# #05: Tile After Tile

**Source:** Mappin' Around with Scott and Ryan  
**Type:** podcast_episode  
**Published:** 2019-03-15  
**Duration:** 42m 48s  
**Beat:** Pinball

**URL:** https://pod.pinballmap.com/2019/03/14/05-tile-after-tile/

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## Analysis

Scott and Ryan discuss Pinball Map's 2019 achievements, including a complete app rewrite, region-less mapping, API integration with Stern Pinball's locator, custom map tile server infrastructure, and new features like saved locations. They share 2019 statistics (13,479 machines added, 9,103 removed, 6,157 registered users) and preview upcoming improvements. The episode includes personal reflections, fun data analysis, and creative brainstorming about a hypothetical 'pinball technician' themed pinball machine.

### Key Claims

- [HIGH] Pinball Map had 13,479 machines added and 9,103 machines removed from locations in 2019, for a net increase of 4,376 machines. — _Scott, citing statistics from Pinball Map's database_
- [HIGH] Pinball Map registered 6,157 users at the end of 2019. — _Scott, referencing Pinball Map's user data_
- [HIGH] Stern Pinball integrated Pinball Map's API and data into their new website's pinball locator to display Stern Army locations. — _Scott, discussing 2019 business developments_
- [HIGH] Pinball Map completed a migration to self-hosted map tile infrastructure using OpenStreetMap and Docker, removing dependency on third-party mapping services. — _Scott and Ryan, discussing new map tile server setup_
- [HIGH] The new Pinball Map app rewrite is approximately 80% complete and will be 100% region-list based, unlike the current regional-only app. — _Scott, providing app development status_
- [HIGH] Machine comments in Pinball Map data mention 'right flipper' 281 times and 'left flipper' 241 times. — _Scott, sharing fun statistics from 2019 data_
- [MEDIUM] Patreon funding covers the costs of Pinball Map's server hosting and custom map tile infrastructure. — _Scott, discussing how Patreon finances the map tile server_
- [HIGH] Pinball Map received 5,578 location confirmations and 1,950 location submissions in 2019. — _Scott, citing 2019 statistics_

### Notable Quotes

> "Sassy was a great cat and we had a picture of Sassy on the front of Pinball Map when we very first started it. She was crawling into my Paragon machine."
> — **Ryan**, early in episode
> _Personal anecdote about Pinball Map's origins and community connection_

> "Thanks for all that R&D. Thanks for the free ideas, tech bros."
> — **Scott**, app design discussion
> _Lighthearted acknowledgment of design inspiration from major tech platforms_

> "We're off the grid. We've created our own grid for maps."
> — **Ryan**, map tile server discussion
> _Humorous wordplay about self-hosted infrastructure independence_

> "I felt like I was discovering Iceland or something like that. Like really doing something."
> — **Scott**, fantasy game segment
> _Self-reflective comment on the apparent novelty of his machine design idea_

> "Hey Gary Stern, I know you're listening. I know you're listening to this podcast, Gary."
> — **Scott**, fantasy game conclusion
> _Tongue-in-cheek pitch of the technician-themed machine concept to Stern Pinball_

### Entities

| Name | Type | Context |
|------|------|---------|
| Pinball Map | product | Community-maintained online database and mapping tool for locating pinball machines at venues |
| Scott | person | Co-founder of Pinball Map, software development manager in Portland, Oregon |
| Ryan | person | Co-founder of Pinball Map, co-host of Mappin' Around podcast |
| Beth | person | Lead developer on Pinball Map app rewrite; testing on iOS emulator and Android |
| Stern Pinball | company | Major pinball manufacturer; integrated Pinball Map API into their pinball locator website |
| Stern Army | organization | Stern Pinball's network of locations that run promotional events and participate in launch events |
| OpenStreetMap | product | Open mapping data source used as foundation for Pinball Map's custom tile server |
| OpenMapTiles | product | Open-source map tiles service used in Pinball Map's new self-hosted map infrastructure |
| Docker | product | Containerization technology used for deploying Pinball Map's map tile server |
| Renee | person | Ryan's wife; mentioned as wearing Pinball Map merchandise |
| Gary Stern | person | Executive at Stern Pinball; referenced humorously as a listener of the podcast |
| Keith | person | Stern Pinball employee; former operator; mentioned as potential designer for the technician-themed machine concept |
| World Cup Soccer | game | Pinball machine formerly owned by Ryan; theme-based machine he didn't enjoy |
| Paragon | game | Pinball machine owned by Scott; featured in memorable story with Sassy the cat |
| Hawkman | game | Referenced as an example machine in the hypothetical technician-themed pinball game concept |

