[zapnap]

Hi, one of the developers here. This is just a little side project I built with a financial analyst friend. Uses government data from the FDIC / FFIEC / NCUA and an open algorithm Bob developed to rank banks based on local impact. Clearly more we could do here but wanted to release an easy to use tool that could help people find and promote community banks. Response has been good so far, just won a social innovation challenge grant. Your feedback and thoughts (improvements, issues, etc) all very welcome. tia.

[_neil]

Seems like a cool idea. Nothing comes up when I search cities in VA. And when I went directly to their pages I got a rails error:

http://banklocal.info/locations/va/3174-virginia-beach-va http://banklocal.info/locations/va/827-richmond-va

[zapnap]

Ha! My Redis instance just fell over :) Things should be back to normal now. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Seems like if you just search for 'Virginia' Google Places will plop you down in a rural part of the states where there aren't any banks within the default 5 mile radius. If you expand that search area a bit (or select a city) you'll see more options.

Thanks for taking a look!