Apr
18th

New map search’s impact on your stats

The new Google Map’s search we’ve put online last week might have had a certain impact in the detailed statistics page of sellers accounts.
Here’s how the statistics are compiled when a visitor explores the ByTheOwner map search :
  1. When you roll over the icon of a property and the box containing its photo, its price and its city is opened during at least 1 second, one view is added to the number of times a property is shown in the search results;
  2. When a visitor clicks on the icon of the property and the large info window opens (containing Description, Photos, Comments and Contact tabs), the number of visits on the listing is incremented by 1.
  3. If the visitor goes to the complete listing of the property, directly from the map search, I do not add another visit to its statistics since I already counted this visitor in the info window he just opened. The latter almost containing all the information of the full listing.
statistics for your home for sale example

Don’t hesitate to comment if you have any questions concerning this topic

Frédérick Dubois, ByTheOwner.com
Web development and programming

Apr
3rd

Use of GMarkerManager disappointing on Internet Explorer IE6

Google added recently the GMarkerManager class to the Google Maps API. This class is used to manage visibility of hundreds of markers on a map, based on the map’s current viewport and zoom level.

Use of GMarkerManager disappointing on Internet Explorer IE6

Mar
2nd

Differences between Google Maps on google.com and ByTheOwner.com

Clients asked me lately why some streets weren’t showing on the maps we use for ByTheOwner when they do show on the maps.google.com website. Unfortunately, this ain’t due to a version bug, we can’t fix it. Here’s why.

The maps Google uses on his website are provided by Navteq. The maps we are allowed to use through the google maps api are provided by TeleAtlas. This is why the maps aren’t exactly the same everywhere. Navteq didn’t gave google the permission to share their maps through google’s api.

Navteq, google maps and Teleatlas logos

If you’d like to read more on the subject :
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/google_maps_and_their_data_pro_1.html

Frédérick Dubois, ByTheOwner.com
Web development and programming