PAX Prime Attendees Locations Map and Find Other People in Your Area Thread

Moe Fwacky

I have once again set up a map for us to put our points on and discuss where we are from. It's on Google Maps now because Communitywalk is broken

PAX Prime 2010 Attendees Map

Click Edit in the left column to add your marker.

Use the following icons for your type of travel
Seattle Local -
Cross-Country Supertrip -
West Coast Train Trip -
Canadian Supertrip -
Western Aviation Networking Group -
Greyhound -
Driving by yourself -
Flying alone -
Unknown mode of transport -

I'm from Cleveland, it sucks here. Now it's your turn.

Shaddz

Achtung!

I, Shaddz, may be moving to Chicago... Yes, I will be leaving the emerald lands of rain and Starbucks for the city of wind and... more Starbucks.

What I wanna know is this: Does anyone in the Chicago area attend PAX? And, if so, what is your method of transportation/cost effectiveness VS. driving, bussing, Amtrak, plane, etc., and what method of lodging do you use/prefer?

I ask because I may be moving over the summer, and, since I have obligations here at PAX I cannot possibly pass up (I owe many people many beers (*cough* Arnonaut-Liger-@DeejayKnight-BigRed-DIMD *cough-COUGH*), and I already have a lot of developer interviews lined up for my site)...

Also, if you were able to, how feasible is it to attend PAX Prime and PAX East?

Lastly, is there anyone in the area who could hook up with me and show me the sites? I used to live in the suburbs (Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Arlington Heights areas) 11+ years ago, and I attended Navy boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Base 2 years ago... So needless to say Im WAY the hell out of the loop.

Thanks Chi-town PAXers!

BrennaCeDria

Figure I'll go ahead and add the whole MNC, since there's five of us so far but only Winyder and I come into this forum to my knowledge, and I haven't seen him in here for a while.

Edit: Actually, I don't see an option to add our marker(s). How do we do that again?

Moe Fwacky

Whoops, forgot to enable that. Just fixed it. Should be all good now.

Stephidabefida

Shaddz wrote: »

Achtung!

I, Shaddz, may be moving to Chicago... Yes, I will be leaving the emerald lands of rain and Starbucks for the city of wind and... more Starbucks.

What I wanna know is this: Does anyone in the Chicago area attend PAX? And, if so, what is your method of transportation/cost effectiveness VS. driving, bussing, Amtrak, plane, etc., and what method of lodging do you use/prefer?

I ask because I may be moving over the summer, and, since I have obligations here at PAX I cannot possibly pass up (I owe many people many beers (*cough* Arnonaut-Liger-@DeejayKnight-BigRed-DIMD *cough-COUGH*), and I already have a lot of developer interviews lined up for my site)...

Also, if you were able to, how feasible is it to attend PAX Prime and PAX East?

Lastly, is there anyone in the area who could hook up with me and show me the sites? I used to live in the suburbs (Palatine, Rolling Meadows, Arlington Heights areas) 11+ years ago, and I attended Navy boot camp at Great Lakes Naval Base 2 years ago... So needless to say Im WAY the hell out of the loop.

Thanks Chi-town PAXers!

It's totally feasible to go to PAX from Chicago! We are from the area (Dekalb), but we are stationed in Missouri now. We drove up there to visit family before PAX East and flew out to Boston from Ohare. We flew American Airlines and tickets were about $175 roundtrip each. For PAX Prime tickets are running about $300ish roundtrip. But there is still plenty of time for tickets to go on sale. Alaska Air flies Seattle to Chicago and they usually have pretty good sales.
You can drive, but it's a long road trip. Boston is about 16 hours, and Seattle is about 36 hours.
I hope this helps!

Moe Fwacky

Long road trip? Clearly you don't know about the CCST.

BrennaCeDria

It's still not giving me the option, so I'll give it a little bit of time and see if that fixes things. I've got things I can pretend to be busy with for now, anyway.

tr0tsky

won't let me add. Also, I tried to register and the verification email isn't showing up...oh well.

mentok1982

I logged in and I can't add my marker.

Moe Fwacky

Hrm, it's not saving the settings after I hit save. I'll look at this more when I get out of class.

BrennaCeDria

No prob, I figured the site was probably acting wonky. Just curious, do you already have the other icons (flying, WCTT, etc) in there and they just aren't showing cause they haven't been used yet?

Moe Fwacky

Yes, the other icons are in there. Just waiting for people to post under them... if it ever lets me save permission settings.

Stephidabefida

Moe Fwacky wrote: »

Long road trip? Clearly you don't know about the CCST.

After driving from Alaska to Missouri, I think I am soured on being in the car for more than a couple hours!

Esh

No confirmation mail yet after 30 minutes and no way (that I can see) to mark my location without being registered.

