{"id":55,"date":"2006-09-30T12:10:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/30\/spyk-google-maps-real-estate-listings\/"},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:54:58","slug":"spyk-google-maps-real-estate-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/30\/spyk-google-maps-real-estate-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyk = Microsoft Virtual Earth + Real estate listings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spyk.com\/\">Spyk<\/a> is a (I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m going to use these terms) Web 2.0 mash-up of <strike><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a><\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/virtualearth\/\">Microsoft Virtual Earth<\/a> and various real estate listing websites (using at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/\">realestate.com.au<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domain.com.au\/\">domain.com.au<\/a> for Australian listings). Man, I wish this was around when I was looking for an apartment to rent in Perth. Seriously, my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onetwenty.org\/blogs\/index.php?blog=5&#038;title=tips_for_finding_a_rental_in_perth&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\">tips for finding a rental in Perth<\/a> would have (almost) been reduced to a link to Spyk.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this screengrab of my search for 2 bedroom apartments under $300:<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image54\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/spyk.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"Spyk\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Man $250 for a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1 carbay in Perth isn&#8217;t bad at all! (Maybe I should be looking at moving&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t bother using the post code search (it only seems to work for US post codes), but you can search for Australian suburbs (&#8220;Perth&#8221; found &#8220;Perth, Western Australia&#8221; as an option).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: Correction! It&#8217;s using Microsoft Virtual Earth (not Google Maps). I think I&#8217;ve had Google Maps on the brain. (Thanks Steve!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realestate2.com.au\/2006\/09\/28\/australian-real-estate-maps-mashup\/\">RealEstate2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spyk is a (I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m going to use these terms) Web 2.0 mash-up of Google Maps Microsoft Virtual Earth and various real estate listing websites (using at least realestate.com.au and domain.com.au for Australian listings). Man, I wish this was around when I was looking for an apartment to rent in Perth. Seriously, my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/09\/30\/spyk-google-maps-real-estate-listings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spyk = Microsoft Virtual Earth + Real estate listings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}