Developers have figured out a clever hack using Google Maps and other online services, reports Wired News. HousingMaps combines real-estate listings from craigslist with photographs from Google Maps to create a simulated flight over neighborhoods in certain urban areas that include highlighted properties and their prices.
The article reports that even though Google has not offered developer tools or licensing agreements, people such as Paul Rademacher, the 3D graphic artist behind HousingMaps, have made their own interfaces to the Google data using common Internet technologies such as JavaScript.
The article reports similar hacks that, for instance, overlay traffic information on maps generated by Google Maps.
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