This fall (2009) I will have more time to work on new features for YSTM.
The most immediate improvements I plan to make are:
1) Adding a search feature to keyword search the active sales on the map
2) Adding support for Australia and the U.K.
If you have ideas for certain features I would love to hear them!
10-10-09 – I have received lots of great comments and feedback. I am temporarily suspending this section so that I can spend time fixing problems and adding some of the requested features. Some features will be added next week, others you may not see until the start of next year’s yard sale season. Here is my to do list in no particular order:
- Add Wednesday to day filter
- Remove the ad on the map
- Make the “add address” feature more usable
- Add support for Garmin GPS
- Figure out “Less than 20″ bug when there are already less than 20 markers
- Implement a creative way to let users adjust incorrect sale mappings
- Ensure that community / neighborhood sales show up and stand out
Day selection too limited, frequently yard sales are on Wednesdays in St.Louis & St.Charles Missouri and yard sale treasure map is of no help. PLEASE expand days available. Thanks, have a great day.
I would like to add the ones from the local paper, and have the best of both worlds. To add address it tells me to remove some of the others, and I do, but it still won’t let me add addresses, or remap.
This is a wonderful website,thank you, thank you, for creating this wonderful site
This is visionary and a great service, thanks so much.
It would be helpful to see listings of the yard sales that begin on Friday separately mapped from those that begin on Saturday & vice-versa. Date might be better since some folks like to put their sale into Craig’s list weeks early. But as Lisa remarks, day selection should be more flexible not for just the seller but also for customer.
Again many thanks!
Perhaps I should have played around with the program a little more before making a suggestion … you have already done what I was requesting.
Look forward to utilizing your vision! & Again thanks!
Bill
does this include estate sales? if not, plz consider bc we’re always mapping out estate sales on — plus those ppl need it — it’s a huge subculture!
I just read about your site in the AARP Bulletin and can’t wait to use it this weekend. I want to forward it to my friends and can copy/paste, but maybe you can make it easier for people to share a link to your site.
I COMPLETELY agree w/the comments about “Estate Sales”. I spend a lot of time in Florida and it is BIG business there. Thanks for a great tool.
Ad blocks top right of map- not good
I have to echo Judy’s comment about trying to optimize after removing sales over 20. It seems like if at any point you try to optimize with more than 20 then it gets stuck thinking that.
can i sign up to get a daily or weekly email of where the yard sales are??
add estate sales
Could you please do a radius of 2 & 3 miles? There are a lot of yard sales in my area so I have to delete the ones further out.
Do you have plans to list flea markets? So many have closed down and then there are a few that are worth the trip but with no exposure and little advertising funds.
I would like to see these uplinked onto my GPS! I just told my husband I wished there was a place like this. Now I hope people use it in my area. Thanks
Would it be possible to add auctions to this list?
You’ve performed a wonderful service for a lot of people. Thank you!
I would like to be able to see those that are Estate Sales ( preferably pulling from the paper too) compared to those that are garage/yard sales. If they could be searchable and tagged in a different color that would be great.
Greetings, I love the site. Would you please add Wednesday. Most of the sales here start on Wednesday. Thank you
What a wonderful website… thank you!! It would be very helpful if I could maybe double click on a sale and a very localized map would come up. The directions were 4 pages long and not correct. Thanks again! Diane
Need WEDNESDAY in the day selection. Wednesday is also a big Yard Sale day in Missouri.
Great site. Thanks so much.
I entered a town in the search box and the only sales I saw were from a town about 40 miles away. Same results when I reduced the mileage radius from 20 to 10
Cathy, Estate sales are included if they are posted on craigslist. I will add color-coding the markers to my list of things to do. Thanks!
Pat, incorporating GPS is definitely one of the next things on my list. I think that would be very helpful to people. Thank you for reminding me!
Debora, YSTM does include flea market sales so long as they are posted in the garage sale section of craigslist and they specify and exact address.
IS THERE A WAY THAT YOU CAN PRINT THE INFO WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE MARKER BELOW THE MAP SO I CAN PRINT OUT OR SEE THIS INFO RATHER THAN CLICKING ON EVERY MARKER TO SEE ADDRESS & WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO SELL?
OMG!!!! What a fabulous website–Thanks to the AARP mag article, or I would’nt have ever known! You need to post this site on Craigslist, right above the garage sales page!! We have a spot in Jennys, in Haverhill, and are always looking for bargains for our customers….Thank you so very much!
This would be soooo helpful if it included all the sales that are advertised in my local newspaper instead of the sales advertised on Craigslist. We have LOTS of sales going on that are in the newspaper, but only one is coming up on here because they are not on Craigslist.
The directions needs to list the addresses of the sales, and the directions need to be more compact (one page) with a map and the list of addresses (with the CL ad in compact form as an option) in the mapped order. Most of us are going to sales in our own neighborhoods and don’t usually need the turn by turn directions. Adding an editable note box for each address would be useful.
Also, I’m seeing addresses for sales in other parts of town showing up on “my” map.
One of the addresses I added from a CL ad not found by the map didn’t show; then I noticed it defaulted to an address in another state! The default should be “my” starting address’s city/state.
It would be nice to be able to log in so my settings are saved from session to session.
I agree about adding more days of the week to the options.
It would be nice to be able to tell Google Maps to not use the freeway when plotting routes.
Didn’t say this yet, but this tool is a great idea! I wouldn’t be wasting my time commenting/suggesting if it didn’t have potential.
Can’t get anything to show up in columbus ohio area hundreds on craigslist.
Ken, you helped me find a typo for the columbus ohio craigslist. Next week you will see sales in your area. Thank you for pointing this out!
Miriam, thank you for the great input. I will be taking many of these points into account in the coming weeks.