TV Dinners on Google Maps

TV Food Maps is a Google Map that can help you find restaurants that you have seen on your favorite food and travel shows. The site features nearly 4000 restaurants and bars that have appeared in 38 different TV shows.


You can search the map by location to find restaurants near-by or you can search for restaurants from any of the 38 featured food or travel shows.


Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

A Gourmet's Guide to Paris on Google Maps

The Travel Channel's City of Light visited Paris to celebrate its 100th episode. To accompany this special Paris edition of the show they also created Tony Bourdain's Paris, a Google Map based guide to the French capital.

The map shows the location of some of the restaurants visited by chef Tony Bourdain in the program and the location of a number of food related activities that can be experienced in the city.

Give me the Coffee on Google Maps

Good baristas and café owners can be hide to find, especially when you travel somewhere new. Beanhunter is a website that can help you find great coffee wherever you go in the world.

You can search for cafés submitted and reviewed on Beanhunter on a really nicely implemented Google Map. The map includes the option to filter the cafés shown by ratings, the number of reviews and you can even order the results by rating, number of reviews and by the date of the cafés' listing.

Beanhunter is also available as a handy app for iPhones and Android phones.

New York Restaurant Heatmaps

Concentration of American restaurants in New York

Dan K's Blog has followed up a recent post on Heatmap of Restaurants in New York with a new post on Cuisine Concentration in New York City.

The original post was interesting in showing the restaurant density in New York City. However the maps don't reveal anything too surprising - the highest density of restaurants appear to be in those areas that you would kind of expect to see high numbers of restaurants.

The Cuisine Concentration in New York City heatmaps are much more interesting to me. The maps show the concentration of American, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Mexican, Caribbean, Korean, Spanish, Thai and Italian restaurants in the Big Apple.

It might just be me but I find it fascinating being able to view where different types of restaurants are concentrated in the city. The maps are quite useful as well. If you fancy a certain type of cuisine you can consult the heat maps to find out the areas in New York that you should visit.

Find Lunch Deals with Google Maps

It is lunch time and you want to eat. Wouldn't it be great if you could turn on your phone and view nearby restaurants with great lunch-time deals?

Wo-Wollen-Wir-Essen.de (where shall we eat?) is a German Google Maps based website and mobile application that does exactly that. Using the app you can quickly see and browse through local restaurants' lunchtime offers on a handy Google Map.

Currently the site has lots of suggestions for where you can eat during the day in Hamburg. Coverage outside Hamburg is currently patchy but I'm sure that will improve as the app's popularity grows.

Via: Landkartenblog.de

It's Friday - Go For a F..king Drink

If swearing offends you then you should avoid Where the F..k Should I Go for a Drink? However if you want some blunt advice about where you can get a nearby drink then carry on ...

If you share your location with Where the F..k Should I Go for a Drink? you will be shown a Google Map of your current location with directions to a nearby bar or pub. Above the map is a large question that gives the name of your suggested local watering hole. I've photoshopped out the swearing in the screenshot above but I think you can still get the drift.

If you click on the named bar in the map headline you can visit the suggested pub's website. If the suggested pub doesn't please you then you can click to get alternative recommendations.

Coffee & WiFi on Google Maps

You can't go far wrong with Coffee & WiFi and the Coffee & WiFi map doesn't go wrong at all.

This Google Map shows the location of nearby coffee shops with free WiFi. Adding new coffee shops to the map is very easy. You can add a short review of the coffee, ambience and WiFi on offer and even post a photo with your review.

Currently the map has a lot of locations added in Denmark and it has a growing number of users worldwide.

How to Find the Best Ramen in LA

Burp's mission is to help you find the best restaurants for specific types of dish.

Currently Burp has four Google Maps, two maps showing the restaurants serving the best burgers in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles areas and two maps showing the restaurants serving the best Ramen in the same two areas.

After clicking on a restaurant map marker you can click through to read other users' reviews of the restaurant, the restaurant's Yelp rating, the number of Facebook 'likes' and the number of foursquare check-ins.

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Find a Golden McRib with Google Maps

Mcdonald's annual limited period only McRib is available again until November 14. To help promote the burger the company has released a Facebook game The Quest for the Golden McRib.

The Quest for the Golden McRib uses Google Maps to allow players to search for one of ten virtual golden McRibs which are hidden in various McDonald's restaurants around the world. The game is available as a Facebook game, in which you have to select a McDonald's restaurant from a Google Map and then complete quests and unlock clues, in order to find one of the golden McRib's.

As well as requiring players to select restaurants from Google Maps the game features a number of Google Maps Street View scenes between each quest.

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Rate Your Area with Google Maps

RateMyArea.com is a crowdsourced Google Map that can be used to find, review, share and discuss businesses and locations in your local area.

Users of RateMyArea.com can find the best places and events in their area based on the reviews of other users. Searching the map simply involves defining what you want to search and where, for example 'pizza' in 'New York'. Results are then displayed on the map and in the map sidebar.

RateMyArea.com also helps facilitate local social networks. Users can start a 'group' in a particular location and can start conversations, choose to invite other users and offer comments about the reviews and topics that other users have added.

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Google Maps of Food Trucks

Roaming Hunger has created a number of Google Maps to track the real-time locations of food trucks in a large number of U.S. cities.

The food trucks are mapped based on tweets by the truck owners and by published calendars. If you click on a food truck's map marker you can get details about the hours it will be present at the current location.

