Oh this is cool! Yard Sale Treasure Map Google Maps mashup

[pokerfan]

Yard Sale Treasure Map is a Google Maps mashup designed to help you find and easily get to Craigslist-posted yard sales in your area.

You enter a starting address, a driving radius, and select from Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. Yard Sale Treasure Map then queries Craiglist for your area, and returns a route that will take you to all the yard sales it finds. You can click on the markers for each sale to see additional information about the sale and delete them if you're not interested. You can also add in sales that you find from other sources, like your local paper, by either putting the address in the left sidebar or double clicking on the map to place a new marker. This surprisingly elegant hack is free to use.



http://lifehacker.com/5207604/yard-sale-treasure-map-plots-out-your-weekend-plundering

[quakerboy]

1. Cool? or Dangerous?

[pokerfan]

2. aren't they the same thing?

[quakerboy]

3. Touch

Oh... er... touche

[dana_b]

4. interesting

evidently nobody in the SF Bay Area is having a garage sale today but a lot of people in Sac, Lodi, Tracy are.

I live 35 miles from SF and within 50 miles of San Jose and used a 100 mile radius. It showed nothing for those areas. weird.

[pokerfan]

5. It's limited to what's on craigslist

I found five within twenty miles of me.