HOLY CRAP STICKS KURTMAN! This is so... cool. It's so nice to see a system like this in place. It really does need to be mobile.

awesome. yay, ease of use! as a side note of it's current accuracy, I tried it in my neighboorhood and it missed a bar across the street, and a restaurant next door that have been around for some time.

accuracy is an intersting issue. no matter what system they use to create their database, something always slips through the cracks. this is where i would like to see users add information. brad should be able to fill in the gaps that he notices in his neighborhood.

yeah, this is ok. can't see it being that useful unless you are mobile, esp. since most sites like citysearch, LA.com are organized by neighborhood. as far as I know, there have been quite a slew of mobile services like this -- the redsky mobile GPS on gameboy was much better than the yahoo thing, for instance.

The main problem for me is info about the restaruant info, or rather the lack there-of. You think yahoo could have collaborated with some site like la.com or citysearch to get descriptions of the food, ratings, etc. The google (er...yahoo) search isn't cutting it, and I can't imagine it really ever would. we made the same mistake in the first version of patholog, thinking that searching for a location, or a restaurant name on google would yield beneficial results. this is a false assumption, since there is no guarantee that something useful will pop up. Overall, I think anything drawn on a map is super cool, and I love seeing information layered on maps, but this is a pretty basic and relatively undeveloped idea overall I think.

of course it's basic. but it's freely and easily available. I'm sure the ratings of restaurants, etc. will all come with time.

Basic it is, but it is just a start. I don't know of any other service that will allow this kind of interface with information, let alone a free service. Brad (the ultimate user!) should be able to make a new entry and add reviews to the existing ones.

I just wonder how much time(cash) went into this. That it seems buried in the yahoo service is strange, I would expect to see a much larger marketing campaign.

Xanadu , all inclusive database, will always be next to impossible; reality is infinite, data is finite. Although I do agree with Will that they could have at least tried to collaborate with some site like la.com or citysearch. It would be more inclusive and maybe include some info more valuable than phone#, location and driving directions (which are helpful nonetheless).

I would love to see something like this with an event calendar overlay like LA Weekly or something more personalized like iCal buddies. Organized by map location, this could provide people (at the very least) localized event information and (ultimately) a sense of community and/or districts.

yeah, it's suggestive of what could be quite a bit more compelling. i see much more "life" designed into my mobile experiences. wouldn't it be awesome if things like this had an authoring environment so i could insert my spots, or my stories, or narrate my routes and paths?
the yahoo thing is cool, certainly. another one of those things that operates under the assumption that we're trying to find where we are and figure out how to get where we're supposed to be. there are other "locative" experiences to be explored, too.

found out this weekend, from a google employee no less (who very nicely gave me a gmail account), that local.google.com has similar functionality (news to me). enter the search keyword and your zip, then on the resulting page, click on: "See these results on a map of this region"

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