Restaurant/food records with no address
With so many new food providers that operate in no specific venue - as documented on Chow at http://www.chow.com/blog/2009/05/nyc-and-portland-nonstaurants among other places - the database needs to include businesses that lack an address.
Before the redesign, such records could be entered. Two examples are http://www.chow.com/restaurants/32701/luxsugar and http://www.chow.com/restaurants/32709...
Now, however, the site doesn't allow this. If you try, you get an error message: "address fields needs to include address, city and state. Try to be more precise or check the spelling."
This came up deep in some other thread that I can't find at the moment. But there's been no acknowledgment of a problem and no change in the site, so I'm wondering if anyone with Chow agrees that this needs to be fixed.
By squid kun
on Nov 18, 2009 11:26 AM
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You can get around that by adding a dummy street address when you add the record and then editing out the address. You at least need a country. Here's my junk test place
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/91302...
It narrows the map depending on how much info you give it. It comes up with some geographic center.
USA - gegraphic center of the country
State - Geographic center of the state
City - Geograpic center of the country
zip - Geographic center for that zip code
Don't know how accurate the center is ... is the area near-ish Witchita, Kansas the center of the US? Anyway it picks some spot
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Good idea, thanks. Come to think of it, I did enter a place-less food provider by "repurposing" a dupe record, so that sounds like the way to go.
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