Home Buying with Google Maps
We are looking to buy a home in London. Since we don't have a car, we are using the My Maps feature of Google Maps to visualize our geographic preferences. The circles (really complex polygons created using Scribble Maps, since Google Maps doesn't have a good way of creating circles) are roughly 9km in diameter. Once you create and position the circle in Scribble Maps, you can export it to a KML file and then import the KML to your My Map. The green circles are for city golf courses, the yellow one is for the train station and the purple one is for UWO. The red polygon is the riding of London West. We can add potential homes to the map to quickly see where they fall in relation to these preferences, and we have also mapped other useful things, such as grocery stores. Neat, eh?
Tip: when you use circles, the maps become too complex to display all at once. Use this tip about importing your map's KML file to create a map where the placemarks and polygons are shown all at once.
