Cyberhomes is a very useful website when buying or selling your home. The mapping capabilities gracefully bring GIS layers to a simple to use web application loaded with great features and access to lots of information that a real estate agent would traditionally have access to. No one would launch a real estate site today that didn't have VE's Birds Eye imagery, so of course you'll find it in Cyberhomes, but there's a lot more. When you zoom in to street level parcel boundaries are displayed.

You can turn on various heat map overlays at different zoom levels in the main search interface, showing density, home values and value trends. The 'map Layers' dropdown list just above the map gives you access to these options as well as control of various point layers.

The application has a lot of powerful non-map capabilities as well - great tools for evaluating neighborhood comparable values, school information, demographics...  

Fidelity called on Digital Map Products and Neudesic to build the application. Arc2Earth was used to publish map tiles from ESRI data layers. Virtual Earth provides the visualization platform and other location services via the platform API's.

The line between GIS and the consumer web continues to blur. I'm hoping that Virtual Earth's liberal licensing for free commercial use will continue to accelerate this trend.

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