Re:Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued Pad...
by guelo on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @05:04PM
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I wonder how useful a map really would be since craigslist already provides a neighborhood filter on the apartment search. My experience when looking for an ideal apartment is that there normally aren't that many results that fit all your desired criteria so you have to relax your criteria and expand your search into adjacent neighborhoods. You're probably not going to find the perfect apartment in the exact spot on the map that you want.
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Re:Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing The Feature It Sued Pad...
by sadawi on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @06:06PM
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I find that while a neighborhood filter gets the job done, its usability isn't great, for a number of reasons:
* You have to roughly know the boundaries of all the neighborhoods for the list of names to be useful
* A one-dimensional arrangement of names doesn't correspond well to the 2D relationships you probably care about.
* Many neighborhoods don't map well to regions I care about. I often find myself selecting Bernal Heights, Mission District, and Noe Valley to capture the idea of "the area around 24th and Valencia", for example.