Press
Press contact
Please direct press enquiries to ononemap@fusepr.com, or call the OnOneMap team at Fuse PR on 020 8752 3200. Please note that this email address and telephone number are for press enquiries only, and any other callers will be directed to use our feedback form. Thank you.
Press releases
| Date | Press release |
|---|---|
| 7th June 2007 | OnOneMap Adds Flood Map Layer |
| 17 Feb 2007 | OnOneMap Plots UK's 60,000 Phone Masts |
| 6 Feb 2007 | OnOneMap Unveils UK's Most Advanced and Usable Property Search Engine |
| 2 Aug 2006 | OnOneMap Launches Feature That Displays Sold Property Prices Alongside Properties For Sale |
| 23 June 2006 | OnOneMap Survey Finds ASBO's Are Top Turn-Offs For Home Hunters |
| 9 Jan 2006 | OnOneMap Becomes UK's Fastest Growing Property Website |
| 28 Oct 2005 | OnOneMap's New Rental Search Facility Set To Revolutionise Home Hunting |
| 11 Oct 2005 | 10 Weeks Since Launch and OnOneMap Takes Top Spot |
| 1 Sept 2005 | OnOneMap Allows Estate Agents Free Direct Access |
| 4 Aug 2005 | UK's First Property Search Engine Launches |
Press coverage
Hundreds of press articles have been written about or have included a reference to OnOneMap. Some are listed here.
| Publication | Date | Headline | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your Mortgage magazine | September 2007 | Get help online - top 5 websites | "This is a property search engine with a difference." |
The Guardian Tech supplement |
30 August 2007 | Paper maps rather than digital ones save site 99% in OS fees | "Information World Review, a VNU publication, has joined the Free Our Data campaign." |
| Your Home magazine | August 2007 | Easy property searching | "Whether you're buying or renting, searching for a suitable property is always time consuming, unless you've discovered www.ononemap.com" |
| Guardian Unlimited | 30 July 2007 | Top 10 dotcoms to watch | "So what are Britain's best dotcoms? We took some time to look at the independent internet companies making a noise in the UK, and came up with a list of 10 that points to where things are headed." |
The Guardian Tech supplement and online |
25 July 2007 | Turn to Google Maps for flood updates | "It was only a couple of weeks ago that property site OnOneMap, which uses Google Maps as its engine, got into a battle over the flood data it was offering browsers. Because the mapping data showing flood risk is owned by the Environment Agency, they were forced to remove it, an argument we covered in a recent Free our Data piece." |
Web User magazine Letters to the editor |
19 July 2007 | Flood maps | "Unfortunately, the site had to remove it [the flood data]... Personally, I think they should be allowed to publish such information on their site." |
The Guardian Tech supplement and online |
12 July 2007 | Letters to the editor | "The Environment Agency agrees that the data should be 'made available, as widely as possible, to the public' (Rising tide of frustration, July 5)." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/12/comment.comment1 |
| Information World Review blog | 5 July 2007 | Flood risk information could be revealed by Environment Agency, reveals Guardian | "Daily newspaper The Guardian is still pursuing its worthy campaign Free our Data, which highlights how much information the government creates and then either never makes available to information professionals and consumers or does so at restrictively high prices. Today's issue of the newspaper rather timely reveals how the Environment Agency forced an online information provider to remove flood information from its service which the company had gained from the Environment Agency. It did this as large parts of Yorkshire look more like Bangladesh as climate change wrought terrible rain and flooding on the region." |
| Free Our Data blog | 5 July 2007 | Environment Agency gives its reasons for stopping flood data being used | "Today's Guardian Technology includes 'Rising tide of frustration at flood maps' restrictions', following on from the Environment Agency (for England and Wales) decision to forbid OnOneMap republishing a scraped version of its flood map data.. which is the sort of data that one would like to have at the moment when considering where to buy or rent next." |
The Guardian Paper and online |
5 July 2007 | Rising tide of frustration at flood maps' restrictions | "With floods in the news, you might think that the government and its agencies would want to encourage people to find out whether properties for sale or rent are at risk of inundation. Yet while parts of South Yorkshire still suffer from June's floods, the Environment Agency has moved to stop an outside site offering its flood mapping data in a more usable form." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/05/guardianweeklytechnologysection.freeourdata |
