A guide to Davis Square

[bsquares.livejournal.com]

Hey,

I'm a student at Tufts and I've created a guide to Boston organized by Square, with the most data currently available
for Davis Square. Please Check out the site and spread the word!

Davis Square

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Comments

[inahandbasket]

first suggestion:
if it's called BostonSquares, you might want to add some of the squares that are actually IN boston. I think there's one on there right now that's not in cambridge/somerville.

Good concept though, hope it comes together for you!

[ron_newman]

The first news item on your page is "Girls & Boys Town planned for Chicago neighborhood (The Times of Northwest Indiana)". Huh?

[bsquares.livejournal.com]

The RSS found it because it has Davis Square park in Chicago... guess computers still aren't as smart as humans sometimes :)

[bex77]

This is a great idea! And I like the format.

Your restaurant list is a bit out of date. Savannah Grill has been closed for awhile
and you are missing places that have been open awhile like Martsa's Tibetan Place
and the new cafe next door mentioned in the Phoenix article. Can you install a way
for people to help you keep this updated?

[bsquares.livejournal.com]

Under the Contact BSQ section there is a submit a location option,
please feel free to submit any places you know are missing!

Great!

[mgbaron.livejournal.com]

This looks like a great resource. I added you to my del.icio.us, hopefully that will give you some more attention...

[cos]

Do you intend this to be a snapshot of a particular time, or an ongoing project?

BTW, currently it seems more like "cambervillesquares" than "bostonsquares" :) Which isn't a bad thing - the left bank of the Charles is somewhat separate from the other side, and covering it is a big project. Union Square should definitely be there.

If you did want to include Boston and its side of the river, I think you'd have to add things that aren't named "square", like Coolidge Corner and Cleveland Circle and Roxbury Crossing.

[bsquares.livejournal.com]

I intend this to be on going, however as one man there is only so much data collection I can do, so I'm building as a I get time. The plan is to expand into Boston, I just started in "camberville" because thats where *I* live and found the need for the site. Since it still the "boston area" i decided on that name :)

I appreciate suggestions of new squares and locations within them!

[simply-juniper.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Ball Square!

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Neat. I'm impressed at how many businesses you've dug up and represented :).

Can there be any kind of mechanism for posting reviews? It seems like there's only so much you by yourself can do to generate content on all of these places, so opening it up for comments would provide a lot more information to people about unfamiliar businesses, and I also think the site would be more successful if it had some sort of community aspect to it (reviews, discussion boards, etc.).