One of the interesting features of the new restaurant guide is that it allows you to put a Google Map of restaurants right into your blog. Anywhere on the restaurant guide that you see a map, there should be a field labeled “Embed Map”. To get that map into your blog, just copy-and-paste the text in the Embed field into a post or page.
One use of this feature for bloggers that we’re covering is that they can get a map of the restaurant reviews they’ve written on their own blogs by just going to the URL for their site, and copying the text in the Embed field. The main links in the map will go directly back to their blog. The URL for a site will be “http://foodieview.com/restaurants/all/site/domain-name” (replace domain-name with your site’s domain name, and don’t include the “www.” at the beginning).
For example, here is the map of mmm-yoso, Kirk’s wonderful San Diego-based food blog.
Mmm-yoso’s Restaurant Reviews
I don’t want the other great SD food bloggers to be left out, so if you’re looking for their maps, here they are:
Alice Q Foodie, Clayfu, FireflyFiftyFive, Good Eats SD, Gourmetish, Green Beans, Maiapapaya, My Burning Kitchen, Jim The Brunchmaster, Captain Jack, What We Dig, Yummy 4 My Tummy
You can also show a map of all the restaurant reviews that you’ve written on FoodieView. Just start writing reviews, and click on My Restaurants in the upper right-hand corner of the page, then click on See All My Reviews to get the map of your reviews. Here are all of mine:
Howie’s Restaurant Reviews
If you have any questions or suggestions about any of this stuff, just let us know…
Thank you! I have wanted a map of mmm-yoso reviews for years. If I had the time I would have done it myself, but this is a great service.
Comment by Joseph E — June 21, 2007 @ 5:39 pm
Hey Howie,
This is really great. I went through and double-checked my links and reported the bad ones. I think the problem is that a lot of names have changed but the addresses of the old places still show up, along with the new one. Also, some places might have the same name but aren’t affiliated with the OC version such as Brodard. Of course, the copy cat on in SGV went out of business.
Is there a way to get all the little dots on one page, instead of only 15 at a time or so? Thanks!
Comment by Wandering Chopsticks — November 27, 2007 @ 8:03 am
Hi, WC,
Thanks for checking it out and doing those corrections! If you see more problems, be sure to let us know.
Right now, if you embed the map, it will show up to 100 restaurants. Unfortunately we can’t show more than that because of the deal with our restaurant data provider. You can see a big version of what the embeddable Wandering Chopsticks map looks like here.
Comment by howie — November 27, 2007 @ 4:11 pm
Howie,
That looks great! Except I now feel like more of a glutton than ever!
I’ll do a post on this soon!
Oh! Is there a way to make this a little icon like my clustrmap so I can have it on my sidebar?
BTW, I wonder if the incorrect link might show other options? Or a place to put why it’s incorrect? For example, my Tito’s Market in El Monte is listed as Mexican, it’s Argentinian. But the link to my post is correct, so technically, it’s not wrong, just the cuisine classification of it is.
Comment by Wandering Chopsticks — November 28, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
Hi, WC!
I’ll work on putting together a little icon sidebar icon. Thanks for the suggestion.
For the categorization problems, you can suggest corrections by going to the restaurant and following the “Edit Restaurant Info” link on the sidebar. (I’ve gone ahead and corrected Tito’s Market).
Let me know if you have more suggestions. This is for people exactly like you so it’s great to know what you’re looking for.
Comment by howie — November 28, 2007 @ 4:17 pm