Housingmaps.com is a nifty little website that takes the real estate listings in Craigslist, and overlays them as clickable points on the area related Google map. Housingmaps makes sorting through the apartment or real estate section of craigslist much more efficient, especially if you are looking for an apartment in a specific area. Additionally, Housingmaps displays the price, address, photos, and contact information of a listing from Craigslist while showing the user the exact position on the respective area map.
Hackers have also meshed Google Maps with sites like the photo-sharing service Flickr, Yahoo's traffic notifications, city transit maps and others. This merging of powerful data and programs to create useful daily online programs is a trend that is likely to increase in popularity. At some point I fully expect the larger companies to start merging their services legitimately, but until then there are useful simple sites like Housingmaps.com.
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