### Topics

- **Primary:** Pinball Map app rewrite and technical infrastructure, 2019 Statistics and community growth metrics, Stern Pinball API integration and Stern Army partnership, Self-hosted map tile server and infrastructure independence
- **Secondary:** Fantasy pinball machine design concept (technician theme), User engagement and location submission best practices, Pinball Map community and personal reflections

### Sentiment

**Positive** (0.82) — Scott and Ryan are upbeat and proud of Pinball Map's progress and achievements in 2019. Tone is conversational and often humorous, with genuine excitement about the upcoming app rewrite and new infrastructure. Personal anecdotes add warmth. Brief moments of self-deprecation about their fantasy game concept don't diminish overall optimism.

### Signals

- **[product_launch]** Pinball Map app complete rewrite is ~80% finished, with beta testing planned for Patreon members and admins. New app will be 100% region-list based. (confidence: high) — Scott states 'I'd say 80% maybe?' on completion and discusses beta testing for Patreon members; Ryan notes the architecture shift to region-lists
- **[technology_signal]** Pinball Map deployed self-hosted map tile server using OpenStreetMap and Docker, eliminating third-party mapping dependency. (confidence: high) — Scott and Ryan discuss setup using OpenMapTiles, Docker containers, and OpenStreetMap data; states 'We are off the grid. We've created our own grid for maps.'
- **[partnership_signal]** Stern Pinball integrated Pinball Map API and data into their new website's pinball locator to display Stern Army locations. (confidence: high) — Scott: 'Stern Pinball launched their new website and they have a pinball locator on it that uses our API and our data.'
- **[community_signal]** Pinball Map experienced significant 2019 growth: 13,479 machines added, 9,103 removed, 6,157 registered users, 5,578 location confirmations, 1,950 submissions, 9,690 machine comments. (confidence: high) — Scott provides comprehensive statistics: 'we had thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy nine machines added' and '6157 users, like registered users'
- **[business_signal]** Patreon support now covers costs of map tile server hosting and infrastructure, enabling self-sufficiency. (confidence: high) — Scott: 'The Patreon money is super super helpful but wouldn't cover that. So what we can cover now is the cost of our server hosting of our own map tile server'
- **[design_innovation]** Scott proposes hypothetical pinball machine themed around technician/operator role, integrating Pinball Map comments as gameplay elements and featuring modes based on common machine problems. (confidence: medium) — Scott presents 'Scott's Fantasy Game' concept where players are a pinball tech fixing broken machines, with Pinball Map integration and modes for flipper problems, pop bumpers, etc.
- **[venue_signal]** Pinball Map received location submissions from Brazil, including three machines (Fathom, Vortex, and one other) never previously documented on the platform. (confidence: medium) — Scott notes 'somebody submitted two locations in Brazil last Friday' and discovered three machines 'that we had never had on the map at all'
- **[product_feature]** Pinball Map added saved locations feature allowing logged-in users to bookmark favorite venues with heart icon; saves display on personalized map view. (confidence: high) — Scott: 'we added a saved locations feature where if you look up a location there'll be a little heart icon next to its name' and creates 'a map just showing the locations that you've saved'

