I present to you something that’ll make imbibing in Beantown a little easier: a Google map of best Boston bars. Happy wandering.
Anyone out there good at map mashups? I’d love to put best Boston bars and the MBTA on the same map. If you can make that happen, I will personally buy you a drink at the Boston-area bar of your choice.
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"Lauren Clark takes readers on a supremely sudsy tour of New England ales, lagers, pilsners, and porters. This is the New England the Puritans warned everybody about, but few have chronicled."
– Wayne Curtis, And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in 10 Cocktails
Drink sites
For club kids
Friends
James Slaby (created for TV Diner cocktail contest)
1 1/2 oz Plymouth gin
3/4 oz Baines pacharin (a Spanish cordial)
3/4 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz light cream
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 tsp Regan’s Orange Bitters
8 drops Fee’s Brothers Whiskey Barrel-Aged Bitters
1 fresh, whole egg
Healthy grind of fresh black pepper
1 dried star anise
Pour liquids into shaker half-full of cracked ice. Add egg and fresh pepper. Shake vigorously for 60 seconds. Strain into a well-chilled sour glass or rocks glass. Float star anise on top. James calls this drink a “morning-after tonic.”
September 21st, 2007 at 1:19 am
Alas, I don’t have time to work through a full mashup, but I did find a good first step:
http://www.thrall.net/maps/mbta.html
This person has already done the MBTA map overlay part. Perhaps he or she will let you reuse the code. Then you just need to add all of the stuff you’ve already typed into your own Google Map. That should be the most painful part…
September 21st, 2007 at 2:17 am
I don’t see the issue; the MBTA stops are already in there by default as small blue Ms, isn’t that what you’re looking for?
September 21st, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Filip, that’s true. I was thinking more of a map of the actual lines on the T, i.e. red, orange, green etc. Looks like that’s what Adam’s pointing to. The thing is, I think one needs to download some sort of Google Earth software to create a mashup (using Google maps, at least), and the version that’s available for Macs requires the latest OS, which I don’t have…
September 21st, 2007 at 4:31 pm
You don’t have to download any software. The API is all exposed via JavaScript so if you can write code you only need a text editor. You just need to register for an API key, roll up your sleeves, and start typing…
September 21st, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I can’t help you with the mashup but just wanted to say what a fantastic job you have done with the map as is. I will definitely bookmark it for future reference.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm
yikes, i didn’t make the cut… and more importantly i don’t see matt murphy’s in brookline…
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Nice map! But it’s “Green Street”, no longer “Green Street Grill”.