April 12, 2005
Mapping The Housing Market
What happens when someone combines two things you love? Sometime's it doesn't work out so well. Other times, it does to quite the opposite effect. Paul Rademacher has combined Craigslist and Google Maps to produce a nearly magical tool which allows you to search Craigslist listings for housing - either to rent or buy - in any metro area with a Craigslist site. While we're sure it involves some sort of fancy programming footwork and public APIs we're not asking too many questions, just enjoying his work! Elsewhere, people have begun loading the satellite images from Google Maps to Flickr and annotate them with notes about what is pictured. There are already a couple of D.C. As if you needed enough procrastination material at work!
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You can tell it's a killer app when people begin developing more applications around it and using it in ways the original developer never guessed.
Also, try this page. See Graceland, Neverland, the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, MT. St. Helens and more from your swivel chair.
What's Next? As phone cams with GPS soon flood the market, we're going to see some interesting innovation.
Imagine thousands of people taking shots with their GPS enabled Phone cam. When they post it to Flickr, it will be accompanied with the longitude/lattitude co-ordinates. Now, say you're playing around with Google Maps, hovering over the trees or rooftops of some spot you're interested in.
Get your latitude and longitude, go to Flickr, run a search on that. You should see ground level photos of that very spot as thousands of people fill in the last mile.
This is one to watch. There's no telling what will spin off next.
Ted
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Very cool stuff. But when did the Convention Center get renamed Union Station?
OMG.
That is, by far the coolest thing I've seen all week. And I got Season 2 of The Wire on Netflix on Monday. So that says a lot.
I've been working with the USGS imagery used to create the Washington, DC mosaic for Google Maps for some time now...
They are not technically in the form of Memory Maps, rather interactive geographical information systems (iGIS) and what I call GeoSpatial Art.
Here is a selection of some of my recent creations:
GIS:
U Street 1988
U Street 2001
GeoSpatial Art:
The White House
U.S. Naval Observatory
The Washington Monument
Downtown DC
(the same imagery used in the Google Maps, but in high resoltuion)
njoy
That housing app seems kind of buggy, it shows stuff as $1 if it doesn't have a price in the title, and has some stuff from SE in NW instead. Doh.
If you want to see another cool real estate related google maps hack check out http://www.cytadia.us where you can map your search results on a google map.
I created a google maps mashup with DC property sales...
http://nosyneighbormap.com/
It maps both vacant property and past property sales for DC. Over 70,000 sales records are accessible. There are even some statistics charts thrown in to show just how much the DC real estate market has been growing over the past year.
I updated my mashup to include a9 block view images. Just click on a red pushpin and it'll pop up an approximate image for the property. I got the idea from a NYC site, it's pretty slick:
http://nosyneighbormap.com/