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Field notes

Incidental observations · The Boba Frontier Team

Figures computed from each region's committed pack at build time: every number below is a count over, or a direct quote of, the Google Places crawl and pack metadata — nothing is surveyed, tasted, certified, or inferred.

San Francisco

51 of 172 self-assigned Google types in the committed San Francisco pack are carried by exactly one listing. Type tags are each listing's own Google Places designation — "one-of-a-kind" describes this crawl, not the region's cuisine.

Bay Area (9 counties)

39 of 230 self-assigned Google types in the committed Bay Area (9 counties) pack are carried by exactly one listing. Type tags are each listing's own Google Places designation — "one-of-a-kind" describes this crawl, not the region's cuisine.

Los Angeles metro

54 of 266 self-assigned Google types in the committed Los Angeles metro pack are carried by exactly one listing. Type tags are each listing's own Google Places designation — "one-of-a-kind" describes this crawl, not the region's cuisine.

New York City

38 of 235 self-assigned Google types in the committed New York City pack are carried by exactly one listing. Type tags are each listing's own Google Places designation — "one-of-a-kind" describes this crawl, not the region's cuisine.

Across the packs

Together the 4 packs list 98,211 unique places; 3,732 listings appear in more than one pack — the Bay Area pack includes San Francisco, so a place can be counted twice at the source.

280 place reports are published under places/: 18 of those places rank on more than one frontier's highest-rated list, and 21 appear in more than one pack's list.

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Methodology & caveats

Counts are Google Places (New) listings from each region's committed crawl data; a place joins a frontier when its listing name or Google type matches that category. The pack build date shown is when the routing pack was compiled — the original crawl collection dates are not recorded, so listing freshness is unknown. Drive times on the map are free-flow estimates — road-class speeds, no traffic, no parking, no queue at the counter — computed only out to a two-hour limit; beyond that a place is simply uncharted. Quality scores are ratings scaled to 100 — a rating-derived proxy, not a taste measurement. Unrated places cannot be charted.

Only places whose Google listing says “Halal Restaurant” or whose name contains “halal”. Cuisine alone is never treated as certification — many halal kitchens are missing here, and listed status is unverified.

The full pipeline — corpus, road graph, speed model, routing and ranking — is documented on the methodology page.

FrontierFood is an independent parody research project about the geospatial accessibility of lunch. Not affiliated with Cognition or Google.