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Do you have a bunch of addresses on your site that you’d like to have maps for? Put a link on your site to zoomin.

See the Zoomin Developer Documentation.

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ProjectX and Spatial Data Exchange are proud to announce the release of zoomin.com.au.

We’ve been working really hard on our Australian site over the last couple of months and we’re ready to launch.

ZoomIn is an online platform to share information in your neighbourhood.

Here are three things to help explain what ZoomIn is all about.

Find

Using ZoomIn you can easily find any street address in Australia. As you type in an address, we suggest a number of alternatives to help you find what you are looking for.
We also have friendly URL’s for every address so that you can easily share with your friends.

e.g. Pitt St in Sydney becomes http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/nsw/sydney/sydney/pitt+street/

or Brunswick Street in Brisbane becomes http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/qld/brisbane/fortitude+valley/brunswick+street/

Explore

You can explore a variety of places that the ZoomIn community has created. You can browse points of interest, comments, and photos of the peoples favourite places.

Create

You can interact with the ZoomIn in a number of ways. You can create your own places, upload your own photos, and leave comments on places.

Its easy and free

To add anything to the site you’ll need to sign up. Its free to join, so start creating now.

There’s a lot more to discover on the site. Have a look at the site and let us know what you think.

The ZoomIn Team.

Tom Beard’s has been cooking some Mash – My first mashup – <a href=
“http://wellurban.org.nz/maps/flickr_mashup_v0.5.html”>Tom’s Flickr mashup

For all you developers thinking about cooking some mash, here’s some ideas:

What about:

• Show region news articles
• Show all the school fairs / garage sales
• Show sports cancellations by sports field / parks
• Show historical journeys or trails
• Build a treasure hunt or obstacle course

We in the final stages of finalising the new pricing for the ZoomIn Mapping System.

The summary of the changes are:

3 new pricing models
• Monthly Pre-paid – We have a variety of prepaid options for websites that have constant.
• Cost per Click – A tiered Pay as you go system that you only pay for what you use.
• Point locator license – A new special license for website that just want to visualise a addresses on the map eg. This is suitable for the Real Estate, Travel industries and Store locators
• The first 2500 map hits per month are free!
• Unlimited pricing option for those sites that want all you can eat.

Sign up and get cracking. Our developer license is free. You can get you own map up and on your site in only minutes.

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Tourism innovations have released a ZoomIn powered tourism map on their fourcorners site.

The map allows you to browse various leisure activities, accomodation, transport and tourist information across New Zealand.

Good work guys!

Tourism innovations and Cabbage Tree are approved ZoomIn Mapping System developers. If your looking for an online mapping solution please contact Brian, Lawrence and the team to help put your ideas on the map.

Tom from Urban Wellington has posted a bunch more cool graffiti photos, Graffiti Alley and Graffiti at Waitangi park!

I went biking this weekend – I posted the 3 parks that I visited in the Mountain Biking Group.

I’ll upload some photos once my phone finishes downloading them!

Dominion Post and Stuff have written a story on the new ZoomIn site.

Hunting for treasure in maps

Thanks Tom.

I like to argue, discuss and generally mull over a variety of subjects. That’s why we added group discussions to ZoomIn.

To see what discussions are available go to any group page and look under “Discussions” heading. If there aren’t any and you have something to say then you can start a new discussion by clicking on “Start a new discussion” link in the Actions section.

If other people have already started discussions then you will see them all nicely laid out in a table. Just follow the links.

Happy discussing.

I forget things all the time so it was important to have some way of not having to remember all the good places on the map yet be able to access them without having to search for them again.

So we added favourites. Once you find a place you like and want to keep for future reference simply click on “Add to favourites” button located in the tool bar just above the map.

To access all your favourite palces click on the “Favourites” link which will show up next to your sign-in status at the top right of any page on ZoomIn site once you’ve signed in.

That’s it. Simple and easy to use.