Search first
Instant local search across facility names, addresses, cities, ZIP codes, program identifiers, and record IDs.
Open source project / 01
King County
Food Safety Map
A faster, cleaner way to explore public restaurant ratings and inspection history throughout King County.
- Type
- Community data tool
- Coverage
- King County, Washington
- Stack
- Vue, TypeScript, MapLibre
- License
- MIT code / public data terms
Public information should not be difficult to use.
King County publishes valuable food safety information, but the existing map is slow to load, difficult to navigate, and especially awkward on a phone.
We wanted to show what happens when the same public records are treated as a product rather than simply placed inside a general-purpose mapping interface. The result gets people from a restaurant name or address to its rating and inspection history with fewer steps and less waiting.
What changed / 02
Designed around
the question.
People want to find a place, understand its rating, and inspect the history. Every major interaction supports that path.
Map without the wait
A compact facility snapshot and native MapLibre clustering avoid repeated, oversized viewport queries.
History on demand
Inspection and violation records load only when requested, keeping the initial experience focused and fast.
Built for every screen
A desktop sidebar and mobile map panel preserve geographic context while browsing detailed records.
Static first. Live where it matters.
The application turns roughly twelve thousand active facility locations into a cacheable snapshot during deployment.
Search, filtering, and clustering then happen in the browser. Detailed inspection and violation records stay live through King County's public ArcGIS service and are fetched only after someone selects a facility. A scheduled GitHub workflow refreshes the deployed snapshot without committing County data into the source repository.
King County ArcGIS->Build snapshot->Vue + MapLibre->Fast local search