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Save yourself some time by looking at the home via tools like Zillow or Cyberhomes from the sky.
WeKnowUrban.com went from 350 unique visitors on Sunday to 606 on Monday by adding this one image to the home page and shooting out an e-mail to our data base about it.
Roofray.com is a neat Google Maps mashup which enables you to calculate your listing's solar potential. Using Google Maps, you can zoom in onto your listing and define the roof area with an easy-to-use drawing tool, set the angle and the site does the rest. It calculates the roof's solar potential … (8 comments)
Interested in finding out more information about what a particular home and it's surrounding area looks like?
In some markets, multiple offers can show up whether you are buying or selling real estate. As a seller it is a pleasant experience, while buyers have a different set of emotions to deal with.
I was tooling around Google, checking my analytics and seeing where my new web site (www.lahomephotography.com) was ranked, when I stumbled on this great feature. It is so good I thought I would share it with everybody.
The secret to having more Time and Money has been sought after by people for thousands of years. Recently, we have added a new item to the list of things to lust after…GAS.
Potential buyers now have one more tool in their online arsenal. Google Maps has enabled the popular Street View feature in the Port Aransas, Mustang Island and Padre Island areas. Now it is possible to explore properties and their neighboring homes and streets. It is a virtual tour of neighborhoods and … (2 comments)
I came across a very useful feature of Google Maps recently, called “My Maps”. As the name suggests, it allows you to make custom maps by plotting points, drawing lines, making shapes and annotating on the map. There are some great ways to use this tool in real estate which can … (0 comments)
SpotCrime.com Google map mashup -- check out your neighborhood!
Here is a cool yet addictive new feature that has just been provided for Baton Rouge... "Street View" in Google Maps! Although this has probably been around for major cities, Baton Rouge is just now catching up and I'm catching on!
Hassan's 7 Picks for First-time Home-buyers
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 07/16/2008 – In association with the South African Tourism Board, Virtual Africa has recently announced the release of their official South Africa Tourism Google Earth Layer, which has been included into Google Earth’s Primary Database.
Alright, Ines has finally agreed to come back and post on RSS Pieces (we all recall the Great Trackback Debacle of 2008). And this time, she is giving up the goods on how she creates those fabulous Maps on her category pages! I get asked how she does them about 20 … (7 comments)
Ten Reasons for all Real Estate Agents to use an IPhone
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I came across a fun little tool while messing around with Google Maps "My Maps" Feature a few months back and thought I would share it with everyone.
You are most likely creating localized blog posts to gain additional search engine exposure for your local area. Yes, this is a great motivating factor but you also want
to grab the visitors that find your post and keep them on your page or at least
give them something to remember … (98 comments)
Oh my goodness, I was reading this news article about a couple in Pittsburg that was suing Google for invasion of privacy for their "street view" feature and how Google must have had one of their photographers drive up a private drive to get a shot of the front of their … (6 comments)
Tonight I wanted to get a feel for how much of the United States is covered with profiles from agents like you. So, I took the data in the database and worked with the Google Maps API (Application Programming Interface). It gave me a nice representation of which areas the agents … (0 comments)
Today I was driving to another appointment, leaving my office on Raytown Rd. I was traveling South on Blue Ridge when I spied a Google camera car. We've all heard about them, you may have even seen a few pictures, but I actually saw the real McCoy.
In our business we often times have to make multilple stops to get everything done. In property management and sales this may mean going to several houses that might be located all over the place. 
It's been just over a year since Google released the My Maps feature within Google Maps that allows users to easily customize, brand and take their own user-created maps to a new level and publish them on the web.
This has nothing to do with SEO (well actually that's not true ... look at the URL stucture here and you'll see it is actually pretty powerful from an SEO point of view) ... but that's not what I'm talking about.
Yet another powerful tool we can utilize in our quest for excellence!
I am working on a new web site and have been looking at many mapping software packages to enhance Google Map, has anyone found a interface for Google Maps that would let you gategorize your listings and organize on Google Maps? 
After reading this blog today you will in no way, shape, or form be the same again. My success is your success and my BREAKTHROUGHS ARE YOUR BREAKTHROUGHS. The advent of my meeting with BRIMULTIMEDIA and founder Brian Blake surpasses all realms of "tripping the light fantastic". I akin this meeting to … (2 comments)
I found this Great Political Contribution Google Maps Mashup on a political blog called the Huffington Post. The map is called Fundrace 2008 and it lets you search name or address or occupation and even address for political contributions displayed on a Google Map . So you can check your parents, … (0 comments)
The last entry I made was about using free traffic/map services on a web-enabled phone as a way to avoid biting the bullet and buying a GPS. 
Recently I read about a service of Google called Street View. Street View is a feature of Google Maps and it allows you to "walk" along a street, checking out houses, stores, signs, etc. You can pan the view around 360 degrees. You can turn left or right to see the … (4 comments)
I've created this blog to discuss the technical aspects of running PropertyMaps.com. We are an aggregator of MLS data nationwide so for those who know of the disparate nature of MLS entities, you can understand the challenges we face. I plan to write about the problems/solutions we encounter when dealing with … (1 comments)
I needed a map for a blog I'm working on. I made a google map, used google's little Link to this Page button to get the appropriate HTML code, and copied that HTML code into AR.
