Help me with my Birmingham pubs Google Map
Posted by tomfromthepost on July 29, 2008
I’m putting together a map of Birmingham’s pubs and bars on Google Maps (for full version click here), mainly for my own amusement and to give me a handy place to decide where to go drinking. I’d love it if anyone else out there wants to put up their local, their favourites, or anywhere that’s worth steering clear of.
I’ve tried my hand at pub blogging before (see here and here), and somehow never managed to stick with it long enough. This is probably down to a combination of laziness, lack of time and a lingering connection to healthy living.
Nevertheless, I’m looking to get back involved, particularly as I’ve moved to a lovely new area of the city (Kings Heath since you ask).
If you want to point out anywhere, here’s how to do it…
1. Make sure you’re logged in with your Google account.
2. Go to the Birmingham pubs map.
3. Enter the name, street name or postcode of the pub/bar you want to add.
4. Make sure you’ve clicked on the one you want, and then click on “save to my maps”, selecting Birmingham Pubs Map from the drop-down box.
5. Change the name or details, add pictures, comments etc as you want, then click OK.
I’m just interested to see where people might recommend with this, as well as make a list of all the places I’ve been to and reviewed. Feel free to put in pictures, links or who you are on the details as well…
Thanks in advance to anyone who points me somewhere good!
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Chris said
Dunno whether this might be of any use – Birmingham’s licensing register is searchable and gives you all sorts of info including postcodes and such. The T&Cs say you can’t combine the info with any mapping information but, well, y’know…
http://publicregister.birmingham.gov.uk/licence/premisesSearch.aspx
tomfromthepost said
Cheers Chris, good stuff. Hopefully one day we’ll get things like that in a format we can play around with.
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NRG said
Trying to add some more Kings Heath boozers, google isn’t helping though, both the Pav and the Knob showed up in the wrong place so I’ve had to totally manually add them.
NRG said
It looks like you might have been putting some on based on what google says, I’d check those if you can as the Hare and Hounds was marked where the Goose actually is in KH (and you would NOT want to send people to the wrong one…)
tomfromthepost said
Cheers NRG – didn’t actually know if people could just place the markers manually themselves or if that was jsut me. Probably an easier way to do it anyway.
Thanks for the KH recommendations, I need to get out more, lived here about a month but don’t have any drinking cronies in the area.
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