Hello!

Getting closer to the end of the Google verification program, and after that it'll be time to update the base code that runs PinMap.

I'm introducing duplicate location checking and handling, and the Google Business/Place ID obtained from the previous step lets us know when a place has shut down for good.

I'm also bringing a location sonar function that pings from where you are and reports back with locations within at least a five-mile radius. The radius can be expanded, and on the initial ping will expand upon finding zero locations until at least one location is found. These will display as green dots (open), yellow dots (unknown operating hours), or red dots (known to be closed for the night), but all these places will be known to currently exist. Lots of lovely trigonometry involved.

Any other ideas as to what I can code up for the Map?

Steve

G'day!

OK, the first part is totally do-able. When you register, you can put yourself at a specific latitude and longitude, eh?

Part 2: Checkboxes for the criteria, then?

Part 3: I think recording an individual game's history is a GREAT idea! Where it resided and when. We could really find out where some of the true oldies have been. I know the Addams Family at Shorty's has been there since the late 1990s, for example. I know Lloyd Olson at SS Billiards could top that one easily, and so on.

Notes taken! Thanks very kindly!
Steve

That would be just as easy to accomplish as the sonar itself. Maybe as a sonar refinement?

Hello!

Pinballmap.com is probably the best of the pinball locators out there next to ours, but aside from the data we don't have much in common. I already have written the code that converts PinballMap data to Pinside's SQL format, so we're already ahead there!