With MLS We have recently completed a website upgrade for East Tennessee Realtor David Wyrick, owner of Single Tree Realty Company, based in Blaine, Tennessee. [see David's East TN Real Estate Blog]
Here's how you can create a Google Map within MyMaps and embed custom content about a local market:
I don't know about you, but I'm always on the lookout for something I can do with my websites that others don't have. Although my company provides maps on my company-sponsored website, I run specialized virtual tours and have other information on my "external" website(s) that never had mapping functionality...until now!
Can a Satellite View Help Sell a Property? 
I got a out-of-state referral the other day from another Agent for a couple needing to relocate to the Northern Virginia area. The husband is retiring from the military after serving 20 years. The wife is a home maker and looks after their young son. He has accepted a job in … (5 comments)
Orlando, Florida as you have never seen it before! Google Maps has had the street level feature before for certain large cities such as New York but now the great minds that are Google have 'done' Orlando. 
About a month ago I was going to write an article about Yahoo! Maps and how the site has quickly become the best place for agents to plot their course. However, each of the dominant map pages have come out with.Well Start with Mapquest. Mapquest has been the dominant "name" leader … (5 comments)
Has anyone seen the site http://www.wellcomemat.com/ ??? It's a great site to post video home tours. I think with sites like this Virtual Tours are a thing of the past. There is so much more detail in a live video that gives you the experience of actually being there. Where many … (2 comments)
First we had Zillow, then came Trulia. Okay, I am not sure about the order. However there is a new tool that may prove to be a usefull tool in the REALTORs arsenal of online resources. The tool is a walk score http://www.walkscore.com/ and it is a Google Maps mashup that ranks … (4 comments)
A non-ActiveRain project of mine, the Sacramento Map Project, is beginning to shape up fairly well.
Google is continuing to add services to their mapping platform. Mapplets allow the user to search for Real Estate for rent, for sale and foreclosures. When I created a local search, it lumped many properties into a single marker which I think would be a little confusing for the consumer. There … (6 comments)
http://www.edgeio.com/ - Craigslist Wannabe http://safarri.com/index - Real Estate and Classified Listings coupled with Google Earthhttp://www.housingmaps.com/ - Completely Free site that uses Google Earth and CraigsList http://www.postlets.com/home.php - Posts your MLS Listing to 9+ different classified sites at once. http://www.vflyer.com/main/Guest.jsp - Sam as above templates a bit more visually appealing, possibility to create multiple accounts to … (317 comments)
Real Estate is a lot to do with location, location, location as the saying goes. We all have seen some pretty cool things with mapping, Google Earth and space imaging. Just have a look at http://www.chicagocrime.org/types/arson/74 or http://visz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert.php?lang=eng for kicks and grins.
Check it out! Google maps now has a little tab called "My Maps". This is one of those 'awesome' new things put out by Google. Mark your favorite places on your map.Draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas.Add your own text, photos, and videos.Publish your map to the web.Share … (3 comments)
Have you ever used GoogleMaps for directions? 
My wife just called me and said, "Are you in front of your computer?"
We have used google maps to display all of our recent sales for 2007 for Queens and Nassau County NY. Now you can see where the address is on the map as well as listing and selling price information. Keep checking because we will continually add our recent sales to the map. … (0 comments)
I have found something that I think adds a very attractive and intuitive look to the front of my website. I have found the website Mapbuilder.net.
If you like to study the Google results for certain keywords in your community you may have noticed that there have been some changes to the landscape. Many results pages that include the keyword of a local community or city now have a large map at the top of the results … (17 comments)
My friends at The Harper Team recently noted that the people at My Tech Opinion.com provide the steps you would take in mapping multiple locations on Google Maps. To read that article from My Tech Opinions, click here. This could be a great tool to see homes on broker tours and mapping several … (1 comments)
Reggie over at My Tech Opinion has a a good post today on a new Google mapping feature that allows multiple destinations. Agents can use this to map house tours for agents.Google Maps for Your Real Estate Buyers Tour … (3 comments)
I tried the google maps out several years ago when it was in beta. The palm based version was horrible, so I never used it.
I received an interesting phone call this afternoon. It was the local fire department. Turns out they don't know where a number of local communities are located and they thought a real estate agent could help them. I explained that I had all of the local communities mapped out on … (4 comments)
If you're a realtor and you're using a TREO, which i recommend, at least in Atlanta becuase the Supra Key will run on your fon, you MUST get a copy of google maps for the TREO. Do not go to bed tonight without getting it. Open a browser on your fon … (3 comments)
Ever used Google Maps? It's very cool. You can look up just about anything. Who knows how those wizards at Google get all that information and stuff it all into Google Maps. Eventually, when Google takes over the world, every possible business will be listed in Google maps.
I just finished the first round of beta testing the inclusion of Google Maps into my site. This took a few hours of work, and between that and a mini-vacation, there just has not been enough time to write the quality of blogs that I wanted. Here is how the Google … (4 comments)