Real estate websites
The single most useful additional feature any real-estate listings site could add, in my opinion, would be compulsory “distance to x” data. We’d want x to be things like railway stations, tram stops, and supermarkets, but I can see that other people might want freeways and schools.
The problem as always isn’t with technical implementation, it’s with getting agents to find and then enter that sort of data. It’s not difficult to figure out — given an address and knowledge of the area you can get the distance out of Google Maps pretty quickly — but we’re talking here about people who often can’t be bothered even including more than one photo of a property.
Those agents who do include some information in the text typically put it in terms of “minutes”. Which usually means “by car”. So “close to shops, schools and station” can be anything up to five kilometres away. At least having it expressed in distance rather than trip-length would be unambiguous and useful to everyone.
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