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August 29, 2005
Real Estate Done Google Earth Style
Earlier this month an excellent application of Google Earth for real estate was released at coloradofuture.com (use their interface to search for houses, then select the Google Earth listings). These guys have taken their house listings and put them into Google Earth so you can look around their region of Colorado and find houses within your price range, look at the property within GE, or look for detailed information on the listing at their web site.
Google Earth is obviously a powerful potential tool for learning more about an area surrounding some real estate you are interested in. You can check for nearby things like grocery stores, malls, railroad tracks, and ATMs. You can look for hazards such as trash dumps, flood plains, and unwanted commercial buildings or traffic. And, as more cities include access to their GIS data (like the City of Portland), you will have even more powerful data to access within GE.
Significantly, the Google Earth team claims they have already had numerous people contact them that they had purchased buildings based on the input they gathered from Google Earth.
This real estate application was announced in this post at the GE Community BBS. Already, another real estate listing was mentioned in the thread as available in Florida.
Posted by FrankTaylor at August 29, 2005 8:58 AM
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Posted by: Adi Gabrieli at January 29, 2006 4:40 PM
Yes, you can build 3D models of buildings using a tool like SketchUp which have modelled interiors as well as exteriors. However, GE is not ideal for viewing interiors in its current release because you can not easily control camera views.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at January 29, 2006 7:47 PM
I am working with the Google Earth application to provide listing information for the Northern Virginia area. I found the pkzip command line application to be very useful in commpressing the data in my kml files to kmz files that are very quick to download. Have a look at ListingMap.net to see how easy it is. I am working to get a licence to the access live Mris data for data on the fly.
Right now the data resides on my own server and is updated once a day.
These files in kml form are 6 to 11 megabytes, but in kmz form are less that 1 megabyte. If anyone out there is writing there own application I highly recommend using Pkzipc to create kmz files.
-Cheers
-Matthew
Posted by: Matthew Ryan at May 30, 2006 1:58 PM
Google earth can be used to calulate area,you can also Create Enlarge view of any city having size 10 X 10 feets, but it is teduous work of patching small small image to get high resolution.
Posted by: Renish Ladani at June 22, 2006 6:30 AM
Does GE provide us latest and up to date foreclosure listings?
Posted by: Keith at July 3, 2006 6:49 AM
Here's another website that uses Google Earth (Google Maps, more specifically) for Real Estate Listings: www.newplat.com
Posted by: Richard Schilling at January 5, 2007 7:03 PM
Anyone know where the technology to build Google Earth Enabled Real estate Websites is available?
Thanks
Posted by: Erik Dattwyler at June 25, 2007 2:31 PM
I have a Real Estate Website based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. If I devote a page to a particular property, how do I have a link on that page to direct lookers to a Google map showing the location of that home??
Posted by: Jeff D. Crosthwaite at July 12, 2007 9:17 AM
I am building a website for a real estate developer. I would like to incorporate Google Earth to show the properties and only the properties they have built with a pop-up bubble that gives basic info.
Posted by: Bo Sanchez at February 5, 2008 4:08 PM
I use it on all of my real estate sites. And it is the best think ever.
Posted by: Baton Rouge Real Estate at February 11, 2008 11:50 AM
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I am a real estate investor and I want to use GE un Manhattans real estate life. Could GE have the interior of each particular building?