Category: RinkAtlas News
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The Best Way to Follow RinkAtlas on Social Media is Twitter; Here’s Why
Social media reach is extremely important to all apps and web services. Since we relaunched RinkAtlas as a responsive website in 2016, we depended upon our social media channels to tell the world about our services. Our social media channels are: Twitter @RinkAtlas Facebook @TheRinkAtlas Instagram @RinkAtlas We try to share the same messages on…
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Dave Aiello from RinkAtlas Appears on Stick In Rink Podcast
On December 8, RinkAtlas founder Dave Aiello was interviewed by Isha Jahromi of the Stick In Rink Podcast. This podcast is based in Victoria, BC and focuses on the NHL and Junior Hockey with attention to hockey in the British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. In this 10 minute interview, Dave and Isha discuss RinkAtlas features…
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New Page for Arena Photos from Outside of North America
We’re pleased to announce a new page called Arena Photos from Outside of North America. This is where we will keep photos that contributors send us of arenas that don’t currently exist in the RinkAtlas arena directory. The first two photos on this page are from The SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. They were taken…
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Nearby Restaurants, Bars, Coffee Places, and Gas Stations are Back on RinkAtlas
I’m pleased to announce that we just restored the list of nearby restaurants, bars, coffee places, and gas stations to almost 4,700 arena information pages on RinkAtlas. This capability is one of the signature features of RinkAtlas, and something that we tweak constantly in order to provide the best possible information to our users across…
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Temporarily Reduced Search Options as a Result of Database Change
On July 24, we began the process of changing the database that powers the RinkAtlas website and API. This was the result of a decision by Google Cloud to sunset the database that RinkAtlas had been using since September 2016. There are several significant differences between the database we’ve moved to and our previous database.…
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RinkAtlas is Rolling Out Arena Statistics
We’re pleased to announce that RinkAtlas is rolling out statistics about arenas in our directory. Right now, the statistics we’re providing are as follows: Seating Capacity Ice Dimensions Opening Date (in cases where we do not know the exact opening date, we list the opening date as January 1 of the opening year) These statistics…
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RinkAtlas North American Arena Directory Completed
Mission accomplished! RinkAtlas now contains every arena in Canada to go along with our comprehensive directory of American rinks. The journey to this point began about one year ago. I want to thank my family who gave me the opportunity to focus, my friends who funded the RinkAtlas Kickstarter Project, the friends who shared arena…
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RinkAtlas Search Improved for Arenas in French-Speaking Areas of Canada
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added information to the directory entries for arenas in the French-speaking areas of Canada to allow RinkAtlas users to search according to the city and arena names as they are typically spelled in either French or English. This means that arenas like “Aréna de Bernières Saint-Rédempteur” in Saint-Rédempteur, Québec can…
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RinkAtlas Directory Complete for New Brunswick
We completed the arena directory for New Brunswick today. There are 95 arenas in New Brunswick and 2 closed arenas that some websites still show as if they are open. RinkAtlas now has all of the indoor arenas in the Maritimes in its database. This includes every arena in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. We’re…
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RinkAtlas Directory Complete for Nova Scotia
We completed the arena directory for Nova Scotia today. There are 77 arenas in Nova Scotia and 3 closed arenas that some websites still show as if they are open. Our goal with RinkAtlas is to provide the most accurate directory of currently operating North American hockey arenas possible, so where it was necessary, we confirmed the…