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Infiltration Forums > UE Main > What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?(Viewed 17015 times)
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location:
Mission Control
 
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 60 on 1/19/2020 4:19 PM >
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Posted by 2Xplorations
privacy wtf is that ? you guys must be from the 19th century

every venue on the web and cell phone providers either tracks you or forwards your info to retailers and Im sure somewhere on some cloud they have the date on exactly which room in my house I am buying plumbing supplies for and which tractor mower I bought a carburetor for and keep a log of it to sell to more retailers

it doesn't take much imagination to see how some politician or alphabet agent somewhere that doesn't like my use of flash photography gets a FISA type warrant and comes knocking to search my residence for my tripod (which I have not used in years as you might have figgered out) or just to ask how I got in those military installation, I mean that guy that looks like me did

of course we do this to ourselves 2 people here I AM aware of were busted for their personal blog photos

lolol privacy...


Technology has gotten to be incredibly invasive.
No active FB presence; once created you can't delete your FB account.
I got Goggle locked down as tight as it can be.
Goggle assistant, disable. Bixby was KIAed on the first boot up.
Map history disabled.
Locations is turned off unless I need to use maps.
Never was big with DB's and even less so now.
Pretty much in my head or forgotten...

Stand alone sat GPS like Garmin only receive signals and can't dime you out.
These are better, more reliable navigation tools if you need to use one.





Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 61 on 3/25/2020 3:15 AM >
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i put way points down on my google maps.



Heart - confirmed abandoned spot

Green Flag - needs to be scouted







If your uncle Jack were stuck on a roof. And he asked for your help. Would you help your uncle Jack off?
Radio2600 location:
On the Road to Wellville
 
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 62 on 3/25/2020 3:54 AM >
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Posted by blackhawk
No active FB presence; once created you can't delete your FB account.



However, if you sufficiently piss them off, they will delete your account for you.

(experience)








In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind.
Aran location:
Kansas City
 
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 63 on 4/13/2020 9:00 AM >
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After several days with nothing to do but organize, I have finally finished reorganizing all 402 locations in my personal database. It was an ordeal, but I've got it all organized now.

First off, by layer. I have ten layers:


  • Explored buildings, still standing
  • Explored buildings, demolished
  • Unexplored buildings, verified (within Midwest)
  • Unexplored buildings, unverified (within Midwest)
  • Unexplored buildings, outside Midwest
  • Unexplored buildings, demolished

  • Explored rooftops/cranes/etc
  • Unexplored rooftops/cranes/etc

  • Explored underground
  • Unexplored Underground



That way I can sort my locations by what I'm looking for. Local abandoned buildings I know are still standing? Done. Caves I haven't done before? Easy. You get the idea


Then I have each icon color coded, with each color carrying a specific meaning.


  • Dark green: Explored within the last year
  • Light green: Explored over a year ago
  • Orange: Unexplored but verified within the last year
  • Orange-red: Unexplored and verified over a year ago
  • Maroon: Unexplored and unverified potential lead
  • Blue: Unexplored before demolition



Finally each location has an icon that corresponds to the type of building it is, such as lightning bolts for power plants, factories for industrial locations, water drops for storm drains and shopping carts for commercial locations.


The end result is a map that allows me to quickly narrow down the exact type of location I'm looking for and sort them all based on confidence in the accuracy of my information. Plus by disabling irrelevant layers (say I only want verified locations so I disable all other layers) I can reduce the loading time on my phone while in areas of poor service.



"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.

s0phie location:
Wisconsin
 
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 64 on 4/24/2020 6:16 AM >
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Aran's solution is fairly similar to mine, although I don't know what he uses for GIS itself (I'd love to know how he gets it to his phone).

I use QGIS and create GeoPackages to hold locations. I don't currently have a top-level database; I have a number of directories of shapefiles by area that I can drop into a project at will. A large amount of what I do is related to drains/tunnels or somehow incorporates open data (utilities routing, drains, digital platbooks, tax and zoning records, etc), so I have those organized by region too. I also have maps I've manually traced into GIS saved as GeoPackages or shapefiles.

On top of that, I have some custom software to pull these together and generate HTML reports of likely interesting locations.

I want to actually 1. build out a nice way of viewing all of this together like what Aran's talking about and 2. figure out a way to get it onto my phone easily.



Aran location:
Kansas City
 
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 65 on 4/24/2020 6:39 AM >
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Posted by s0phie
Aran's solution is fairly similar to mine, although I don't know what he uses for GIS itself (I'd love to know how he gets it to his phone).

I use QGIS and create GeoPackages to hold locations. I don't currently have a top-level database; I have a number of directories of shapefiles by area that I can drop into a project at will. A large amount of what I do is related to drains/tunnels or somehow incorporates open data (utilities routing, drains, digital platbooks, tax and zoning records, etc), so I have those organized by region too. I also have maps I've manually traced into GIS saved as GeoPackages or shapefiles.

On top of that, I have some custom software to pull these together and generate HTML reports of likely interesting locations.

I want to actually 1. build out a nice way of viewing all of this together like what Aran's talking about and 2. figure out a way to get it onto my phone easily.


I'm gonna be honest, I just use Google MyMaps. I can then just pull it up on my phone any place that I have network service. Unfortunately it does have it's drawbacks, such as the inability to trace drains, extremely subpar spreadsheet capabilities, and a limit of ten layers.



"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.

s0phie location:
Wisconsin
 
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Re: What tools do you use to organize your "personal" location database?
<Reply # 66 on 4/24/2020 6:45 AM >
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Posted by Aran


I'm gonna be honest, I just use Google MyMaps. I can then just pull it up on my phone any place that I have network service. Unfortunately it does have it's drawbacks, such as the inability to trace drains, extremely subpar spreadsheet capabilities, and a limit of ten layers.


haha i started out using mymaps too to map tunnel vents like... three years ago? it was really awful and i stopped doing that for a while because i hated it so much. and then i realized that there are actually good gis tools! would highly recommend, 10/10.

i just found this, a thing to let people do field work while using their QGIS datasets, and it looks perfect (it can even work offline and cache data changes for later upload). i'll try that out and probably post about it at some point


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