A map of places and events in Vermont
I’ve been working on a Vermont-focused map/app for the past few months and figured I’d finally share it here!
The basic idea is to make it easier to discover what’s around Vermont... local businesses, restaurants, coffee shops, parks, trails, events, museums, recreation, weird little places, etc, without everything being dominated by national chains or SEO listicles. It's a small state, we gotta use the most of it!
It’s turned into a surprisingly large data project. I’m combining a bunch of Vermont-specific public datasets with OpenStreetMap and other sources, cleaning/matching places, indexing events, and experimenting with ways of ranking things by local relevance/popularity.
My background is in mapping/routing and recommendation systems... it’s still very much a work in progress, but there’s enough there now that I’d love feedback from people who actually live in Vermont (or are just touring here during this awesome leaf season)
What’s missing? What’s wrong? What would make this genuinely useful to you? Does it work properly on your phone as well as desktop?
And if you know of a great local place, trail, event source, recreation dataset, or other Vermont-specific thing that I’m overlooking, I’d especially love to hear about it.
Happy Vermonting!