Let's Map this baby!

[MappingKat]

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[ughitsaaron]

This is a great idea! What'd be the best way to get lat/long data for mapping?

[MappingKat]

We could probably use a geocoding library. We can convert them to a CSV and then run them through a node script or something. Or we could just manually do that...

[cluhring]

Hey MappingKat, I just submitted a pull request. Let me know what you think? 🌎 🍕

[ughitsaaron]

@cluhring This is a great! 👍 👏 🌎 🍕

It looks like the makers on the map correspond to each restaurant's city but not the actual address of the restaurant. I'm wondering if there's a way to get the address of each restaurant and map that for more accuracy?

The README only gives us the city, name of the restaurant, and a link (possibly to a Yelp page or the restaurant's website).

Just brainstorming some options:

• Do it by hand. Future contributions to the README could optionally include a street address (since we already have the city) or coordinates if they want their restaurant included in the map. (I think this sounds like the way to go.)
• Scraping a Yelp page or a restaurant's website for an address.
• 💁

[ughitsaaron]

@MappingKat @cluhring Check out #76 and let me know what you think.

[cluhring]

w00t! 👍
Nice job @aptkf!
My geocoding by city was hacky, to say the least.

[ughitsaaron]

Thanks @cluhring. You worked with what you had!

[ETNOL]

I have an old library I made for marking travel suggestions. Its consumes javascript objects from Firebase but I can rip that out and supply a json array instead. https://github.com/ETNOL/Travel-Map
It was my first real project so I wouldn't mind sprucing it up a bit if it would work for this.

I forget how github pages work now. Perhaps we can add an index.html and a gh-pages branch to make a page out of this?