| Free Our Data blog | 30 June 2007 | Environment Agency yanks flood data from OnOneMap site | "We've written in the past about OnOneMap, which took the interesting step of taking the mobile phone mast data from Ofcom and making it available on its property/rental search site. But recently it did something much more interesting - and, given the weather, useful. At the start of June it added the Environment Agency's flood risk data to its Google Maps implementation." |
| Web User magazine | 21 June 2007 | Online map shows flood risk | "OnOneMap has added a layer that shows the likelihood of flooding across Britain." |
The Times Bricks and mortar supplement and online |
22 June 2007 | Weblinks: cool maps | "House-hunters should add www.ononemap.com to their favourites" http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article1965925.ece |
The Guardian Tech supplement and online |
14 June 2007 | Flood warnings | "OnOneMap, which plots UK houses for sale on Google Maps, has added a flood risk layer." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jun/14/guardianweeklytechnologysection1 |
| Focus magazine | June 2007 | The ultimate user-friendly maps | "Simplify your property search with this site that maps homes for sale in the UK." |
PC Pro Magazine and online |
May 2007 | Prolog - Top 50 sites | "If you're searching for a new house, sites such as rightmove.co.uk and primelocation.com are crumbling ruins compared to www.ononemap.com. This ingenious site uses Google Maps technology... then overlays its own data obtained from estate agents." |
City AM Paper |
30 March 2007 | Rock 'n' rolling up the wall | "Whether you are buying or renting, searching for a suitable property is always time-consuming - unless you have discovered www.ononemap.com." |
The Register Online |
16 Mar 2007 | The Top 25 UK Web 2.0 Start Ups | "Neat property site... I've recommended it to loads of friends who're property hunting." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/16/the_top_25_uk_web_startups |
Computeractive Paper |
8 Mar 2007 | Site Seeing... | "Recently revamped, this useful website displays properties available for sale or rent, as well as properties that have recently been sold" |
The Guardian Tech supplement and online |
1 Mar 2007 | Location, location, location - of supermarkets, schools and masts | "...an enterprising property search site" |
The Guardian Paper and online |
22 Feb 2007 | Masts plotted | "The OnOneMap site started by displaying houses for sale. It has now added almost 60,000 mobile phone masts." |
Computeractive Online |
19 Feb 2007 | Property map website to show phone masts | "Property search engine Ononemap has added the locations of mobile telecommunications aerials to its maps." http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2183701/property-map-website-phone |
FT Paper and online |
24 Nov 2006 | A bitter battle for sales territory | "Ononemap.com in the UK offers searchable street maps of neighbourhoods with most of the homes for sale or rent plotted as little red Monopoly-style houses. Click on the icon and you’re directed to more information and estate agent details, which are input automatically for no fee. Founder Philip Sheldrake ... wants to help both buyers and agents, and many of the latter have asked him to help improve their own sites." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/646d68ca-7b11-11db-bf9b-0000779e2340.html (requires subscription) |
The Guardian Paper and online |
16 Oct 2006 | Can Britain produce a success like YouTube? | "Aggregates properties for sale and rent from around the UK and displays them using interactive mapping technology." http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1923179,00.html |
The Times Paper and online |
7 Oct 2006 | The next big thing - mapvertising | "You plan your car journeys with MapQuest. You nose around property values through map-based websites such as OnOneMap.com. You even track your favourite celebrities’ movements in almost-real time by logging on to user-annotated mash-ups of Google Maps. So why wouldn't the ad industry see you as a lost opportunity? ...The bottom line: expect map-based advertising to form the next online gold rush as businesses from restaurants to lingerie boutiques compete to place logos and product photos along the streets you are navigating through." http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,19509-2392083,00.html |
| Property Ladder magazine | 1 Oct 2006 | "Spot rising property markets with OnOneMap. Zoom in on any street in Britain and compare current property selling prices with what houses recently sold for." | |
FT Paper and online |
4 Sept 2006 | Rightmove's lofty position is unassailable - for now | "Philip Sheldrake bought me lunch the other day. I bought his story. The 35-year-old is the founder of Ononemap.com, the latest in a long line of internet property ventures. Unlike many insipid rivals, this one is fantastic. The website shows most of the homes for sale in your neighbourhood with little red houses on a map. Word of mouth could turn this into an overnight hit. Many similar websites find it hard to achieve scale because few estate agents would pay to advertise on a start-up. Ononemap, by contrast, puts the homes on its site for free." http://www.ft.com/cms/s/8e0c20c6-3bb1-11db-96c9-0000779e2340.html (requires subscription) |
