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April 16, 2006
coast2Coaster 1.1
I finally got some time to work on coast2Coaster this weekend, and am pleased to report that it's been upgraded to version 1.1. The site is live now.
What's New?
This was more of a "hygiene and scope" release instead of a "big, kick-ass new features" release, but that's because most of the feedback I've received from the community has been of the "Hey! My local park isn't in your database!" variety. Version 1.1 sports the following:
- More parks. I'm thrilled to announce that some of the 'missing' parks from V1 have been located and are now in the system. Of the 21 parks that weren't in V1 (and, yes, that included Mt. Olympus in Wisconsin), we're missing just 4 in this release (more on that, below). We've grown from 234 parks to 269, and we're now tracking 744 coasters (up from 643).
- More accuracy. V1 had some inaccuracies with respect to park locations - some parks weren't where they were supposed to be. It turns out that the good folks over at RCDB actually have very, very accurate geocodes for most of the parks in their system, so I rewrote my spider to fetch that information. I think everything is where it should be, now.
- Canada. I was deluged with requests from Canadian coaster maniacs to please, please please go beyond the US and add in parks across the border. In addition to the 44 US states with coasters, we've now got coasters in 7 Canadian provinces.
Missing Parks
We're still missing four parks - all of which are in Canada. The culprits are:
- Burlington Amusement Park (Kensington, Prince Edward Island)
- Sandspit Cavendish Beach (Hunter River, Prince Edward Island)
- Tinkertown Family Fun Park (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
- Upper Clements Theme Park (Upper Clements, Nova Scotia)
I am hard at work on the next iteration of coast2Coaster, and would love feedback: ideas, suggestions, and ways to make the site better.
In the meantime: happy coastering!
Posted by Gavin Shearer at April 16, 2006 12:32 PM. Posted to Geek.
You rock Gavin! Thanks for putting Canadian coasters on the map :)
Posted by: Elaine at April 17, 2006 8:00 AM
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