I've spent dozens of hours trawling through real estate websites for myself and friends/family, and I'm always frustrated at how primitive their map and search functionality feels.
Like how their estimated travel time to work/school is based on the current time and can't be configured, so it's completely worthless if you're browsing the site at night or on the weekend. I always end up with a dozen Google Maps tabs open, copying and pasting addresses to manually check their travel times at peak, especially annoying on a phone. Even a basic query like searching for properties with a 1 hour or less commute during peak times takes hours of manual searching and verifying, despite them having that data already.
I work as a software engineer and have built a few GIS tools over the years, have a bit of time on my hands at the moment for a side project and would like to put something together that other people might find useful. Basically a map view of properties for sale or rent with advanced geospatial filters to remove some of the grunt work involved.
For example:
- Find properties that are less than an hour from work/school at 8am Monday etc by car/cycling/walking/PT, same with the return trip (isochrone).
- Find properties within 1km of a train station, parks, hospitals, shopping centers etc.
- Find properties not within 100m of train station, train tracks, transmission tower, airport etc.
- Find properties outside of flood zones, bushfire prone area, flight path overlays etc.
What other filters or features do you wish existed when searching for properties?
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