Cost of Living Information Website, Numbeo.com, Announces New Software Release

Dec. 6, 2009 - PRLog -- Numbeo.com is the largest free Internet database about cost of living and property prices worldwide. As of November 24th, Numbeo database contains information for more than 300 cities. Numbeo.com allows visitors to estimate their own cost of living expenses if they are relocating. It uses data contributions from people all around the world to make statistical analysis of these data for free availability to everyone in a structured manner. Getting these informations earlier was far more expensive and difficult. Numbeo also publishes yearly indexes such as consumer price index and restaurant price index per city and per country.

Numbeo.com (http://www.numbeo.com) was launched as beta in May 2009 and, after that date, the software has been continuously upgrading for new features and bug fixes. Latest software release brings new design and few new features : "cost of living calculator", "basket of goods and services" and "search ability". Overwhelming feedback and opinions from its visitors contributed not only towards more available data, but also for software update ideas.

List of significant features :
   
- automatically calculates relative cost of living and other indexes (comparing to New York Cities)
- fast personal cost of living calculator at http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/calculator.jsp
- detailed cost of living comparison per country and per city at http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries.jsp
- statistical engine for calculating custom basket of goods and services (enables other economical research on available data)
- yearly cost of living index at http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings.jsp
- ability to display prices per city, i.e. gas prices for cities worldwide
- ability to provide sources and references for data verification whenever possible
- integration with Google Maps which allows visual navigation for selected subset of cities
search ability
- handles all currencies for which European Central Bank publishes exchange ratios

About Numbeo.com - The founder of Numbeo.com is Mladen Adamovic. Mladen was a software engineer in Google Ireland Ltd between Feb 2007 and Feb 2009. Before joining Google he spent three years teaching and researching at University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He obtained M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from University of Banja Luka in 2006 and B.Sc. Math from University of Belgrade in 2003.

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Numbeo is the largest free Internet database about cost of living and property prices worldwide. It uses data contributions from people all around the world to make statistical analysis of these data for free availability to everyone in a structured manner. Getting these informations earlier was far more expensive and difficult.