[talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

[Sam Couter]

James Livingston <doctau at mac.com> wrote:
> 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.

If you were a relocating Australian Defence Forces member, my employer
(http://www.dha.gov.au/) would provide you with a service that does a
lot of this stuff. Unfortunately it relies on Sensis, but it mostly
works pretty well.
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Sam Couter         |  mailto:sam at couter.id.au
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