Setting Up A Proper "Neighborhood" Map URL

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

I understand that you have to prioritize improvements to the plugin, especially at this early stage.

However, I still think that adding proper neighborhood maps (rather than filters) makes sense in the long run.

As far as the other sites that you mention, both of them have proper URL neighborhood maps for Brooklyn (just as one example):
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g60827-Brooklyn_New_York-Vacations.html
http://www.yelp.com/brooklyn

In many cases, the neighborhood maps will be more popular than the larger city maps, and I believe that they deserve a proper URL.

I guess in the meantime I will try to see if our developer can find a way to rewrite the neighborhood URL using htaccesss or some other method.

Thank you again for taking the time to at least consider the idea.

Thank you for the follow up.

I this that these examples could show that having a neighborhood URL is preferable for good SEO ranking. I just tried to do a bunch of searches for neighborhood/category matches on Google and what I found is that Trip Advisor does not rank well for neighborhood data. The places in a neighborhood might rank well, but not a full listing for those neighborhoods.

If I search “Upper West Side restaurants” or “Manhattan restaurants”, Trip Advisor is down the list – with several sites that have proper /neighborhood/ URLs listing above them.

Yelp seems to do better with getting their search query pages indexed, but Yelp also has millions of dollars to spend on SEO and advertising, and most of the people using this plugin will not have that luxury.

I have one more question about neighborhoods. In the previous script we were using, neighborhoods are treated as normal maps, so everything that works with a main map will also work with a neighborhood.

With the new plugin, is it possible to have a “Neighborhood Category Map”?

In the past, we would have this:
/city/category-name
/city/neighborhood/category-name

I can see Yelp uses this:
http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=restaurants&find_loc=Bedford+Stuyvesant,+Brooklyn,+NY

What is the proper URL for a “Neighborhood + Category” map that might be indexed by Google with this plugin?

For example, “Williamsburg Cafes” or “Manhattan Hotels”.

I can see this:
/country/state/city/?neighbourhood=neighborhoodname
But can you do something like:
/country/state/city/?neighbourhood=neighborhoodname&category=categoryname
Does that work? Or is there some other way to generate a map showing a neighborhood and category?

Thank you again for taking the time to reply and help.