Google...They never cease to amaze me! As a Realtor coming from a semi-tech background I am always on theprowl for better ways to use technology. I know by very virtue of you reading this blog that you are too. I subscribe to Pat Kitano's "TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE so when his RSS feed relating to Google Maps came across my screen this week I read with great anticipation. Eureka! I had actually started playing around with this a few weeks ago, but like most of my life, I over-complicated my mission and soon it fell by the wayside.
Pat gave me new inspiration for a more simplified approach, and a new focus of purpose for such tools. As Real Estate professionals we should be the first to recognize changing trends in the market. I for one stay on top of these changing tides and am always sending stats to clients and customers (and fellow Realtors for that matter). Google with their introduction of "My Mapping" has opened a new portal for us to display such data and trends in an attractive way. Link to your site, blogs of whatever and now you have an all accessible avenue to prove that your are your areas expert when it comes to understanding your local market!
Click HEREto see my first attempt at this. Currently it is not a complete picture of our area but I was so excited to share I could not await completion to blog it!
Has anyone else experimented with this?
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That is very cool... Thanks for the information!
Chris, thanks for the information. That's a really good start, and I'll have to read Pat's article and start playing around -- this could be a great tool!
Gee Chris.
That's one way to get the bad news out with graphics.
Those production figures are just appalling. But, the maps are great.
Well Lenn...There's nothing like the truth when it comes to the #'s....Thanks for the input though, I still hold you dear to my heart as the Blog Maven!
Chris, this is definitely something I'm checking out to add to my arsenal of Realtor tools. Thanks for the enlightenment.
Chris, thanks for the much-needed kick in the pants. Ryan Hukill wrote about how he's using Google maps about 2 months ago and I swore I was going to look into it and it, too, fell by the wayside, as has happened to you. There's so much great technology we can use that I can barely finish playing around with one before a new one is introduced to me. I will attempt to make the time to seriously delve into this one. It looks like a great tool.
cool. I haven't used those color blocks like you did in your example. But I came up with some different ideas here.
I love google maps -- but I hadn't even notice this new tool. This is truly awesome. I am excited about the possibilities. I am going to have to take some time and experiment with this. I like the way you can add the colors. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Howdy Chris
Congrats one a very good post you have done.
Very good information!
I am going to add this to my Home Inspection arsenal of tools.
Have a good one
Thank you for the information. I will check it out. I had not noticed this tool.
Thanks for info. I've bookmarked your post for future reference
Hi Chris, we also use the google maps, but not in quite the same way. I like the way you did them. We have used them for individual sales in farm areas, so this will add another use. Google sure has some great features!
Ann,
Thanks, it's good to be "marked"