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## Transcript

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She was crawling into my Paragon machine. The glass was off and she was walking on it while we were trying to repair it. That was kind of a tell her like that, you know, she was always right there while we were first working on this site and a great companion. Sorry to see her go. One more Sassy story and then we'll get to 2018. I am a former owner of World Cup Soccer. Not a huge fan of the machine, mostly because of the theme. I don't care for soccer. So it's a weird machine for me to own. But I had a picture of Sassy taped under the glass on where the rules cards would be. The end of two long-term relationships I've had. Sassy and World Cup Soccer. Closed Caption by Josh Yeah, at least you sold it, World Cup soccer, to a friend and you could still hop over there and play it sometimes. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah. Take me back to a better time, to a better year. Last year, 2018. Everything was going great. So here's what we did. We started a podcast which you're listening to. That was cool. We made a region-less map. That was a pretty big deal. The All the regional Maps combined together into one super map we Launched a patreon which is holding steady and really helping us with our costs. Yeah That was a great idea um Is that your idea? I? Think so. I think I I think I had that idea like years ago, and then we never did it But we're not I'm not looking for credit. Okay, okay The end. But you can't take the credit so we gotta share that. We made new shirts including a new design like Portland Pinball Map shirt which I was wearing the sweatshirt of that today at the Los Angeles Zoo. Nice. You know I'm still waiting to run into somebody in public that I don't know wearing one of the shirts. It's a really petty thing, it's a really petty part of my brain that's active every time The That hasn't happened yet. Renee wore one Yesterday, and I saw her and I was a little surprised to see and I was like, oh, yeah, cool cool that almost counts I don't think that really counts my wife Renee I saw someone once wearing one really someone you didn't know. Yeah someone. What do you do there? Do you do you say hey nice shirt? No, I don't think I said anything Rudolph M계 What other cool things happened in 2018? Stern Pinball launched their new website and they have a pinball locator on it that uses our API and our data. Stern has a thing called the Stern Army. The Stern Army are locations that run promo events for them, I guess, like the launch events and they get a lot of swag, I'm guessing. I think that's all they really know. We created a tag on our site where we can tag locations as Stern army locations. On their locator, the locator basically when you load it, it shows all the stern army locations. Then you could do additional searches, which we're actually in the process of updating a bit to make the search even cooler than it is right now. But that's still cool, like they're using our data for The school and weird and existential to some degree to be working with people who are getting paid to interact with our API Real business professionals, you know, I don't know. Yeah, I find that I haven't found a place for that yet It's a pie. It's a positive thing. I just don't know how to file it away I don't know. I guess I'm thinking of them typing and who typing like this the staff members Yeah, kinda. Like the person who's on the other end poking around at the API and punching a timecard and logging time against working with the pinball map and then you and I are on the other end of the email like, hey sir or ma'am, can we add a feature for you? You may. The last thing on my list is that we've started a total app rewrite which is still ongoing Financially that is a huge deal. I guess we could give a status update for that right now. It really did slow down a little bit during the holiday as things tend to. But, since then we have been zooming along still Beth is doing a really, really great job I love the app. I open it and I'm happy to be in it everytime. I like how it looks, I like how it functions. I think it's going to be just a massive improvement. You know, it just basically builds off of what we've learned over the years with the current apps. One thing I actually was thinking about the other day that I like about things like projects that take this long is that it gives you a lot of time to take your time and make it really good. I've like refined the style on the pages, you know, a dozen times already. And that's good, because it The And I wouldn't be able to do that if we had like a deadline of like one month from now I just have to like work as quickly as possible. Well in the thing I've and I'm more of an outsider here I help out with the API as we need it. But the thing I've heard come up between you and Beth a couple times is Borrowing Things that work well in other apps, you know best practices at this point Which maybe weren't as defined when the original apps were created So they'll feel a little more