All real estate is local. But, what makes "local" special isn’t just knowing where something or someone is. The important information is what is around the content or person that is important. Simple keyword tagging of locations isn’t sufficient to know what’s around a property or what local communities are contained within a given town. Zip codes also are problematic because zip code areas can be really large and also most people from outside your area may not know local zip codes or keep up with their changes.
Vidlisting has developed a simple system that allows you to geotag content such as real estate videos, PDFs, Youtube videos, Microsoft Office files, regular old web links, and Real Estate Shows slideshows. This adds geographic latitude and longitude information to the content that allows you to group content naturally by location even if a given location isn’t included in keywords.
Vidlisting also adds geo tags and geolocation to external information such as market reports and hyperlocal blog posts automatically. The information is stored in a series of public and custom content libraries organized by latitude and longitude. These libraries form rich sources of local information developed by local experts.
Content that is geo tagged by users or otherwise automatically geolocated is made available to the members, guests, and external partners based on the context and access permissions for which it has been configured.
On The Vidlisting.com Domain: Content uploaded on the Vidlisting real estate video content management portal is geotagged as part of the real estate video upload process or the Add Content process for other non-video content types. Content can be geotagged in seconds and no knowledge of latitudes or longitudes is needed on the part of the user.
On Vidlisting Members’ Websites: Members can choose to geolocate content for uploads originating from member websites. The default is for content to be geolocated.
On Self Hosting Partner Sites: The second version of developer application programming interfaces (API) currently in private beta fully supports geolocation and geo tags.