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Location: New Jersey Gender: Male Total Likes: 1172 likes
| | | | Re: Finding leads for new places to explore < Reply # 4 on 10/20/2017 3:52 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | For general "what's around me" stuff, definitely use google maps. Like Adv. Ive killed hours and found plenty of things like that. You can also drive main roads in towns and cities you've never been to. You'll always find stuff going that route. For more specific "where is that place" searching, clues in the architecture are your best bet. This applies more to America, but im sure some of it could still apply. For example, different denominations of religions will have specific nuances in their buildings. Roman Catholic churches are the easiest by far to spot. Presbyterian Churches are a close second. You can also use features from inside the building itself to help date it to within a few decades. If you have that knowledge, and a basic knowledge of who has been, you should have enough to narrow down your options. After a while, you begin to develop a picture in your head of what the outside of the building looks like, just off of a few perspectives of the inside. Bring that to google maps and cross reference it with street view and sometimes you'll have your answer then and there. Schools and hospitals can be the same way, though modernization often causes problems with that. But if you know the general area, look for other schools, active or abandoned, that share certain qualities with the one you're searching for. There are a ton of Collegiate Gothic, Art Deco, and Neoclassical schools across North America, and they all have distinct yet different features that make it fairly easy to categorize them. And even further, specific architects will have their own touches that can occasionally be a complete giveaway. Some cities only used one or two architects during the expansion of their respective school systems, and that occasionally led to some stark contrasts in design as well. This can all be used to further narrow down your search. For hospitals, some were built to specific design standards which are easy to find. In addition, many times state hospital structures built in the same region will have buildings on campus that mirror others. So if you're saying to yourself "that looks like ______, but I know it can't be because ______ is different", then you're actually pretty close to an answer. Hospitals will almost always have some sort of presence online, and if they aren't already known then that should also be a clue. At least in my neck of the woods, abandoned hospitals are (or were) everywhere. So many times you just won't know until you see for yourself. That's basically my process whenever I see something new pop up. Even if I can't find it right away, the more people that go, the better my chances are. The last thing I'll leave you with is dont rule out a building in the early stages of demolition. Usually anything significant being destroyed will have some sort of press around it, and if you catch them quick enough you can get some incredibly unique shots even if the building has a big hole in it.
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| Trespassing wayfarer
Location: Ottawa - Toronto Gender: Male Total Likes: 53 likes
| | | | Re: How do YOU find abandoned places? < Reply # 11 on 10/22/2017 4:07 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Okay, if you want to find locations you're going to have to use google maps a lot. Tbh, the vast majority of the urban exploration hobby is searching google maps. It will basically be your constant. Now, google maps is unfortunately outdated or inaccurate in a lot of instances so your goal should actually be to limit the amount of time you actually need to use your constant (Google maps) as much as possible.
The best way to do that is to have someone just tell you locations, or use a database like this one. However, that is not as easy as it seems since it often requires trust, but there are plenty of threads about getting people to trust you so I'll delegate to them. So short of someone straight up telling you locations, the next best way to cut the amount of time you need to use google maps is see what locations actually exist in your areas. It's a lot harder to search for something that you don't know exists than searching for something that you know exists. So finding out which abandonments that exist in your area will cut how much you use your constant. Look through Flickr, Instagram, local Facebook groups etc for hits about both your city and abandonments. For example, on instagram search #abandonedottawa or whatever city you're from. Even if the location isn't given, tbh it almost never will, the knowledge that "something" is out there is extremely valuable. Sometimes the pictures even give enough of a clue where to look. For example, if you see a picture of an abandoned lighthouse, that reduces the amount you have to search on google maps since you know it's near the shore. Another valuable asset that is massively overlooked to use is to watch the activities of your local street artist. Often they will write pieces in abandoned locations. Lots of these artists also run in crews and these crews have turfs, i.e. certain sectors in the overall city. Like most artists, they want to show off their art, thus they will often broadcast their work on social media. If you can figure out the turf, it will seriously reduce that amount of area you need to search google maps for.
"Local Public information" is also very useful to look for. Newspapers, police activity logs, city complaints, all frequently mention abandoned locations. They are also pretty easy to find on google. (When using google to search for information about locations make sure to use the advanced search tools and command prompts.) They often give the actual address, and/or name of the location. Check google very often. I tend to do an Ottawa/abandonment google search scrounge every 3 or 4 days.
Talking to locals can also be very rewarding. Everyone at some point in their life has seen an abandoned building or knows something about one so there's a lot of untapped information just below the surface. Talk to a high schooler, or a police(wo)man, or any members of the community. People love to talk, capitalize on that.
My last suggestion for cutting down how much you need to rely on google maps is to just live your life. Living and working in the area you want to find locations in will get you locations. All abandoned locations have to start somewhere, eventually one will pop up in your bubble. It also helps if you alternate the routes you travel through the city. It's not the most efficient way, but it's the most AFK and hopefully the least tedious since it is just living your life. A combination of all these approaches should net you with a lot of locations over a relatively short amount of time without slaving away on google maps.
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| Lola AB
Location: YEG Gender: Female Total Likes: 122 likes
| | | Re: Finding leads for new places to explore < Reply # 17 on 2/16/2018 4:27 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Trespassing wayfarer
Look through Flickr, Instagram, local Facebook groups etc for hits about both your city and abandonments. For example, on instagram search #abandonedottawa or whatever city you're from. Even if the location isn't given, tbh it almost never will, the knowledge that "something" is out there is extremely valuable. Sometimes the pictures even give enough of a clue where to look. For example, if you see a picture of an abandoned lighthouse, that reduces the amount you have to search on google maps since you know it's near the shore. Another valuable asset that is massively overlooked to use is to watch the activities of your local street artist. Often they will write pieces in abandoned locations. Lots of these artists also run in crews and these crews have turfs, i.e. certain sectors in the overall city. Like most artists, they want to show off their art, thus they will often broadcast their work on social media. If you can figure out the turf, it will seriously reduce that amount of area you need to search google maps for.
"Local Public information" is also very useful to look for. Newspapers, police activity logs, city complaints, all frequently mention abandoned locations. They are also pretty easy to find on google. (When using google to search for information about locations make sure to use the advanced search tools and command prompts.) They often give the actual address, and/or name of the location. Check google very often. I tend to do an Ottawa/abandonment google search scrounge every 3 or 4 days.
Talking to locals can also be very rewarding. Everyone at some point in their life has seen an abandoned building or knows something about one so there's a lot of untapped information just below the surface. Talk to a high schooler, or a police(wo)man, or any members of the community. People love to talk, capitalize on that.
My last suggestion for cutting down how much you need to rely on google maps is to just live your life. Living and working in the area you want to find locations in will get you locations. All abandoned locations have to start somewhere, eventually one will pop up in your bubble. It also helps if you alternate the routes you travel through the city. It's not the most efficient way, but it's the most AFK and hopefully the least tedious since it is just living your life. A combination of all these approaches should net you with a lot of locations over a relatively short amount of time without slaving away on google maps.
| This is great advice and methods I use a lot. I got into urbex mainly through chasing street art and have found a few locations that way. I also watch the development permits and anything that's been granted a demolition permit at least gets further research. There are a TON of Facebook groups and blogs in this area for abandoned places. They focus on the photography and preserving history aspects but I've found a lot of ideas through those sites and it usually leads to more ideas and tips. Just paying attention too while you're out living life helps too. Sometimes we get so stuck in our bubbles, we don't pay attention.
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