OpenStreetMap Nestoria (Experimental)

OpenStreetMap Nestoria (Experimental)

Nestoria are looking and experimenting with the OpenStreetMap Data and making some very clever and useful additional usability to finding property (to buy, rent or flatshare). In the UK or Spain


With the drop down (more search options) you can be more specific
options:

• Balcony
• Basement
• Dishwasher
• Fireplace
• Furnished
• Garage
• Garden
• High Ceilings
• Lower Ground
• Parking
• Wood Floor

Census information can also be applied and helps locate nearby services.

The Mapping Data does vary in places but it is very good to see that this being used and work very well.

Nestoria also have an API for Developers:
http://www.nestoria.co.uk/help/api

Open Street Map is moving on, lots more data is going in. (09-Jan-2008 20:57 3.1GB)
compared to 2.1GB only a month ago (05-Dec-2007 09:42)
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/

Where is all this new data coming from?
Well the OSM servers are flying as at noted the entire Tiger dataset was getting imported

The entire US will be done in: 1499766 seconds or 17 days or 0.047525 years on Monday January 28th at 17:26:08 2008.
(previous blog post noted Sun Aug 24 12:27:57 2008 as the finish date)


Also in discussion is the "The licence: where we are, where we’re going"
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=262

Mapperz gives full credit to Nestoria and Open Street Map - People outside the UK don't really understand the expense and difficult/complex data licensing that Ordnance Survey produces.
(but it can afford to build a brand new HQ)
*wonder if their government ceramic discs will go missing in the move?

ParkatmyHouse & Nestoria

Mapping Sites integrating each others information

"ParkatmyHouse.com is a brand new and innovative service which aims to provide affordable and penalty-free parking around public venues by enabling property-owners to rent out their empty driveways, garages, car parks and other spare pieces of land to drivers needing somewhere to park.

Motorists and cyclists on their way to work, a big sports match or a hospital appointment for example, can arrange to use a property-owner’s space on a one-off or regular, short-term or long-term basis. Underground and garage spaces offer drivers the added benefits of shelter and security for their vehicles."

updates now this information is available at Nestoria

Nestoria have recently integrated all of our (parking) spaces in to their website. Do you need a flat in Victoria? Well now you can also find out where you can park, be it in a commercial car park or at one of our user’s many driveways. Simply click on the Parking tab below the map, and nearby parking opportunities are displayed as pins on the map as displayed on the image below."

Mapperz like the way the data is unique and informative on both sites, where ParkatmyHouse is a specific site it adds value to information on localities with Nestoria

Only a suggestion but Directions is a potentially useful option, how far to the parking location from where I am?