On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Tijmen Stam <mailingli...@iivq.net> wrote:
> +1 as well. As an active explorer, I wouldn't encourage mapping those. > It has no use outside the very close and sometimes closed community, which > has many means (fora, facebook pages) to share those locations. > > Also, most urban explorers do not want to openly share locations, for > fears of vandalism and grafitti artist. > So even for explorers it is beneficial to not share locations too openly. > Even urbex has a life cycle associated with it. Some sites move beyond urbex into 'adventure tourism'. Bannerman's Arsenal on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River, New York, was once a site for urban explorers (relatively safe from detection, since at the time the dock had been demolished and the place was accessible only by canoe or kayak). It then became a target for vandals, and started to be policed rigidly. Now it's sort of been discovered, and the land trust that owns the place offers guided hard-hat tours of the ruin. http://www.hudsonriver.com/sites/default/files/styles/basic_page_gallery_image/public/bannerman-island-1.jpg The burnt-out shell of the Overlook Mountain House hotel, farther upriver, is another popular tourist spot - for tourists who are up to gaining about 450 m of elevation on a 3.9 km hike in, and who have a healthy respect for rattlesnakes, which inhabit the ruins. I always see people up there when I go. It's on the trail guides and whatnot, so once again, this is a lawful one. (The trail conference even provides volunteer stewards to patrol the place and educate the public on summer weekends.) https://www.flickr.com/photos/ke9tv/7082922237/ I'm fine with mapping sites like these. Not so much, the ones of questionable legality.
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