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by ryantgtg 7y ago
I am aware. I live in LA, so it’s pretty close to me, too. But yeah, it doesn’t quite seem to count as public since it’s just a special events venue, open only a couple days a year. I could be swayed otherwise, though, given that we’re not
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Ha, no they named the song after us! Just kidding. I have a google alert for the phrase, and have to -“in flames” or else I’ll get flooded with In Flames stories.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Ok, this is resolved now :)
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Yes, we’re working on a location history that shows which machines have been added/removed from a place. https://github.com/scottwainstock/pbm/issues/1223 A few people have requested this recently. Thank
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
We hope to do some clustering like that in the future. We're also going to turn on that "redo" checkbox by default (except still disable when zoomed out too far). > Members only but anyone can become member. We only list p
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Oh yes, it says "Wedgehead" right now. That's the name of a real location. Sometimes we cycle out that placeholder to say a different name of a cool new venue. FYI: Wedgehead is a venue in Portland, Oregon. The business'
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
We tried to solve this by putting some placeholder text in each field: Machine (Iron Maiden) Near (Manhattan) Location (John's Bar) So, "Near" is the geography and "Location" takes a business name. We'll tweak
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
This might be a weakness in how we’re using the geocoder. If you search Berlin in the Near field on https://pinballmap.com/map you get results. You can also zoom in and check on the “redo results when map is moved button”.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
The brief history of the site is that for the first 8 years or so it contained many separate maps, each for a distinct region. These regions were comprised of places where people had contacted us and said they wanted a map, and that they wo
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
It doesn't and isn't. All the location and machine data is generated by users on this site. We use OSM vector tiles for the map.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
In Asia, most of our listings are in Japan. That's because we have a dedicated administrator there who is eager to document all the machines. Outside of Japan, there are only a couple locations.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
We like to try and think of other maps that we could adapt the code for. I don't think we would have ever come up with publicly-accessible pianos!
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Good point. We’ll figure that out.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Yeah, that first list is just kind of a quick overview of the location, and then you get more detail when you click into it (as you found). We worked with Andreas, the Pintips developer, on developing the Open Pinball Database ( https:&#x2F
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Thank you! Some areas are definitely more up to date than others. But overall, we've tried hard to build a strong userbase, and we're happy that people are so into updating it.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
That's not what I was referring to. I was looking on mobile (browser) when I responded, and there's a little "(i)" in the lower right that you click on and it says "OpenStreetMap Contributors". But I'm not
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
NM is indeed pretty sparse. We list 20 places with pinball. 11 are in Albuquerque.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Top 20 sorted by number of machines. https://gist.github.com/RyanTG/11b4f4442c6efc4cc58ca8eaaa8c5... Big places like this can be extra-tough to keep up to date, because it's takes more work to crosscheck between t
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, and it was the same deal.
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Try https://pinballmap.com/detroit I’m not sure why so few locations were found in your initial search. I see 13 places of I search here https://pinballmap.com/map?utf8=&address=Detroit There’s also a “
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
HN suggested I repost this, since last time it didn’t get much attention (cool feature!). Here is the description I wrote last time: Hi, Pinball Map is a hobby project we've been doing in our spare time for the past 10 years. It's
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Someone just anonymously noted that we need to credit OSM contributors (so I can’t respond to them, but will respond here). We do credit OSM contributors. When you load the map, the standard credit is present. Let me know if more needs to b
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Around 11 years. Sorry, HN suggested I “repost” this Show HN. I should also repost the description I wrote!
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
We’ve had that feature for like 9 years! Click on any machine name in the location details. I suppose we could make it more obvious!
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Yes, seems like it. An engineer acquaintance who builds subway tunnels says that they put in emergency exits every X feet, so that emergency-exiting people never have to walk more than a certain distance before they have a chance to make it
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Show HN: Pinball Map – user-updated map of public pinball machines(pinballmap.com)
203 points by ryantgtg 7y ago|85 comments
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Most of the costs are also emergency systems, such as ventilation and frequent exits. From what I've seen (I'm not an engineer or a tunnel expert), his tunnels do not account for these things. The standards, which cost a lot to me
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
I shared a project on Show HN (at a bad time of day: 3:30pm PST on a weekday), and all I got out of it was a barrage of accounts created by spambots using breached Yahoo and Hotmail email addresses! They didn't stop for weeks, until we
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
Well, the main, searchable map is one click away ("Explore the Map"). But yeah, that map on the landing page that only shows where the regions are, we could simply hide that on mobile. We are really de-emphasizing the regions in e
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by ryantgtg 7y ago
This is one I made https://pinballmap.com/ I like it, but I think it would be nicer without the big list of "regional maps" at the bottom. I'm not really sure how best to include that list (users have told us

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