Contact APIs

September 7, 2015 8:09 AM

I'm doing some web development for a realtor, and he's asked me to look into some ideas. Is there a service that will let me find all the street addresses within a radius of a given address? (From a block to a half-mile radius, for example.) What about a service that provides contact info (name, at least) for a given address. It'd be even better if I could also research whether the occupant rents or owns, what their estimated income is, etc.
posted by jacob to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

It sounds like you want the Zillow API? I don't know a lot about it but it seems likely to offer data relevant to realtors. For the specific problem of finding addresses within a particular radius, the search terms you want to use are "geospatial" and "geocoding" -- you can definitely convert an address to a Lat/Long coordinate set using the Google Maps API. Finding all addresses within a radius is a known problem (see "geospatial indexing"), though I don't know if any freely available services solve it.
posted by axiom at 11:50 AM on September 7, 2015