Airbana Blog

June 2010 has seen an influx of new skirmish sites appearing from abandoned chemical factories through to entire islands! You can find the latest 6 below or visit www.AirsoftMap.net to find or add Airsoft Skirmish sites from all over the world!

Elite Battlezone
Picture a chemical factory after Resident Evil. This place is MASSIVE. Spread over 3 floors, the building combines over 100 small offices and store rooms with several huge open warehouse areas, staircases, passageways and everything inbetween.

It really is extremely varied, with huge open areas featuring columns for cover, to narrow corridors full of offices. That’s not to mention the 60 person Laboratory, complete with lab benches and everything! The atmosphere of the place is amazing, simply put.
Free Opening Game on 10th July! Click here for more details
www.eliteairsoftuk.com
07710 313843

UCAP VIRUS
UCAP Virus is based just North of Midhurst, in a former Private Hospital. Alongside our WWII Bunker North of Portsmouth we can provide some of the finest facilities for Airsoft C.Q.B in the UK!

If you have never played at UCAP Airsoft, then you have missed out, games that excite and venues that will leave you awestruck! Ucap Virus will blow you away, straight back to respawn!
www.ucapvirus.co.uk
07590818881
info@ucap.co.uk

Adriatic Airsoft-Alfa
Welcome to the ultimate airsoft experience, in the authentic military environment on the island of Mrcara. This is the place to experience the unique military and adrenaline action. The abundance of original underground tunnels, bunkers, trenches, machine gun and sniper nests constructed by Ex-Yu Navy ensures maximum satisfaction. If you want to find out more information about this airsoft battlefield, events and prices, check out these website listed below.
www.adriaticairsoft-alfa.com
adriaticairsoft@gmail.com

Airsoft Skirmish CQB Studley
www.airsoftskirmish.co.uk
07764587410
sales@airsoftskirmish.co.uk

Airsoft Skirmish
www.airsoftSkirmish.co.uk
07764587410
sales@airsoftskirmish.co.uk

Matlock Combat Games
Matlock Combat Games (formerly First & Only Matlock) is an Airsoft site just outside Matlock on the A632 Chesterfield Rd. It is a woodland site of approx 30 acres with varied terrain throughout.

Both Mick and Justin and current staff have ran the site for the last 3 ½ years and continue to provide a professional yet friendly approach to Airsoft for both new and experienced players, we are fully insured for public liability and have registered First Aiders on site at all times.
www.matlockcombatgames.com
07974507166
justin@matlockcombatgames.com

2010 is proving to be an interesting time for Airbana.

In this month’s edition of Airsoft International the Good Gig Guide returns and is both sponsored and powered by Airbana.

Adding your Skirmish site to the Airbana Airsoft Map will ensure that it not only appears online, on iPhone and Android devices but also in print too.

You can download a softcopy of the good gig guide here; Page 1, Pages 2 and 3.

Embeddable News

The Embeddable version of Airbana has also taken off most notably it is now featured on both Arnies Airsoft and Airsofters Forum.

Airbana will also be present at the first Airsoft Arms Fair on May 22nd where I’ll be providing several Internet connected machines for free browsing, free WiFi and demonstration devices for the Augmented Reality software, the RFID player tracker equipment and demo’s of some of the new projects such as Mils.im and AirsoftTeam.info.

The Embeddable Airsoft Map has been updated to version 1.2.

New features are;

• The ability to add Map Controls if required (they’ll appear at the top right)
• Retailers and Skirmish sites show in different colors (Red for Skirmish, Blue for Retailers)
• The map defaults to 100% width of whatever container you put the javascript in

Adding the Embeddable Airsoft Map is quick, easy and free. Help your website visitors find Airsoft locations near to them, find events, directions, weather prices and more and all without having to leave your website!

Airbana will soon be bringing a comprehensive application to both the iPhone App Store and the Android App Markets featuring the latest Airsoft news, Airbana’s maps, the ability to edit and Add sites as well as other features that make use of the GPS functionality (if you want it too).

Some of the code from this new application has made it ‘back’ into the “Airsoft Events Info” application on the Android App Market.

Due to various compatibility issues the original Android application has been unpublished in favour of this newer version.

The blurb on the Android market is;
The latest version of Airbana’s Airsoft Events info app.
Find Skirmish events happening in the next week, fortnight or even months in advance.
Add new Events or Edit an Event if something is incorrect.
Search for specific Events and filter out sites you aren’t interested in.

There is the possibility that an iPhone version of this application may also backport down from the full application.

Here’s a lock screen image as well;

I’m proud to announce that Airbana has released 4 new projects recently as well as an update to the Airsoft Map.

The Airbana Network:

This is simply a merging of the UK, US, EU and Asian sites into one easy to use website: www.AirsoftMap.net. The country specific versions are still accessible from their old domains (www.Airbana.co.uk, www.Airbana.eu, www.Airbana.com & www.Airbana.asia).

With the release of the Airbana Network I’ve taken the opportunity to add some of the version 5 improvements including adding the ability to tag a site as being IAA, AAA or AOBA registered, world wide SMS delivery, improved SEO credit for linked sites, an auto updating Flickr feed and much more.

Airbana Events Twitter Feed

Every monday morning the Airbana Events Broadcaster will announce the next 7 days of Airsoft events. Simply follow @AirsoftEvents to see whats happening.

Airbana Cache:

With the number of free to download Airsoft publications and Airsoft websites on the rise Airbana has taken this opportunity to open up the Global Content Delivery Network that powers its Airsoft Maps to any and all other Airsoft related websites to help them utilise free, fast and geographically localised distribution servers to improve end user download speeds.

As with all Airbana projects this is totally free however there is a catch (sort of); I would ask that if you utilise the AirBana Cache then you let your users know by linking back to the Airbana Network (www.Airsoftmap.net) or place one of the Airbana adverts in your online magazine.

Visit http://cache.Airbana.net to get started!

The Airbana API:

With the release of Airbana Network the API has been re-written to make it even easier for people to write their own gadgets or integrate Airbana functionality into their site. The downloadable zip contains better documentation, example code, and the new API Class file.

To get started grab your API Key,download the API itself and read the documentation.

Airbana Gadgets:

Airbana Gadgets is a collection of tools for you desktop or your Airsoft Website and are written with the Airbana API.

The first release is a Site Button that is a small line of javascript you add to your website that will search for your URL in the Airbana database and then display a small series of buttons that will allow your users to get the exact GPS co-ordinates for your site, get directions, the weather forecast or send the information to their phones by SMS for free!

Get the Javascript and see an example button here: http://button.airbana.net