YAPL: Yet Another Payphone List
What the hell is this?
This is a directory of payphones across the USA. I have always been intrested in pay phones since I was a kid. They were a free ticket to play on the phone without getting yelled out by mom. Sometime around 7th grade I started making lists of pay phones, where they were, and quirks about them. By the time I stopped in High School, I had accumulated quite a list.
Flash forward to College. I stumble across the Payphone Project and the Payphone directory. I spent lots of fun hours finding pay phones around my college and making info about them. However, whenever I attempted to call other payphones, I found that the data was outdated and sometimes quite wrong. That is an issue.
Flash forward to today. The lists have gotten worse and I feel that both sites have become more then a one man operation. Rather then attempt to tell the owners how to run their site, I decided to write my own solution. It combines the features I like of the two projects, sprinkles in some more techie features that I like, and mixes it together with a helping of community participation. What you get is YAPL
OK, how do I help?
Go out in the world and find payphones! Make a note of their phone number, model of payphone, whether they accept incoming calls, and if possible, take a picture! Then add it to the database! It's THAT SIMPLE!
Site News
08-07-07
The bug also apparently kept people from creating accounts. This also has been fixed.
06-13-07
There was a bug that prevented people from logging in. I fixed it. Sorry.
12-20-05
I'm slowly working in Google Maps into the site. The first major integration was today. You can now get a map of a payphone with an address (that is correct).
04-28-05
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Stankdawg we are once again on the shiny new server.
02-23-05
We are now back on the old server until all the bugs get worked on on the new server. New features in the pipe. Yay!
02-13-05
You can now once again log in and register. That is all.
02-10-05
Stankdawg and the good people of DDP have allowed me to move YAPL to a shiny new server. If you see this, you are on it.
10-15-04
Updated the FAQ and the added a still-in-progress how-to-identify-your-payphone document. Still squashing bugs as well.
9-29-04
General Housekeeping. Got rid of the newsbox on the side and moved the news to the front page, fixed up the 'Related Images' feature, and made the search a lot better.
9-21-04
Welcome to 2.0b, bug reports to the usual place.
