With the real estate layer turned on available houses and apartments will be tagged on the map and details of each property will be displayed in the left-hand side bar. When you click on a tag an information window opens displaying the price and image of the property. Clicking on the expand button or the 'more info' link will expand the information window and give you more details of the property.
The very first Google Maps mashup was created by Paul Rademacher. His mashup HousingMaps showed Craigslist housing listings on a Google Map. His hack of Google Maps inspired Google to open up Google Maps via the Google Maps API. Paul Rademacher now works for Google so he could well have been the inspiration for this new layer.
In other news Google have announced the latest image update for Google Earth. As always Google has announced the locations that are affected in the form of a quiz. Readers of the Google Earth Blog are normally amongst the first to find the right answers. Updates to Google Earth are usually added to Google Maps a week or two later.
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4 comments:
Leave it to Google to squeeze every dollar out of every industry!
To be fair to Google all they are doing is listing the properties of realtors on Google Maps and providing links to those realtors.
Google themselves are not making any money they are just aiding realtors in (squeezing every dollar out of house sellers - oops) in selling houses.
This is such a cool feature, earlier today Google added it to their main search automatically. The listings are also more accurate, here's the news from the guys over at groovyPost:
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/groovynews/real-estate-listings-added-to-google-maps/
It's a good news for the real estate industry. Since they are now visible in google maps, they could potentially reach target clients in different locations.
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