This post is something I’ve definitely used and found extremely valuable.
Housingmaps.com has a single, simple purpose — It uses Google Maps API to overlay all craigslist housing data on an interactive map with pushpins designating properties that match your criteria.
If you click on a property, images of the house will pop-up (if there are any associated with it) and a link back to the original post on craigslist is available.
This is a great example of how the same data can be presented in a different manner to create something new and valuable.
Visit Google Maps API at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ – you can put google maps on your own website
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Well, at Cazoodle, we do the same, albeit, for apartments from every web-site, not just craigslist. Our first product, Apartment Search, collects apartment listings from thousands of websources, and makes them easy to search using integration of google maps and street view.
For example, just for Sonoma city in CA, Cazoodle has 146 apartments listed.
http://apartments.cazoodle.com/search/city-Sonoma,CA
Hey Jason,
Your website http://apartments.cazoodle.com/ is pretty cool. I like that it includes more than just craigslist and still uses googlemaps overlay to give people a sense of geographic location easily. I’ll probably update the post and reference your site sometime soon.
Thanks,
Nathan
All great sites. Vertical search is the future of finding structured data online. The fragmentation of the rental space means renters search across many sites. The vertical rental sites make it easy for renters to search across many sources at once. For example, our rental search engine rentBits.com crawls thousands of sources and traffic is up over 300% for the year.
http://rentbits.com
Check out http://www.cribq.com . It's only Craigslist, but it adds quite a few useful features, like hotlists, notes, streetview, etc, and you can zoom into neighborhoods. (BTW, I don't think cazoodle has craigslist listings, at least I couldn't find them).