ProjectX Blog

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!

Scott Berkun has written a couple of posts on creative thinking and they highlight how certain language that can wither help or hinder the creative process.

From Scott’s posts here are his list of Idea Starters vs Idea Killers

This make you think about how your language can foster new ideas!

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

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Sometimes you need to take a minute to catch your breath. Its nice to stop and think about what we’ve actually acheived. It’s great to get some recognition from the industry for the hard work we’ve put in for the last 14 months. Score one for the little guys!

I want to dedicate the awards to my team. You are truly world class and it’s been my pleasure and honor to work with you.

Tomek (The Rock) Piatek – Your attention to detail and dedication to ZoomIn have been an inspiration.
Nick (Local Search) Chapman – The brains behind our search engine. Thanks for sticking with rails and making ZoomIn fast !
Ross (Map Master) Lin – Your map fu is superior! Thanks for making ZoomIn maps the best looking maps in NZ!
Ben (Javascript Master) Nolan – You took the idea of ZoomIn and made it real ! People are finally starting to get it!

Thanks for doing the hard yards guys and thanks for making it FUN!

Also thanks to all support from everyone in and around Creative HQ.

Finally, a big thank you to Lulu – my partner. Thank you for the support and putting up with all the long hours, the weekends, and the endless ranting about ZoomIn and ProjectX.

Its been a big night – Thank you and Good Night ! – Go ZoomIn !

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