Ok, so I think I'm finally ready to launch this to the general public. I've added many of the popular bar-hopping cities, I've also added the ability to embed the map into your own blog or site. This makes event planning way easier if you need to share a bar-route w/ some friends or to a group.
It's still a beta. I know there are some bugs around "search" and the way people write or spell different districts - for example, right now a search for the "Upper East Side, NYC" will fail b/c it's expecting "UES, NYC" - I'll be enhancing this part of the system quite a bit over the next month. Check out the about section, I talk about how "search" actually works.
I'm planning to present it tomorrow at the Speed Geeking event at Mashup Camp, let's see what the reception is.
Oh and my biggest current worry is server load, I'm working on DB optimizations and figuring out how to beef my box to handle more load. The DB queries to get bars within a locale w/ all the other meta-data is pretty intense and thus requires some CPU to suport it.
Feedback welcome.
Raj
