Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 4 on 4/20/2013 5:46 PM >
Fun video. Thanks for posting it.
The point you made about research, it's difficult when you're new to urbex to do the research without the help of those that have gone before us. We hear about all the usual places that have been overdone, so we have nothing to offer the more experienced for trade.
I guess I wish someone would make a guide for us rookies on how to best utilize Google Maps to find places (especially if you aren't familiar with an area). That said, I know a guide like that can't be posted publicly because others would use it for nefarious reasons. Flickr
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Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 5 on 4/21/2013 7:29 PM >
its not about google maps.... its about getting in your car or someones car and driving to places youve never been. its about getting lost on purpose and driving to sketchy areas of town that you normally wouldnt go to. maps are used to check spots after youve found them, to chart a course. i only found one place using google maps and that was just pure luck. www.terraincognito.com
Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 6 on 4/22/2013 10:26 AM >
Posted by nomeus its not about google maps.... its about getting in your car or someones car and driving to places youve never been. its about getting lost on purpose and driving to sketchy areas of town that you normally wouldnt go to. maps are used to check spots after youve found them, to chart a course. i only found one place using google maps and that was just pure luck.
I do the driving thing every weekend but I'm fairly new to my area, so I don't know where those sketchy areas of town are--heck, I barely even know where the industrial areas of the state I live in are.
That said, I've found some spots on those drives but when you talk about "charting a course" what does that mean? Places to park, method of approach, surrounding buildings/businesses that may make entry difficult? I'm a bit of an overachiever and want to get better at this so I have something to offer fellow urbexer's. Flickr
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Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 7 on 4/22/2013 6:17 PM >
well what i mean is, i use maps after ive found something and i want to plan parking and just see whats surrounding the property. street view is great and so is the birds eye feature in bing maps. this usually only applies when you can only access one or a few sides of a property like when something is sitting on waters edge. typically older power plants sit on water for cooling and coal/oil delivery by ship. or maybe you find stuff and dont have time to stop so you go home and examine it on maps.
point is, maps are not to be used to "find spots". google on the other hand is helpful. im not saying to not use maps to find spots but i think it will be very difficult. map images are a few years old on the average and also takes the exploring out of it. you just become an armchair explorer and dont actually drive the streets/walk the tracks. www.terraincognito.com
Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 10 on 5/1/2013 6:02 PM >
i remember just driving around and finding the weirdest places in areas i'd never expect, hell it took me a full year of driving this one route 4 days a week to classes just to notice the enormous abandoned building tucked away off the side of the road along my route. It's a lot easier than most newbies think to just discover a place...great video by the way "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 13 on 8/21/2013 12:28 PM >
Posted by nomeus maps are used to check spots after youve found them, to chart a course. i only found one place using google maps and that was just pure luck.
Maps are useful for finding drains though. But you are right, not much else. Drains, drains, drains, drains, drains.
Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 14 on 10/27/2013 8:01 PM >
I have to disagree on the google maps point if your willing to spend an hour or so street viewing it and then following up you can find quite a few places. Especially if you check small towns in the middle of nowhere or the outskirts of a downtown area. Obviously be wary of the date on the photo though.
Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 15 on 11/12/2013 3:09 PM >
I suppose that if I had used google maps more we would have found more places to visit on our recent St. Louis trip, on the other hand if I had done so we wouldn't have ended up in the woods on the banks of the Mississippi River at sunset with a hawk over head and a heap of catfish skeletons underfoot. Most of the big and impressive places are already found and documented and that is fine, but I agree that the experience of exploring is more meaningful if you haven't been lead by the nose to get there. I want to weep every time I go to Gary and run into the gaggle of shrieking kids (OK, maybe they're in their 20's, but they act like they're 10) being lead around by their paid tour guide. Which happened twice this weekend.
Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 16 on 11/12/2013 7:40 PM >
Don't need Google Earth to locate buildings in East St. Louis. Hard to throw a rock and not find an abandoned building or 12.
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Re: good info for rookies <Reply # 17 on 11/27/2013 8:01 PM >
Posted by Vectored Approach Don't need Google Earth to locate buildings in East St. Louis. Hard to throw a rock and not find an abandoned building or 12.
