[talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

[Evan Sebire]

Forgot to mention that if you hover over a public swimming pool it even gives 
you the water temperature, something very important in Switzerland ;-)


On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 13:14:43 Evan Sebire wrote:
> In Switzerland they have a site called  http://www.search.ch even though
>  most of it is only available in German or French, like the wikipedia or
>  weather integration.
> The real-estate map is great but they have not been able to get all the
>  local companies to use their service.  http://immo.search.ch/ maybe
>  because of the cost?
> 
> Public transport timetable information is great, even works from each bus-
> stop, just hover over a stop and see the information pop-up.
> 
> On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 12:13:18 James Livingston wrote:
> > On 26/08/2009, at 7:44 PM, John Smith wrote:
> > > One example given was do you search on google to rent a house,
> > > generally no one does, they use a specialist search engine that is
> > > built for rent listings.
> >
> > That reminds me of something I was wishing for a couple of months ago,
> > trying to find a rental place after moving to Brisbane - one of those
> > web sites that made better use of geodata. Some of the good ones will
> > shop you a map with a house icon for each property that is for rent/
> > sale, but a lot don't do even that.
> >
> > What I really wanted was a site that would do the above, and also tell
> > me how long it would take to talk to the nearest public transport,
> > catch it, and walk to my work at the other end[0]. Plus where the
> > nearest shops were, if there were any parks or sports facilities
> > nearby and so on.
> >
> >
> > Now, if only I had a freely available source of data for something
> > like that... I guess I should probably shut up and actually do
> > something about it, although it probably wouldn't work to well without
> > decent house number data.
> >
> >
> > [0] Copying and pasting the address into the Translink web site gets
> > tiring after a while.
> >
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