Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

I'm working on a small website for finding restaurants and breweries when you're traveling. It currently has 4 year of Great American Beer Fest winners and 3 years of James Beard nominees and winners.

It's very alpha at this point with no styling. I'm also working on getting addresses, websites, and instagram links gathered and added. Plus collapsing down the entries, so a place with multiple awards only shows up once, with all of its awards. Right now it's just 1 results per award.

I'm currently road-tripping through New England and it helped find the amazing bakery Norimoto.

https://nomnominees.com/

I also did a road trip and had a lot of mapping ideas. I collected a few links on my own website at https://culi.page/maps/. The page asks you for your location and then plugs your lat/long into the url parameters of various useful mapping sites. Here's some of the maps I used

* GasBuddy's gas price heatmap: https://www.gasbuddy.com/gaspricemap?lat=LAT&lng=LNG&z=8

* iNaturalist to find what species are found in a radius near you: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=LAT&lng=LNG&pla...

* A map of all co-op grocery stores: https://grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-directory

* NYTimes extremely detailed precinct by precinct political map of the 2016 election: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/election-201...

* Windy.com for really detailed weather: https://www.windy.com/?LAT,LNG,5

* ProPublica's extremely detailed map of long term production of cancer-causing air pollution chemicals: https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/#location/LNG/LAT

* EatWellGuide fills a similar niche you do: https://www.eatwellguide.org/listings?myLat=LAT&myLon=LNG

* National Wild and Scenic River System's map of rivers: https://www.rivers.gov/apps/map

Ofc there's a lot more and many more I haven't added to the site yet, but hopefully you get the idea. I have a very large collection of maps/sites that can maybe possibly be useful or interesting and would like to have a single directory to easily access all of them from.

I was going to point out the Samoan Cookhouse[0] - "the last cookhouse in the west!" but they've been closed for renovations for over a year. They'd been in pretty much continuous operation for over 115 years when they shut it down.

I hope they open back up, that place was a treasure.

[NUL] https://www.samoacookhouse.net/