A custom mashup of google maps and craigslist housing listings running on app engine.
- input: a base URL for searching listings of a a particular area, and a price range
- output: a site that plots the listings on a map, where each popup has a url and photos
Mostly a toy app I made to see housing listings of interest to me in Ann Arbor (which isn't supported on http://housingmaps.com), perhaps a good demonstration of:
- using app engine, including the datastore, cron jobs, and task queues
- using the google maps api
- loading json asynchronously using jquery
- parsing an rss feed in python
See a demo running at http://kraigshousing.appspot.com