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by mk 5713 days ago
Check it out for yourself on the awesome padmapper: http://www.padmapper.com/?lat=37.69897768523249&lng=-122...
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Damn... awesome is right. I'd be curious how they crawl all this data (especially the craigslist listings).
Craigslist has RSS feeds that respect categories/search terms: http://www.craigslist.org/about/rss :) You're technically not supposed to use them for search engines specific to housing, but Craigslist doesn't seem very serious about enforcement.
I wonder if landlords will go after this like the hotel industry went after AirBnB. Any accurate information a potential renter has about other apartments in the area can only hurt the landlord.
You can also check : http://www.mapskrieg.com/view/sfbay/rooms-and-shares

I guess that the database is the same (ie CraigsList)...

http://www.housingmaps.com/ is another excellent craigslist listings frontend with a bunch of filters built-in.
Still some roughness with their data, it is showing me listing from Sacramento and Vallejo as in SF.