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Re: Payphone Go

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Post by jasonjayr »

libria wrote: post #6
jasonjayr wrote: post #2

How is it verifying the calling line? Via ANI, or CID?

Trying to win this from your couch, I see...

It's in good fun, physically visiting them is way more fun than handing a SIP trunk to a short script + CSV file.

The nerd in me is just always curious about the backend :)

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by summermusic »

Real world exploration games like this and Jet Lagged: The Game Hide and Seek are just so cool.

I’d play it if payphones from my state were included! I don’t know if they are licensed/registered here though.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by plusplusungood »

thaack wrote: post #20
rickcarlino wrote: post #12

Please expand this to other states. This is such a fun and creative idea.

This works because California requires licensing for payphones and Riley was able to FOIA state payphone database. I'm not sure if other states require licenses for payphones.

Probably could just ask the phone companies. Free advertising to visit their dying phones?

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by Nzen »

rickcarlino wrote: post #12

Please expand this to other states. This is such a fun and creative idea.

It looks like Mark Thomas maintained a phone number database up until 2007 or 2023 for many areas in the USA. I guess that could be a basis for starting 'my own' instance of payphone-go, maybe with twilio (or equivalent) to receive the calls.

[0] https://www.payphone-project.com/numbers/usa/ going through the state map feature only shows a subset compared to navigating through the links on this page.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by reg_dunlop »

summermusic wrote: post #23

Real world exploration games like this and Jet Lagged: The Game Hide and Seek are just so cool. I’d play it if payphones from my state were included! I don’t know if they are licensed/registered here though.

Ya know, I just spun up a version of a user-driven exploration game, as an homage to the sf0.org from back in the aughts. https://irl2-production.up.railway.app/

Google auth still not hooked up, but otherwise good enough for now. And it's open source.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by pstuart »

This is brilliant and makes me wish even more that I still lived in California -- hopefully this could extend the the entire Left Coast if there's enough payphones to warrant it.

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by acrophiliac »

I know of a working payphone that is not on the Payphone Go map. Photo: https://i.postimg.cc/Dw4sCDpJ/payphone.jpg The fact that I know of one makes me wonder, are there are others? Is the list the author obtained from PUC incomplete? Is this phone operating unlicensed? Has the phone died since I last visited a year ago?

Re: Payphone Go

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Post by acrophiliac »

This is a fun idea. It occurs to me that I would enjoy seeing unvisited phones on the map in a different color. [Edit: Oh, now I see green dots for visited phones. Was this always there and I just hadn't noticed?]
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