9:22 PM >
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I use a combination of google earth and google docs, which works well for me because I can easily send those to other people. I also use the google docs page as a guide for newbies who want to join for a few trips as well, so it's nice that I can combine them. I can put information on the google earth sites as well, and the google earth looks awesome when its covered in yellow pins.



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<Reply # 26 on 1/31/2013 10:47 PM >
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Posted by KMUE1991
I use bing and categorize places into cities if its a nearby state, or state if its a further state. My places in Europe or Canada are in a separate folder as well. And for local places that I find I put them into categorizes by county in my home state. It sounds complicated but it keeps things really organized. Bing has a fairly good birds eye view so its pretty helpful for scouting out parking and even entry sometimes.

I used to categorize it by type of location but once you get a lot of locations it becomes impossible to find anything in a certain area that way.


This is how I operate as well. Bing maps is super. Organized by state and city. But I like to dig in, one city at a time mostly. A lot of locations I find the old fashion way. With my boots on the ground. The ones I do find, for the most part are un-documented. Thats half the fun for me. Exploring un-charted areas.


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You're so fucking hip Heinrick.

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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 29 on 2/4/2013 11:38 PM >
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I use Google Docs, a simple spreadsheet with the following columns

  • Number of trip (one trip per day urbexing)*
  • Date of trip*
  • Name of trip (sometimes I give names to an exploring day)*
  • Location
  • Who joined*
  • Address (Only filled in when I don't know it by head)


The items marked with * are only filled in once per trip, the next lines sorta "inherit" them (except for who joined, if that changes)

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Posted by Gallifrey
I use a combination of google earth and google docs, which works well for me because I can easily send those to other people. I also use the google docs page as a guide for newbies who want to join for a few trips as well, so it's nice that I can combine them. I can put information on the google earth sites as well, and the google earth looks awesome when its covered in yellow pins.


Are they combined automatically, i.e. data you enter in docs shows up in maps? Or just manual?



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 30 on 2/5/2013 12:35 AM >
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Posted by Abandoned not Forgotten
I can't imagine that this hasn't come up in the past, but several searches didn't bring up any relevant results.

As I'm amassing more and more locations that I either found, explored or that someone shared with me - I'm trying to figure out how to organize them in an easily accessible and intuitive manner. Up until now, it's mostly been memory and text files, but I'm looking for a more structured solution. Right now I'm in the process of creating an [unlisted] custom map through Googles My Maps feature and it seems to be doing the trick pretty well. Bing also has a My Maps feature which I have yet to try out. I figured I'd reach out and ask you guys: what are you using to organize/catalog your personal location databases?


GE, and I have notepads organized by topic. This works particularly well if you are passing through an area and can check out access and whatnot.



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<Reply # 31 on 2/5/2013 5:27 PM >
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I honestly keep track of my locations by marking them in a Map book (like the kind for navigation when driving.) The only time this falls short is that locations back in the woods are often hard to pinpoint. For those I just put a circle around the general area. I tried google maps and others but they were too much fuss. with paper I can use sticky notes and do drawings/notations however I want.



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 32 on 5/2/2014 5:55 PM >
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I'm working on my own solution to this, kinda like the one previously mentioned using SQL and GMaps front-end. Though I haven't decided on what to use as a database backend yet.




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I use Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Docs. My car can import locations from a USB stick, so I create a map for the day using the Google Docs (spreadsheet). I obsessively collect locations when I come across them, so keeping them in the "cloud" is the best solution.

However, after reading about GMaps somehow getting indexed when set to unlisted is disconcerting. I may have to look into a new solution.



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<Reply # 34 on 5/3/2014 6:31 AM >
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Google maps. It has been very useful.

I've been thinking of going through all my locations, typing down the coordinates, and storing the coordinates on a hard drive. Knowing my luck one day something will go wrong and all my marks will get deleted.



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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 36 on 5/3/2014 10:36 AM >
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For me, life is too short to make location data bases...
That's why i just save every kind of electronic information source (facebook, panoramio,flickr,local news page,forums,google map links,etc) in bookmark manager, adding folders with names "ponies", "more ponies", "rainbows" etc . So far it works. But usually i try to remember everything. Ahh yea, for going abroad there are real maps with some circles. It works until map dissolves into pieces if it rains. True story. Ahh another thing - before getting new operating system, save skype urban exploring chat history. Once i lost very detailed information about not yet accessed places.
My studies are related with information organization but life puts everything into right place - there's nothing but chaos in my urban exploring files and collected data from internet.






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<Reply # 37 on 5/3/2014 12:52 PM >
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I've built a few Google maps. The one that encompassed everything got to be way too big and too much work maintaining it and adding new spots for how little I used it. I focus on smaller purpose built maps now.



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Google maps, notepad file for coordinates, and that's about all there's to it!



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<Reply # 39 on 5/3/2014 5:09 PM >
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My office is my map room. I have topo's and aerials all over the walls.

I use Google maps to plan out trips according to area chunks. I'll scour aerially and street view for hours, marking POI's along the way, then email that map to the phone to use for navigation.

I have scout info folders and dated photo folders.
I have a realtor friend who will look up property for me if I get an address.

I also use the online Sanborn maps for historical info collecting and save them to a "history" folder within the location's folder.



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