Where Can I....

[tracy-rolling.livejournal.com]

A lot of the posts in this community star with "where can I..."

I thought it would be pretty cool if we made a map of all our favorite stuff in and around Davis. Pooled our knowledge together in one spot, on a map.

Davis Square Map Project

You don't have to register or anything to add to this map. You can just add Places to it. All the places will be added by "One davis Square Lover" (is that lame?) so if you want credit for your contribution you should put your name in the Place description. You can also write html in the descriptions, so go ahead an link to your LJ profile or whatever.

I would love to share moderation of the map with a couple other people. Anyone interested in having editor controls over the stuff that gets added?

Comments

[ron_newman]

I tried twice to add the Somerville Theatre (first at "55 Davis Square", then at "Holland Street and Dover Street". Both times, it put the arrow on the wrong side of the street. So I deleted it. What's the right way to do this?

Also, it should be Sacco's Bowl-Haven, not Socco's.

[tracy-rolling.livejournal.com]

You're doing it right, Ron. It's the geocoder which figures out where to put the address, that is screwing up. These things are imperfect. It was actually plotting that address out in the middle of the street.

They don't have adding places by clicking on the map through Mapkit, but they do on platial. I added it in the right spot and I even found some pictures. Give it a comment.

[ron_newman]

But now it says "Davis Square Theater" instead of "Somerville Theatre", so Platial is still confused.

[tracy-rolling.livejournal.com]

Actually, that was my mistake. I'll have to fix.