Archive for the ‘zoomin_nz_motd’ Category

Getting from A to B – introducing directions on ZoomIn

We’ve launched a new feature on ZoomIn today – Directions! Thanks to the awesome power of the Google API, you can now show you how to get from A to B on ZoomIn.

You can get directions from any address or place in ZoomIn or simply click on the “Get Directions” link at the top of [...]

Happy Birthday ZoomIn – 3 today

ZoomIn is 3 years today ! October 29th in 2005, ZoomIn was launched to the world. Currently we have 78734 places and 11558 users on ZoomIn ! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to ZoomIn.
ZoomIn has come a long way since that date, here’s a look at some the changes that have happened over the [...]

Adding a place on ZoomIn just got a whole lot easier!

We’ve completely overhauled the add place process on ZoomIn. Now, if you want to add a place to ZoomIn is as simple as 1, 2, 3.
1. Drag the Add place marker onto the map
Position the marker with X marks the spot. You can adjust the position by dragging the marker to the correct location.

2. [...]

New suburb update

We’ve just completed an update to the underlying data on ZoomIn. We’ve just switched to a new suburb set on ZoomIn base onto the “New Zealand Fire Service” (NZFS) suburb set.
Why?
Its about accuracy, we want to provide the most up to date map service around. The NZFS suburb set is being used by all of [...]

ZoomIn Outage – Data Maintenance

ZoomIn will be down from 6pm today (7th July 2008). We will be performing several data maintenance tasks, including updated addresses and suburbs. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
The site should be back up within the night, after the tasks have been completed.