Find your neighborhood in a new city
Bring the things you love, or a neighborhood you loved living in. Homing suggests three areas to start your home search, each with real places to check.
The loves above are the example on the map. Change them to make it yours.
Homing in about a minute
One move from start to finish: what you love, three areas to start looking in, an address check and a short walk.
Same city, two different shortlists
Neighborhood guides are written for an average newcomer. Homing starts from what you love, so a reader and a night owl moving to Berlin get different areas to start looking in and different places to check there.
Both examples use the same set of walkable areas in Berlin. Only the loves change. The signal comes from Qloo, which links what people like across music, film, books and brands to places in a city.
Any city on the map
Type any city. Homing finds its centre, marks out walkable areas around it and compares them for what you love. Where Qloo has less data, Homing says so instead of guessing.
How Homing reads a city
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You say what you love, or where you lived
Type a few artists, shows, books or brands, or name a neighborhood you loved living in. Each name is matched to one entity in Qloo, and when a name could mean two things Homing asks which one.
Qloo search
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The new city is split into walkable areas
Homing marks out the same set of areas for everyone: circles of about 650 metres around named places in the city centre. Your loves change their order and never the areas themselves.
Fixed areas per city
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Your loves are read across those areas
For each love, Qloo returns how strongly its signal shows up across the city. Homing combines them by the weights you set and puts the areas in order. Treat the order as a place to start looking.
Qloo insights, heatmap
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Every area comes with real places
Before an area is shown, Homing looks for cafés, food, bars and culture inside it that fit you, and drops places that do not fit the role, like a supermarket in a coffee slot.
Qloo places
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Check an address, then walk it
Type the street of a flat you saw and Homing tells you which area it falls in and what is near. Then try the area with a short walk of three or four places for one afternoon.
Geocoder and Qloo places
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Ask in your own words
“No bars, I work from cafés.” “Compare it with Berlin.” The assistant runs the same tools, checks the result against what you asked and tells you plainly when part of it could not be done.
Agent with Qloo tools
After the shortlist
Each area opens into the next steps of a move: the reasons, a flat you saw and an afternoon to try it.
- Radioheadties toa café in the areaA lotSomeA littleorder kept
Why this area
See which places Qloo ties to your loves and what happens to the order if one love counts less. If nothing moves, Homing says the choice is stable.
- Rua da Rosa 120Street-level location
Check an address
Paste the street of a flat you saw. Homing tells you which area it is in, how precise the location is and what is a short walk away.
- 14:00CoffeeSwap15:10Late lunchSwap16:30A small gallerySwap
Try the area on foot
A calm afternoon of three or four places, enough to test the coffee, the food and the culture. Swap any stop and the rest stay as they were.
- No barsUp to $$Vegetarian
Rules that stick
No bars, no museums, a budget you mean. The rules stay with every search and plan, and a place with an unknown price is never passed off as within budget.
- jazzMMiles Davis Music, for jazz
Genres count too
Type “jazz” or “k-pop” and Homing carries it with an artist that leads the genre, and tells you which one it used.
- RadioheadFleabagPatagonia
Start from a screenshot
Drop a screenshot of a playlist, a watchlist or a bookshelf. Homing reads the names and turns them into chips you can check.
Moving with someone
Add what they love and the map prints in two inks: red for you, teal for them, and a dark overprint where both signals are strong. Areas are ordered by the weaker of your two results, so a strong match for one person cannot hide a poor fit for the other.
Opening an example from Qloo's data