Chicago Magazine released their list of Chicago's 50 best sandwiches. I thought it'd be a good reason to learn a little bit more about the Google Maps API, so I made a map (albeit pretty quickly). The map can be seen here.
- Get the data from Chicago Magazine's website using Python and BeautifulSoup. See get_sandwiches.py.
- Clean up data inconsistencies manually.
- Hit the Google Geocoder API using geocoder.py.
- Load the data into a publicly accessible Google Fusion Table.
- Use some Javascript and the Google Maps v3 API to make a map.
- Style the map with the Google's Styled Map Wizard.
For those interested, I wrote a detailed post on my blog about the process.