http://www.propertymaps.com/blog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:39:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are many conflicting views of how Mr. Bernanke should have handled the Fed after the departure of the true overlord, Alan Greenspan. Reducing interest rates to soften the landing of the real estate crash - did he go overboard? was it enough? I'll leave the debate to the armchair ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/07/03/take-that-bernanke/ Monday's Southwest Florida Herald-Tribune brought with it a multi-page spread on PropertyMaps, including front page, above the fold treatment. You can head over to the Herald-Tribune's website to read the PropertyMaps feature. We want to thank Tom Bayles for the all the time he spent in making this article happen. ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/07/01/propertymaps-featured-in-sarasota-herald-tribune/ Oh, around the end of April, we made some enhancements to our DB structure and our queries. This round of changes focused on the JOINS and UNIONS and COUNTS and some others, giving us a nice speed boast in our benchmarks. We thought not much of it and went on ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/06/25/database-optimizations/ You probably didn't notice, but we've updated the property listing pages under the Property Directory and the Property Cloud areas. Rather than dumping a huge list of links you might go blind trying to decipher, we've made it a little friendlier with some spacing, images, and paging. This also prevents ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/06/17/property-directory-property-cloud-updated/ Google has added 37 (Thirty-Seven!) new cities to Street View, including our local area of Sarasota. We added Google Street View to our property details pages in April so we are very excited to see the number of cities almost double since then. This functionality is especially useful as it ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/06/10/google-street-view-comes-to-town/ We finally entered into Colorado's Capital of Denver and the surrounding locations adding over 26,000 new listings. According to the Rocky Mountain News, while the national population is growing at just under 1 percent a year, Colorado’s rate is 1.4 percent and is forecasted to be 1.8 percent in ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/05/05/propertymaps-enters-the-mile-high-city/ We've already started talking about our property counts in various press releases (1.3 million), but have never touched on the subject of how many images we have for those properties. As of this writing, we have over 8.5 million unique images. I think this is pretty significant as this is ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/05/04/weve-got-images/ Somehow we've managed to get into the Top 100 Real Estate Blogs and this isn't the only site to rank us in the top 100. This is quite an accomplishment and we feel honored to be ranked this highly. We will continue to do our best to bring you real estate ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/04/26/were-in-the-top-100/ For areas that Google has Street View available, you will now see a new tab across the top of the property details pages called "Street View". Clicking this, you'll get a split screen map with the property marker / little man icon in hybrid view on top and the Street ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/04/24/google-street-view-added-to-property-details-pages/ We've finally entered Georgia in a big way, with around 83,000 properties and another half-million images. Georgia has 18 of the 100 fastest growing counties in the country and is the third fastest growing state in terms of population numbers overall, so we're very excited about adding this area. We've also ... http://www.propertymaps.com/blog/2008/04/18/propertymaps-invades-georgia/