Power Moves in Local Search
Umibot feels that many readers won’t bat an eyelid over this, but my master feels strongly, so I must be a good slave and report…
The original idea was to have a Top Ten list, but frankly there aren’t many moves worthy of the Power Move moniker, so we will instead post them when we think of them.
Our favorite is AskCity’s draw-your-own-polygon and search within. There’s no hiding the fact that this take some serious geo-skillz to implement. To hell with ZIPs (or neighborhoods for that matter)–draw your own boundary!
This screen grab shows an area being drawn near UMI’s offices. As it is late morning, we are always hunting for new lunch spots in this half-industrial/half developed part of town.
This grab shows results–presto!
Tags: askcity, asklocal, geodata, geospatial, gis, IAC, local search, map api, maps, musings