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Show HN: St. Louis Food Map

stlouing — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:51:34 +0000

I moved to St. Louis, a city that is said to punch above its weight regarding the food scene. I've been exploring and documenting it on this map.

Astro site using MapLibre GL, Protomaps and OpenStreetMap using self-hosted .pmtiles for the maps, hosted on GitHub. Interlinked food and neighborhoods throughout.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504042

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stlouing — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:28:31 +0000

Thank you! Yeah, I really liked having the visual differentiation of markers.

Show HN: An interactive, interlinked city exploration project (St. Louis)

stlouing — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:47:06 +0000

I moved to St. Louis a few years ago, and I started documenting the food I've tried, neighborhoods I've explored, and just the random stuff I've learned in a website.

It has a few features:

Food map[1]: a map where you can filter restaurants/cafes by type of cuisine, neighborhood, or rating, and sort by rating or alphabetical.

Neighborhood map[2]: a map of all the neighborhoods and parks in the city, and some notable St. Louis county suburbs.

I tried to make it interlinked and fun to explore, so you can land on the page for Sultan (restaurant) which leads you to The Grove (neighborhood), which could lead you back to Grace Meat & Three (nearby restaurant), or over to Midtown (nearby neighborhood), etc.

Built with Astro, hosted on Github[3], self-hosted map tiles.

[1]: https://stlouing.com/food/

[2]: https://stlouing.com/neighborhoods/

[3]: https://github.com/stlouing/stlouing.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808811

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stlouing — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:47:58 +0000

Recently I built https://stlouing.com, a digital garden for exploring the city I moved to (St. Louis). It has a few main sections:

Food Map - https://stlouing.com/food - a map of local restaurants and cafes I've found with ratings and some thoughts and comments on each one.

Neighborhood Map - https://stlouing.com/neighborhoods - a map of all the neighborhoods, which brings in any food spots or articles that reference each neighborhood, annual events, a few useful links like Niche, Wikipedia, and whatever I personally discover about those neighborhoods.

And then I have it divided into Topics (https://stlouing.com/topics) for evergreen articles that I'll keep modifying as I learn more, and Lists like Best of St. Louis Food (https://stlouing.com/best) which aggregates all my favorite food spots.

The maps are all locally hosted and scoped to the region, so I'm not using any Google Maps API, and the site is hosted on GitHub pages and open source.

I had a lot of fun building this, and I feel like it could also be useful for anyone else who wants for fork it for another city.

I really wanted to lean into the "old internet" ethos - just making a website about a personal hobby/interest. The modern internet is all videos and loud, flashy content. I don't know if there's any place left for sites like this, but I'm enjoying it.

The site relies on Astro, GitHub, Leaflet/Protomaps/OpenStreetMap, Lucide, Formspree, and Supabase.