Re: Seeking comments on new real estate / maps / earth mash-up

Hello cgmckeever

First, I have to say your http://map.prupref.com is great. Nice, simple
interface... seeing that help me understand what you meant by using it
as a "search" vs. just display.

Since you have both types of search on your site... do you a bigger
share of your users moving towards "map search" vs your traditional
search?

cgmckeever wrote:
> you could guess the users location using something like hostip.info.
> from there you can then zoom to a respectful zoom level showing
> properties.
> its true that the user may leave after a few clicks, so keep it simple
> for them.
> The way we did it (http://map.prupref.com) is that we use the map
> itself as
> a search parameter - meaning, dont just think about the map a something
> to view results, it is a tool to search - hence moving the map to where
> they want to look
>
> List how many properties your entire DB hold, I think seeing too much
> is the same as seing too little -
>
> as for GE - its a great tool, and can be used in many of the same ways
> as the API - and then some