About

Hello,

My name is Logan Ober, I am a resident of California, and a recent graduate of high school (Class of 2022). I work for a school district as a Systems Engineer, and have been self-taught, and developed my skillset in coding and systems administration.

I recently realized after traveling to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, that the state of California does not have a database like many states have to view Elevator Records. Any individual wishing to obtain this data needs to go through the California Public Records Act process, which results in a 50K+ row Excel spreadsheet that is super laggy when filtering data due to the volume of data. I decided that if the state was not going to create an Elevator Database, I might as well do it myself, and put my coding skills that I have learned and self-learned to the test! The initial database took about an hour to perfect, and another 2 hours to create the initial basic web server.

The site officially went live at Version 1.0. This version simply had a search for addresses. The following update Version 1.0.1 was released shortly after for:

• Added Search filters for Conveyance Number, Address, City, Building Name, and Speed.
• Improved search accuracy.
• Added Results Per Page Filter.
• Added Release Notes Page (Still in Alpha for design on this page).

Following that update, Beta 1.1 was released with a ton of new features including:

• Added filter for Expired Permit Status, this feature also ties into the other fields, so you can get all of the elevators in Sacramento for example that are expired.
• Added filters for Manufacturer.
• Re-Organized the search screen.
• Changed column names to readable names (instead of things like man code).
• Transformed column data such as Manufacturers from codes to company names (note that most defunct companies are not transformed due to unknown codes, I am working on updating these as I find them.
• Added option for 1000 results.
• Changed site logo.
• Added sitemap (behind the scenes change).

As you can see, there have been many changes, and there are still many to be made!

I hope that you may find this helpful, interesting, and follow the site as it grows!

- Logan Ober