Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Cartographies of Chowbama: The Obamas Ate Here Map

The tekfabulous Alex Nicholson, who is the food writer for BrightestYoungThings, has created a really fun Google map of all the places the Obamas have eaten in DC. Even better, each of the cute/annoying map pins that show up on the interactive version of the map has a link to a blogpost that covers the specific Obama visit (Ob Fo's the one for The Source, where First Lady Michelle Obama recently celebrated Social Secretary Desiree Roger's fiftieth birthday). There's also addresses and phone numbers, website links, and review links in each map-pin info bubble.

Ms. Nicholson has just beat the DC tourism board to the punch, because this kind of map will be huuuugely popular with summer tourists; both Chicago and the island of O'ahu feature "Obama Ate Here" tours, which are major attractions. And speaking of ate here...the chair in the pic is from The Dairy Godmother, where the President took Malia and Sasha for a pre-Father's day frozen custard treat.

Thanks Alex!