alaska-eats
Three things built from one pipeline (ported from ../or-eats/, with pieces from ../tx-eats/ and ../co-eats/; those folders are
never modified):
- The web leaderboard: Alaska restaurants ranked on several boards, published as a private claude.ai Artifact from
site/. It uses
the UCSD Google Local 2021 snapshot for ratings, labeled "2021" everywhere, so site/ and its generator never go in a public repo.
- Alaska Eats: Restaurants, a free iPhone and iPad app (
AlaskaEats/, XcodeGen project.yml). No Google-derived data: places
come from Overture Maps open data, the Municipality of Anchorage's records and hand-checked research; ratings and hours come live
from Apple Maps' own place card.
- The website in
docs/ (generated by scripts/make-site.py, served by GitHub Pages): landing page, the hand-checked guides
(halibut, salmon and crab; Anchorage's global kitchens), James Beard honorees, the oldest places, Anchorage's inspection scores
explained, city pages, the web app at /explore/, privacy and terms. QA with scripts/qa-site.py.
See CLAUDE.md for the rules and commands, and playbook/ for sources and calibration (12-sources.md) and the naming round
(05-naming.md).
Official records
- Anchorage Health Department (Municipality of Anchorage Open Data): food permits and each scored inspection out of 100, shown as
published with the date and the department's next step. No grade is computed. The open-data file stopped updating on May 19, 2026,
and every page that shows a score says so.
- Municipal Clerk, Anchorage: approved liquor licenses (type, number, expiration year; licensee names are never read).
- Outside Anchorage, the state's Department of Environmental Conservation inspects restaurants but publishes no bulk results, and the
state's permit and license lists aren't open to scripts, so the app and site show none there.
- James Beard Foundation honors and America's Classics, as facts. Alaska has no MICHELIN Guide.
Alaska specifics
- The state crosses the 180th meridian: the pipeline writes longitudes past 180° as lon − 360, the app and site data wrap them back,
and the outline tests and the web map unwrap east longitudes first, so Attu and Adak count as Alaska.
- The in-state test is the Census TIGER polygon; towns come from Census places and boroughs (public domain).
- Many places open only in summer; a seasonal place is never marked closed for good.
