The Perfect Address at the Center of Your Daily Life

As prices at the fuel pump remain high and people’s concerns about their impact on the environment rise, where we live in relation to what we do takes on greater significance.  Enter Optimal Home Location, a real estate tool that lets users input the addresses of the most frequently visited places in their daily lives, such as schools and workplaces, into a database that aggregates the information and determines a central area to begin their housing hunt from.  The service also allows you to compare your commute from various locations as well as take into account community demographics like property taxes and local attractions. Although not a perfect application - the website includes a disclaimer stating that the searches do not take into account the feasibility of the area for living - it does provide an excellent jumping off point for eco-friendly and convenience conscious potential home buyers alike.

Have you been looking across many different neighborhoods for a place to buy or rent? Have you been contemplating whether to buy closer to your job, your spouse’s job or your kids’ school? Do not worry - this is not a simple geometric triangulation but a centuries old mathematical problem. Optimal Home Location tool is synthesizing math algorithms and Google Maps together in order to pinpoint optimal home location for any commute scenario. It is easy to use and fun to play with. All you need to do it enter all the addresses your family routinely visits throughout the day and then click on the map icons to define commute route for each member of your family. The tool automatically computes optimal home location that will minimize total combined commute for all members of your family and mark it with .

[TreeHugger via EcoGeek]