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.
Went ahead and added NYC as a city.
Where do you get your data? Do you use Yelp's API, do a little data scraping, or are there sources with this stuff?
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)
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
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."