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RinkAtlas Database of U.S. Rinks Completed
We hit a major milestone with RinkAtlas today. With the entry of Fort Wainwright Ice Arena on the military base of the same name outside of Anchorage, Alaska, we completed the RinkAtlas database of U.S. indoor ice rinks. We can now move on to review the database to make sure that we didn’t miss any…
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All Indoor Rinks in Rocky Mountain and Minnkota Districts Now Entered into RinkAtlas
Today we completed the entry of all of the indoor rinks in the Minnkota and Rocky Mountain Districts of USA Hockey. These districts include the following states: Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Oklahoma Texas Montana Wyoming Colorado New Mexico Arizona Utah Idaho This phase of RinkAtlas database development went pretty quickly. Most of these states…
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All Indoor Rinks in Minnesota Now in the RinkAtlas Database
I’m pleased to announce that we finished entering all of the currently usable rinks in Minnesota today. I phrase it that way because I decided to skip about half of the outdoor rinks that are maintained by city parks and recreation departments. There’s no way that those rinks can be used before late October or…
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New RinkAtlas Logo Completed
I developed a new logo for RinkAtlas today. You can see it below: I added a face-off circle to the left side of the logo, and removed the “.com” from the end of RinkAtlas. I think this improves the user experience a bit by making the site look a little more professional and finished. I…
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RinkAtlas Introduces City / State Search and Zip Code Search
A few days ago my friend Matt Leaf from USA Hockey suggested that RinkAtlas needed additional search capabilities for times when our customers didn’t know the name of the rink they were trying to locate. I know that when I played youth hockey years ago we had this problem at least once. My team scheduled…
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All Rinks in Central District of USA Hockey Now in the RinkAtlas Database
We completed the entry of all rinks in USA Hockey’s Central District. For those of you who are not familiar with the district boundaries, the Central District includes: •Illinois •Wisconsin •Missouri •Iowa •Kansas •Nebraska This blog will probably go quiet for a while now, because we will be working on the entry of rinks in…
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Wisconsin Rinks Entered into the RinkAtlas.com Database
We just finished entering over 100 rinks in the State of Wisconsin into the RinkAtlas.com database. This means that all of the rinks in states that are entirely east of the Mississippi River are in the database. So far 1,137 rinks are in our database.
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RinkAtlas.com Now Contains 1000 Rinks in the Eastern United States
A little while ago, RinkAtlas.com hit 1,000 rinks in its database. For the record, the 1,000th rink was Hoffman Estates Park District Community Center & Ice Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
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RinkAtlas.com Now Includes Michigan
We just completed entering all of the rinks in Michigan, so now RinkAtlas.com includes over 950 rinks from Houghton, Michigan and Springdale, Arkansas east to the Atlantic Ocean. Next stop: Illinois.
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RinkAtlas.com Now Includes All of the Southeast
After I finished entering the rinks in New England, I knew that the rest of the East Coast would be done quite quickly. This morning I finished entering the rinks in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi, so now the RinkAtlas database covers all of the Southeast, the Mid-Atlantic States, and New England. For those of you…