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 Mutt
    
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Location: Bunbury, Western Australia
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 |  |  | Location database idea
< on 4/10/2004 8:46 PM >
|  | | | A modest proposal...
Although I dont yet own one yet. How about being able to input GPS co-ordinates for locations in the DB?
One more thing to input yes I know, but it might help to find some of those hidden locations.
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kn0wledge
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Location: Glasgow, UK
Gender: Male
| |  |  | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 1 on 4/10/2004 9:30 PM >
| | | | Isn't half the fun in finding it for yourself? Directions are fine, but exact co-ordinates, I think, are cheating.
In Nagasaki they like bukkake. |
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Mark
 
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
| | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 2 on 4/10/2004 10:41 PM >
| | | | Obviously you have not tried to track down GPS coordinates by vehicle. It can be very taxing. It also helps people to find Satillite shots.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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SPEK Photo
Location: Where you were not.
"Chere cachère!"
| | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 3 on 4/10/2004 11:28 PM >
| | | | Surely not even 1/50 of the explorers have a GPS, exact locations can be useful but probably nobody will be able to use it.
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kn0wledge
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Location: Glasgow, UK
Gender: Male
| | | | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 4 on 4/10/2004 11:51 PM >
| | | | uh yea I have.
1. enter required co-ordinates into GPS.
2. Start driving.
3. Stop driving when you reach your required co-ordinates.
What the fuck is so hard about that? Or were you using some whacked out crazy old GPS unit that gave your location to the nearest mile.
In Nagasaki they like bukkake. |
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PAWolf
Not from Pennsylvania
Location: KCMO
Gender: Male
We haven't located us yet.
| |  | | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 5 on 4/11/2004 1:41 AM >
| | | | Hey, this was my idea a while back... If this catches on I demand full documented credit, royalties, proceeds, and a special gps icon next to my name. 
Ya, it's not that hard to follow gps coordinates via car since most modern units (like mine) refresh very quickly and will provide accurate distance to waypoint and direction indicators. It's typically just a matter of driving until the arrow points straight down a street and following the street in the said direction. Not always the fastest route but very surefire if you don't know the area.
And if all else fails use a map, the "GPS coordinates" work on those too. 
Make Beer, Not War. |
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Avatar-X
 
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 6 on 4/11/2004 4:46 AM >
| | | | feel free to add GPS co-ords into the Location...
huskies - such fluff. |
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Mark
Very Noble Donor
Location: South Carolina
Gender: Male
What is a lion, king of the savannah, when hes at the south pole?
| | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 7 on 4/11/2004 9:29 PM >
| | | | Yeah was going to do that. Unlike you guys I dont have a map version GPS. Mine is nearly 4 years old and only give cordinates. That means your trying to go in a straight line.
"If the threat level goes up its probably because of me." "I am looking for a girl who enjoys headbutting beltbuckles" |
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NZero
I was gettin changed!
Location: Sleeping...
Radio Geek
| | | | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 8 on 4/11/2004 11:44 PM >
|  | | | I have no problem adding GPS lat/long to the db, maybe you could add a field to the UEDB for gps co-ord
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 9 on 4/12/2004 12:06 AM >
| | | | When does the database go beyond a place to post pictures, share the general location of a place, and provide a place for others to collect information and become a hit list of itemized categorized places in your area to see. Noobies will show up here and complain because "there aren't and UE sites in my hometown". I think the LDB is becoming too much of a crutch to people. Instead of going out and finding their own locations, they wait for someone else to do the work and post the lat/long coordinates.
The database isn't a collection of all the places you explore, people; it's a collection of some of the places some people have been. The people that post these places in the database are taking a risk by doing this. For starters, each location is listed on the bottom of the main page for search engine bait. Also, any bimbo can add information to the entry once you have created it. All this leads to high exposure of the place in question to anyone on the web who knows anything about searching. Do you really want to attract this kind of attention?
If you know exactly where to go, what you will find there, what equipment to bring, what the dangers, hazards, and security is like, and the geographic coordinates of a place, that takes away 90% of the fun of exploring it.
/rant
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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'Dukes
Noble Donor
Gender: Male
At least someone llikes me
| | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 10 on 4/16/2004 9:29 AM >
| | | | That's understandable Krazy, almost all of it. However I've noticed the cat's out of the bag on every one of these locations, as they are listed in fine print on the UER home page. Initially I thought that these entries were somehow kept from being public somehow (not a web guy).
One search I did returned the home page, and the entry was one of the microscopically sized print at the bottom of the page listing every location.
I like the LDB. I've noticed most people that don't post on the DB already have a website which is just as exposed to search engines. For the most part It's just entertainment because you get to see locations you would either never bother with or are too far out of the way to bother going to.
Summary after pointless comments; why bother with coordinates? Most people will NEVER go to your LDB entry, and the ones who are planning on it are just looking to heighten their interest level and already know where it is. And others are looking for yet another photographic take on somthing they've already seen. We went to the Pines hotel in downstate NY after seeing the LDB entry, did some legwork, found the place and there we were. What we saw was not what we expected from the pictures, and most folks would say the same from seeing mine of that location. We drove two and a half hours to get there. I'ts a place we never would have imagined existed.
We learned alot about the "Borscht belt" and the history of this area, we found even more hotels and abandonded Bungalow colonies. And I thought this stuff was actually IN the Catskill mountains . I guess we watched "dirty dancing " one too many times.
I got your tour winner right here pussies, at least he'd crash out trying. |
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Chainsaw
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Location: Underground, Colorado
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Location database idea
<Reply # 11 on 4/16/2004 3:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by kn0wledge
uh yea I have.
1. enter required co-ordinates into GPS.
2. Start driving.
3. Stop driving when you reach your required co-ordinates.
What the fuck is so hard about that? Or were you using some whacked out crazy old GPS unit that gave your location to the nearest mile.
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