How to get in Local?

[ncjbhd]

I have a couple of sites that are about local information, but can't seem to get in google. I do however, see plenty of sites in the local category for my city, that I know weren't submitted by the webmasters (I have submitted about two months ago when beta first came out). As a matter of fact, some of them haven't been updated in years. What does Google look for when looking for local results?