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Street Pictures in CurbPlaces.com

picture-1.pngWhen browsing real estate websites online, ever wish you could look at pictures around the neighborhood rather than at the pictures that are just of the front of the house (and carefully selected by an agent for the best angle)?  Maybe look up and down the street to make sure there is a dump or a grave yard next door?

We’ve begun rolling out a solution to this at CurbPlaces.com: Street Pictures.  Now, when you zoom all the way in on the CurbPlaces map, little camera icons will appear throughout the neighborhood. Clicking a camera will bring up 360 degree pictures of the area.  Try it out.  We’ve started with Downtown and the City and our slowly making our way across the map (as fast as our intern can ride his bike carrying a laptop, digital camera, and GPS device…)

Click here to check it out  (Just zoom all the way in).

(Yes, we know Google is doing this as well.  But we couldn’t wait until they got around to photograph little ol’ Charlottesville.  So we went ahead and did it for them.  Thank you very much.)

CurbPlaces vs. Yahoo

picture-5.pngpicture-sa45fg.png One of the original reasons behind creating CurbPlaces was due to the poor quality of other “big” Internet real estate websites.  Most of them tend to ignore Charlottesville completely or have pretty poor search results when it comes to our area. Check out the difference between these two maps of the same area on CurbPlaces and Yahoo Real Estate.  One driving principle of CurbPlaces is that you can’t make a good local website if you do it everywhere and try and be all things to everyone.