As part of its recent design upgrade, the team at Zoomf.com has introduced a very interesting new feature: the ability to search visually within a defined polygon on a map. Here’s an example.
Here’s how it works:
- Go to http://www.zoomf.com and start a property search (e.g. type in “NW3″ and press search)
- Once you’re looking at the search results, hit the visual search link
- Click the “add search area button” to start drawing your polygon
- Add each point you want as part of the boundary of your search area
- When you’ve finished, click back on your starting point
It’s beta software, but it’s clear it has stacks of possible uses, like keeping track of properties within school catchment areas, on specific bus routes, near your favourite chip shop… Given that you can save your searches and get an RSS feed of them, or even check them on your mobile, it’s set to be a very useful feature.
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The ability to save visual searches, get RSS feeds and check results on your mobile isn’t available yet – although it will be very soon!
Good article- v interesting
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