familiar for people who use their phones all day using other, you know, million dollar apps. Yeah, yeah, I definitely rely on looking at these professionally made other apps and websites and seeing how they design things, like just cherry picking ideas off of all those and I'd be a little lost without those. And I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of to use ideas from other people. No, thanks for the ideas, Silicon Valley idiots. Thanks for all that R&D. Thanks for the free ideas, tech bros. Yeah. I went too far, I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't know, you seem to have. So yeah, that's the year in review. Well I guess we could I could also throw in stats from last year too because I have all those And you know you can really compare them to the year before you could but i don have the year before is in front of me so you can but let see your stats this i gonna just churn through these we had thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy nine machines added to locations and nine thousand one hundred and three machines removed so it a net increase of four thousand three Sim decks though fabric, Atomicginesourtland, your average good pinball place has what, four machines? And the truly great ones have, you know, ten, twelve. So just to think across the whole country that there's this many places with pinball, just seems, uh, I don't know. It's more than I expected. Yeah, and those are just machine edits too. That's like people just adding or removing them from locations. I mean, including money Kwang Yet map edits wise we had over 13,000 machines added last year and 9,000 removed. That seems like a ton of edits considering how many are out there. Mhm. And we had 5,578 location confirmations. Oh nice. Thanks. Thanks for those. Machine comments we had 9,690 machine comments. GI is out. G.I. is fixed. Uh, 1950 location submissions, 855 scores added, and I think at the end of the year we're at 6157 users, like registered users. I have a feeling when that new app comes out, all of this is gonna blow up. The region list stuff, right? Like the new app is Pretty much 100% region lists, right? Yeah, the new apps hundred percent region lists then the current apps are 100% regional So there's no region list stuff on the current apps right now. Yeah, so yeah, it's totally gonna change the game I have to give people explanations these days when you know, somebody submitted two locations in Brazil last Friday and I do not have a Brazilian region at this moment. What did they say back? They did not say anything back. I send a lot of responses to people and do not receive responses back. That is kind of the name of the game. I think people submit stuff and they say so long after that. But there was actually a pretty cool thing that came out of the game. while 494背Book back ит Iso über Jagiell rac conclusions sore corners just likeовые k cognac baby in a zillge genative BE helbo Pompely a Augmanildop x pha and x first Mike a early eighties like eighty two eighty three time hand holketas barriers and same way out as fathom gives you see inhiemand care of it Run Platform and then vortex was a re-theme of blackout okay yeah so i i don't know if tight all of tito's games are re-themes or not i don't think they are but still it was cool those were three machines that we had never had on the map at all and it's cool that they're like you know in brazil and still working yeah yeah i like that So that's the year. Now we're moving on to this year. Hope we can have another good year like last year. Yeah, I have a feeling pinball map-wise this is gonna be a good one. The other thing, I don't think we... did we talk about this last time we met? Our own personal map server? Tile server? Up and running? So we're on Maptech now, and what were you saying Scott? Oh, I was just saying that we have our own Maptile server. We are off the grid. We've created our own grid for maps. Yeah, I know literally it is a grid of maps. So do you want to give any details about it? Sure. So we're using open map tiles and the good folks there or some mega fan of theirs created a docker container that would docker being imagine it's like a spell book for how to how to take a system of many programs and dump them onto a computer such that the computer knows exactly what programs and versions box on one120produ�לive, read rise on Twitterärke where it is right now. 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Yeah, and you can do cool stuff like you can create your own themes, which right now we're using a default theme, but I did create a theme with colors that kind of match our site colors, which will add that themed base map to it, which sort of... The The Patreon money is super super helpful but wouldn't cover that. So what we can cover now is the cost of our server hosting of our own map tile server and then we got the software for free. So yeah that was almost the end of the pinball map. Yeah and it feels cool to be self-sufficient there too like to know these tiles are loading just for us. 