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I use this, and it's amazing. I like to collect things from places I've been. When I bought my motorcycle they gave my kids some poker chips with the dealershi
by shaftway 4y ago
I use this, and it's amazing.
I like to collect things from places I've been. When I bought my motorcycle they gave my kids some poker chips with the dealership's name on them. I found out that it's very common for Harley dealers to have these poker chips with their name, maybe a logo, and maybe some contact info on them. They're typically sold at the merchandise / cosplay desk.
A couple months later I was in Sydney, had a bit of local currency to get rid of and happened across a dealership there and picked up a couple. It was on. It's been about 7 years and I've collected a little over 400 different dealers. There are about 1400 open dealerships in the world, with about half in America, about 400 have closed since I started tracking that. Obviously I needed a way to track what I had to ensure I didn't get duplicates and identify places I haven't been to.
I track all of it in a Google sheet. I scraped the info for all of the dealers off of the Harley website, which thankfully comes with latitude and longitude. Supplement that with information about what I've collected, and information from the last scrape for dealerships that have closed. From there it takes about a minute to import this into Google maps and use styling to make it pretty.
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- AlbertCory 4y agoSuper. You don't really need lat-lng, as the article says. But it's certainly helpful if you have it.
- shaftway 4y agoIt's particularly useful for the historical places. And the ones in countries with a less... uh... developed address system. There's a dealership that's closed listed as "Service Point - Costa Rica" where the address is "RUTA 32, KILOMETRO 14" in "San Isidro". Maps does not do very well with that information, and just searching for the address lists a place 50 km away.