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UER Forum > UE Main > Is the Database dead? (Viewed 19045 times)
Be.safehave.fun 


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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 80 on 12/8/2020 3:42 AM >
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Posted by becckeez


While I'm not as experienced as others here, I guess I'm willing to show my age.
*blushes*

There was an intense network of folks working together here on UER in the 2000s, early 2010s. People would come from all over to meet up and explore locales, have camp outs, bonfires - you name it. I was fortunate enough to share some of my local locations and vice versa with folks from all over the East Coast. In fact, I still keep in touch with many of these people to this day. Their friendships are irreplaceable and their art and drive are still a source of inspiration.

In fact, even when I moved all the way up to Alaska, the UER network still reached out to me and offered to show me around (God Bless you, Freak).

I think 9/11 and the gradual build of the DHS really did a number. Bush armed our local cops with military-grade equipment, and then Obama doubled down. The pressure mounted. I think gentrification really did a number. Rich property owners bought up locations or got super touchy about people walking around what could be their next purchase. I think the opioid crisis really added to the pressure. The added amount of scrapping, dope dens, and the like has created even more instability to classic abandonments everywhere. I also think, something that I don't see mentioned a lot... Is that we've lost a number of explorers to the opioid crisis itself. It was incredibly painful to watch members slip away, and a lot of the folks we lost... were the glue of the community

Those folks glued a lot of the network, however, through spending casual time with one another in AvChat or at Meetups, dorkin' around the forum, etc. I'd love to see more of that here again. In fact, I've enjoyed the discord - and just recently met Aran - we've had a chance to chat beyond the confines of UER forum speak <3

In the end, the Database was a grand project we were all working with, but the real Location Database was the network of folks that made up UER.

Cursed Covid. Or I'd just throw up a DMV meet up - right - now. A cookout and some easy locations for experts and beginners to just have fun and take some photos.

Or... I mean. Masks are a pretty standard piece of exploring equipment... Hm.

Anyway. Love you guys. Stay sassy, classy, and cool af.

I'm also in the DMV and I haven't experienced a group meet. But I would love to meet new people and form lifetime bonds. I've meet some truly incredible people from this hobby. Travelled across the U.S. to meet up and explore with fellow urbexers.




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 81 on 12/12/2020 3:50 AM >
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Posted by Be.safehave.fun
I'm also in the DMV and I haven't experienced a group meet.

Same here. I would be interested in a nova/dmv meetup once the semester ends.




becckeez 


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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 82 on 12/12/2020 11:23 AM >
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Hmmm. This is pretty cool. Lemme think.




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 83 on 12/12/2020 3:08 PM >
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Been super slow at work so I have been looking up old places on Google Earth. It is neat to see what places are now. I should put some of the interesting ones in the comments.




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 84 on 12/14/2020 8:27 PM >
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Been super slow at work so I have been looking up old places on Google Earth. It is neat to see what places are now. I should put some of the interesting ones in the comments.


It makes me super sad sometimes looking at Google Earth and seeing what some of these places have become. Like the beautiful Spencer State Hospital Kirkbride in Spencer, West Virginia. It's a Walmart and a tractor supply now. But you can 100% tell where the Kirkbride used to stand even when just looking at the current images.




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 85 on 12/26/2020 10:19 AM >
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Whenever I want to reminiscence the good old times, the UE DB allows me to return to the time before today's ever-changing social media where everything is shared with everyone, quickly glimpsed and then lost forever because you can never find anything again in Facebook. And it's not just about the locations, but also the feel you get through noisy early-generation digital photographs and the like. Those were the days.

Oh, and I do add new locations whenever I explore one. That is, every five years or so...




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 86 on 2/7/2021 4:12 AM >
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The DB is nice to look back. They are mostly well known locations or demolished. I believe the DB is a great thing that was originally treated to document the locations, a let it live forever type memory. As exploring got popular and social media sites made it easy the community changed and most would say stopped adding to the DB on fear of the locations being shared and destroyed by popularity.

I do still breeze through the DB once in a while and see if there is anything new to view. I would say we all need to add, and grow the DB with locations that are possible to update.

The one thing that messes with me, is the categories per state, there isn't common grouping. Its what ever the poster wanted rather then the State/County/city.




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 87 on 2/8/2021 2:33 AM >
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I'm pretty new here, and I'll admit I first joined because I wanted to eventually become a full member just to get access to "the good stuff" on the DB. But in the short time I've been on here, the forums have been causing my desire to get out and explore to go crazy. The weather is currently not ideal, and Covid is keeping me from gathering with my exploring buddies, so I've been spending a lot of time just going over google earth and thinking about places I know of. This has made me realize I already have a full plate of locations piled up, and I don't really need to find more for the time being.

As far as the DB goes, at this point I'm more interested in adding and updating the locations I already know, as I actually quite enjoy chronicling locations. For example, I live near a fairly well known location with old explosive storage bunkers which are all on state game lands. The most easily reached ones are locked, but most of them are open. I got my hands on a map of the game lands which marks all the bunkers, so I've quested myself to see each one and record whether it is open or sealed. (Surprisingly, that location does not appear on the DB, at least to non-full members. As I said, it's fairly well known, and it's on public land, so I wouldn't expect it to be full members only, but I can't imagine it's not on there at all.)




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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 88 on 2/13/2021 2:53 AM >
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The DB is a collection of stories of places.

Not stories about exploring, but the story of the location showing how it changes over time until its demolition or renovation.

It's open ended and crowd sourced.

Enjoy it for what it is.




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< Reply # 89 on 4/6/2021 7:52 PM >
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as a noob i've been making my own database in a priv discord but documenting an explore afterwords is a major step for me. It helps to find new things and remember old sites.



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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 90 on 12/22/2021 2:49 AM >
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I actually just became a full member and have been super looking forward to adding to the database.

To me the database is what will save you from missing a huge explore when you happen to be passing through town you know? I know a lot of places around my hometown you would never find unless you're a local.





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Re: Is the Database dead?
< Reply # 91 on 12/22/2021 4:15 AM >
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I actually just became a full member and have been super looking forward to adding to the database.

To me the database is what will save you from missing a huge explore when you happen to be passing through town you know? I know a lot of places around my hometown you would never find unless you're a local.




Yeah the db is kinda what drew me here. My area seems pretty dated, definitely interesting in updating it a bit once I go pro. I’m glad you brought this post up, I’ve been noticing that some of the locations are waay off, but now I see that’s a common complaint.




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