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Embed ZoomIn maps on your website

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Yesterday, we released the improved feature of sharing ZoomIn maps, which allows users to embed maps on their websites, also enable users to customize the width and height of the iframe.

Here is an example, I’m using ZoomIn map to show the location of ProjectX

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Bypassed

Monday, June 25th, 2007

The Wellington Inner City Bypass, in all its (ahem) glory, is now properly represented on ZoomIn and Smaps. We’re working on our regular update of all the map tiles for New Zealand, but we figured that a major change to the State Highway system, that also reorganised the one-way system in an urban area, was worth getting right straight away.

New map tiles showing the bypass




We thought we’d taken much longer than we would have liked to get this done, but since changes to the one-way network on the surrounding roads kept on happening right until a couple of weeks ago, we thought it was best to get all the changes done in one go. As it turns out, it looks like we’re the first major mapping system to show the bypass: Google, Multimap, Microsoft and Yellow Maps all still have the old configuration. I can understand why it’s taking them a while: it turns out that we had to do a lot of manual editing of the streets data, and our local knowledge came in handy.

While Karo Drive is now visible on the maps, we haven’t updated our addresses database yet, so you can’t search for it. That shouldn’t be a great hardship, since at the moment there seem to be no actual addresses on Karo Drive (Martha’s Pantry is the only business there, and its address is on Cuba St), and the relocated heritage buildings there and on the adjacent Tonks Grove will remain empty for a year or more. Some would argue that Karo Drive doesn’t deserve to be listed as a “place”, since it’s a means of getting between places rather than somewhere to be, but I couldn’t possibly comment! In any case, we’ll be including Karo Drive and Tonks Grove along with all the other street changes nationwide in our next database update.

New maps on ZoomIn

Saturday, May 5th, 2007


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We have just released new maps for ZoomIn. The maps show the land or cadastral boundaries of each property at last three zoom levels.

Making ZoomIn better for everyone

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

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We want to make ZoomIn better by making sure our content is up to date, appropriate for the community. We added a tool to flag any content that incorrect, objectionable or violation of copyright.

So if you see any place descriptions, photos or comments that need some attention, flag them and we’ll take care of it.

We value your feedback, any improvements or suggestions are appreciated.

Making ZoomIn better for everyone

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

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We want to make ZoomIn better by making sure our content is up to date, appropriate for the community. We added a tool to flag any content that incorrect, objectionable or violation of copyright.

So next time you find any place description, picture or comment that’s not quite right, flag it and we’ll look much sure that its fixed.

We value your feedback, any improvements or suggestions are appreciated.

Safari bugs resolved

Friday, April 6th, 2007

We’ve release a new version of the API, the safari bugs have been resolved. Let us know if you’re having any problems.

Safari problems

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Safari users are currently experienceing problems with ZoomIn. The latest changes to the ZoomIn Map API
has created problems for safari users. We are aware of the problem and working on getting it fixed.

New features: power editing and public descriptions

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Power Editing

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We have improved the way you edit place descriptions. Registered users can now add, remove, edit and change the content of a place description
without ever losing any of the previous changes. With the new editing software, you can easily add photos, links and styling to your place description. We have made the editing really simple by making it just like your word processor. What you see is what you get.

All Place descriptions are now public

We have also add the capability to enable public editing of places on ZoomIn. Now, anyone within the ZoomIn
community can edit public place pages on the site. We wanted to improve the content by allowing the ZoomIn community to update and maintain places on the site.

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If you don’t want public editing on your places, just unclick the option on the right hand on the page and
press the Save button to turn it off.

Note: By default, we have changed all places on ZoomIn to be publicly editable. If you do not want your content to be edited by the public, you will need to change the settings for your places.

We’ll be keeping an eye on the new features, and we’ll be fine tuning over the next couple of weeks as we get your feedback. If you have any comments or suggestions or would like to change your settings in bulk, please contact us

New ZoomIn Release – Private Places and Video Embedding

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

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

  • 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/

IFRAME maps for groups

Sunday, December 24th, 2006


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You can now add a IFRAME ZoomIn map to your website for your favourite groups. (See the map of the Silicon Welly group on ZoomIn.)

Enjoy!


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