Personalizing Your Own City Map
This is a feature we announced a few weeks ago in the forums. It was originally suggested in this forums thread, and then the feature went on to be fully flushed out and announced here.
Basically this feature adds the ability to hide any locations on the city maps that you have already reviewed. If you [...]
Big Numbers, Big Numbers, No Whammys!
One section of the site that very few people check out, are our statistics. We like to be open about things and we intentionally expose many of the numbers that show how active (or inactive) parts of the site may be.
On our Statistics Page, you can see how many approved locations we have in the [...]
Can you Pick the Winners? Fantasy Draught 2008!
Fantasy Draught Season is upon us again!
There is a little Beer Festival held in Colorado once a year that gives out awards to Breweries. Last year, we decided that if all other sports can have a “fantasy” side where people pick and manage teams, we could do the same with that beer festival.
So our [...]
Point of Interest Subscription System
We have finalized the system that allows users to download custom point of interest files from the Beer Mapping Project’s database. The system is custom built based on the approved locations available via a Location Lookup. The downloadable files are available in comma separated value format that should be able to be imported [...]
We Accept the Nomination!
There is an article in Beer Magazine this month entitled: Beer on the Web (by Brad Ruppert). In that article, Ruppert, describes BeerMapping.com and he declares that “someone should give [us] the Pulitzer Prize”.
Well, we are touched by his comment (on page 80 of issue 2 – Jan/Feb 08) and we think if you [...]
Look How Far We’ve Come!
Happy 2008!
The Beer Mapping Project has had a very successful 2007. Here is a list of what we have accomplished during the past year:
We opened up the Beer Mapping Forums
We built a unique location review system
We implemented Proximity Search, including maps by Proximity
We extended our reach into multiple new countries
We completed the Beer Trip [...]
Beer Mapping Attacks Facebook
The Beer Mapping Project is beginning to become a bit more involved on facebook. With 50+ Million active users, facebook is bound to have some serious beer lovers hiding in there.
We want our presence to be felt there and we are introducing the first of our Beer Mapping applications there.
The Beer Mapping Badge
The Beer [...]
Wordpress and Blogger Beer Mapping Widget
If you are interested in tagging your beer (or non-beer) related blog with your Beer Mapping Project stats and information, you can now easily download and install a widget plugin for wordpress or copy and paste some code for blogger. First up will be information pertinent to a wordpress installation. Followed by the [...]
Support The Beer Mapping Project
Ok, so we don’t really require too much support. But my house is filling up with t-shirts and my inlaws are coming for Thanksgiving.
Something has to give.
Buy a shirt and I’ll mail it asap and hopefully we can ween down the supplies before we all gorge ourselves on Turkey!
Buy a Charcoal shirt!
The Blue One [...]
Beer Events on the Map
We have a new system on The Beer Mapping Project that allows us to map upcoming beer related events that have been added to the calendar.
Basically, if you are a registered user of the site, you can add events to the calendar. Each event will become it’s own discussion area in the forums, and [...]