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Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1850 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | How do YOU use the Database? < on 12/7/2017 6:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | To start off, I'm not sure if this belongs in "Other" or "Main," but I posted it in "Other" because only full members will really be able to answer this one. Go ahead and move this if it doesn't belong here, mods. Anyway, it's a slow day and I wanted to strike up a conversation.
Do you use the Database? If so, how do you use it? I personally use the Database frequently to find locations to explore. I post locations that I found myself (not ones shown to me by other explorers) that I have explored and can verify are still abandoned. I also add albums to preexisting entries for locations I visit, because it provides a record. If an explorer is looking at an older Database entry (and some are over a decade old), they may be unsure whether it is even still standing. By adding an album from my more recent visits, it verifies it is still standing as of that date, and helps provide a historical record. How about you guys?
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| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| NotBatman
Location: MSP Gender: Male Total Likes: 443 likes
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| | | Re: How do YOU use the Database? < Reply # 9 on 12/7/2017 7:48 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've browsed through it when I know I have travel coming up, but in general I don't actively look through it at all. In general it holds no interest for me. I never wanted the local stuff in the UEDB (what there is, anyway) spoiled before I could see it for myself, but then after I've seen it I can't be bothered to read someone else's experiences, because... I dunno, who cares? Day-to-day, the most I get out of it is occasionally clicking on the "Random Urbex Pic from the UEDB" when I log in. Fun Fact: Almost every time I click on something because it looks local to MSP, it turns out it's somewhere in Canada. Their grain elevators, their factories/warehouses/whatever, even their drains and sewers - a TON of it looks like something right out of MSP.
| I'm a "Leave only footprints, take only pornography" kind of guy, myself. |
| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1850 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: How do YOU use the Database? < Reply # 15 on 12/8/2017 12:14 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai at this point, the DB is a time machine for many locations that are long gone.
| True, but I think that's mostly because there's so many abandonments over such a wide area, but only so many explorers. In some areas, one person is responsible for most if not all the location entries in the DB. When that person stops exploring, there is often nobody to take up the mantle and keep that area's entries up to date. I'd like to think that making an entry ties the explorers of the past to those of the future. Two explorers may find common ground in the form of shared location, even though they may never meet, or even explore during the same time period. Even after a location is demolished, it provides a record, like a historical marker in the annals of urban exploration history. Plus, it provides a foothold for traveling explorers. Knowing for certain that there is an abandonment they can access can make a trip worth it, even if they spend the rest of their journey chasing rumors of locations that may no longer exist, if indeed they ever did.
| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
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