Elevator Hobbyist Expands Elevator Database To Cover 10% of The U.S.

Logan Ober, a Petaluma, California, resident and systems engineer for the Novato Unified School District, announced earlier this year that he expanded his U.S. elevator database, The Elevator Database, to include Massachusetts, building on a project that began with his home state of California. He would later add Colorado, North Carolina and Texas. Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maryland and Missouri are next on the list. An elevator enthusiast since childhood, Ober’s quest to build a public elevator database began several years ago when he learned that California, unlike some other states, didn’t have such a database. He submitted a public records request, paying around US$50 to have a massive amount of elevator data compiled and sent to him. From there, he built an online database that lets users search by city, conveyance number, speed, capacity, machine type and installation date, among other information.