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Hey, thanks for the plug. If anyone has any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email me at padmapper@gmail.com (or use the feedback link on the site)

Hey, thanks for the plug. If anyone has any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email me at padmapper@gmail.com (or use the feedback link on the site). It's still pretty new, and there's definitely room for improvement.

car 17y ago
Great job! We'll be using padmapper on our house hunt from now on. How do you handle CL entries without street location information?
- padmapper 17y ago
  Unfortunately, PadMapper has to ignore those - there's nothing that can really be done. This means that about 1/2-2/3 of listings end up getting ignored. The ones that are left are less likely to be a waste of your time, though.
GavinB 17y ago
Great site. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement or whether it would hurt the performance, but it would be great if you overlaid the subway lines. See http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ for an example. Frankly, I don't know why google hasn't done this themselves, it's incredibly useful.
- padmapper 17y ago
  Good idea - it would slow it down a bit, but I'm pretty sure it would be useful. The subway commute-time filter is a bit limited in its use, but you can use it to try areas for their commute time to other areas. Also, it's not as useful, but if you zoom in on the metro stations on any google map, it'll tell you what lines stop there.
potatolicious 17y ago
Great site :) I've seen people do Google Maps-integrated housing searches, but they always insist on using their own (very limited) data. It's about time someone did this with CL :) I'm currently looking for housing too, so thanks a ton :)
truebosko 17y ago
Amazing site. I'm moving to Montreal and have been sorting through TONS of listings (not used to it all, coming from a much smaller city!) and it's been pretty tiresome This site is seriously a godsend and will instantly reduce our stress in finding a place.
lsb 17y ago
It's a lovely UI, but golly is it slow.
- padmapper 17y ago
  Thanks! What browser are you using? It basically doesn't support IE 6/7 because their anemic Javascript engines make it torturously slow. I'm very curious to hear about your experience, though... padmapper@gmail.com
  - potatolicious 17y ago
    It's pretty fast on the Safari beta... that being said, it is pretty slow if you try to zoom into the map via mousewheel, since it does an update even at high zoom levels. Maybe limit updates to every X zoom levels at the high level, and then update at every zoom for the finer ones.
    - padmapper 17y ago
      Ah yeah, that might be an optimization worth making. Thanks for the feedback.
      - potatolicious 17y ago
        Ability to link to the current view would be nice... I wanted to show a friend a neighbourhood I was looking at but couldn't :) Sorry to suggesting such low-priority things, I'm a bit OCD about these things...
        padmapper 17y ago
        That's actually something I've been wanting to do for a while, I just haven't gotten around to it - basically a full "save state". A workaround is to save something in the neighborhood to your favorites list, and then save the favorites list. This'll shoot you an email with a link that can restore that list, and you can send/forward that link to your friend. Once the list is loaded up, they can click on the go to marker button/graphic in the saved favorites list.
keeptrying 17y ago
Great site. Love the way you've maximized the amount of apartments and minimized the size of the controls. Good job!

car 17y ago

Great job! We'll be using padmapper on our house hunt from now on. How do you handle CL entries without street location information?

padmapper 17y ago
Unfortunately, PadMapper has to ignore those - there's nothing that can really be done. This means that about 1/2-2/3 of listings end up getting ignored. The ones that are left are less likely to be a waste of your time, though.

GavinB 17y ago

Great site. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement or whether it would hurt the performance, but it would be great if you overlaid the subway lines. See http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/ for an example. Frankly, I don't know why google hasn't done this themselves, it's incredibly useful.

padmapper 17y ago
Good idea - it would slow it down a bit, but I'm pretty sure it would be useful. The subway commute-time filter is a bit limited in its use, but you can use it to try areas for their commute time to other areas. Also, it's not as useful, but if you zoom in on the metro stations on any google map, it'll tell you what lines stop there.

potatolicious 17y ago

Great site :) I've seen people do Google Maps-integrated housing searches, but they always insist on using their own (very limited) data. It's about time someone did this with CL :) I'm currently looking for housing too, so thanks a ton :)

truebosko 17y ago

Amazing site. I'm moving to Montreal and have been sorting through TONS of listings (not used to it all, coming from a much smaller city!) and it's been pretty tiresome This site is seriously a godsend and will instantly reduce our stress in finding a place.

lsb 17y ago

It's a lovely UI, but golly is it slow.

padmapper 17y ago
Thanks! What browser are you using? It basically doesn't support IE 6/7 because their anemic Javascript engines make it torturously slow. I'm very curious to hear about your experience, though... padmapper@gmail.com
- potatolicious 17y ago
  It's pretty fast on the Safari beta... that being said, it is pretty slow if you try to zoom into the map via mousewheel, since it does an update even at high zoom levels. Maybe limit updates to every X zoom levels at the high level, and then update at every zoom for the finer ones.
  - padmapper 17y ago
    Ah yeah, that might be an optimization worth making. Thanks for the feedback.
    - potatolicious 17y ago
      Ability to link to the current view would be nice... I wanted to show a friend a neighbourhood I was looking at but couldn't :) Sorry to suggesting such low-priority things, I'm a bit OCD about these things...
      - padmapper 17y ago
        That's actually something I've been wanting to do for a while, I just haven't gotten around to it - basically a full "save state". A workaround is to save something in the neighborhood to your favorites list, and then save the favorites list. This'll shoot you an email with a link that can restore that list, and you can send/forward that link to your friend. Once the list is loaded up, they can click on the go to marker button/graphic in the saved favorites list.

keeptrying 17y ago

Great site. Love the way you've maximized the amount of apartments and minimized the size of the controls. Good job!