Chris Peterson

I love hamburgers.

But sometimes, when I’m burgin’, I don’t know where the nearest, best burger place is.

Decisions like this are too important to be left to chance.

So I made a thing.

That thing is BurgerMap.

BurgerMap runs off of the Ushahidi platform. Ushahidi has been deployed in dozens, perhaps hundreds, of conflict areas all over the world. In its history it has documented violence in the aftermath of the disputed 2007 Kenyan elections, anti-immigrant violence in South Africa, eyewitness reports from Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, and cholera outbreaks in post-earthquake Haiti.

Thus, it was a natural choice to deploy in the most pressing crisis first worlders often find themselves in, namely where to find a good burger.

BurgerMap is very easy to use. Simply click on the “Submit A Report” link and fill out the form. Include the name of the burger joint, a description of its merits, and its location. You should be able to use the integrated Google Local search in the “Find A Location” section; if that fails, just drop a pointer as close as you can and enter in the street address.

Please, take a moment to contribute your favorite burger place to our burgeoning burger community. And post any suggestions for how to make BurgerMap better.