In Switzerland they have a site called http://www.search.ch even though most of it is only available in German or French, like the wikipedia or weather integration. The real-estate map is great but they have not been able to get all the local companies to use their service. http://immo.search.ch/ maybe because of the cost?
Public transport timetable information is great, even works from each bus- stop, just hover over a stop and see the information pop-up. On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 12:13:18 James Livingston wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
