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It says that Highgate is 10 minutes away by road from Old Street. The 271 bus takes more like 40 minutes on a good morning. I don't think it could be done in 10 minutes even without traffic.
The AA route planner gives it as 20 minutes which is optimistic http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp#fromNode=182600...
Enfield is 20 minutes from Old Street by road? I don't think so!
Other than that, brilliant!
A few issues/suggestions based on 5mins clicking around:
* Lose the 'label' field on each area the user picks - they're already choosing a search term for google maps, why can't you just use that?
* Having chosen two places and chosen some property parameters, the right-hand-side of the page contains two 'property' buttons: one grey, which does nothing, and one orange, which allows me to reset the parameters. The grey one is useless and confusing, lose it
* Having chosen these places and parameters (I chose 'crouch end' and 'dulwich'), I can't see any properties, just the standard gmaps lollipop icons on the map. I guess this is a bug? In any event it's unclear what I should do next - you'd lose me at this point
* There's a big transparent grey footer that doesn't contain anything - what's the purpose of that when you could just show more map?
HTH etc. Nice idea, will check back once in a while...
Your numbers are way out. It says that Highgate is 10 minutes away by road from Old Street. The 271 bus takes more like 40 minutes on a good morning. I don't think it could be done in 10 minutes even without traffic. The AA route planner gives it as 20 minutes which is optimistic http://www.theaa.com/route-planner/index.jsp#fromNode=182600... Enfield is 20 minutes from Old Street by road? I don't think so!
Very nice idea. To be honest, I doubt you're ever going to get high-quality timely data on available places, but I think the site is still very useful if only as a guide to what property is like in the area and which estate agents to call. A few issues/suggestions based on 5mins clicking around: * Lose the 'label' field on each area the user picks - they're already choosing a search term for google maps, why can't yo…
>>Having chosen these places and parameters (I chose 'crouch end' and 'dulwich'), I can't see any properties, just the standard gmaps lollipop icons on the map. I guess this is a bug? In any event it's unclear what I should do next - you'd lose me at this point * There's a big transparent grey footer that doesn't contain anything - what's the purpose of that when you could just show more map?
Sorry about that - this sounds like a genuine bug. The grey footer is meant to display some text that tells you what to do next (property listings will appear in that area once you click on one of the orange areas of the map). If you could ping me to let me know what browser/version etc. that would be much appreciated!
Apart from that, everything else comes under "search controls usability" which is one of our top priorities for improvement, we'll definitely be doing some more work on those.
Is this a spare time project or are you all involved in it full time?
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I really like this. Do you think it would be possible to add cycling as a variable? As in... based on average commuter cycling speed of 14mph including lights, etc. If so, then great I'll go and tell a load of cyclists about it. I guess the next problem for you though is the chicken and egg of getting data in there.
Thanks! Cycling is one of the data points we are planning to add v soon, pretty much as you described (using average speed profile to calculate the travel times). We're also planning on integrating a lot more data - there's a whole load of open government stuff (think crime stats, schools data) in particular that we're looking at.
So they are enthusiastic about that not being a convenient place by public transport or car. Basically they can get really good value accommodation as not being near a train station has no impact on their ability to access an area.
Most cyclists I know (a lot of them) have congregated in the South East of London purely because of these factors.
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Unfortunately, by using Zoopla's listings, you still have the most annoying problem of showing flatshares and studios when looking for 1-bedroom flats.