Where the card shop data comes from

Shop records

Shop records from Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org. Its places data gathers records from the sources below, each under its own licence, which we name with its official address.

• CDLA Permissive 2.0 cdla.dev/permissive-2-0 BrightQuery, Meta and Microsoft
• Apache License 2.0 apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Foursquare

We changed the data: we keep only the places that sell trading cards, join two records of one shop into one listing, leave out personal details such as email addresses, and add the games and opening hours each shop's own website gives.

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Places, ZIP codes and state outlines

Places, ZIP codes and state outlines from the US Census Bureau. Each shop's city is a Census place, the maps on these pages are our own drawings from the Census state outlines, and the distances between shops are straight-line miles.

How a shop gets listed

A place is listed when it is in the United States, is not marked closed, is not a general retailer, and shows that it sells trading cards in one of these ways.

• Its website is a store on a card shop platform.
• Its own website names card games or trading cards. At a hobby, game or comic shop, one card game we track is enough. Any other store, such as a toy or video game store, must also speak of trading cards in general and mention them at least twice, and an antique store, pawn shop or coin dealer always needs two mentions. We read its home page and up to two of its own pages about cards, games or products.
• Its name says it is a card shop, with words such as Sports Cards, Trading Cards or Card Shop, and its listing does not make it another kind of business, such as a printer of business cards. A name with TCG or CCG and no other card word counts only when its listing is a store's, since firms of many kinds share those letters.
• We added it by hand, with the games the shop confirmed to us.

General retailers that also stock cards, such as big-box stores, video game and bookstore chains, drugstores and supermarkets, are not listed. The finder lists shops you can walk into, so card vending machines and kiosks are not listed either. Two records of one shop make one listing, and a shop keeps its number and its page from week to week.

What the games and hours mean

• The games we track are Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece Card Game, Disney Lorcana, Flesh and Blood, Digimon Card Game, Star Wars: Unlimited, Dragon Ball Super Card Game and Weiss Schwarz, and sports cards. A shop's page lists the ones its own website names, with the month we read it. Where stores of one chain share a website, each shows the games named on that website.
• Games a shop confirmed to us show the month it confirmed them.
• Hours are the opening hours a shop publishes in its own website's page data, with the month we read them. A day it does not list shows as closed.
• We read a shop's website at most once every 30 days, a few pages at a time, and only what its robots.txt allows. A website that turns readers away is not read another way.
• Our reader names itself RipFanData. To keep it off a website, add this rule to the website's robots.txt file: User-agent: RipFanData
Disallow: /

Ask for a change

Spotted a change, or own a shop that is listed? Tell us through the contact page and give the shop's number, which is on its page. We correct a listing, add a shop we missed, and take a shop off the finder when its owner asks.