Big British Food Map Community Guidelines

Date Published:

30/04/2008

If you’d like to add your favourite food place to the Big British Food Map, please take a minute to read through our Community Guidelines before you get started.

1) We don’t want to end up with hundreds of suggestions for the same place on the map. It’ll just be chaos. So, if the place you want to suggest has already been added, please leave a comment or add some photos to that place. And before you add a new place to the map, we suggest that you have a quick search to check that someone hasn’t already added it.

2) Tell us as much as you can about the place, but don’t worry too much if you don’t know their exact postcode or telephone number. We do ask though that you make sure you’ve got the right location for that place, as otherwise no-one else is going to know how to find the place you are recommending.

3) We want to know why you love the place you’re adding to the map. So please write at least a few words about that place, but we ask you to keep it polite and respectful.

4) Don’t give away your own personal information and also respect the privacy of the people you might mention in your suggestion or comment about a place. Norma of “Norma’s café” might love you to say she makes a great cup of tea and cake, but she won’t want you to tell people that she lives above the shop and has 3 children.

5) If you don’t like a place, that’s your opinion, but this is not a platform to air your grievances. Bear in mind your legal responsibilities if leaving criticism.

6) If you’re tempted to promote your own business bear in mind a staged compliment sticks out a mile and everyone will know what you’ve done! So please be upfront about it if you’re suggesting your own business. Spam will be removed

7) If you’ve visited a place and want to add your photos of it to the site, keep them clean please. If there are any children in the shot they must be yours. You must also use pictures which are yours, so don’t “borrow” them from elsewhere on the web and pretend they are yours.

That's it! Now you can add a place to the map. People here at Channel 4 have already made a start putting our favourite places in.