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Show HN: Pinball Map - user-updated map of public pinball machines
Author : ryantgtg
Score : 48 points
Date : 2020-01-17 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (pinballmap.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (pinballmap.com)
| werber wrote:
| Love the concept, when I put in Detroit and clicked on the red
| indicator it listed one machine here and then the next entry was
| 2 hours away, maybe the threshold what what is considered close
| enough to the search location is too lenient?
| ianai wrote:
| I think the data is just sparse for either reality reasons or
| lack of users, but sadly probably lack of machines.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| 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 "redo search results when map moves" button.
| It defaults if disabled, so you gotta check it on. We're
| going to make it enabled by default, since I think that's
| what users expect.
|
| Also, the mobile app provides a better search/browse
| experience.
| ianai wrote:
| Mine was New Mexico ;)
| ryantgtg wrote:
| NM is indeed pretty sparse. We list 20 places with
| pinball. 11 are in Albuquerque.
| ianai wrote:
| Is there anyone else like the pinball hall of fame in Las Vegas
| NV?
| oceanghost wrote:
| Museum of Pinball in Beaumont CA comes to mind, it only opens 3
| times a year, however.
|
| The Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda is open daily as far as I
| know.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| 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 the map
| and what's actually there. Some of these locations are
| actively kept up to date by the owners/operators. That's the
| way to go, because they know what's coming in and out.
|
| Also, the Krakow Pinball Museum was just submitted today.
| Haven't added it yet, but it has a lot of machines.
| toast0 wrote:
| > The Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda is open daily as far
| as I know.
|
| It is sometimes closed for private parties (highly
| recommended), so you should double check the website before
| you go.
| fideaux64 wrote:
| The Silverball Museum in Asbury Park NJ has 111 machines, many
| of which are old.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| 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 currently listing 7,291
| locations and 24,918 machines. Code is on github[1][2], and we
| have an API that is used by various folks.
|
| Web Stack = ruby on rails, heroku, tile server on aws. App =
| React Native (launched the redeveloped app last June).
|
| We took a relatively slow-growth approach for the first 9 years:
| we added "regions" one at a time for places where people
| demonstrated a strong desire to update the data, and a volunteeer
| administrator could oversee it (in fact, we originally intended
| for this to just be a map of pinball machines in Portland,
| Oregon, but people kept asking us to expand to their areas). This
| gave us a pretty strong userbase and a reputation for having
| clean, up-to-date data. Each regional map was a distinct, silo'd
| map. Lately we've de-emphasized this model in favor of a single
| map that covers the whole world.
|
| For the first 7 years, all map updates were made anonymously. But
| after two instances of abuse, we implemented a user system. We
| now have about 9,000 registered users. The map gets around
| 3,000-5,000 edits per month, including 100-200 new locations.
|
| Search experience on the web could use some updating. The app is
| where it's at right now. We spent the past 14 months on its
| design/development, and we think it came out well. Throughout the
| 10 years, the majority of our users use the app rather than the
| website (but we don't have great analytics).
|
| We have no ads, no analytics aside from the free new relic stuff
| that comes with heroku, and no business model.
|
| [1] https://github.com/scottwainstock/pbm/ [2]
| https://github.com/bpoore/pbm-react
| kjhughes wrote:
| Love it! Feature idea: Add links from the machines to the
| Internet Pinball Machine Database: https://www.ipdb.org/search.pl
|
| Here's Eight Ball Deluxe's entry, for example:
| https://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=eight+ball+delux&search=S...
| ryantgtg wrote:
| 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!
| kjhughes wrote:
| Oh, I see them now. When I couldn't click the machine names
| in either the pop-up box on the map or the top-level of the
| location panel, I gave up too soon. I needed to click on the
| location to expand the details first, gotcha. I see there are
| also links to Pintips there (example:
| https://pintips.net/games/41). Cool!
|
| Thanks for building and making this available.
| sunnytimes wrote:
| so cool .. i can verify all the ones in my city , i was in one of
| the places last night and my buddy owns one of the other ones.
|
| city of 75,000+ and we have 3 public pinball machines.
| ryantgtg wrote:
| I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, and it was the same deal.
| 52-6F-62 wrote:
| This is awesome!
|
| It already has a bunch of my Toronto favourites and others I'd
| never heard of!
|
| How long has this been running?
| ryantgtg wrote:
| Around 11 years. Sorry, HN suggested I "repost" this Show HN. I
| should also repost the description I wrote!
| [deleted]
| KingFelix wrote:
| Awesome!
|
| I have used this before, pretty great stuff!
| keyle wrote:
| Great to see some pinheads around HN.
|
| If you want to watch some pinball, remember
| https://pinballvideos.com
| colatkinson wrote:
| Your app has literally just given me plans for the evening.
| Awesome stuff!
| elldoubleyew wrote:
| This is awesome! Reminds me a lot of the Zenus -I- vanisher [0]
| arcade cabinet locator. Similar to this but its more focused on
| Japanese import games.
|
| The site looks quite dated now and doesn't have any geo location
| support. It would be awesome if somebody could give this a
| refresh in the same vein as your project.
|
| [0] https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcades.php
| JohnFen wrote:
| Very nice!
|
| I thought that I knew of all of the public pinball machines in my
| area. Not only are all of the ones I know of (around 200 of them)
| listed, but there are several more that I didn't know about.
| Excellent work!
| ryantgtg wrote:
| 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 be done to fulfill this requirement.
| vertex-four wrote:
| Uhh, I just loaded the map and couldn't find this credit?
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