About Earthify

I originally came up with the idea for the Earthify script while I was looking for an apartment in Brooklyn. I didn't know the area very well, so I was having a hard time figuring out if the listings I was seeing on Craigslist were close to Subways, restaurants, and other amenities. Housingmaps was nice, but it didn't allow me the search flexibility that I wanted, and I couldn't see where the places were in relation to the Subway. The Google Maps/Subway mashup was great for the Subway issue, but it was still very time-consuming to take every address one-by-one and plug them in. I wanted a way to browse the listings geographically, like with HousingMaps, but also have other information about the area, like the Subway mashup.

Eventually I started using Google Earth with Brian Abbotts New York Subway overlay and Metal Toads KMLPhotos script, and this was giving me great results, but I still had to look up the listings one-by-one on Craigslist and paste the address into Google Earth to find the location. I couldn't browse by location like I could on HousingMaps. So I decided to write this little script to combine all of the goodness of Craigslist, HousingMaps, GoogleMaps/Subway mashup, and Google Earth.