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Google mashes up own Maps, Base for real estate
I'm not able to get this to work
completely, and the connection is a little strange, but Google has apparently
begun tying together the loose strands of services it provides. In this case, imagine a combination of Maps and Base to
divine the housing market. Try typing in "homes for sale" as a search, and a new option appears atop the
search results: Search Housing. You can further refine the search by location and type (rent, sale, or
whatever). Once you've narrowed those items down, you get a list of housing results, but with another, more advanced
refine above the results. Above each listing is a link called Location, which will take you to a Google Map. If you
look at the URL you've landed on in this search, it's google.com/base/etc... Pretty nifty, although who knows when
they'll do more with this. Right now those search results do indeed take you to the listing, not some special Google
holding tank. Anyone else find any tricks to this?UPDATE: As usual, this found its way onto digg several days ago. And yes, I know it's not a mashup.
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Dan said 10:27AM on 4-05-2006
for the UK someone's already done an impressive version of this at:
www.ononemap.com
this uses info sent from estate agents and is pretty handy.
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FrankK said 3:08PM on 5-09-2006
I would have to say this is a good move for Google. I think they are a little slow getting to this point. I know that it is a fairly new idea, the combining of other websites real estate data and bringing it into one place, but as far as the mapping goes, thats been done many times before. Look at www.emongoo.com for example, you can actually list your property 100% free. You get up to 20 photos, detailed description and even a free 'For Sale' sign (with shipping and handling cost). I also noticed they have created an alternative to using a real estate agent, yet you still get the same services. Looks like an up and coming site.
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