ProjectX Blog

ZoomIn API's are now closed

September 4th, 2008

We shutdown the ZoomIn Map API and Geocoder API this morning. We’ve served a lot of maps and now its time for us to offer more higher value services.

Thank you to all the developers and customers that use our API’s over the past couple of years. And a big thank to all the ProjectX developers who worked on the API’s over the years – Ben, Nick, Ross, Tomek, Tim and Thong.

John

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Company sign up for Summer of Code 3 is now open

September 4th, 2008

The recruitment phase of Summer of Code 3 is now in full swing. We’ve just opened the registration for companies. Places are limited so you’re going to have to be fast.

More info on the Summer of Code site.

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ProjectX smarts powers Te Papa's Ourspace – The Wall

September 1st, 2008

A while back, we did some work for Gibson groups for the Te Papa Ourspace project. We created a special version of the ZoomIn Map API for a special part of the project called the Wall.

Its nice to finally see it action!

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ZoomIn now running on Google Maps

September 1st, 2008

Enjoy…

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Who's the coolest company in web mapping right now ….

September 1st, 2008

Who’s the coolest company in web mapping ??? Unfortunately its not ProjectX, its Stamen Designs from San Francisco. They have become the company in the map visualisation space. Yesterday, they released a new site – Hurricane maps. Add that to their impressive releases for Trulia, Oakland Crimespotting and mySociety.

Stamen Designs have set the bar for map visualisation. We’re glad that Stamen designs is in the visualisation space and they’re pushing the envelope. It gives us something to aspire to !

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Big changes at ProjectX

September 1st, 2008

We’ve been going through some big changes at ProjectX. We’re in the process of changing our business model and to be honest we’re getting pretty excited about our new future.

One of our goals at ProjectX is to build the best online mapping applications on the web. We started with ZoomIn Maps site which was the first maps site to cover all of New Zealand and offer user friendly predictive search and urls. We did it tough as had to build our own API’s and maps from scratch (with the help of some opensource).

Fast foward a couple of years, now there several map apis covering the NZ. We’ve had a change in our commercial arrangement with our data supplier and that presented us a chance to look at our existing product offerings and refocus at what we’re good at. So the first decision was to move up the value chain and move away from basic mapping API’s. It was a hard decision to make as the Map API’s were the products that we started the business on. Its time for us to move on and focus more on providing value-added applications and services.

Here’s an outline of our new focus at ProjectX:

Independent consulting on online map tools and frameworks. We’re used most frameworks and know intimate details of the pro’s and con’s of different data and mapping frameworks. We’re data neutral ie. we build web applications on any data. We’ve got experience building web services using GIS data from around the world – New Zealand (LINZ, Terralink, NZ Post), Australia (PSMA), USA (TeleAtlas). We’re framework neutral ie. we can build maps using any framework – Google, MapQuest, Virtual Earth, GeoSmart, OpenLayers, ModestMaps or even the ZoomIn engine.
Bespoke development – We build smart online map applications and widgets for a wide range of clients – Trade Me, SSC, GWRC, LTNZ and ARTA.
Software as a Service – We’ll be releasing soon some new API’s tools and widgets that will work on _any_ map.
Products – We build local search sites like ZoomIn and more coming soon ….

We’re excited about our future, as we now will be able to showcase our abilities on an international stage.

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ZoomIn Mapping System closing soon…

September 1st, 2008

The ZoomIn Mapping System is shutting down. We had a change in commercial terms with our data suppliers Terralink. We’ve made the decision to shutdown the ZoomIn Mapping System as it not commercially viable for us to continue to operate the maps given current pricing conditions for data.

All of our users have been informed 4 weeks ago. We’ve been working with our customers to find alternative suppliers.

The last day of service will be this Wednesday 3rd of September 2008.

Thanks for your business.

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