Pinball Map

Scott Wainstock

About this app

Find public places to play pinball! Founded in 2008, Pinball Map is an open source, crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines. It lists over 37,000 pinball machines at over 9,000 locations.

This application is a mobile version of the website https://pinballmap.com.

Features:
- Filter locations by machine, location type, operator, or number of machines
- Save you favorite locations
- See recent nearby map activity
- Add and remove machines to keep the map up to date
- Comment on a machine's condition
- Add your high score for a machine
- View upcoming events
- Submit new locations

Ratings and reviews

I think it's pretty nice how it maps out the machines. The UI looks great. I do wish that there were an explicit field for cost per credit or somewhere to describe costs for each location because some places do free play or hourly rates or daily specials. I notice that this is sometimes added to the location description but it's very hit or miss and I think it would increase the data quality to have a new field added.

Worked for a few months but was unable to log in as email confirmation was never sent. After that it would load and work until information or coordinates were entered, then it would stop, reload and so on. Last time it just crashed and went blank. I hope the update addresses these things. I find it to be a very useful application and wish to participate.

Works as you'd expect; only minor nitpick is that, at high zoom levels, in areas with many locations, it can be difficult to select a particular location because the map pins/markers overlap (that's more of an issue with Google maps though)

What's new

- Fixed the "zoom in" message being above the map callout bottom sheet.
- Added the "Directions" button to the lil mini map on the location details screen.
- Replaced the "tools" and "more" icons with a hamburger menu icon, and revised the "activity" icon.