But Jeff pissed them off by going against a core value -- staying local. On the flip side, sites like housingmaps.com & craiglook.com have been up for many years.
Which is unfortunate, because a tool like this would save millions of people hours spent browsing through individual listings on Craigslist. It's just so much better.
All the bugs & suggestions have been noted, and I have several features in the pipeline such as being notified by email when a new posting matches your search.
My main question is this: do you see this as something that adds value, such that I should continue working on it ?
Needs a "this site requires javascript" message. Its mostly a blank page for noscript users.
Needs a map key telling me what the colors mean. I think they mean how many items in that location, but I think a better use of color would be how "fresh" the item is.
Pictures. We shop craigslist via listings with pictures. We want the pictures up front and easy to find. The map roll over would be good, or as a thumbnail on the listings. Other then that, it looks great and is a site I would use.
Understood, and I'd have them already if craig decided to not exclude them from RSS feeds. Presumably to shut down previous, more annoying offenders. Wanna talk to him ? :)
Just curious, how do you get the locations of the ads? Is it limited in resolution to the locale it's posted in? (I don't see any addresses listed in a lot of them.)
If there's a geocodable address in the optional location field, we use that. If not, it will default to the general region it's posted in.
We're currently seeing approx 75% of listings geocoding correctly, but like you said the resolution is often low. In order to change that, we'd need at minimum cross-street level data from Craig. And although I've talked to him about it, I don't think I have enough leverage to change this without a user outcry..
Well done. I've been craving this kind of tool forever. All the previous implementations I've seen failed by having stale data. If you can solve that, this will be a hit.
I would really like pictures in more of the results, the most logical location would be on the map from the onMouseOver in the result list.
Also, for some reason it took me a few minutes to figure out the what went in the first field and where in the second instead of the other way around. Don't know what you can do about my incompetence there though.
It would also be nice to keep the 'search for location' box around when you get to the results. Because of my mistake I ended up in Germany and had to click back and enter my query again.
[+] [-] niyazpk|16 years ago|reply
See http://www.codinghorror.com/craigslist/
They may block your site if they find out you violate their policies.
[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply
But Jeff pissed them off by going against a core value -- staying local. On the flip side, sites like housingmaps.com & craiglook.com have been up for many years.
[+] [-] jacoblyles|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] gridspy|16 years ago|reply
This is a really cute way of browsing the Craiglist data.
[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply
All the bugs & suggestions have been noted, and I have several features in the pipeline such as being notified by email when a new posting matches your search.
My main question is this: do you see this as something that adds value, such that I should continue working on it ?
[+] [-] songism|16 years ago|reply
try user accounts so i don't have to type in my zip code every search. and so i can save certain searches.
and a really killer feature would be if i searched for 'desktop computer' the category searched was automatically set to 'computers/tech'
thanks!
[+] [-] DanBlake|16 years ago|reply
Needs a map key telling me what the colors mean. I think they mean how many items in that location, but I think a better use of color would be how "fresh" the item is.
[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply
PS: Scour eh ? Met your cofounder Kevin while I was @ google. UCLA LUG 4 life ;)
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[+] [-] ericd|16 years ago|reply
Just curious, how do you get the locations of the ads? Is it limited in resolution to the locale it's posted in? (I don't see any addresses listed in a lot of them.)
[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply
We're currently seeing approx 75% of listings geocoding correctly, but like you said the resolution is often low. In order to change that, we'd need at minimum cross-street level data from Craig. And although I've talked to him about it, I don't think I have enough leverage to change this without a user outcry..
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[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply
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Also, for some reason it took me a few minutes to figure out the what went in the first field and where in the second instead of the other way around. Don't know what you can do about my incompetence there though.
It would also be nice to keep the 'search for location' box around when you get to the results. Because of my mistake I ended up in Germany and had to click back and enter my query again.
[+] [-] tkahn6|16 years ago|reply
This is incredibly minor, but a favicon would make it look nicer.
[+] [-] slay2k|16 years ago|reply