What's it Like in ..?
March 11th, 2008
When we launched the Get Answers feature on Kyero.com a few weeks ago, one of the questions you asked most frequently started along these lines ..
What’s it like in (name of location)?
We’ve just launched a couple of new features which help to answer those questions.
Thanks to a relatively new service from Google, we can now show you pictures of virtually anywhere in Spain. The Spanish photo-sharing web site, Panoramio, was purchased by Google last year, and what makes it particularly useful is that their photos are about places, not people and they can be requested using location coordinates.
Anyone can upload photos to Panoramio and now we automatically display the twenty most popular photos for any town, province or region.
Just click the Pictures of … link on every page of search results and every property page.
If you want to see more photos or display them inside Google earth, click the Panoramio link on any of these pages and you’ll get taken straight to the relevant page on Panoramio.
A picture speaks a thousand words but words are still far from redundant! To compliment the pictures from Panoramio, we’re also working with the open encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to display some descriptive text about each location.
This is a bit trickier because each location needs to be manually edited and approved but we’ll have the whole of Spain completed in a few weeks time. For now, here’s an example about Andalucia — cool or what?
Now, here’s the interesting bit. We didn’t invent these ideas — you did. We didn’t do all the hard work of uploading photos and writing about locations — you did via Panoramio and Wikipedia. We simply took your comments and questions and made it more convenient for you to access information which already existed.
So, I wonder what else we could build together?
Will you take 2 minutes to tell me?
In the last 12 months, we developed almost 3,000 new projects on Kyero.com. Some of them were tiny, some huge. We currently have a development backlog of over 200 projects. Some of them are probably more important to you than others. Some of them might be vital to us, but trivial to you. Some of them will probably never get done at all.
Rather than asking you to prioritise 200 software projects, would you mind answering 5 questions? I’d really appreciate it and, you’ll get more of what you want from Kyero.com, more quickly.
I hope you agree that this information from Panoramio and Wikipedia is a useful and convenient way to help you get to know the place you’re considering buying or renting in.
