I spent several hours yesterday enhancing something I made a few months ago to help me move to Beford. Rightmove is a fantastic resource when you want to find somewhere to live, but if you’d like to be close to something be it your job, your kids school or the local Tesco then it becomes quite a labourious task of going through each property you can afford and seeing where it is.
The mashup I made essentially scrapes all of the rental property from rightmove’s site, calculates the map position and draws it onto a Google map via the api. Yesterday I tidied up the code, improved the scraping and added some searching facilities, although there’s still some work to be done.
If you want to try it out, I’d recommend a browser with fast Javascript processing as it’s quite Javascript heavy, so either Safari or Chrome. It works well enough in the current release of Firefox too. Naturally, IE6 is like a dead horse, and IE7 isn’t much better.
Enjoy