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We’ve just added the latest postcodes to all the street addresses on Smaps. Now, you’ll be able to keep the postie happy when sending your trade me loot around NZ.

We have been silently watching what happens on our site. You, our community, are an invaluable source of inspiration and ideas. Your positive feedback makes us feel good and your bug reports and requests for new features keep up too busy to ever rest on our laurels.

One of the guiding principles for the redesign of ZoomIn was to make the information accessible through a pyramid. We wanted people who come to our site to start at the top of the pyramid where we present little but most relevant information. So when you search for an address, a place or a tag you get instant results shown on the map. As you become more interested in the places which you visit you can use various links on the site to travel to the base of our information pyramid where we show full details currently known about the given place.

We have realised that sometimes walking up and down the pyramid can be quite an effort so we have provided you with a teleport device which gives you instant access to frequently used functions without having to go all the way to the bottom of the pyramid.

The above screenshot illustrates the new search result panel. We have 3 results there. “Cool Store Gallery” and “Chow” are unexpanded and “Midnight Espresso” is expanded (hint: you can expand results by clicking on the icon). Once a result has been expanded you have instant access to functionality which lets you add your own information to that place. In this example you can add your own rating, tags or leave a comment about “Midnight Espresso”.

If you search for an address, as in the following screenshot, you will also have the option of adding a new place at that address. This is useful for adding shops to a shopping mall, lookout points to a national park or even to add locations of your utility sheds on your farm.

We hope that you will find these little improvements quite helpful. Let us know what you think. Happy Zooming!

– ZoomIn development team

Reuben Swartz has written a piece on ZoomIn in this weeks Infotech Zooming in on Investment after re-jig.

Thanks for the article Reuben.

The new ZoomIn is the news. Peter Griffin of NZ Herald has written a piece on the ZoomIn v2.0 – ZoomIn puts dynamic mapping on the map.

Thanks to Peter for the article.

ZoomIn is back in action again!

We’ve been struck by Murphy this morning. One of our disk on our servers has been giving problems this morning . We have reverted to our back-up server.

Unfortunately, dns is playing up so some of you are struggling to get to ZoomIn. We are working to resolve the problem asap.

Note: These problems do not affect the ZoomIn Mapping System or the API.

ZoomIn Team

ZoomIn V2.0 has been live for most of the day. A couple of niggling bugs have emerged and will be swatted soon. The focus on the next couple of days will be to fix bugs and improve the speed of the site. (There’s nothing like real traffic to put you through your paces!)

We’re really happy with the site and it provides a strong platform for all the new features going forward.

New ZoomIn is coming 9am.

For your enjoyment, check out William Shatner’s Rocket Man

With the new zoomin only hours away, we’d thought we’d cue the music…

Welcome to the new ZoomIn

The best mapsite in New Zealand just got better ! We made ZoomIn even more easy to use !

New Features

• Sleek new design: We have re-designed the entire site with a cool new look and feel. We’ve added pop-up windows to change or add content to the site.
• Tabbed Search: We’ve introduced some new different search options. Now you can search for Addresses, Places or Tags on ZoomIn. And we have introduced All Search to enable you to find anything and everything on the site.
• Tags: Now you can added your own tags or keywords to any place. Adding tags helps to improve the ZoomIn search engine so it makes it easier to find what you’re looking for.
• Dynamic search: As you move around the map, ZoomIn will find search for your keywords within the current map. eg. Search for cafes in New Zealand and zoom in your favourite area to find cafes in that region.
• Local search: Now you can search within in and around neighbourhood. eg. Hotel in Auckland or Bus near Seatoun

Here are some ideas to help you explore ZoomIn.
Things to do: Cinemas, Museums
Something different: cool, fun, wild

The ZoomIn Team