The Interactive Lost Place Map
lostfoundations.orgVery odd. Besides the Turbotax-esque over length loading process, every point I could find (in the Southwestern US) was a seemingly random location with no other details. Some of them just, like, the side of a road. I think the whole database was generated by LLM and it's just useless junk.
I've checked a few locations I know, and it looks like this project imported points from various sources, (locations check out) but they completely left out the metadata.
This project looks useless. No curation (left as an exercise for the viewer I guess), crappy navigation (the OpenStreetMap tile server is not being called correctly leading to blocked tiles), and just… an aggregate of everything they could get their hands on.
Also they don't show the necessary OpenStreetMap attribution anywhere...
Every item that had 2 or 4 items in the group seemingly was actually only 1 item. And would jump around the map when you zoomed in. Some were just... In the middle of the city? Not particularly identifying any structure, at least around me.
Seems like a worse version of urbexology.com
What are the equivalents to "you're absolutely right" or "it's not X. It's Y." for vibe-coded apps? I think: verbose design with lots of subtitles; lots of boasting; and a particular visual style.
No way to get any information about any of the sites that I searched in the US. They have odd names and you can click to Google maps to find a description if there is one or pop to streetview but basically, unless you know something about the building or local point of interest you won't find it in this app.
There’s only 1 POI in the USA???
I think it's just slow or flaky. I eventually got points but seem to be all imports from urbex without description. Feels like a vibe coded thing tbh. Would like something like this though.
It's an attractive site, but it seems to be all the points of interest are in Europe.