Mapping Scratch ticket winners

Reply #7

Jon D — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:18:41 GMT

Aha, yes I see that, thanks!

I'm going to send that link to the CA lotto commission and ask why they can't do something similar to SC.

Reply #6

soothsayer — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:11:29 GMT

The SC Lottery does publish this info on their website, however, it only contains info on tickets redeemed for $500 or more at one of their redemption centers. Since $500 is the max a retailer may payout for a winner, all winners greater than that are posted with the Game, Winning amt., date and location sold.

Reply #5

Jon D — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 02:06:58 GMT

I don't really have a system related to that map, that was just a one shot deal to see what the prize distribution looked like. Very interesting how evenly and thinly spaced out the prizes are overall.

And I haven't planned on making any more updates, going through the process of requesting the data and then mapping it. It would be so nice if the lottery commission did it themselves and published it on a regular basis. They have the data, they can do it so easily if they wanted to. Or at leas... [ More ]

Reply #4

sully16 — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:12:45 GMT

wow , thats a different approach, Does your system depend on how fast you get your data

Reply #3

Jon D — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:06:15 GMT

The CA lottery commission does not publish any complete data on scratch winners, much less any maps. Although they do have an partial old/outdated map of just retailers on zeemaps.

You have to make a public records request to get the raw data on scratch winners, and then map it yourself. That batchgeo site was just one geocoding site that produced good results.

Would be nice if state lotteries published their own maps of retailers and scratch winners, it would be so easy for them to do a w... [ More ]

Reply #2

TRUEBELIEVER — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:24:05 GMT

i need one for the whole state of north carolina we just started anew scratcher and i got a map and some pins so i can see when they post winner to see where they are i just wanna see where the winners are

Reply #1

ipicknumbers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:20:04 GMT

wow neat site Jon! Do they have a site like this for San Francisco bay area

Mapping Scratch ticket winners

Jon D — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:11:18 GMT

There's probably others who have made similar maps, but I found it quite interesting to see how FEW large Scratch ticket winners there are for stores in my area over a given year.

The link below shows all Scratch ticket winners for 2010 that are $600 or greater in Los Angeles, CA. You can click on the circles in this interactive map and drill down to click on individual stores to see the total amount of winners.

http://www.batchgeo.com/map/086c7badd099a2dcb14ac16e285e252c

This is just f... [ More ]