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So on the website at least, if you've saved one place, there'll be a link that says saved map or something, saved map, yeah, and you click that and it loads a map just showing the locations that you've saved. Drag The point system, the badges, whatever it is people want to see. And yeah, the save feature is exactly that. It's a way to make the app kind of their own thing. That's all I got from MapTech. Oh, I guess, yeah, I guess app stuff, which it's hard to put a percentage on how far through it we are. 80% maybe? I feel like we're really, really close. There's only a few more features to be added and then we'll have beta testing Beta testing for Patreon members? Yea, Patreon members can beta test and admins also. You are testing on iOS and Beth is testing on Android? Is that true? She tests in an iOS emulator and I sent her an Android phone that I had so she can use that. 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Fun stats 2019? fun stats 2019, here we go so and this is a quiz for you Do you think that there are more comments — machine comments that mention the left flipper or the right flipper Oh man, so my head immediately goes to right flipper because more people are right handed, maybe your natural instinct is to hit that right button. Well you're right. Yeah, that's just sound logic, right? Yeah, there's 281 comments that say the phrase right flipper. Nice. And there's 241 that say left flipper. They're pretty close though. 241, 281. Yeah, that is pretty close and then here's another stat which this is just something I noticed when I was adding locations. I Was surprised by how many locations had the name JJ? Double J in the name of their business She's weird. Yeah, like JJ's lounge or something like that. I was like, why are there so many JJ places? So here's my theory Okay, aside from name combinations like James John like there I don't you know Hey, I'm in St. John's, Oregon right now. James John is a big deal here. I bet the real reason is because some, you know, like Jimmy Bob sort of combo. There's something that's JJ, but maybe it's the second J is Junior. And what we're really seeing here is a lot of John Juniors. Or Jeff Junior maybe. Yeah, Jim, Jim, James, like all that stuff. Just a theory. Demis Taalbaugh Lew Oswaldяниy, Capt Hua, Those are the only fun stats I came up with though. Wow, okay, alright. Yeah, I think I had others, I mean I could straight up, I have the SQL up right now. Doing a live quiz? Yeah, alright, here's another one. Okay. How many locations do you think have the name, have the word lucky in their name? Lucky, oh boy. I hate that word. I hate that word in the context of stuff like this. Yeah. K Crapman theährt Sunscript J.F. 재맀� интересно 만약이낸번� Tigers that's the crisis obipassing just in the gamesafe the Technical that up ambiente normative nab congress never ever Am I not saying them correctly? Yeah, go ahead. Let's see. 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Yeah I feel like the retrocades tend to be bigger right So it has to be in a bigger city There probably not one use the one princess title right awayoyo see engaged such teams as the number concept and title rework This stuff is now apparently Huge uh by et some other Next time there's a lot lot of places we can go with these stats how many laundromats have pinball how many users have AOL accounts I wanted to do a tips and tactics we also mentioned in chat at least the Scott's fantasy game but I don't know if you want to spill that on a podcast I'll tell my fantasy game but I was thinking about my fantasy game today at dinner and how when I was typing it out in the official Pinball Map chat room how it felt like a revelation. I felt like I was discovering Iceland or something like that. Like really doing something. But now in retrospect I feel like this idea is probably floated around many a late night bar room. You know like this is the sort of stoned notion that's probably come to a million people's minds. You know what I mean? Like it, I don't know. Let me throw it out there. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. It felt pretty unique and felt like a good idea to me. It's just so... We'll see. I just feel like it's so obvious. Somebody's made this as an offhand comment and they talked about it for longer than five minutes. But anyway, here's my pinball machine idea. And this is a tip and tactic? No, we're in a new section, segment called Scott's Fantasy Game. Oh, fantasy games. Okay. So here's my fantasy game. The theme is you're a pinball tech and the machine itself, You may be Flipper's weak, you have to do a mode to get your flipper strong again, pop bumpers turn off, etcetera, anything that could break on a machine is fair game for being a mode in the game. And then my new tech here is that there'll be a mode where the ball has to touch every piece of the playfield in order to clean the playfield and that gives you a different type of bonus. And I have an elaborate magnet system that I've invented in my head, and I have no Broadcasting Cl Assass�� na Amant叫 convenient al Sigall conclude And then dinner