Pinballmachine.org will now take you to San Francisco via Portland.

The Bay Area Pinball map I created had a great run. We had over 120 locations, 400 machines and the map reached nearly 55,000 hits since its inception in March. It was a real eye-opener. I had no idea there were so many places to play.

The data has now been added to the Portland Pinball Map site, which has an awesome interface, allows anyone to update locations, a Droid app (pinball map on the go), and more easily supports pictures and entering of high scores.

The address is still the same: http://pinballmachine.org - OR - you can get there by going to the main Portland page: http://pinballmap.com and click on the "Other Regions" link.

Big thanks to Ryan Gratzer (ROM) and the rest of the Portland Map team for the work to make the conversion.

Big thanks to all the contributors who made the original map a success. There were 18 "official" map editors keeping locations updated but I received updates from at least twice that number. Thanks everyone!

phishrace
Jank
Evad
MuralDan
neil shatz
itsmark
radius11
Smiley
joseph2005
pfef
Mike
matt
Nina G
Krellan
mkhollenbeck
joshpfeffer
tjbeyer

When I created the map, I honestly thought there were maybe 20 or 30 places to play and I was pleasantly surprised to find out I was wrong - there's probably around 150 or more. So, even if you live in an area where it seems like there aren't many pins, I would say go ahead and make a map. You might be surprised.

I made a short tutorial series on how to create a map. It takes around 5 minutes to become an expert.

Here's the first video: