Fun with Google Maps

Google is always creating new things to play around with (Picasa, Google Earth, Google Translate, etc, etc, etc), and Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture has discovered a little-known feature within Google Maps that's definitely good for some time-wastin'.

Apparently there is a "real estate" function within Google Maps that allows you to search for available properties in a given neighborhood. One of the filtering parameters is "Foreclosures", which then enables you to see how many foreclosed homes there might be in an area. So, yeah... yikes. Anyone wanna move to Miami?

There's more on Barry's post, and you can go over to Google Maps and kill plenty of time playing around with your own neighborhood (or, if you're into chart porn, just check out Detroit...). Interesting and sort of scary at the same time.


[The Big Picture]