William Reardon’s Blog

My brother, who just bought a townhouse in Seattle, IM’ed this to me today:

http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/

It places real estate listings from Craigslist onto Google Maps, making it quick & easy to see what’s available where & for what price. This is awesome. In the past when looking for places to rent — and now looking for a place to buy — this is exactly what I’ve been looking for. (If only they incorporate MLS listings to boot!)

The cool thing is you can get all of this data from Craiglist via XML. I’m not sure there’s a web services API for Google Maps, but it’s a great example of how one could be used. It’s even better example of why open apis and letting your customers innovate is freaking brilliant idea.

paulrademacher I don’t know you, but thank you! (Now can we get one with MLS data? Pretty please? :-)

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