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Google Maps: Video Tutorial on Adding Custom Points, Overlays and Commentary
July 20, 2007

Recently having a “Eureka” Moment, Pat at TransparentRE.com showed us all his fancy moves with Google Maps. In his words “…real estate professionals can use Google Maps to continually update their clients on the status of their local housing markets…”

A good number of us wondered how to do this. So I’ve created a video tutorial detailing the basics of the process.

Here’s the test map created in the tutorial

This has some great implications for the real estate market. Especially when combined with photos, video, street level views and property data.

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