Open Listings Integrates With Mapbox To Customize The Map Experience For Home Buyers
LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) June 06, 2018 -- The Y-Combinator, venture-backed homebuying service Open Listings has announced it has integrated with Mapbox to provide a customized map experience for users in California, Washington, and Texas and Illinois. The digital platform provides buyers the knowledge, tools and support they need to buy a home online, while offering a 50 percent refund on the buying agent's commission -- in some cases, covering up to half of a buyer's down payment.
Open Listings uses GL JS, Mapbox's web API, and Maps SDKs for Mobile to customize the presentation of map data, build in interactivity, and render vector maps on the client at 60 frames-per-second (the speed of a video game). The design team used Studio, Mapbox's visual design suite, to tailor the map style to the experience.
Mapbox enabled Open Listings to customize the map design for different contexts. The default map styles provide rich interactions that help users shop for homes, where it’s crucial to understand how close a property is to schools, highways, public transportation, shops, and the like. But it is also important for Open Listings to communicate sales volume by region. In this context, it’s less about understanding the exact location of a single property and more about understanding the market at a high level.
As Open Listings' business grows — listing millions of unique properties on their site — it's crucial to have a scalable map solution, both in terms of price and performance.
When asked about the decision making process, Peter Sugihara, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Open Listings said, "Google became cost prohibitive. The customer service experience was poor. It really was surprising. Our engineers felt Mapbox was incredibly developer friendly and great for integration. Maps are a major function of pages on our website so the performance and customization and how much dev time it would take are what weighed that decision."
Overall, Mapbox offers Open Listings an incredible level of map detail and customization that couldn’t be found with other providers.
About Open Listings:
Open Listings is the all-in-one homebuying app designed to make buying a home simple and more affordable in California, Washington, Texas, and now Illinois. House hunt 24/7, get pressure-free advice from expert agents, create offers online, and save an average of $8,500+ with their 50% commission refund.
Kevin Miller, Open Listings, https://www.openlistings.com/, 3862144931, [email protected]
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