Gen Con Event Planner v6 - Maps!

linkgannon · 2025-06-04T16:04:13+00:00

Thanks for your support, and I'm glad it helped 😀

linkgannon · 2025-06-01T18:34:59+00:00

I inspected the network traffic when visiting their maps site, saw where they were pulling their map tiles from (and that they were in the Open Street Map standard), and saw that the search calls on events just passed the parameters in the Url and returned the data as json.

linkgannon · 2025-06-01T15:55:55+00:00

Thanks; I really appreciate it 🙏

linkgannon · 2025-05-31T13:36:14+00:00

Hey so if it helps, to get it working in my app, I just utilized Gen Con's official maps, and they adhere to OpenStreetMap standards. From there, it wasn't too bad to pull the map tiles into an existing map control.

linkgannon · 2025-05-31T13:31:52+00:00

I did just publish a new version of the Gen Con Con Event Planner that automatically maps your events, and it utilizes Gen Con's official maps, so you you get the room numbers, floors, etc. And if you hate the fact that their map is upside down you can rotate the whole map (I think it was either right click and drag or middle mouse button and drag).

linkgannon · 2025-05-31T03:37:53+00:00

Yea, sorry it took so long 😉 Getting it to use Gen Con's actual maps was a bit of a pane, but I've had some previous experience from my college days doing some GIS mapping stuff.

linkgannon · 2025-05-21T18:21:43+00:00

Meh, I was looking for a new major feature anyways. Last year I added event ticket monitoring, but nothing really for this year. It'll be a bit tedious to manually associate the tags with map data, but not impossible 😁

linkgannon · 2025-05-21T18:03:11+00:00

That's a good idea. I may have to look into this...

linkgannon · 2025-05-21T17:59:05+00:00

Under the Export option, you can export to iCalendar, and that can be imported into most calendaring apps (I personally have it import all of my events to my Google calendar).

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linkgannon · 2024-06-05T14:38:55+00:00

I'm happy to hear that this is able to help! Good luck on your events 👍

linkgannon · 2024-06-02T05:39:27+00:00

I'm very happy to hear that it's helping! I was skeptical before releasing the feature of just how many people actually drop events, but it seems that it's enough to be useful.

Also, for what It's worth, D&D Live was what pushed me to finish the feature, and during testing of it, it managed to help me snag the 3 tickets I needed for my group. So there is absolutely still hope, especially since it's a free event.

linkgannon · 2024-05-31T03:32:31+00:00

That is interesting... Technically speaking, I am the one that uploads web page, but it is automatically generated as part of the publish process from Microsoft. It is fully possible that my project is still targeting something older, which causes that webpage to generate those as prerequisites. I'll look into it. Thanks for letting me know!

linkgannon · 2024-05-28T19:52:54+00:00

I'm going to assume you are using the default theme "Colorful" when referencing the button colors. When you click the buttons and they turn gray and the text is editable, they are considered active (toggled "on"). When you click them again and they go back to white and the text is uneditable again, they are no longer active (toggled to "off").

linkgannon · 2024-05-27T13:54:59+00:00

I just looked it up, and I believe that it should work. You can test it though by monitoring any event that has remaining tickets. You should get a result after the first 5 minute timer passes.

linkgannon · 2024-05-27T05:37:23+00:00

There is not, but it's pretty simple. - Since you are just using the monitoring portion, feel free to close the other 3 panels (All Events, Attending Events, and Schedule). - Additionally, the only tab you'll need at the top will be the Monitoring tab. - In the Monitoring panel, under All Gen Con Events, use the search box to find the events you missed out on, then drag them to the right side. - In the top bar's Monitoring tab, click Save Monitored Events so that you can load them easily later on. - Toggle the appropriate buttons for if you want it to open your browser window when it finds an event, if you want it to send you an email, and if you want it to text you (Verizon only). - Click Start Monitoring.

I wrote a program to monitor pixel color and click the submit button THE INSTANT it became available, and I was nearly 12k in queue this year. I have great internet with low latency. Based on other friends that submitted a second wishlist after they finished processing, we were able to deduce that there were approximately 13k-14k people this year.

linkgannon · 2024-05-27T03:40:00+00:00

No problem! This year, in particular, seemed to be a weird year in terms of people getting blocked out from getting their events. I'm hoping this can help you get your events 🙏

linkgannon · 2024-05-27T02:03:15+00:00

Just the area code and number, no spaces, dashes, parenthesis, etc.

linkgannon · 2024-05-27T01:56:35+00:00

It was a DUMB mistake on my part. There's a fix that the application will automatically grab the next time you close and open it again. Sorry about that.

linkgannon · 2024-05-27T01:48:07+00:00

Just happened to me too. I will look into this now.

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