Is there a map/way to search by location for teams? (New York City)

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

I was trying to find NYC teams nearest to a location. The FIRST inspires site allows searching by zip code which is good but then limits distance to 10 miles. New York City is very dense, there's lots of things within 10 miles, but it could take you an hour to travel that far so I'm looking for something more granular.

The only way I can think of to do this is to click on each "New York" team and see where they are with a map handy. Before doing that, I figure I should ask here in case such a thing already exists.

[ctt956]

Yes, it's on The Blue Alliance homepage. Just click "Find nearby Teams and Events", then enter your criteria and search.

[EricH]

*checks TBA*
100 miles? Wait, there's something FIRST does better than TBA?????? At least TBA does have mapping available from the team pages, though I don't think it's all that accurate (it'll get you into the city, at least).

On the other hand, I think I saw somebody post a link to a "global map" of teams in the last year or two.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally Posted by ctt956

Yes, it's on The Blue Alliance homepage. Just click "Find nearby Teams and Events", then enter your criteria and search.

Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. They don't have granularity for the miles you can search for, but it doesn't matter because they SORT the results by distance. Which is both logical and useful.

It also helped a lot because some of the nearby teams are in the borough of Brooklyn and I hadn't looked through all the Brooklyn teams to see which are nearby.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally Posted by EricH

*checks TBA*
100 miles? Wait, there's something FIRST does better than TBA??????

Don't give FIRST too much credit here. If you actually search it orders by miles and tells you how many miles it is. TBA is far more useful here.

[Eugene Fang]

FYI there's a bug with the counts and pagination, but those will get fixed in the upcoming week.

Originally Posted by EricH

At least TBA does have mapping available from the team pages, though I don't think it's all that accurate (it'll get you into the city, at least).

On the other hand, I think I saw somebody post a link to a "global map" of teams in the last year or two.

We have locations down to the school level for some teams (example: https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/254), but not all. If someone wants a side project to put together a map of teams, start contributing here! https://github.com/the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance If no ones does it I'll get to it someday...

[NShep98]

Originally Posted by EricH

*checks TBA*
100 miles? Wait, there's something FIRST does better than TBA?????? At least TBA does have mapping available from the team pages, though I don't think it's all that accurate (it'll get you into the city, at least).

On the other hand, I think I saw somebody post a link to a "global map" of teams in the last year or two.

Is this what you're referring to?

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Eugene Fang

FYI there's a bug with the counts and pagination, but those will get fixed in the upcoming week.



We have locations down to the school level for some teams (example: https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/254), but not all. If someone wants a side project to put together a map of teams, start contributing here! https://github.com/the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance If no ones does it I'll get to it someday...

How exactly do I contribute my team's coordinates at this link? I went to a pretty generic github page.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Eugene Fang

We have locations down to the school level for some teams (example: https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/254), but not all.

Have you taken advantage of the 358 data?

[Dwight_2]

Originally Posted by Eugene Fang

FYI there's a bug with the counts and pagination, but those will get fixed in the upcoming week.



We have locations down to the school level for some teams (example: https://www.thebluealliance.com/team/254), but not all. If someone wants a side project to put together a map of teams, start contributing here! https://github.com/the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance If no ones does it I'll get to it someday...

That was what I was thinking I mean how many freaking engineering students do we have that really need something to do??? I also like the feeling of a map because for people that want to join a team but don't know how to join or where to join it would make searching for a team easier for them.

[GeeTwo]

Added my own words in brackets:

Originally Posted by Dwight_2

That was what I was thinking I mean how many freaking engineering students [and professionals] do we have that really need something to do???

All of them. Every time they finish a class or project (or walk away from it). Who did you think created open source software and designs?

[Eugene Fang]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

How exactly do I contribute my team's coordinates at this link? I went to a pretty generic github page.

I was referring to contributing by building a map, not contributing coordinates. Coordinates are currently automagically determined.

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Have you taken advantage of the 358 data?

No, but I don't believe 358 locations down to the school. Though I may be mistaken.

[bdaroz]

Originally Posted by Dwight_2

I also like the feeling of a map because for people that want to join a team but don't know how to join or where to join it would make searching for a team easier for them.

I caught a parent and her son at our regional last year talking to a volunteer about how to find a local team. The volunteer suggested the FIRST website, which she had apparently tried to use in vain. She found out about the regional from the news (!) and came to check it out.

I interjected and pulled her aside and helped her. Apparently her son was about to enter HS in Shenendehowa - home of Team 20, but she couldn't navigate the FIRST site to get any contact information. (She didn't realize Team 20 was out of their school - the school is buried in a wall of sponsor text on the FIRST site.)

So yes, there's quite a bit of room for improvement in mapping and team information, especially for those new to FIRST.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Eugene Fang

No, but I don't believe 358 locations down to the school. Though I may be mistaken.

The 358 coordinates are centered on the school, sometimes the robotics room in the school.

[runneals]

Did this link for the FRC map ever get posted? https://firstmap.github.io/
Worth noting is they haven't scraped for the 2017 year yet so there may be some new teams missing.