John L. Scott launches real estate 'Etch A Sketch'
Users can define property-search boundaries on map
By Inman News, Wednesday, June 6, 2007.Like Etch A Sketch for online real estate searches, a new tool created for Pacific Northwest brokerage company John L. Scott Real Estate allows consumers to outline a customized shape on a map to search for available homes within that area.
The tool, called Neighborhood Wizard, uses geocoding technology to find home matches in the user-selected boundaries based on properties' longitude and latitude coordinates.
"It's almost like using an Etch A Sketch to define your search area," said John L. Scott chairman and CEO J.
more...
All rights reserved. This content may not be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, in part or in whole, without written permission of Inman News. Use of this content without permission is a violation of federal copyright law.
