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McTrot Tools

McTrot is an annual personal challenge to eat at every McDonald's in Manhattan, on foot, in less than 24 hours.

This repo contains tools for:

  • downloading current McDonald's locations from their API
  • researching and cataloging historical McDonald's locations from microfiche at NYPL
  • making a map
    • downloading geospatial layers from NYC Open Data
    • massaging layers into Postgres views
    • designing the map in QGIS
  • keeping track of workouts for McTrot
  • etc

This repository manages its external dependencies (gdal, postgres, jq, etc.) with devenv.sh.

The output of the scraping and mcghosts projects feed into the mapping project:

scraping ━━━━━┳━━━━━▶ mapping
              ┃
mcghosts ━━━━━┛

Here's a screenshot of the work in progress map:

Simple map of Manhattan with yellow diamonds, red diamonds, and gray dots

See also: maps from previous years before GIS.

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