Posted
at 4:30 pm, September 30, 2010
in Daft has just made it easier for you to find your dream home online!
We've just added an exciting feature to our maps called Google Street View - a 360 degree street-level view of properties, towns, neighbourhoods and streets in Ireland.
What does this mean for my property searches?
If you’re looking for a place to buy or rent, Street View immerses you in the property location, at ground level. You can move up and down streets, or look around you in 360 degree panoramas giving you a feel for the property and the area.
You can virtually explore neighbourhoods and navigate to individual homes and amenities like shops, schools, dry cleaners and bus stops. You can even check out nearby landmarks to help with driving directions to the property!
Street View in Action
Just click any of the property images below to see Street View for yourself or you can simply do a quick search on Daft.ie.
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And if you want to find out a little more detail about Street View, we've put together a short primer here.
So if you come across any particularly interesting property views, be sure to let us know here in the comments or at support@daft.ie!
[...] for all properties, not just those for sale. So, when we were chosen by Google to be one of the official launch partners for Google Streetview in Ireland, we decided it was finally time to overhaul our current system with something more modern and [...]
What Daft giveth, Daft taketh away. I see as of 19/5/11 we not only no longer have Streetview available on listings, Daft no longer offers satellite images. These features are extremely valuable, even if they sometimes reveal information the estate agent would rather the property shopper not know about... which leads me to believe this is why the features have disappeared. I'll trade your new emphasis on "Tweeting" and Facebook for truly useful information.
@Dave street view and satellite maps are still shown, where available.
If a property has street view imagery, the "Street View" will be shown just underneath the main image. Similarly, on the "Map" tab there are toggles for the default map and satellite mode.
We've today published a post explaining some of the changes to that page in more detail, which should hopefully be of some use to you - http://blog.daft.ie/2011/05/we-have-redesigned-our-property-details-page/.