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Here is a cool picture of all Met link bus stops (Ferry stops), and schools in Wellington. Its looks like some nature picture with huge flocks of Pink Flamingoes!

Tomek was playing with visualising lots of points of the map and he created this picture of some of the ZoomIn data. Cool Huh !

Here is a simple guide to using Private places on ZoomIn. So lets work through an example. Let say you wanted to share the location of a party this weekend with your friends.

1. Add a place to the site.
2. Go to the privacy section of the place page (on the right hand side of the page under the map). Modify the privacy settings to suit.
   Note: If a place is private you won’t be able to view it or search for it unless you’re logged in.

That’s it!

Bonus tips: If you want to restrict access to the place to a group of people, you will need to ensure that you are a member of that group.

We’ve added a couple of cool features to zoomin.co.nz:

Private Places – now you can set a place that you created to be private, which means that only you will be able to see it.
Or you can set the place to be visible only to a certain group.

To do this, go to a place that you have created (or create a new place), and look on the right hand side of the page. You can alter the privacy settings under the ‘Privacy Settings’ heading.

Video Embedding – now you can embed Youtube and Google Video videos in your comments and place descriptions.

To insert a youtube video:

• find the video in youtube
• copy the URL of the page, it should be something like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LQd9dXFRU

• paste it into your comment text, between some youtube square brackets, like this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LQd9dXFRU[/youtube]

You can do the same thing with google videos, by adding something like this to your comments:

[google]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4147604860974111184[/google]

You can see an example of an embedded video at http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/wellington/rongotai/-wellington+airport/

I’ve cast my eye over Rankr this morning, and I’ve been able to extract a couple of stats.

1) Spread of the different types of sites that kiwis visit. There are a high number of portal sites and news sites due to the number of locals and foreigners catching up with news. Also I have noticed there is a dramatic rise in the number of image / file sharing uploading sites. (10 photo sharing/ uploading in the top 100 sites visited.) And notice the small number of pron sites!

2) Origin of the sites visited in NZ. Kiwi sites make up just over a third of the content that people are visiting. Notice that china accounts over 10% of the sites visited.

I’ve just added a couple of links to help research the blog activity of websites on rankr. Now you can quickly check what the blogspace is says about your site.

Check out Blog Activity on the site detail page. eg http://rankr.projectxtech.com/site/show/zoomin.co.nz

We working on figuring out how to integrating the result of the blog activity into the site.

As always your feedback is appreciated!

ps. Has anyone used sparklines ?