Virtual Tours & Other Drupal Real Estate Goodies
I am building a site for our Real Estate Firm and have not really found anything I like yet for virtual tours.
What do you all use for building virtual tours? Were going to have video and photos so it needs to be flexible.
I am thinking of creating a Drupal Module or Feature instead of buying an outside service, I just dont see any of them (that ive reviewed) that do anything magical that a drupal/flash app couldn't do. I dont want to start this only to find someone else is already half way there and in need of time/money investment, so anyone else built/building a drupal based virtual tour app? Or any other interesting drupal flavored real estate stuff going on around here?
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Virtual Tours
I'm working on a project right now where the primary focus is a virtual tour. It won't be anything super fancy, just a nicely formatted listing that includes a link for a full screen slideshow that pulls images that have been uploaded via imagefield and resized using imagecache.
We're trying to find a good developer to field some custom modules we need, and take care of some other details
For example, I know we should be able to take the XML specifications for real estate search sites like Trulia, Oodle, Google Base, Yahoo Real estate etc and create appropriately formatted feeds using Views. This seems to be a particularly valuable service these days considering so many leads are coming from these aggregate sites.
Also trying to make a custom uploader that will replace the normal file dialog box, so that realtors can queue images from multiple folders, rotate the images before upload, and then send them all to the flash uploader for mass upload. We may also include a way for realtors to then edit their source images directly using an open source ajax image editor - only tricky part there is we'll need to include some kind of hook to flush imagecache when a source file is modified.
Sounds interesting especially
Sounds interesting especially the uploader widget. Make any progress on that? Im currently working with the Pirates module folks to integrate the MLS into our site .. hadnt thought about the aggregator possibilities since we only focus on our local market, or do those feeds include properties not in the MLS? ...if that's so that could be quite interesting!