This has been moved from the Travel Information Forum to the Open Forum. It will still be available for download, but not appear in the Community placemarks in GE.
[edited 5/10/06]
I AM NOT MAINTAINING OR UPDATING THIS DATA IN ANY WAY.
Here's the deal: I did an experiment to see if I could get all the Starbucks coordinates from their website. I thought the results were interesting, so I posted my KMZ file to the GE forum. For whatever reason, it got ranked high enough to show up in the list of Community placemarks. Now I'm getting all kinds of mail, asking me to either correct the database, or to take it down entirely. I can't win.
Personally, I would rather support local businesses, and it makes me sad to be branded the "evil Starbucks guy". I will leave my KML file on the forum, but will try to find a way to not have it show up by default in GE. For now, just uncheck "Travel Information", and all the bad Starbucks will go away. Sorry it got out of hand.
Feel free to use this file to create your own database. I'm done.
I am new to this...but, you have listed this location as Super Target West Palm Beach ST-19 - This entry is incorrect. This is the intersection of Okeechobee Blvd and Royal Palm Beach Blvd. The location hilighted is the Winn-Dixie Shopping Center...across the street from it, is the Publix Shopping Center. I don't know who posts the titles or corrects them, but, I just wanted to point this out to you.
well your Starbucks for Glenferrie Road Melbourne - Victoria - Australia is about where they should all be ! In the middle of a parklands where people walk dogs - and just across the rail line from the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.
hMMM WELL i Guess I could map all the coffeeshops in the local area. I mean there are a lot more than Starbucks. I can't remember any real coffeeshops in Watsonville although there is a small resturant across from the Plaza Park.
If you are going to insist on keeping this landmark up you should post a warning about how loading it will paste markers all over the map like a plaque of locusts - though that is an apt analogy for Starbucks...
Really - this is pointless. In most of the developed world you can't turn around and spit without hitting a Starbucks (and spitting on them falls within my definition of Good Things To Do) - so what need is there for a worldwide guide to their locations?
-------------------- "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Here's the deal: I did an experiment to see if I could get all the Starbucks coordinates from their website. I thought the results were interesting, so I posted my KMZ file to the GE forum. For whatever reason, it got ranked high enough to show up in the list of Community placemarks. Now I'm getting all kinds of mail, asking me to either correct the database, or to take it down entirely. I can't win.
Personally, I would rather support local businesses, and it makes me sad to be branded the "evil Starbucks guy". I will leave my KML file on the forum, but will try to find a way to not have it show up by default in GE. For now, just uncheck "Travel Information", and all the bad Starbucks will go away. Sorry it got out of hand.
Also, I am not maintaining or updating this data in any way. I'm done.
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