2. Great idea. This was really an oversight on my part. I will incorporate into my next release.

3. Another good idea. I will think on this.

4. The address parsing isn’t going to get much better. It is quite sophisticated under the hood, and I am at the point of dimishing return in making improvements.

Since you send the output of the location of the yard sale to the maps application as latitude/longitude there are many potentials for errors. In particular the maps function can find the street on the opposite side of a ditch or the ‘back yard’ of the actual yard sale with no way to get from here to there. Would it be possible to just pass on the street address to the maps app?

When I do select the map app it gives me most of my map applications on my phone, but not the most useful, Navigation (the turn-by-turn vocal instructions which also prevents the map from going to sleep). I can get there by first going to the plain Maps app and then selecting turn-by-turn which passes me on to the Navigation app, but it would be nice if I had the choice to go directly there.

One feature I’d like (not a bug, but I’m on a roll here) would be the capability to blacklist addresses. There are a couple of thrift stores, including ones named “garage sale” or “yard sale” which keep posting on cragislist to try to get extra traffic even though they aren’t selling stuff at actual garage sale prices. In addition there are many folk who have garage sales every other week with the same stuff for sale each week. A blacklist of sales locations I’m not interested in would be useful.

Finally, would it be possible to add some ‘checksums’ to the found maps? I am amazed at how well your code parses craigslist to find the garage sale ads and figure out the actual town and address but occasionally it screws up and finds an address several towns over. In some cases the ad has extra information (city or zip) which can help determine the actual town.

Many thanks again for an incredibly useful tool, I use it almost every weekend!

Marcus