Question - Opinions on pin collecting?

[Grumbly]

Not really a pin collector, just pin when I find and remove when I'm done. Seen lots of mixed opinions on pin collecting on this site, what's everyone personal opinion and why?

 

[tigger]

It's wrong to move pins the same as moving other items. Removing pins is no less theft than removing other items.

My mum had a good pin collection. Lots of lace bobbins too.

 

[Grumbly]

It's wrong to move pins the same as moving other items. Removing pins is no less theft than removing other items.

My mum had a good pin collection. Lots of lace bobbins too.

Feeling very called out, you have shown me the error of my ways. I need too make some phone calls and return some pins...

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Not really a pin collector, just pin when I find and remove when I'm done. Seen lots of mixed opinions on pin collecting on this site, what's everyone personal opinion and why?

Not sure what u mean really. pins = places, I aim to have as many as poss so as I can visit any area & have a pretty good chance of a few successful explores. I cant understand anyone going "we are going to go & do x place" & not having any backups if they cant get in etc.

Organising pins is a different issue, I have "want to go" then change to "favourite" when done, I DONT remove em because I will end up finding them on google & pinning them again forgetting Iv been!
I try to add labels & notes so I know what the pin is for example I may put "hospital watch for security", my mate dosent label anything & its a bit of a nightmare, we are often going places that he wont have a clue what it is till we get there.
I also use the orange star for anything that is demolished etc

 

[Grumbly]

Not sure what u mean really. pins = places, I aim to have as many as poss so as I can visit any area & have a pretty good chance of a few successful explores. I cant understand anyone going "we are going to go & do x place" & not having any backups if they cant get in etc.

Organising pins is a different issue, I have "want to go" then change to "favourite" when done, I DONT remove em because I will end up finding them on google & pinning them again forgetting Iv been!
I try to add labels & notes so I know what the pin is for example I may put "hospital watch for security", my mate dosent label anything & its a bit of a nightmare, we are often going places that he wont have a clue what it is till we get there.
I also use the orange star for anything that is demolished etc

I love the way you organise yours! I might nab the idea of keeping explored ones. I have mine organised as UNKNOWN (RESIDENTIAL/INDUSTRIAL,MILITARY etc.), or if I know the name it'll be ---- (RESIDENTIAL). Any I find that look suspiciously abandoned but not sure if it actually is are tagged with ----- (UNCONFIRMED). I don't really visit those incase I end up entering some poor old persons house while they're out. Do you have any good pin storing site recommendations? I use google earth, it has a little description box when you put a pin down and if there's anything interesting about it i pop it in haha.

 

[Mikeymutt]

I just pin what interests me really. It seems sometimes it can be a competition on how many pins people can get, no matter what it is. Funnily enough I did a pic off my collection of pins the other night

 

[Bikin Glynn]

I love the way you organise yours! I might nab the idea of keeping explored ones. I have mine organised as UNKNOWN (RESIDENTIAL/INDUSTRIAL,MILITARY etc.), or if I know the name it'll be ---- (RESIDENTIAL). Any I find that look suspiciously abandoned but not sure if it actually is are tagged with ----- (UNCONFIRMED). I don't really visit those incase I end up entering some poor old persons house while they're out. Do you have any good pin storing site recommendations? I use google earth, it has a little description box when you put a pin down and if there's anything interesting about it i pop it in haha.

I think the only way of pinning is on google though I have memory map OS mapping software which I can pin on to.
You can loose them all if google crashes which is worrying, what I do on comp is copy all the list of pins & paste them in a word doc. worst case then if u loose everything u can copy & paste the coords back into google. Fortunately thi only happened to me once years back before I really had many

 

[mookster]

I used to have a really complex system for the map I've collated over the last decade or so. But now it's a simple two colour system of places I've been and places I haven't been.

 

[mookster]

I think the only way of pinning is on google though I have memory map OS mapping software which I can pin on to.
You can loose them all if google crashes which is worrying, what I do on comp is copy all the list of pins & paste them in a word doc. worst case then if u loose everything u can copy & paste the coords back into google. Fortunately thi only happened to me once years back before I really had many

Google maps you create are stored and backed up on Google Drive now to stop that happening, you can also import them into Google Earth too.

 

[Bikin Glynn]

Google maps you create are stored and backed up on Google Drive now to stop that happening, you can also import them into Google Earth too.

Can u import into earth I never knew that.

 

[mookster]

Can u import into earth I never knew that.

Apparently, although I've never tried it myself - I believe there is an option to download the map as a kmz (or is it kml?) file which can be opened and saved in Google Earth

 

[Shaun]

Nice pfp