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Would love to have this populated for the NYC area.

by EGF 18y ago

gregstoll 18y ago
Yeah, the big problem is where to pull data from legally. I'm definitely open to suggestions! Went ahead and added NYC as a city.
- jskopek 18y ago
  I've been thinking of building something along the lines of this, but the data required was always the limiting factor for me. Where do you get your data? Do you use Yelp's API, do a little data scraping, or are there sources with this stuff?
  - gregstoll 18y ago
    That's the problem - all the restaurants on the site were entered manually by me (and my friends). Taking a quick look at the Yelp API TOS, it looks like you might be able to use their data. (but of course I'm not a lawyer)
    - joshwa 18y ago
      I have something vaguely similar -- http://lunchmapr.com/ http://lunchmapr.com/ Though it's more focused on private/smallgroup sharing. I've been considering a refactor lately to enable more lightweight list sharing, and having some kind of collaborative database of restaurants, ratings, etc. Was considering scraping the NYC Health Inspection database to seed the data... citysearch and menupages don't license, yelp doesn't permit you to show any reviews but theirs... There's also this: http://www.freebase.com/view/dining/restaurant http://www.freebase.com/view/dining/restaurant
- dpapathanasiou 18y ago
  "Went ahead and added NYC as a city." So I was going to add some restaurants, but when I selected NYC, then clicked on "Create a free account", I got a 500 page that said: "Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error."
  - gregstoll 18y ago
    Ah, tracked down the problem - it was related to a last minute URL change I made. It should work now, sorry!
bdotdub 18y ago
theres always this: http://midtownlunch.com/blog/restaurant-index/ http://midtownlunch.com/blog/restaurant-index/
- EGF 18y ago
  I need this for further downtown:)

Would love to have this populated for the NYC area.

by EGF 18y ago

Would love to have this populated for the NYC area.

Yeah, the big problem is where to pull data from legally. I'm definitely open to suggestions! Went ahead and added NYC as a city.

jskopek 18y ago
I've been thinking of building something along the lines of this, but the data required was always the limiting factor for me. Where do you get your data? Do you use Yelp's API, do a little data scraping, or are there sources with this stuff?
- gregstoll 18y ago
  That's the problem - all the restaurants on the site were entered manually by me (and my friends). Taking a quick look at the Yelp API TOS, it looks like you might be able to use their data. (but of course I'm not a lawyer)
  - joshwa 18y ago
    I have something vaguely similar -- http://lunchmapr.com/ http://lunchmapr.com/ Though it's more focused on private/smallgroup sharing. I've been considering a refactor lately to enable more lightweight list sharing, and having some kind of collaborative database of restaurants, ratings, etc. Was considering scraping the NYC Health Inspection database to seed the data... citysearch and menupages don't license, yelp doesn't permit you to show any reviews but theirs... There's also this: http://www.freebase.com/view/dining/restaurant http://www.freebase.com/view/dining/restaurant
dpapathanasiou 18y ago
"Went ahead and added NYC as a city." So I was going to add some restaurants, but when I selected NYC, then clicked on "Create a free account", I got a 500 page that said: "Please contact the server administrator, [no address given] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error."
- gregstoll 18y ago
  Ah, tracked down the problem - it was related to a last minute URL change I made. It should work now, sorry!

bdotdub 18y ago

theres always this: http://midtownlunch.com/blog/restaurant-index/ http://midtownlunch.com/blog/restaurant-index/

EGF 18y ago
I need this for further downtown:)