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The other day, I was using Hngry to figure out where I wanted to eat and realized that a big part of deciding where to eat is the proximity of particular restaurants to wherever you are. I wrote a geocoding function in a few hours, and this page (login required) is the result. Basically it gives you a draggable, zoomable Google map of the restaurants on your list, including clickable map markers that pop up details about each restaurant, with a link that goes to your restaurant info page.

Hngry has been saving longitude/latitude data for every restaurant that has been automatically added using the built-in auto-add function, so if you’ve added all of your restaurants using that function, you’re in luck, and your map will just work. If yours doesn’t work (likely because your address data is incomplete), fill in the address data for your restaurants (street address, city and state) and then let me know at eat (at) hngry dot com and I will make sure that longitude/latitude data gets generated for your restaurants.

Any restaurants that you add in the future using the auto-add function will automatically appear on your map.

Hope it’s helpful to you! Let me know if you have any issues (some of my restaurants ended up on a different continent at first for some reason) and I’ll get them straightened out.

Go check your map out!