A discussion on LiveJournal earlier today led to me actually spending some time with The Open Guide to Boston earlier today. The result of this came to be:
* Redesign, adding some information to CSS and adding a header. * Adding support for Geocoder.us to look up addresses when a node is edited * Adding support for a "Map" view of all the nodes in the guide. This service (like so many others of its kind) uses Google Maps to display the data. Map view is avaialble via ;format=map on all index-list type pages, a la http://boston.openguides.org/?action=index;format=map * Adding Map View Support to the node pages, a la http://boston.openguides.org/?Full_Moon * Adding a significant number of nodes to the guide as starter content, mostly metadata only.
As a result, I'm now willing to call the Open Guide to Boston open for business, and anyone who would like to contribute is welcome to do so. Over time I hope to incorporate a number of more advanced/complex features, but for the time being, I'm happy with the accomplishments of today, and would love to see more data added to the Guide.