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I've been looking for rentals in London lately, here's my frustration. Perhaps this already exists and I can't find it (please tell me): a good, map-based UI fo
by nothrabannosir 12y ago
I've been looking for rentals in London lately, here's my frustration. Perhaps this already exists and I can't find it (please tell me): a good, map-based UI for refining search for rentals.
When I'm looking for a house to rent in London, it's always lists. I never lived there, so I see area codes and addresses, and they mean nothing to me. W3? Somedisuch park?
So now, I first go to all those sites, sort by price, some obvious filters, write down the addresses in an excel sheet and pass that to a maps API. Then I have to check is there a bus close? Subway? Nightbus? &c. It's a huge chore.
I'd like big map with all the listings, and filter controls on the left. Like for the tech compare & review sites. Max price, min price. Smoking y/n. Pets y/n. Iterate and refine the searches. Hover over a listing: info. Buttons on each info box to remove individual listings, or favorite / star. Perhaps some of my own comments. Slowly iterate iterate until I get a list of 4 or 5 that look most promising. If possible, allow overlaying with custom maps, or at least have info about transit (nightbus can be a requirement for some, subway for others).
I wouldn't even mind seeding some of the data, if I had to. At least it'd give me a good overview overlapped with transit.
Does that already exist?
EDIT: Worst part about my current workflow is updates. Last time I checked was last month. Okay, now what changed? I can't know efficiently.
EDIT2: Well whaddaya know, searched again and here's what comes up https://www.padmapper.com/ https://www.padmapper.com/ . Okay, I guess that's a solved problem! :) great
- mcjiggerlog 12y agoIf you're looking for whole flats zoopla has a really powerful map-based search where you can manually draw areas on the map that you want to search in. If you're looking for a flatshare then you can search on a map on Spareroom, or there's http://kangaroom.net/ http://kangaroom.net/ which I found recently and is very slick.
- mobiplayer 12y agoThe biggest real estate websites (Rightmove, Zoopla) do have maps as an option in the results. I also like to only use maps, whether I like the area or not.