Olympic Brick Finder 4+

Name: Olympic Brick Finder
Price: 2.99 CAD
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Ron McMahon

Find your 1988 Olympic Bricks

Ron McMahon

Dissenyada per a l’iPad

- 5,0 • 2 valoracions

- $2.99

Descripció

Search and find any of the 36,044 bricks in Calgary's Olympic Plaza with your phone's GPS and Google Maps. Features a completely new app and enhanced search matching.

As Calgary was preparing to host the 1988 Winter Olympics, a plan was set to enable Canadians to purchase a customized brick to be permanently placed on the concourse around Olympic Plaza. Bricks cost just $19.88 and over 36,000 were purchased by Canadians from cost to cost to coast.

For 30 years the only way to find the location of each brick was to reference a 556-page print-out, available to anyone asking at the Calgary City Hall Information Counter.

In 2012 the effort to create an online and smart phone brick reference began. Unfortunately, there was no longer any digital copy of the database, so the manual recreation of a digital record for each of the 36,044 bricks in the Plaza began. This application and its companion website, www.OlympicBricks.com is the product of over 1,000 hours of painstaking effort.

Consumer GPS devices did not exist in 1987, so each brick was set in a virtual box defined by two Key Bricks, which were placed on the outer edge of the area where a set of bricks were placed. The purpose of Key Bricks was to facilitate the finding of a specific brick in the Plaza. There are 55 Key Brick locations in the plaza, each bounding approximately 700 bricks.

This application has added the GPS coordinates for the location of each brick, as originally defined by its Key Brick identity. This enables users to see a GPS-based map of Olympic Plaza with a pin that marks the centre of the Key Brick box that contains the brick they wish to find.

It is my hope that this application will introduce a whole new generation of Calgarians and visitors to Calgary to Olympic Plaza and give them the thrill of finding a long-lost custom brick with a special inscription.

1 de maig de 2022

Versió 2.0.2

Bug fixes to version 2.0

5,0 de 5

2 valoracions

Found it!

Works really well! I found that just using our last name was the fastest way through the list.
Happy hunting!

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Not working

App error when trying to use search.

My apologies Kate6773. The system that provided quick search results was shut down, breaking the app. This was outside of my control, but I'm happy to refund your purchase if you wish, just send me an email from the app.

I have now rebuilt the app and you should be able to upgrade for free and find any brick in Olympic Plaza.

READ ME! Do NOT download!

May 2019 READ ME!!!!!!! DOES NOT WORK, do not pay for it! Negative ZERO stars X a million!

FIND YOUR BRICK EASILY -> cross the street to the municipal building INFO desk; look in their manual binder -> Using the free OlympicBrick.com website search the text or name (%mylastname%) to find the exact text printed on the brick. Binders are in alphabetical order by the exact text on the brick - it took me about 3 minutes to figure out the books AND locate the name. Easy enough to find the listed area. Use the map on the cover of the binder to cross reference. (SNAP A PHOTO of your listing and the map).
With this I found my brick in 30 seconds on the Olympic Plaza grounds.

Then take the $3 you didn’t waste and buy a coffee.

The app should not be available let alone cost. It is of no use. They are just stealing money! It’s like putting your money in a broken vending machine!

They should have a PDF reference file put onto the website that can do the same task with less legwork as I mentioned above.

My apologies. The system that provided quick search results was shut down, breaking the app. This was outside of my control, but I'm happy to refund your purchase if you wish, just send me an email from the app.

I have now rebuilt the app and you should be able to upgrade for free and find any brick in Olympic Plaza.

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