A map drawn around who you are — not just what you can afford.
Seven questions, all of Sydney mapped, one honest answer.
Sydney-wideReal-world data6D taste vector
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ORBITStep 0 · Your details
First, a quick intro.
We use these to personalise your map and filter listings. Your work address
anchors commute context; your budget keeps the match honest.
✎ Editing your preferences — changes save when you finish the sliders
Powered by Google Places — we'll use this to consider commute context.
Weekly 2BR rent$700
$300$2000
$/week
We rank everything against your taste, then fade suburbs materially over budget.
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Sydney, NSWData Live · 2026-Q1Sydney-wide
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You'll go back through Details and the sliders with your current values pre-filled.
Your match scores refresh only when you save — you can back out anytime without changing anything.
The map, personalized
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Sydney, recolored for you. Green = strong fit, red = avoid.
Fit Score
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AvoidNeutralStrong fit
Technical detail
Every Sydney suburb has a 6-D taste vector over social_energy, aesthetic, pace, outdoor, culinary, community, built from OSM POI density + per-dimension percentile rank.
Your quiz seeds a parallel 6-D user vector. Match score is mean-centred cosine similarity between the two, rescaled to 0–100, then softly gated by a logistic function of rent_2br / weekly_budget (0.3–1.0 multiplier; budget-over suburbs fade but don't disappear).
The heatmap is a Leaflet GridLayer. For every ~5 px sample in each 256×256 tile we evaluate a Gaussian KDE over all 45 suburb centroids:
fit(p) = Σ wᵢ · scoreᵢ / Σ wᵢ
wᵢ = exp(−dᵢ² / (2σ²)), σ ≈ 2.4 km
with a small neutral prior (weight 0.04 at score 50) so empty regions decay to grey instead of a random neighbour.
The scalar fit is run through a 9-stop red → grey → green ramp; alpha scales with |fit − 50| so neutral areas read as background. A 2 px per-tile CSS blur removes the sample grid without blurring the basemap.
Toggle off to see the raw CARTO basemap + suburb polygons underneath.