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kevinrpope
Cool idea, but I'm less than 2 blocks from a mexican cucina, a Chipotle and a Qdoba and it's sending me 0.7 miles away.

Edit: spelling

maneesh
yea right now it's just searching for 'mexican near your address' with google maps. Oh well.
kevinrpope
It's a great way to quickly validate your idea. See if anyone would use it, then fix the shortcomings later.
dclowd9901
FYI, man, if I put in 85382 (my local ZIP), it takes me to a burrito place from the starting point that is about 2 miles away, when, in actuality there is one probably 200 feet from the starting point (called Caramba's).
millzlane
It showed me a Chinese carry out a couple blocks away.
itsmequinn
Can you confirm that the burrito is not hiding there?
bgilroy26
This search worked in my town where WhatthefuckshouldIeat had trouble finding anything.

Could the difference between as layman friendly to understand as different search queries?

zacharycohn
Missed two burrito places closer, but I love the idea.
joshka
It might be a good idea to allow bookmarking a result. This could drive viral adoption by allowing a user to send the result via email / twitter etc. to their colleagues as a suggestion for lunch.

Edit: In fact, given this is a location based site, make the location really really obvious. The results are 'The nearest burrito to <insert address here>'. Put that as a heading above the map. The ability to then search should be below the map.

The space for the address entry looks a little too small for a reasonable address.