continued for a little bit more and I was like, oh, that's right. I'm a software development manager in Portland, Oregon who knows nothing about machines design or anything. And then my life continued mostly the same. Well, I was thinking we could incorporate pinball map into that too by so like here's what it here's the theme. It's your attack. You're sitting at your headquarters waiting to learn about a problem with one of your Some of the most popular pinball machines on your route, someone leaves a comment on the map, you get pinged. You get a message that says pinball map message, somebody left a comment saying the left flipper's weak on Hawkman and then you gotta, in the game, drive out to that location and then you start playing that machine which has a weak left flipper and then you need to like hit some shots to fix that left flipper and then you get another message from the pinball map. Yeah. Man, there is a chip inside. And you can put this in here? Yeah. And you really wonder what it is. Right. Yeah, it's a no no. I think you could make this fine just by 대한für Danielle W winner I think my idea was like a ball trough that spits out two balls when it's supposed to have one, but if you drain one, your ball ends. Multi balls that give you one fewer ball than you want. You know, so basically the game is filled with glitches, and then you need to fix those glitches. It would be a really fun game. Yeah, hey Gary Stern, I know you're listening. I know you're listening to this podcast, Gary. He's listening. He's listening. I respect what you've done and I want you to continue the good work. Consider this idea on the house. Wow, on the house? He could still like hire us to just, you know, hire you at least to lay this out on paper, all the modes. Yeah, I guess. Now they have Keith there and he used to be an operator. Yeah. So he could do it. Hey Keith, I know you're listening. This one's all yours buddy. Gary, it was Keith's idea. It was Keith's idea the whole time. It could be, it would be called On Location. Or did you have a name for it? No I don't think I did. I mean yeah. Tech blues. Yeah like tech, tech would have to be in the name. I don't know. Somebody pointed out that a machine like this would never get made because Well, wait a minute. I'm gonna argue with that theoretical theoretical person. Somebody pointed out that this wouldn't work because there's no mass appeal for it, right? But isn't a big part of the pinball industry the home buyer? Isaac Newton's Pinball Party Isaac Newton's Pinball Party The Yeah, what was that? I don't know how that happened. I wound up in Southwest Airlines magazine. That's right. Talking about that? Talking about pinball. That's right. How did that happen? I feel like if we say it enough times, someone will make it. It's in Southwest, it'll be on Pinball Map podcast. Another thing we were thinking to, uh, well, Herb, to get the, to get the youth. Yeah. The youngstersers, the young the young thespian into the game of pinball. Golden Girls. GoldenGirls, yeah. Hey people are taking claim for that. Yeah. Couple of people were like no man I came up with GoldenGirls. And did you notice that on the picture? I couldn't find it. It's not like not up on the website anymore or something's like not letting it load but it's spelt wrong. It says like GoldenGrills. The As funny Yeah, a couple people were one of the Golden Girls Pinball. That's when that's when WheelOfFortune came out. Remember? We were like, oh cool. They really cater into you know, the people that are still into pinball WheelOfFortune. WheelOfFortune is great. We just got one at the bar. All right, last segment is tips and tactics. Simple tip like it is every time. This is a tip on how to use Pinball Map more efficiently. This is when you're submitting a location to be added, try to fill out as many fields as you can. And this is coming from my perspective of when I add locations, I often add them while I'm at work and while I have like one minute to spare on something. And I'm like, well, I have a minute. I'm going to add a location. And I look at the queue of 30 locations that have been submitted. And if I see one that has a lot of all the fields filled out, I can just click a button and it gets added. If I see one that has lots of fields missing fields such as the address, the city, crucial fields that you need. Then those won't get updated as quickly because it requires more work for us to get them ready. So try to fill out as many fields as you can. Alright, I will. Alright, well good job, Ryan. Good podcast. Yeah, you too, Scott. Good job. Good job talking. I'll see you on the internet and I'll see all the users on the internet too. It's all gonna happen on the internet. That's where we're at these days. That's where we hang out on the net. That's where the pinball map is. It's on the internet, but it connects people to the real world. Bye Scott. Bye. Bye. I'll talk to you soon. Have a safe and healthy time in California. Try to play some pinball and I'll see you around. Kick mattress akt and

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