Here at Gartoo we recently published a blog post on the commute time, commute cost and mortgage repayment cost of many of the UK’s major cities to identify the best and worst areas to live in for commuters.
However, we realised that looking at long tables of data and graphs isn’t the most exciting and interactive way of presenting the data. We decided to produce a property search info graphic and the following interactive Google map displaying the commute cost, time and mortgage repayment costs for areas in and around London, UK.
Google Maps goes beyond standard data visualisation
For a property search engine like Gartoo.co.uk, the ability to pour data into an interactive Google map is a brilliant way of showing multiple variables to help people searching for a home to compare areas, but lets face it, there’s nothing new about property search engines displaying property data on a map!
The real advantage of using Google maps to display this data is that people are already very familiar with how to use the different functions and with the recent addition of Google street views (the orange man above the zoom slider) people are able to take a virtual walk around the areas that they might consider living in – an incredibly useful feature that is not supported by many property search engines.
London Optimum Location Finder Map
Click on a marker to see the commute time, cost and average monthly mortgage repayment of that area.
View London Property Price vs. Commute Time & Cost in a larger map
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