On 26/08/2009, at 7:44 PM, John Smith wrote: > One example given was do you search on google to rent a house, > generally no one does, they use a specialist search engine that is > built for rent listings.
That reminds me of something I was wishing for a couple of months ago, trying to find a rental place after moving to Brisbane - one of those web sites that made better use of geodata. Some of the good ones will shop you a map with a house icon for each property that is for rent/ sale, but a lot don't do even that. What I really wanted was a site that would do the above, and also tell me how long it would take to talk to the nearest public transport, catch it, and walk to my work at the other end[0]. Plus where the nearest shops were, if there were any parks or sports facilities nearby and so on. Now, if only I had a freely available source of data for something like that... I guess I should probably shut up and actually do something about it, although it probably wouldn't work to well without decent house number data. [0] Copying and pasting the address into the Translink web site gets tiring after a while. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
