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gdilla
nicely done! Zillow or trulia could benefit from this improved UI - married with image content, it'd be a pretty hot tool.
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michaelcolenso
Thanks! I think it's pretty far from being something Zillow or Trulia worthy, but it was fun to build.
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freehunter
What are the odds of finding a TC hacker around here? I vacation there at least once a year and every time I consider moving there but I always figured I would never find a tech job in Traverse City.
michaelcolenso
I got a remote gig so I could move back here after ~15 years on the west coast. You probably wouldn't find a suitable tech job here, FWIW.
cschmidt
I'm going to Traverse City tomorrow on vacation. I did a double take when I saw the map.
michaelcolenso
It's a lovely place, really. On a map or in person. Enjoy your vacation.
Methusalah
Sexier than what? I work with a lot of GIS software and this is incredibly basic.
michaelcolenso
Yep. It's way basic, and not terribly useful other than as a novelty site. But it was fun to make. So that's good.
mkr-hn
It's sexier than something like QPublic, but much less functional.

For example: http://qpublic7.qpublic.net/qpmap4/map.php?county=ga_barrow&...

Ugly, but it's easy to get at all the data.

michaelcolenso
Agreed. It's way less functional than the ArcGIS server that's maintained by the municipality. It was a weekend project to play with d3, mostly. There's lots wrong with the site as it is, but it's a journey, right? Thanks for the feedback.
rasz_pl
takes 100% cpu - main loop keeps querying for new property data even when the mouse doesnt move
michaelcolenso
Jeezers. I'll take a look at that, I guess. Thanks for the feedback!
michaelcolenso
So I believe I fixed it. I think it was b/c the socket.io server was emitting on the 'io' object on every db query, and it should have been emitting on the 'socket'. I think. It was definitely all jacked up, though. Thanks so much for checking it out...
cmsj
No part of "tax parcel map" sounds even remotely sexy to me, so you're setting a pretty low bar ;)
Duhveed
Nevermind the folks complaining that ESRI's years-old template site is more functional than what you built in a few days. I've built a few gis sites for municipalities and I think it's pretty great.
michaelcolenso
Thanks! I appreciate the positive vibes. My favorite trick I learned was how to use the GDAL tools (ogr2ogr) plus Topojson to fetch the data (the geometry plus the sales db exposed on the arcGis REST endpoint) and convert it to geoJSON in order to deal with it via D3. Pretty rewarding to finally get something to project properly after spending roughly eleventeen hours trial and erroring on the command line with those (very powerful) tools...

It was super fun to make. Thanks for checking it out.

Doctor_Fegg
Very pretty!

You need to add on-map attribution to Stamen (whose map tiles you're using) and to OpenStreetMap (whose data they're based on).

c0nfused
It's too bad the dairy lodge doesn't quite show up so well on google maps, but at least I know what it's assessed value is.

Turns out that if you compare it to the surrounding properties, having a very phallic sign does not increase your property values.

For those of you who don't have family in the area: http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/signs/dairylodge2s....