Archive for 'July 2006'
Server Move Finished
We’ve move this site, www.propertymaps.com, and related tools to a new sever (Two Dual Core Opteron 265, 2GB RAM, 320GB HD, and this is just the start) at theplanet.com. We are now on a redundant, 8 backbone provider, 28 Gbps network. Hopefully everyone will notice the increased speed. Heh.
Props go out to Michael Miller for [...]
Zip Code Polylines
Here is an updated version of the previous polyline map - http://www.propertymaps.com/maps/polylines.php. I’ve added 5.8 million data points to cover about 50,000 zip codes in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. I’m also providing some useful statistics for each zip code such as population, average income, and average house value. This is [...]
4 commentsGoogle Maps Smooth Zooming
A somewhat buggy implementation of smooth zooming has been buried in the Google Map js for sometime. I’ve poked around with this a bit and found that after the smooth zoom action completed, the map would jump back to its previous zoom level - quite worthless. Rather than attempt to fix the code, I just [...]
No commentsGood Omen
Recently we installed a dartboard for entertainment. Needless to say, we’re all incredibly bad. I’m talking holes in the wall everywhere. So one morning I tell myself “If you hit a bullseye in the red or green zone within 3 throws, then that means my latest investment will be extremely successful.” [...]
1 commentCounty Polylines on Google Maps
Here is a simple mashup of census.gov data with Google Maps API 2.57 plotting county polylines for any given valid zip code. Take a look at http://www.propertymaps.com/maps/polylines.php. There is no restriction on the number of hits/second on this so have at it. Also, the polyline XML files are available for download for any given zip [...]
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