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For years now, we have been getting regular requests for two additional location fields: parents/caregivers want see whether a place is “all ages”; and people want to see what type of payment the place accepts. Side note: See below (fine if you skip to it) for how we could use your help! Adding new fields to locations is something that we never do (unless there is a way to programatically populate…
We have always been happy to provide an open, friction-free public API for any developers that want to use it. This has encouraged a diverse group of people to make interesting uses of the data: Students simply wanting to learn how to use an API; analytics-minded folks who like to explore the data in interesting ways; businesses that want to easily list their line-up on their website; folks like…
Have you ever dreamed of keeping track of every single machine you’ve ever played, so that if someone asks, “Hey, have you played Joker Poker?” you can answer them within 30 seconds? Then we’ll be pleased to tell you that we just added a table to the database and various buttons on the app and website, which altogether will fulfil your dream. Here’s how it works: Any time you add a score to a…
Hot off the high heels of our big v.5.4.0 app release we have another hefty one with some great new features. We are pushing hard to close out as many github issues as we can, and we are pretty close to being done. View, upload, and delete location photos. This closes out a github issue from 2018!! We had the API endpoints ready to go for many years. But that was only half the battle. Now the…
As of this writing, over 450 operators are listed on Pinball Map. 300 of the operators receive daily digest emails containing activity information on their machines. We’ve been doing this for 18 years, and we carefully consider how best to serve operators while at the same time making sure the site is useful for all users. While our current setup is appreciated by most operators, it was recently…
This is old news going way back to 2025. But we didn’t announce it, and better late than never. We made a Stats page that contains a whole bunch of interesting data. Such as: Top 25 machines (currently at locations) 25 biggest locations Top 10 cities by number of locations Top 10 cities by number of machines Top 25 users (# of edits) Annual map edits from 2018 to today Pinball machines made in…
A year ago we wrote a really good blog post called Zoomy Map . Since then we have apparently had nothing to blog about. We meant to do a 2025 wrap-up post… but here we are. Zoomy Map laid the foundation for this latest app update. It was basically a proof of concept for the logic required to make a map that can load 12,000+ map markers in a second, with no performance issues. As noted in that…
Two years ago we posted about how there are RSS feeds for individual machines , which lists a particular machine geting added to places. Those are cool, but were they enough? They weren’t. So we enhanced them. And now they can do more. Support arrays of machines (e.g., multiple machine IDs) Support a location ID Support latitude and longitude in order to show nearby machines being added. Here’s an…
Today we deployed a website update that achieved something we’ve wanted for a long time: no zoom limits ! For so long, we had it so you could only zoom the map out so far - this was due to performance issues related to loading thousands of locations on the map (and in the results section). We spent the last month tackling this issue. It might not necessarily be done, and it’s certainly not…
What is happening. The best way to reflect on the past year is to copy paste statistics with very little commentary. 2024 marked the 16th year of mapping pinball on Pinball Map. We resurrected the podcast (from the grave). https://pod.pinballmap.com Scott and Ryan were guests on a podcast. See Wedgehead podcast episode #63 We started using Bluesky . And we still post to Mastodon . And we stopped…