I just received this note from Mick Balaban, explaining a tool that he had put together to visually show the location of trikes that are being sold on Barnstormers. I think this is one of the most clever things I've seen in a long time, and a great use of Google Maps. We are planning our own Classified Section here at Trikepilot Social that will allow all the members to buy, sell, and trade gear and trikes amongst themselves... but in the meantime, this is a fantastic way to save some time on Barnstormers.
In Mick's own words:
Hi Spence,
Months ago, when I was looking to purchase my first trike, I was browsing barnstormers every day and constantly looking how far are trikes that are being sold away from me, and trying to figure out how much would it cost to transport them... So I got sick of that and wrote a small data scraper that crawls barnstormers site for trikes and updates local database on my server that then presents them on google maps. I showed it to some friends and they thought it was cool. So check it out when you get a chance: http://trikes.newmediafront.com
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