Northern Exposure

Worried about exposing yourself to unsanitary conditions while dining out in Anchorage? This app lets you quickly and easily locate nearby restaurants with favorable food safety inspection scores.

Built with

• Bootstrap & the Cerulean Bootswatch theme
• jQuery
• Open data from the city of Anchorage, AK

Usage

If changes are made, precompile the template for listing locations thusly:

~$ handlebars templates/* -f js/templates.js

This app is designed to work with your location, and if you're not currently located in Anchorage you won't find nearby restaurants.

To check this app out in the lower 48 states (or elsewhere), you can set a custom location in Chrome that makes your browser think you are in Anchorage.

• Open Chrome Dev tools (on Mac use option + command + I)
• Go to the console tab, and press esc to open the console drawer
• Select Sensors and in the Geolocation section select custom location from the drop down menu
• Enter in a latitude and longitude for Anchorage, AK.
• Refresh the browser window displaying the app.
• Enjoy!