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Here’s an example of something cool from the new release of ZoomIn:

This link
shows some of the bays from Wellington; very educational even for us Wellington residents!

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The new release of ZoomIn has arrived.

Now you can add places to the map, add photos, share with friends.

There’s lots of new content on the site to explore.

Enjoy!

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We been listening to your suggestions and making lots of small improvements to ZoomIn site.

Over the past couple of weeks , we’ve add scale bar to our maps and lots of tweaks to improve the address search.
We also changed the map rendering system, which has increased the map loading speed.

We’re working hard at the next release of ZoomIn. Lot’s of cool stuff is on the way, will keep you posted

We released a new version of the zoomin localsearch site today. Featuring a new power-orange colour scheme, cool indicative icons and simpler user interface.

Watch out for the next release (code-named Elephant) early next week. 🙂

We recieved this awesome email from Matt Purvis:

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I couldn’t find a Mycroft (Mozilla and Firefox) search plugin for Zoomin so
I’ve made one for myself and thought you might be interested in offering it to
your users….

If you want to test the plugin you can install it from my (rough!) install page:
http://beer.geek.nz/software/mozilla/plugins/
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Well – I installed it and it works great – Matt’s even built us a cool little favicon – you can now search NZ addresses right from your search toolbar in firefox.

Thanks Matt! 😀

Zoomin has been mentioned around some New Zealand weblogs quite a bit over the previous few weeks. One of the coolest mentions was from Hitwise – where Sandra Hanchard did a neat article on us – thanks Sandra! 🙂

One of our first customers has put his own mapping interface online using Zoomin Maps.

Nz Flats allows you to view your search results in either a standard text based search – or with each point plotted on our maps embedded in their site.

It’s nice to see our maps out there getting used – 3 months from hand hitting keyboard to our first customer out there for real.

Just a quick note to say that we’ve released a new version of the Zoomin System.

The best bit about this release is that we’ve got lots of features in testing and ready for deployment over the next month. We’re looking forward to building a community of New Zealanders that want to share their favourite cafes, beaches and skate spots.

There will be a new release of the Zoomin website on Wednesday the 11th. We’re pushing out some cool new features that will help you find and share New Zealand places with your family and friends.

We hope you’ll stop by and check it out!

We’ve received a mountain of feedback over the last couple of months. Here’s a selection of our favourite feedback:

Overall a really excellent site … can’t believe it is free!!! – Ian

Great site to search for locations! I like it simple and fast. You guys
did a fantastic job – Alex

Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for and you save me a whole lot of
time and energy < Thanx – Jai

What an amazing site! I work in sales and most of our meetings are
onsite with the customer. This allows me to pinpoint the exact address
before I go out! – Dominic

I am loving the website it shows everything so clearly and has helped me a lot!! Well done everyone who helped in it 🙂 – Ben

Just found your site in NetGuide magazine and have been on a little “Tiki
Tour”. Wow, beats taking clumsy maps on a trip, It’s the poor man’s
Navman. Will tell all my friends, wish you all the best. – Kevin

Just tried searching for a few addresses. All showed with with minimal
effort, and with maximum info. Really cool. I quite like the way one can
browse right down to to house numbers… also the search that narrorws
down options in realtime on the home page. Keep it up. I’m going to
recommend the site to quite a few friends. – Indy

This is the most freaking amazing cool site i’ve ever had the pleasure to
find information easily on. You guys rock! Have forwarded it to all my
mates too – thanks heaps! I have such a tragic sense of direction, i’m
sure you’ve added hours onto my life – that is, time i won’t be making
wrong turns down dead ends and wrong streets. – Kylie

Thanks for all the encouragement. Keep the feedback coming, we are working hard at adding your suggestions to our site.