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Google is Making Its Impact Felt in the Mapping Industry

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

First, on Monday, it was announced that the KML format is now an international standard supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium. Google Earth Blog coverage - Google Earth’s KML Now International Standard.
Then, Google Earth 4.3 was released on Tuesday (more commentary on Mashable). If you’re curious, here is a video demo:

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Now Available: Google Street View via API

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Over at the official Google Maps API blog, there’s an announcement that Google’s Street View functionality is now accessible programmatically via an API (that’s Application Programming Interface, for those who either didn’t know or just took that acronym for granted). What this means for agents, brokers, and vendors is that applications can now be […]

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Coming Soon: Location-Aware IDX Apps

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

At the time of this writing, Apple is holding a press release to announce their API for the iPhone; you can check out the live feed here. They’ve announced a lot of really incredible stuff so far, but the part that I was most intrigued with is this:
We have a complete set of APIs for […]

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Bird’s Eye View Expansion

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Though it was announced last week, I just saw Matt Goyer’s post mentioning a major update in Bird’s Eye imagery, and thought the news worthy of passing along.

Here are the US cities (counties or MSA’s in some cases) with updated imagery:

Etowah Co, AL
Mobile Co, AL
Monterey Co, CA
Boulder Co
Broomfield Co
WashingtonDC.
Cobb Co, GA
De Kalb Co, GA
Muscogee Co, […]

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More Google Street Views - 12 Cities Added

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

According to the Google Earth Blog, there are now 12 new cities that include Google Street View imagery:

Albany and Schenectady, NY
Boise, ID
Juneau, AKR
Kansas City, MO
Manchester, NH
Milwaukee, WI
Research Triangle Park (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill), NC
San Antonio, TX
Salt Lake City, UT

More coverage at Google Lat Long Blog.
And yes, […]

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Google Street View — Too Close for Comfort?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Since I’ve written about Google StreetView twice before, I thought this video might be of interest to some people.

[via Spatially Adjusted via thevacationeers]
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Neighborhood 2.0 - What does the Future Entail?

Monday, January 28th, 2008

There’s an interesting post at webmapper that’s probably worth reading, especially if you are a techy interested in real estate - Neighbo(u)rhood 2.0
The new services and products launched by Urban Mapping, Zillow, and the Dutch CBS in the first weeks of January may herald a new trend that affects online mapping: Neighbourhood 2.0. It does […]

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Zolve.com adds a nifty geo-locator to their homepage.

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

Many of you may have Zolve.com blog accounts. Its a real estate focused blogging network similar to ActiveRain.com and RealTown.com. According to their site, they have plotted 4008 network participants throughout the world. What makes it nice is how the drill down shows members by state, county and city.

Check it and see if you are […]

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Building a (Simple) Mashup in 24 Hours

Monday, January 21st, 2008

When Zillow released their neighborhood data last Wednesday night, I was floored. My company had talked about trying to acquire similar data off and on over the past two years, but it was always too cost prohibitive to do so. As I thought about the magnitude of what they had done that night, I […]

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Zillow Shares Data on 7,000 Neighborhoods

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The data geeks over at Zillow Labs are sharing some of their work via a Creative Commons License. It is represents the neighborhood boundaries of over 7,000 locations in major markets across the U.S.
What’s cool is the fact that you can make additions and changes to the database files and redistribute them, (with proper attribution […]

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Basic IDX Questions, Answered

Monday, December 17th, 2007

The other day, Drew Meyers pointed me to a post in the Zillow forums where someone was asking some very interesting (and seemingly common) questions about IDX. The individual wanted to know what IDX essentially is and whether or not someone could create a program that could easily search across all real estate listings on […]

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GPS & Home Listings…Coming Soon!

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

My head spun when I saw this video. It shows how Dash GPS has begun to mashup open API’s from the web and putting them into GPS navigation devices. The video shows the users driving around Silicon Valley looking at home values from Zillow as they drive by homes.
If you’re a Realtor…YOU WANT THIS NOW!!! […]

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