We’re closing in the 1000th user to join ZoomIn.
You’ll need to sign to be able to add places, photos and comments.

Go New Zealand!

A special thanks goes out to all our users for their support and encouragement.
We’re working hard at building the best maps site for New Zealand.

Team ZoomIn

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.

Business week have a nice article on the 8 myths of Software as a service.

Here are the main points:

Here’s my thoughts on Software as a service.

The reality is change is expensive. Software as a service makes it possible to try the software to see if its a fit for your needs. If you have to invest lots of time and resources in some that might work, you have to be prepared to face the fact that you might have brought a lemon.

As the software provider this model works great. We get to focus on the features that our clients actually want. Our focus is on creating value.

Let me know your thoughts on the article.

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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.