If you zoom in real close on NYC, SF, or one of a few other cities, you can see the locations of various restaurants, bars, gyms, museums, and generally entertaining places marked around the map. Click on these and you’ll get a link to their Yelp reviews!
It only shows places rated 4 stars or higher, since the idea is that you only really care about the exceptional places located near an apartment. There are going to be pizza places everywhere, but having the best pizza shop in NYC located in the ground floor of your building could completely make that place for you while you live there. (Or it could make it seriously annoying to get into the building through the inevitably long line :-))
This is actually a somewhat old feature that I removed a while back due to it seemingly annoying people more than it helped them, but I’ve tweaked it a bit so it should be less annoying. My apologies for the somewhat stale data, it was collected when I first rolled the feature out. If there’s sufficient interest in the feature, I’ll try to get updated data and roll it out for more cities.
OK, maybe I missed it. But, could you create an option to search for garage sales in padmapper?
Nah, this is just for apartment/house rental listings. You’re probably looking for yardsaletreasuremap.com
Hey I really like your site and admire the effort that you’ve (apparently all by yourself?) put into it. I’ve just came across the Google’s own implementation of real estate listings. (http://maps.google.com/help/maps/realestate/) Aside from having access to the Google Maps user interface and other obvious advantages that a large company have, does it appear they have major technical advantages over you like less restricted APIs, etc?
Thanks Eddie.
Good question. Yeah, there are some things that they have access to that they haven’t opened up to everyone (the transit layer, for example). Anything you liked about theirs that you wish was on PadMapper?
Just took a look at google’s real estate search – I like padmapper better. Google didn’t seem to search Craigslist for listings, which makes it less useful for finding rentals, from the looks of it.
On padmapper, is there a neighborhood filter for cities like SF and NYC? I thought I remembered one, but now can’t find it.
Thanks –
Hi Grace, thanks! Anything you liked better about Google’s that I could adapt? 🙂
There isn’t currently a neighborhood filter, but there might be soon.
hmm I like google’s “search nearby” option – slightly different that your yelp/zoom feature.
I experimented with that a while back. Does it show ratings for the places it finds (I don’t recall)?