Using Google Maps to make your site a local go-to destination - part 2
Home made mapping isn't difficult. Last week, I created a simple, crude Google Map using Google MyMaps that displayed the conditions of the Bay Area housing market, and realized agents could market themselves as local authorities by developing similar maps for their website or blog.
Providing a set of simple mapping tools that display best restaurants, architectural history, bus transit and best walks can position your blog as a go-to neighborhood resource... exactly what you want as a real estate agent.
Here is a short list of resources
- Google Maps Mania - blog devoted to uncovering new and interesting mapping applications. Sidebar lists a variety of mapping tools/services that provide local content ideas for real estate agents wanting to create similar maps. For example,
- Historical San Francisco - displaying and explaining historical landmarks
- Next Bus SF - bus transit map
- San Jose Gas Prices - requires manual updating... some sort of feed or mapplet functionality is necessary to make these data relevant
- NYC Bike Paths - also chart historical or architectural walking tours
- Google Mapplets - this list of Mapplets provide more mapping ideas. When activated, these mapplets now reside within one's personalized Google home page application called iGoogle. Eventually one hopes that these mapplets will be easily embedded within one's own personalized MyMaps so it will show updated gas prices and movie showing times, etc.
- Mashable - Online Maps - 50+ Tools and Resources
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Programmable Web - List of Mapping Mashups - an exhaustive list
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