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 sweeezn
 
Location: DC
Gender: Male
derp
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< on 7/1/2009 11:26 PM >
|  | | | Wikimapia. Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know about this, but it's pretty handy. I have seen places on google earth and wondered if it was abandoned, and this can sometimes tell you for sure. I now have 3-4 new locations to check out in my town!
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skeptic
Location: London, ON
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 1 on 7/2/2009 1:08 AM >
| | | | I didn't know about this either, but I may also have found a few new places. Thanks for sharing this.
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Chevyboy666
Location: Mason Ohio The devil's asshole
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 2 on 7/2/2009 5:15 AM >
| | | | That's pretty cool! too bad all it did was remind me i live in suburbia hell.
Nothing you can prove |
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Steed
       
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| |  | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 3 on 7/2/2009 11:50 AM >
| | | | Wikimapia is my favourite online map site. The best part is you can easily copy the URL to pass it on to other people.
I can't honestly say I've ever discovered anything abandoned using it, but I've used it to track down the exact location of abandonments.
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octopus7
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 4 on 7/3/2009 7:00 AM >
| | | | I use the Melways (melbourne street directory) and look for storm canals, creeks that disappear as well as canals that go under a street and don't resurface. I then go onto Google maps or whereis.com.au and check out the satellite photo of any area I am interested in. Using this method I have found the Mini-tenth, Maze, Great staircase drains as well as some promising drain entrances that I am yet to check out in Brighton and Dandenong south.
Melbourne City Drain painters - We go in Drains!
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splumer
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 5 on 7/3/2009 3:16 PM >
| | | | I prefer Bing maps. I like the bird's eye view function. Unfortunately, it's not available for every location. Bing's aerial photos aren't as good as Google's or Wikimapia's, though.
“We are not going to have the kind of cooperation we need if everyone insists on their own narrow version of reality. … the great divide in the world today … is between people who have the courage to listen and those who are convinced that they already know it all.”
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amy atomic
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Female
top banana of the baltimore bunch.
| | | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 6 on 7/3/2009 3:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by splumer
I prefer Bing maps. I like the bird's eye view function. Unfortunately, it's not available for every location. Bing's aerial photos aren't as good as Google's or Wikimapia's, though.
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I also use Bing, or what used to be Local Live. The bird's eye view is really helpful in scouting out locations and getting a good idea of the size of a certain building or campus. The fact that you can rotate between aerial, bird's eye, and street directions is also really helpful. But I agree, the aerial views aren't as crisp or clear as some other map website's.
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Sand
Location: Pac South
Everything interesting is always behind a fence.
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 7 on 7/4/2009 9:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by racetraitor
Wikimapia is my favourite online map site. The best part is you can easily copy the URL to pass it on to other people.
I can't honestly say I've ever discovered anything abandoned using it, but I've used it to track down the exact location of abandonments.
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The trick is searching "abandoned" and "closed". Of course if nothing is noted in your area, then you're out of luck.
[last edit 7/4/2009 9:09 AM by Sand - edited 1 times]
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 8 on 7/4/2009 9:41 AM >
| | | | Posted by sandaili
The trick is searching "abandoned" and "closed". Of course if nothing is noted in your area, then you're out of luck.
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Well that was useful, at least for finding places in North Korea.
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Swiffer
Location: Smithfield, VA
High Priest, First National Church of Bacon
| |  | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 9 on 7/5/2009 8:26 AM >
| | | | The reference stacks at my local county libraries have brought up some good ones. My personal favorite is that of the decommissioned military bases in proximity to me. It's amazing how much information you can glean from government issued clean-up documentation, which is all freely available for public reference.
-Swiffer
We avoid risks in life so we can make it safely to death.
Don't fuck with Uncle Bob when he's been drinking.
BUTTHURT! BUTTHURT EVERYWHERE! |
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dsankt
Location: live and in the fresh
| | | | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 10 on 7/5/2009 11:13 AM >
| | | | cock = divining rod
sleepycity.net: watch out for the third rail baby, that shit is high voltage. urbex and urban exploration photography |
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mrvander
Location: Cedar Rapids/Spirit Lake, IA
Gender: Male
Brick by Brick
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 11 on 7/5/2009 5:21 PM >
| | | | Posted by Swiffer
The reference stacks at my local county libraries have brought up some good ones. My personal favorite is that of the decommissioned military bases in proximity to me. It's amazing how much information you can glean from government issued clean-up documentation, which is all freely available for public reference.
-Swiffer
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This is right on. The county atlases for my county are available in the reference area of the library, and some of them even have a designation for a "unused" building, giving you a timeline of what a building is and when it went abandoned.
Go Cubs go! Hey Chicago what do you say... |
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Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul
Gender: Male
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor
| | | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 12 on 7/6/2009 2:18 AM >
| | | | If we're talking about the best way to find new locations, I've found more by randomly driving around on a scooter than anything else. I'm hopefully going to pick up a new one today.
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urbexbassist
Gender: Male
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 13 on 7/10/2009 4:20 AM >
| | | | I didn't know about this either, this will definitely help me out since I'm fairly new to urbex and need help finding buildings.
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Furious D
Location: Northern Ontario
Gender: Male
The Night Time is the Right Time
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 14 on 7/14/2009 10:19 PM >
| | | | That's awesome! I already found a few different places to look into.
I still think the best way to find places is this:
"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit."
-Banksy
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mrvander
Location: Cedar Rapids/Spirit Lake, IA
Gender: Male
Brick by Brick
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 15 on 7/14/2009 10:45 PM >
| | | | ...ride dirty?
Go Cubs go! Hey Chicago what do you say... |
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sweeezn
Location: DC
Gender: Male
derp
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 16 on 7/15/2009 5:29 AM >
| | | | Posted by mrvander
...ride dirty?
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always tryin' to catch me.
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Furious D
Location: Northern Ontario
Gender: Male
The Night Time is the Right Time
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 17 on 7/15/2009 5:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by sweeezn
always tryin' to catch me.
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Wrong. ...Roll'n and Hate'n!
"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit."
-Banksy
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Cochiseg
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
Scary rabbit, isn't it?
| | Re: Easy way to find UE locations
<Reply # 18 on 7/15/2009 6:43 PM >
| | | | i used wikimapia for other purposes than finding abandoned stuff, but still its an amazing tool... the birds eye view is great too, but i doubt they will update it pretty often
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