InspectorSeek.com

[Chris Morrell]

Originally Posted by dedwards

Some of what you are showing at least around Pensacola are neighborhoods not actual towns (Brent and Ferry Pass) and missing is other real towns around Pensacola.

They're not supposed to be towns—I'm trying to break the country up into major metropolitan areas. So neighborhoods are good.

Originally Posted by dedwards

Not trying to pee on your parade but your initial request for input was probably the way to go because you will get real information from the folks who live there. May take a little longer but will be more accurate in the long run.

Right now I'm trying to find a way to automate the process so that as groupings change and zip codes come and go we can just download new raw data and recreate the grouping database. If it looks like that won't work, then we might have to rely on a more hands-on approach. We'll see...

[Billy Boerner]

Originally Posted by inxil

They're not supposed to be towns—I'm trying to break the country up into major metropolitan areas. So neighborhoods are good.


Right now I'm trying to find a way to automate the process so that as groupings change and zip codes come and go we can just download new raw data and recreate the grouping database. If it looks like that won't work, then we might have to rely on a more hands-on approach. We'll see...

Chris,

Just an idea. I would post this message over at scriptlance.com! I'm sure your aware but if not a host of international datebase coders exist on that site and I'm sure someone has a idea on how to do what your looking for.

Bill

[bdoles2]

For Georgia you've got

Atlanta, Sandy Springs and Marietta

Which really only gets the northwest side of Atlanta and probably the city of Atlanta.

Would it work better if you had cities that encompass the metro area?

i.e. Atlanta, Douglasville, Sandy Springs, Lithonia and Forest Park - This gets the cities on the North, South, East and West.

[Chris Morrell]

Originally Posted by bboerner

Just an idea. I would post this message over at scriptlance.com! I'm sure your aware but if not a host of international datebase coders exist on that site and I'm sure someone has a idea on how to do what your looking for.

There are a few major ways to group locations. The most recent is the Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) method. It's based both on how different areas share a statistical core in terms of population, and also in terms of interaction. For example, people who live in the "Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington" CBSA are more likely to a) live near each other and b) interact with each other. There's no reason to re-invent the wheel here—many very talented statisticians worked hard to make CBSA data as accurate as possible, and I doubt anything we could contract would be nearly as accurate.

My main concern here is to make sure we represent this statistical data as accurately and user-friendly as possible ("Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington" is definitely easier for an end-user to deal with than "Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD"). We'll probably then build in a way to tweak the system based on user input.

[Chris Morrell]

Originally Posted by bdoles2

Would it work better if you had cities that encompass the metro area? i.e. Atlanta, Douglasville, Sandy Springs, Lithonia and Forest Park

As I mentioned above, I think this makes the most sense. We'll start with CBSA data and then tweak the data manually where it needs it.

The only other option I'm looking into right now is using Neilsen DMA data, but I don't think that's quite right for us.

[Christopher Currins]

IL.


Chris, If you could change St.Louis in the Illinois regions to St.Louis Metro-East. it would make a HUGE difference.


The Greater St.Louis Area and The St.Louis Metro-East , geographically, are two completely different areas. They are approx. the same size, but not the same animal.


Also Illinois is a Lic. State and Mo. is not. The majority of inspectors in St.Louis are not Lic. and do not inspect in Illinois.


Any help would be very much appreciated.



IL.

1. Charleston and Mattoon
2. St. Louis
3. Taylorville
4. Quincy
5. Effingham
6. Springfield
7. Jacksonville
8. Centralia
9. Mount Vernon
10. Marion and Herrin
11. Carbondale
12. Cape Girardeau and Jackson
13. Harrisburg

[Erby Crofutt]

Has there been any progress with this. Don't really seem that Inspectorseek.com has changed yet.

[hlowe]

HEY CHRIS!

Are you including Canada in this, or is CanNachi going to be responsible for that?

[Chris Morrell]

We're still working on it. It's a huge restructuring that's taken a number of iterations. Hopefully we'll have some new stuff to show soon.

Canada will be included in the system.

CM

[Billy Boerner]

Chris keep SEO as the top priority. I understand how long and time consuming code is so I know your working like a mad man. Keep up the great work. Our #1 concern is that search engines picks up this site so people can find us. Thanks again.

[Chris Morrell]

In the style of Nick: "We're SEOing this @#$# up the @#$(*@."

[jlerch]

Hey Chris,
In Tennessee
The area that goes togther is Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol refered to as Tri-Cities.

Sorry to be soooo late.

[klott]

Why don't you let the inspectors insert their localities, and you just clear out the redundantcies?

[Billy Boerner]

Originally Posted by inxil

In the style of Nick: "We're SEOing this @#$# up the @#$(*@."

LOL Good. I hope it works. Would be a huge boost for NACHI.

[Billy Boerner]

Originally Posted by klott

Why don't you let the inspectors insert their localities, and you just clear out the redundantcies?

That's a good idea. Instead of creating a massive database of areas that no one even lives in let the inspector choose their areas and add it as they join. Great idea Ken. If a potential client types in a zip not loaded yet they will see sorry no inspectors listed yet for this area.