Go Beer! Go Mobile!
Google has declared this week to be a week where they dedicate time and energy to educating people about the mobile functions and features that they offer. We here at Beer Mapping have also put a lot of effort into giving our users tools to use while on the go. So we thought we could [...]
Beer Location Search Results on a Map
This next release is still in “beta” and it will be getting tweaked a bit in the future. Currently we have added a new feature on our Location Lookup page. When you search for a name, state, city or zip code you will now see a link to view that search on a google map.
A [...]
Just like Scratch-n-Sniff but without the Smell
We’ve added a new feature to the Location Review pages that may or may not be useful. But we think it’s pretty damned cool none the less.
The new feature is a little graphic that appears in what used to be some white space above and to the right of the location address information. This graphic [...]
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 [...]
Follow Your Buddies
We have launched a Buddy Activity page that tracks the site updates from the people on your Buddy List. The goal is to provide a community building page much like the updates pages that you will find on sites like Facebook.com or Linkedin.com.
The Buddy Activity page will display the site actions of the people [...]
Beer Location of the Day!
We have a new Google Homepage Widget (google.com/ig) to release today. This widget simply displays the randomly chosen “Location of the Day”.
If you need some more bling for your Google Homepage, check out an example of the blog below and click the “+ google” button underneath the example widget to add it to your [...]
Beer Mapping Informational Widgets
We have now added yet another way that you can take content from The Beer Mapping Project and add it to your site.
Our newest “Widget” will contain pertinent information about a location in our database. All locations are available to be used in a widget, you simply have to click the proper link on [...]
Beer + Twitter + Maps = Family Circus Style Pub Crawls
Twitter is a one hundred and forty character blog. “That’s dumb”, is likely what you are thinking and I must admit that I was skeptical at first too. But twitter is heavily integrated into mobile and non mobile devices and inputs like text messaging from your phone or updates from your instant messaging [...]
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 [...]