Nestoria Blog

Dearest Nestors,

as you know, we spend our fair share of time here at Nestoria pondering maps, and how better to use maps to convey property information. We’re constantly scouring the web for innovation or just general coolness. We thought we’d post a few of the many sites that have caught our eye over the last few weeks:

• Postcode map of the UK The UK in the form of a periodic table.Strangemaps lives up to it’s name and is easily one of the most consistently interesting blogs on the internet. Great posts made even better by insightful reader comments. Subscribe immediately.
• It was in the comments of the above post that we found the motorway map of England, Scotland and Wales - our road network in the form of a London Tube map.
• Speaking of the Tube here are two interesting ones: First, a comparison of the tube networks of major world cities all shown at the same scale (who knew San Francisiso was so big). Secondly, the useful Way out tube map that shows you which car of the tube to be in to be closest to the exit (every second counts!)
• Taking a different and innovative approach to the problem of overlaying data on a map is this flash-as-book map of surrey
• And finally, for those of you who want to spend your three day weekend contemplating the impending environmental apocalypse we present this recent offering from the Guardian Europe’s future climate map. Which shows cities not where they are, but where their climate in 2071 would correspond to in today’s geography. An interesting mental twist.

As you see, lots of different approaches to data representation. Rest assured we’re hard at work thinking of better ways to present the wealth of property data we have here at Nestoria, be it on a map or not. We hope to have a few interface changes in the coming weeks.

In the meanwhile, we wish you a bank holiday weekend of happy map browsing, whether on Nestoria while searching for property, or elsewhere.