Fellow web media sponsor Lee Drake of OS-Cubed alerted me to a new tool from Trulia they're calling Hindsight, which allows you to zoom to a location and generate a regional map that then displays the sales history of residential properties over time. In the case of Rochester, it goes back to the early 1800s!
Is it more than a cool tech-toy? What could we learn from watching residential development in our area over time? What about comparing the regional growth where our "out of town experts" are coming from? Here are links to the maps of Rochester, Reno/Tahoe, Sugar Land, and St. Lucie.
You can pause the timeline, zoom in to neighborhood levels, and generally have a lot of fun. What else could/should be added to this tool to make it a serious planning device?
The tool was designed by Stamen Design using their Modest Maps built on Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform. For more info visit the Virtual Earth/Live Maps Blog and the Trulia Hindsight Blog.
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