Moe Fwacky

Okay, I switched this to Google Maps, let's see how this works out.

tr0tsky

Alright, I added myself. There's no CST icon, so I just put myself as a train icon.

Moe Fwacky

Oops, let me fix that. I knew I forgot something.

mentok1982

I am added!

BrennaCeDria

Got the MNC added!

oxfroggy

i'm going by train, but not with the WCTT (i'd like to get to seattle earlier than 8) should I just use the train icon?

Alphonsis

Coming from the west coast, but still flying. I had friends who drove up for PAX 2008 and they said it wasn't worth it.

Coldbrew

No idea how to put a marker on this map...

Moe Fwacky

Click edit in the column on the left

Coldbrew

I figured that had something to do with it, didn't realize it added more options on the right click menu... *sigh*

Anyway.. I wish the Fruit Fucker icon was more noticeable, it's a little hard to see.

BrennaCeDria

@Coldbrew Yeah, it took me a minute to figure that out as well, but I got it eventually.

Moe Fwacky

I added that bit to the OP, so hopefully not too many more people have problems with it.

cafeganesha

Moe Fwacky wrote: »

I added that bit to the OP, so hopefully not too many more people have problems with it.

You might want to add in the OP to click the "My icons" link while adding a marker to get the special icons.

Esh

It'd be nice if there was a way to look by location, because those icons are just going to pile up on top of each other and make a huge mess.

Maybe a list of locales in the OP with the people's names under them?

Shaddz

Thanks Moe, this is 100x more helpful than what I originally had posted.

And with the added bonus of making more convenient for everyone else, huzzah!

Added my future location to it.

cafeganesha

Esh wrote: »

It'd be nice if there was a way to look by location, because those icons are just going to pile up on top of each other and make a huge mess.

Maybe a list of locales in the OP with the people's names under them?

You can zoom into the map to focus on specific locales.

Esh

cafeganesha wrote: »

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Esh wrote: »

It'd be nice if there was a way to look by location, because those icons are just going to pile up on top of each other and make a huge mess.

Maybe a list of locales in the OP with the people's names under them?

You can zoom into the map to focus on specific locales.

Yeah, I know. I suppose you could just zoom waaaaaay in to break it up into individual people. It'd be nicer though if the list was organized somehow though for ease of use. At least maybe alphabetically.

Binkley

I updated my info to show that I'm flying.

Yeah Ontario airport, still better than Long Beach! XP

S2000Gan

yeay! I'm on the map.
But no I'm not on a boat for anyone wondering

PhoenixB32

If all goes well i'll make it to PAX Prime this year, im from Rural NSW Australia tho so this is gonna be a huge trip.

has anyone here travelled from Aus before? if so do you have any ideas/tips/suggestions that might help?

cheers

Steel Fire

Added my info to the map, planning to join the WCTT on the way up.

Moe Fwacky

PhoenixB32 wrote: »

If all goes well i'll make it to PAX Prime this year, im from Rural NSW Australia tho so this is gonna be a huge trip.

has anyone here travelled from Aus before? if so do you have any ideas/tips/suggestions that might help?

cheers

Somebody get Cuzza in here.

Last year, Cuzza flew from Perth to Seattle, from Seattle to Cleveland, then joined the Cross-Country Supertrip from there back to Seattle.

Then he spent the weekend Enforcing.

Hard-fucking-core.

Shaddz

I may not like Cuzza, and he may not like me, but I just got a hell of a lot of respect for him.

PhoenixB32

bloody good effort

Wingedillidan

Moe Fwacky wrote: »

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PhoenixB32 wrote: »

If all goes well i'll make it to PAX Prime this year, im from Rural NSW Australia tho so this is gonna be a huge trip.

has anyone here travelled from Aus before? if so do you have any ideas/tips/suggestions that might help?

cheers

Somebody get Cuzza in here.

Last year, Cuzza flew from Perth to Seattle, from Seattle to Cleveland, then joined the Cross-Country Supertrip from there back to Seattle.

Then he spent the weekend Enforcing.

Hard-fucking-core.

I wonder how long it took for recovery? Man, I would be wiped out for the month! Props to Cuzza.


for you Westward Aviation Networking Group travelers :P.

MyDcmbr

WANGer from FL on the map now.

I can't wait to see who else from around me is going. I would love to have some new gaming friends.

inocuo

I'm added to the map also now. I've added where my trip starts from, although it starts about a week before PAX.

PhoenixB32 wrote: »

If all goes well i'll make it to PAX Prime this year, im from Rural NSW Australia tho so this is gonna be a huge trip.

has anyone here travelled from Aus before? if so do you have any ideas/tips/suggestions that might help?

cheers

I haven't been before either, but it's nice to see other people coming from Australia!