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Comment · 11 years ago
It's important to note that this is not a news article and the writer, Robin Sloan, is not a journalist. This is an opinion piece by a (very good!) novelist. He is free to articulate his opinion without "significant evidence" and you are free to think his opinion is baseless.
Comment · 11 years ago
The USDA made a neighborhood-level map of "food deserts"-- communities where a significant portion of residents do not have easy access to large grocery stores and healthy food options. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/ It would be interesting to see the two maps layered.
Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks for the upvote! I really like the idea of combining reviews from different publications on one map, especially with a filter to specify which ones to make visible.
Comment · 11 years ago
I used the Google Maps Geocoding API to convert street addresses into lat/lng. It seems to handle the idiosyncrasies of Queens addresses well. That said, if you see something that looks out of place, please let me know and I'll correct the data.
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