Archive for 'July 2007'
PropertyMaps Expands to New England
We have added over 55,000 properties to the New England area, covering Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York (1 property), and Massachusetts. Most of the properties are located in MA, but there is a bit of spillover into surrounding states. We are very happy to be working with a tech-savvy, progressive broker [...]
No commentsPropertyMaps Cares About Families
We have added Sex Offender data to the Location Information section of the PropertyMaps site. Some have asked why we are providing this data, “won’t it turn people off from buying a house in certain areas?” Well maybe, but we believe it is extremely important to provide our users with the most amount of relevant [...]
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Bug reporting through the PropertyMaps website is easy, if you can find it. On the rightmost area of the top navigation, there is a little bug (highlighted on the left below) which, once clicked, opens a popup window (highlighted on the right). This window provides you with the option of leaving your email address so [...]
No commentsPropertyMaps Versioning
I just wanted to draw our user’s attention to the speed of development on the PropertyMaps website. If you notice in the lower right corner of each page, you will see the build date and number. As you can see below, the build states that the site was last updated on July 18, 2007 with [...]
No commentsWhy PropertyMaps.com is the #1 Real Estate Property Search
As the online real estate space is heating up, there have been quite a few mashup-type sites popping up. We are different from the rest in a major way, which the below graphic summarizes nicely. The basic idea is that if you are researching something as important as a property purchase, you want the most [...]
No commentsUpdated Details Pages
We have updated the property details pages to make them more intuitive, allowing our users to more easily understand there is additional property information hidden below each of the tabs. The update will also allow us more flexibility in adding features to this page as you will see in the coming weeks. We have some [...]
No commentsWorking With RETS
As we continue to add MLS data to the map, we are sometimes faced with the dreaded RETS format for retrieving said MLS data. The problem with RETS is that there are so many version standards and so many different interpretations of those standards. A script that works on one MLS system does not necessarily [...]
No commentsPropertyMaps Launches Windows Mobile Version of PMM
We are happy to announce the .Net version of the PropertyMaps mapping engine, available for use on Windows Mobile 5 and 6. You can find more information by visiting the PropertyMaps Mobile page.
Read more about PMM for Windows Mobile.
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