Following up on a suggestion offered by a reader via last week’s survey (if you haven’t taken it yet please do as I am implementing many suggestions provided), I have developed a Lazy Lightning restaurant map for your easy review finding pleasure. While nothing fancy, this is a simple list of all the places reviewed going back through January 3rd, 2009.
There are three colored pins on the map: red, yellow, and green and those correspond to ‘don’t go’, ‘go’, ‘run’. Each pin is clickable and provides the name of the restaurant, the year reviewed, the street address which links to a zoomed in Google Map page, and the link to the review on the site (opens in a new window). If you need to get any more information you can check out the review (telephone, hours, pictures, etc).
I will be continuing to add new restaurants to the list as they come up but hope that this makes your life a little easier in finding restaurants close to you which we have enjoyed. If you have any suggestions on features feel free to comment on below and provide what you’d like to see added to future iterations!
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September 20th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Thanks! This is great.
Do you plan on having a link to this map on your main page (like your Inmate Dashboard links), will you link to this map with each new review, or are there any other plans on making this page known, other than this post?
September 20th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Yes.
I wasn’t planning on it but I will do that, yes.
Not unless you have some other suggestions on how to do that.
September 20th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Galaxy diner is changing their name to Valley Diner.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apple-Valley-MN/Galaxie-Diner/112924355384491
And yes, the map is helpful.
September 20th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Very cool.
September 20th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
That is a great idea and a nice way to pick a zone and explore the restaurants in it. Not sure if it’s possible, but going back even further in time would be cool. I can see where there might be more places that are no longer are open, but places like Ronin don’t show up on that map and I think that was one you would want people to see.
September 20th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
John, I’ll see what I can do.
September 21st, 2010 at 11:58 am
You’re the man.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:25 pm
As a map nerd…I like this.
We need more red Bill! More red! You can start with Baldy’s.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:28 pm
This is why I don’t really have subjective ratings on my site (4 stars and the like) because people never seem to agree.
I liked Baldy’s when I’ve been in there so it gets a yellow. You’ll live.
September 22nd, 2010 at 8:29 am
Very cool, I know I will utilize it, especially when entertaining out of town guests. It annoys me to have out of town guests come and then take them to chain restaurants they could go to at home. Thanks for your hard work!
September 22nd, 2010 at 5:23 pm
you need some sort of system for coke v. pepsi. a dot maybe?
October 13th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Do you have a link to this on Google maps itself? For some reason I don’t see any of the pins showing on the embedded map.
October 13th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Sarah,
The map is generated dynamically on each page load. It does not live in Google Maps and thus there is no way to see it somewhere else.
It works fine for me in IE8 (you’re using 7), Firefox, and Chrome. I suggest using a more recent browser if you’re able.
October 13th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Ah, if only my employer allowed other browsers. I’ll have to check at home. Thanks, though!
October 13th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Yeah, I figured as much. Let me know if you have any problems accessing it from home.
October 13th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
I’m also not seeing any of the pins on the map. I checked in both IE8 and Firefox 3.5.11.
October 13th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Interesting. Most other people from across the web that I just queried said they can all see it. Both of you work within the same overall IP range. I’m guessing the root of your shared employment may be the problem.
December 23rd, 2010 at 7:32 am
[...] Please note: Because of the high quality of the restaurants reviewed in the metro area, only the #10 restaurant received a “don’t bother” rating on the Restaurant Review Map. [...]