Also See

• truXmap - maps food trucks throughout the U.S.
• Tweat It - Google Map of food vendors in New York
• Food Truck Maps - Food trucks in LA

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Foursquare Venues Nearby on Google Maps

4sqoogle is a Google Map that shows the nearest restaurants, bars, clubs and shops using the foursquare API.

The application allows the user to find nearby venues based on a number of categories (food, nightlife, entertainment and shopping). Each venue shown on the map includes the address, the total number of foursquare check-ins, live check-ins and the number of opinions.

Beneath the map you can also find the venue that has the most check-ins, the venue that has the most live check-ins and the venue that has the most comments on foursquare (based on the venues in the current map view).

Via: PrgrammableWeb

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Worldwide Google Map Restaurant Guide

iEatDb is a Google Maps guide to nearby restaurants.

The application initially finds the nearest restaurants based on your current location. To find restaurants at a different location you just need to drag the orange map marker to a new spot on the map.

The application seems to work in most countries in the world so I'm guessing it is using the Google Places API to find nearby restaurants. Users of the map can add their own reviews and comments for restaurants and can even add images of the restaurant or the food on offer.

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Finnish Restaurants on Google Maps

Eat.fi is a comprehensive Google Maps based guide to restaurants in the biggest towns and cities in Finland.

It is possible to filter the restaurants shown on the map by type of restaurant, number of stars, cost of meals and by keyword (e.g. 'steak', fish' etc). Restaurants that are currently open are shown on the map by a green map marker.

If you mouse-over a restaurant's marker you can view quick ratings of the food, experience and value. The information window also reveals the type of food served and whether the restaurant is currently open. If you click on the marker you will be taken to full user reviews and ratings.

Eat.fi is available in Finnish, Swedish and English.

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Restaurant Inspections on Google Maps

The Seattle Food Inspection Map lets you examine the food inspection ratings for Seattle restaurants.

The map includes a nice slider function that allows you to search for restaurants in Seattle based on the inspection score. For example, you can set the slider to show only restaurants that have a score between 0-45 (a score of over 45 indicating a poor inspection).

Alternatively you could search for restaurants that you might want to avoid by setting the slider to only show restaurants with a score over 45.


NYC BigMaps have used the Your Mapper map creation tool to map restaurant inspections and 311 service calls in New York City.

The restaurant inspections map displays New York City Department of Health inspections across 5 boroughs since Jan 2008 (22,440 restaurants). You can search the map by category, date range, keyword, and location. The map then displays restaurants on the map at the location you searched.

Green map markers indicate restaurants with no health violations.

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Indian Local Places on Google Maps

PlayCez is a great Google Maps based local recommendation engine for India.



PlayCez users can find the best places to eat, shop and hang out in the largest Indian cities. The user interface is very simple to use. Users just need to choose a city and whether they want to eat, shop or hangout. The results are then displayed on a Google Map and displayed alongside the map.



If users select an individual venue they can then read comments about the venue by other users, invite their friends to meet at the venue (via Connect with Facebook) and get directions to the venue.



Currently PlayCez is available for the major cities in India, but has plans to expand to further geographies soon.



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Local Foods & Dishes on Google Maps

One of the great joys of travelling is discovering (and tasting) the local and regional foods and dishes of the places you visit.



If you ever get the chance to travel around England then I recommend you consult The Food Map of England and the UK Food Tourism website.



The Food Map of England is a Google Map that shows the local and regional specialities of food throughout England. For example, if you visit Cheshire, The Food Map of England shows you that Cheshire Onion Pie, Cheshire Lamb Crumble, Cheshire Cheese and Cheshire Pork Pie are all local delicacies that you might want to try.



After finding the local dishes on offer with The Food Map of England you can then consult the UK Food Tourism website to discover local restaurants, and local food markets and festivals. The UK Food Tourism website contains a number of regional Google Maps that allow you to discover locally recommended food centres throughout the UK.



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Foodspotting Hits a Million Downloads

The food sharing app Foodspotting has passed one million downloads. The Foodspotting apps lets you take photos of your favourite dishes and share them with the world. Foodspotting is a great way not just to find a good restaurant nearby but to find the best rated dish in a restaurant.



Don't worry if you haven't downloaded the app to your smart phone as you can also browse all the dish photographs and reviews on the Foodspotting website. If you enter a location you can view all the dishes shared near that location on a Google Map.



Click on one of the dish photographs displayed on the map and you can view where the picture was taken and how many people have rated this dish.



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London Coffee on Google Maps

London Coffee Map

I've started playing with the Places Library in the Google Maps API.

One feature of the library is that it lets you load venues that match a particular name. I've used this feature to show the locations of cafes belonging to the bigger coffee chains in London.

The London Coffee Map lets you find cafes run by the Monmouth Coffee Company, Starbucks, Costa Coffee and Caffe Nero. If you click on a marker you can view the cafe's Google Places rating and its telephone number.

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Locally Produced Food on Google Maps

LoveFre.sh

LoveFre.sh is a location based service to help you connect with locally produced food, wherever you are. Users of the LoveFre.sh iPhone app can find fresh local food and share their local food experiences with comments, a picture or an audiobite.

The LoveFre.sh website features a Google Map feturing the latest check-ins made with the app and provides a great way to find local food markets and outlets selling locally produced food.

The mapped check-ins include user photos, audio comments and tags. If you click through on a listed food outlet you can read more comments on a dedicated page.

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