[ANN] CoinMap 2.0! (Map showing places where Bitcoin is accepted)

[phrackage]

This is great!  But the map looks quite grainy on my screen.  Can you open-source it so we can fix it?  I know it uses Openstreetmaps but the tile rendering seems to be at the wrong DPI

[Newar]

This is great!  But the map looks quite grainy on my screen.  Can you open-source it so we can fix it?  I know it uses Openstreetmaps but the tile rendering seems to be at the wrong DPI

https://github.com/prusnak/coinmap

[coindaily]

Good stuff.

Is there a mobile app?  Or is there an API so I could integrate the data into a mobile app?

[Newar]

Good stuff.

Is there a mobile app?  Or is there an API so I could integrate the data into a mobile app?

On Android:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=175900.msg4659054#msg4659054

[Siegfried]

I would like to create a URL that will take someone directly to a specific location on Coinmap. For example, a customer could click a link on a website for a physical business and Coinmap would open with that specific location selected. I think I recall seeing this implemented on other business websites. Could someone please explain how to do it?

You could link the OSM entity (node/way), instead. For example:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2342088989

You can get it by clicking on the blue asterisk near the name, in CoinMap.

Ciao!

Brilliant! Thank you, and thanks to the others who answered.

[gubi66]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=519957.new#new

BAM alert as was discussed some days ago...

http://www.coincapital.it/servizi/ricerca-e-sviluppo/bitcoin-around-me-alert/

[gubi66]

Obviously the code is opensource...here https://github.com/lmatteis/bitcoin-notify

[HostFat]

Italian video with instructions to add locations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1IrRysFa-0

Maybe the link can be added on the website in the italian version.

[Bipity Bupity]

Very nice service!

im reading around as much as i can but im still confused about  something..
we have added a location on the map after following the tutorial posted by HostFat (grazie)
but we cant manage to have the Bitcoin icon visible on the map like other places, all we can see is a tag on the building, only visible if you zoom in a lot.

if you take a look for example at a place called "Handmade *" in Treviso (north Italy) you will see what i mean by Bitcoin icon..
what can we do about it?

thanks.

edit: the place is called "First Bitcoin ATM in Italy" and its located in Udine, viale palmanova 420.. i tried to edit it without changing anything and right now its no more visible on the map, even if i zoom in..maybe its just refreshing, i dont know, but we surely need some help getting the Bitcoin icon to display.

edit 2: i dint see the reply, sorry.. yes the "test" one is mine, i was trying to figure out how it works by creating a test place before editing the real one.
we are trying to get the bitcon atm place in Udine to work

[gubi66]

You need a bit of time that coinmap "read" the news and add to the map.
with bam service I just got an alert that inform me about a "test" related to bitcoin atm near udine...maybe is this?

[gubi66]

Ok, now "test" is also visible in coinmap.org
each modification you do will need some time (around 15-45 min) to be updated in coinmap.
Add all information: telephone, street, time of the opening in openstreetmap, I advice you also to change the icon: the "B" is to generic for your ATM is better another symbol.

[ConBon]

Hey Guys,

currently looking into developing an app for android at uni. I've been part of the Bitcoin community for a while now and would love to integrate coinmap data into the app. I've read over the forum and can see several services out there already namely osmand, bam, OWL? Is there any public api available for coinmap that will allow the download of node data from coinmap.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Cheers!

[stick]

Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers!

CoinMap uses http://coinmap.org/data/data-overpass-bitcoin.json as its main data source (this file is regenerated every hour). The format is more-or-less stable at the moment, but I cannot guarantee it won't change in the future.

[HostFat]

@stick
Will you add other features on coinmap?
Example: there is a fork about dogecoin with "Currently visible".

[stick]

@stick
Will you add other features on coinmap?
Example: there is a fork about dogecoin with "Currently visible".

It's already added in my devel branch, but I am not very happy with how it looks. I'll try to polish it and deploy to production.

[giszmo]

Can you split the file? The 3700 locations already take ages to load and I'm sure you can make it load on demand only the current region. Write the totals into each file or even better into html so people who only are interested in that number are served quicker and with less stress to your server.

Also (didn't review if you do that already) splitting descriptions from the pure location and icon data should speed up things a lot.

[ConBon]

CoinMap uses http://coinmap.org/data/data-overpass-bitcoin.json as its main data source (this file is regenerated every hour). The format is more-or-less stable at the moment, but I cannot guarantee it won't change in the future.

@stick
Nice one. This will obviously be open source but I'll only be able to accept pull requests to master branch after May due to uni.
Hopefully it will contribute something towards Bitcoin adoption.

[Bipity Bupity]

Ok, now "test" is also visible in coinmap.org
each modification you do will need some time (around 15-45 min) to be updated in coinmap.
Add all information: telephone, street, time of the opening in openstreetmap, I advice you also to change the icon: the "B" is to generic for your ATM is better another symbol.

i cant figure out how to choose a icon in the first place   anyway, i talked with the owner of the bitcoin atm and he is ok with the "B" icon, maybe we will change it in the futurle..
anyway, lets say all the info is added (he is working on it right now), how do we enable the "B" icon on the map, visible from far away like the other icons on the map? if this needs to be done only by a admin please do it when you have some time..

thanks for your time


edit: lol, now the B icon shows up on the "test" location ive made, but not on the real one nearby.. sorry for the confusion, could someone fix it? i will delete the location named "test" really soon, sorry for the confusion..anyway its working, just needs a little aim adjusting

[gubi66]

@bipity bupity
I edit now on openstreetmap modifing "test", please contact me in private with the correct position and info you want to add, if the one I edited are not the correct one.
So we avoid to dirty the discussion

[Miner_LTC_BTC]

Hi!

Thank you very much for CoinMap it is a great idea .
But I have a question for you, do you have data about number of new locacion added each day or weak since the beggining?
I am working on my master thesis, where I am going to explain the idea of bitcoin and source of it's value. Probably number of places where you can use it physically is one of the important factor. If you have such data it will be really healpfull for me.

Than you in advance 

Regards,
Miner_LTC_BTC