Restaurants
Settings
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Summary
Think Green with Your Cuisine is a mashup using the Google Maps API and CitySearch Los Angeles that provides the user with the best possible information about restaurants. The page will list extensive information about each restaurant including it's name, url, address, phone number, type of cuisine, and average cost per person. In addition to the basic information about each restaurant, if users enter in their home address, extra information such as travel distance, travel cost (for gasoline), and estimated CO2 waste is given. All of this information is provided so that the user can make an informed decision about when they choose to eat. Read more at the wiki.
Background
Think Green With Your Cuisine was created for the Google All-Nighter Coding Competition at the University of Southern California in February 2008. Teams had 24 hours to create an entire webpage from scratch, while implementing a Google API in the processs. The contest took place between 12pm February 17, 2008 and 12pm February 18, 2008.
Techonology
This website is hosted on a Fedora box with javconcepts.com. Other technologies that this website uses includes PHP, MySQL, and Apache. The project was managed with Subversion on Google's Project Hosting and tested in Mozilla's Firefox.
Achievements (in 24 hours)
over 10,000 restaurants indexed. (screen-scraped from CitySearch)
over 3,500 lines of code written.
9 images created.
over 100 svn commits.
"Most Useful" website of the contest!
Blue Barracudas
TJ Breisacher - USC undergrad 2010, majoring in Physics and Computer Science, Master of Google Maps API
David Valdez - USC undergrad 2011, majoring in Computer Science and Business Administration, Master of GIMP and graphical design.
Ben Walker - USC undergrad 2011, majoring in Computer Science - Games, Master of site scraping pizzazz and database intricacies.
Josh Villbrandt - USC undergrad 2011, majoring in Astronautical Engineering, minoring in Computer Science, Master of web layout, css, and javascript.