Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k

Re:Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k by pimlottc on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:09PM (#48820636)

It's hard to actually use this map and inspect individual homes. Clicking into a listing replaces the map view, so you lose the context of where you were looking, and the way the dots animate in make it harder to visually remember where you were. And you can't zoom in further to distinguish multiple overlapping properties.

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Re:Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k by player_piano on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:11PM (#48820660)

Yes, sorry, the map UI could be better. You can zoom in to the state level, which hopefully will help a little with not losing context.

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Re:Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k by pimlottc on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:20PM (#48820795)

You still go back to the complete map when you navigate back out of a listing, so it doesn't really help much. The state-level zoom helps a little but it's not enough to distinguish markers in the same city, for example.

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Re:Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k by ryandrake on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:44PM (#48821843)

Looks like they deliberately broke the browser's "Open in new tab" function, which could have solved this problem.

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Re:Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k by intrasight on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:26PM (#48820877)

Also please don't break the back button

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