12 months and 4,000 more restaurants later

Well, its time to dust off the old menumap code and give it an update and a whole new blog. I've cleaned up the way that I do the scraping and address lookup, so most of the changes happened behind the scenes. Hopefully you'll notice that the data quality has improved. The "link to this" url works fully now, preserving the highlighted selections. Filtering on cuisine should work correctly on all cities.

Also, since I've been blogging more about not menumap stuff, I created this blog to keep updates. Blogspot really is much easier than the custom wordpress install I have.

Here are the current stats:

City	Old Count	New Count	Websites	OpenTable
New York	5,535	6,264	3,129	494
Boston	1,261	1,335	831	143
San Francisco	2,199	2,191	1,240	289
Chicago	2,846	2,955	1,555	181
Los Angeles	1,478	3,628	2,055	237
Philadelphia	1,081	2,145	1,051	109
Washington DC	804	1,959	1,379	222
Totals		20,477	11,240	1,675

Please drop me a line if you have any suggestions or comments.