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December 19, 2007

Nifty new doodad

Check out this Google Maps mashup with home sales data from Metropolitan Regional Information Systems: It lets you see where the sales are -- whether all sales or, say, everything priced above $1 million.

It's a heat map, which means the areas with the most sales are brightest.

Baltimoresun.com web developer Stephen Mekosh made it. I'd be interested to know if you see other nifty housing-related web tools.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 9:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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Jamie,

Be sure to tell Stephen that I think the widget is pretty neat.

-Kevin

Posted by: Kevin | December 19, 2007 9:41 AM

Will do! I'm sure he'll be glad to hear it.

Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | December 19, 2007 9:43 AM

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Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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