Computeractive magazine |
2 Aug 2006 | Property map adds actual sold prices to its database | "A property search engine that uses Google Maps to display houses [for sale] is going one step further by adding prices of sold properties to the map." http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2161545/property-price-map-adds-actual |
| The Mail on Sunday | 13 Aug 2006 | Hotspot websites | "This property search website, which maps houses for sale and rent, is celebrating its first birthday this week. It has just launched a new feature for househunters that shows you how much houses have already sold for - a particularly useful tool if you're planning to buy or sell privately and want to arm yourself with as much info as your local estate agent." |
| Negotiator magazine | 11 Aug 2006 | Search engine tells consumers how much to pay | "OnOneMap adds little grey houses to its property site. ...a new feature - the ability to view sold houses and their sale price alongside houses currently for sale.." |
| Birmingham Mail | 6 July 2006 | Garden top for house hunters | "House hunters consider having a garden to be nearly 18 times more important that living near their family, a survey showed today... according to property search engine OnOneMap." |
| Web User magazine | 22 June 2006 | Maps for an easier life | "OnOneMap. Could this be the easiest way to find a new home?" |
| Move or Improve magazine | 1 Apr 2006 | The ultimate property website? | "Fed up with the usual search engine? OnOneMap.com is easy and fun to use and a real hit in the More or Improve? office." |
| Web User magazine | 5 Jan 2006 | Home & household | "OnOneMap.com. This powerful property search engine uses excellent maps to help you find a property to buy or rent." |
| House & Garden magazine | 1 Jan 2006 | www.ononemap.com | "www.ononemap.com is a superb website which simplifies the task of looking for a new house. ...The website has several other useful features, including a facility that searches for properties within reach of a particular school or source of public transport." |
| Mortgage Magazine | 1 Dec 2005 | Ten of the best. Top information site: OnOneMap. | "Helps people work out exactly where they want to live - down to a part of a particular road - and then show them the properties on sale." |
| Property Ladder magazine | 1 Dec 2005 | Putting homes on the map | "If you're juggling doing up and selling one house with finding a new one, help is at hand from a revolutionary new site, www.ononemap.com." |
| Edinburgh Evening News | 12 Oct 2005 | New website puts homes on the map | "Property searching just got easier with the launch of a new way to find a home. ...Philip Sheldrake from OnOneMap says the secret of their success is that they are user friendly." |
Radio 2 website of the day On Steve Wright in the Afternoon, and online |
21 Sept 2005 | Radio 2 website of the day | "Mrs Website of the Day is the main property website expert in our house, and she was quite excited by this site - billed as the UK's first property search engine, you can search for homes for sale in a particular location, specifying the number of bedrooms and a maximum price." http://www.websiteoftheday.info/2005/09/online_house_hu.html [Transcription of broadcast] |
| Negotiator magazine | 16 Sept 2005 | Property "Google" aims to list every property for sale | "Estate agents can now upload their properties on to a new internet service free - and by using standard Excel software." |
| Web User magazine | 1 Sept 2005 | OnOneMap | "OnOneMap makes it easier to find a property in a neighbourhood that suits you." |
| Computer Active magazine | 1 Sept 2005 | On the move | "House hunting could become easier with the launch of a free website that aims to provide detailed information about properties in specific areas." |
| The Guardian | 1st Sept 2005 | Street wise | "Every UK householder wants to know about any nearby houses for sale, and especially, what's the asking price." |
| Evening Standard | 31 Aug 2005 | Find a home | "Take a look at property search engine OnOneMap, the UK's first property search engine. ...The service is free and totally independent, letting potential buyers get an instant idea of what is available in their desired location." |
| CNN Online | 4 Aug 2005 | House hunting drama spurs online solution | "When Andrew Betts began the hunt for his dream home, the whole exercise became more like a nightmare. But instead of giving in to the stress of finding a house, he created an online tool to solve his problems. ...OnOneMap is a free service, and enables house hunters to scroll and zoom over a map." |