Do you move a lot? Do you find it difficult to locate an apartment in the cool part of town when you land in a new city? Do you even know where the cool part of town is?
Maybe you don’t want to live where the party crowd hangs out. Or perhaps you want to be near people that share similar interests. Either way, picking where to live can be a daunting task, made exponentially worse when you know nothing about your new surroundings.
Cue the theme music. Sound the trumpets. As reported on ReadWriteWeb, new location-based mashups with Bing Maps can help make finding the ideal apartment much easier.
First, use the Bing Maps integration with rental property listing service Oodle to find apartments that fit your living requirements. Then, switch to the “Foursquare Everywhere” integration to gauge the social activity, nightlife, and buzz around your top apartment picks. If you want to be daring, and are willing to sacrifice on apartment details to live in the neighborhood that best fits your lifestyle, you can always look at the Foursquare mashup first; and then go from there.