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The Case for Open Geodata, pt. n: Tasty Veggie Eats

April 25th, 2005 by Schuyler

If you are vegetarian like me, you’ll see the inherent case for open geodata
posed by a site like Dave Rolsky’s VegGuide.Org. Dave, a long-time organizer of
vegetarian lunch-time BOFs at The Perl Conference and the
North American Yet Another Perl
Conference
, recently wrote in to say that VegGuide.Org now uses our own Geo::Coder::US to search for vegetarian and
vegan restaurants near any US street address. I’m delighted to hear it!

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