I had a couple moving to southern California from Houston Texas. They used the map search tool and love it over ParkPlace (I do have clients that love Parkplace too). They bought a great home from us in Corona, California. I talked to them several months later and they are still raving about the map search…and this is before Diverse Solutions released the new version

With regards to the city markers, we don’t actually manually place them on the map or determine where to zoom when you click on a marker. Instead, we use statistical information derived from what the MLS gives us to determine how big the city is and where to place the marker. I’m not saying that it can’t be wrong — I’m just saying that it’s not subjective. The city markers will not necessarily be in the center of the city, but rather where the center of the residential listings in the city are located. Same thing with the zoom when you click on it — it won’t necessarily zoom to the center of the city, but rather to the area which encompasses at least 90% of the listings in that city. For example, on our main IDX demo (http://idx.diversesolutions.com), the city marker for LA is located south of the city center. However, after we average out the locations of all of the LA residential listings and eliminate the ones that are statistically WAY off, our system places the marker south of the city center. Does that make sense?

I appreciate your quick response. My conversations with the sales rep was sometime around the 2nd week in September. I tried to locate the email but it is lost.

I loaded my listing 9/3/08 and it sold November 6th. 9/28/08 I I received a follow-up email from sales so my conversations were around the second week of September. The listing MLS#
was 70815234. The areas that were inaccurate were: Cooling, Documents on File, Electric Feature, Heating, and Term Features.
Cooling had None instead of Heat Pump, Individual Control, Unit Control
Heating had Oil, Space Heater, Steam instead of Heat Pump, Electric, Individual
Electric said underground instead of Circuit Breakers.
Terms of Use had Rent with Option instead of Contract for
Deed
Documents on File had Investment Analysis, Site Plan,
Soil Survey instead of Unit Deed, Master Deed, Rules &
Reg, Floor Plan

AS far as the western suburbs of Boston, I have sold in
Newton and Brookline for 25 years. They are the closest
city and town west of Boston and the most popular. Newton
has a triple A rating and is the most popular city in
Boston. Newton is comprised of 11 different villages
within it having their own zip codes.
Wellesley is next to Newton but is a much smaller community with 2 zip codes. I have to click on the green marker on
Wellesley in order to bring up the properties in Newton.
Maybe I should say that the placement of the markers is
incorrect on the map.

Newton is not being given the prominence it deserves.
Iam sorry for being such a pest on this matter but there
are over 450 brokers that concentrate on selling in Newton
alone. Coldwell Banker has two separate offices in Newton
as well as Hammond Residential.

Again, thank-you for your quick reply. That salesperson was awful for ignoring me and not correcting the mistakes on my listing. Why were there so many mistakes?

Yours truly,

Nancy

With regards to the map marker placement and the coordinates of towns, we use a time tested statistical modeling system or order to figure out where to place the map markers and where the bounds of the cities are. We base our data off of all of the residential properties in each MLS, so it should be very accurate. Put simply, the area that the marker zooms into when you click on it will represent the area where at least 90% of the residential properties reside. Does that make sense?

I wonder how many other listings are being displayed with incorrect information.

I also found it very difficut pulling up all the listings in the Town of Newton, MA where Newton has so many areas in it.
Also when they displayed the map of MA I was clicking on the Town of Wellesley to get Newton. The map was innacurate
and confusing because the popular towns were not placed correctly.

Everyone is saying how wonderful Diverse Solutions is. I so want an updated IDX solution in my website but these errors are inexcusable.

Nancy Comenitz

Off the top of my head, I can’t remember if we support the Rancho Mirage area though. If you give us a buzz on Monday though, I’m sure a sales rep will be able to answer that question for you.

Here’s a new Bug: I just created this link for Bank Owned Homes: http://idx.diversesolutions.com/Link/17568

Works fine in Firefox and Chrome. Not on IE 6 or 7. Reason being, IE doesn’t pick up the Foreclosure/Bank Owned check box therefore shows a gazillion results instead of 52.

I’ll keep playing with it to see what else I can find. Looking forward to hearing from my rep. So far I haven’t had any response from my emails to support.