I was just testing the new add place functionality on ZoomIn and I added the Hippopotamus Restaurant in Wellington to the site. Google crawled the page and put it in the Google index in only 12 minutes and it became the top match! A new record for ZoomIn ! (Previously down from just over 30 minutes)
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Posted by: john in ZoomIn, zoomin_nz_motd
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. Refine your address using the drop down box
We automagically figure out the closest address based on your location. All you have to do is refine the address in the dropdown menu to match your desired location.
3. Add your place content
You can add the name of the place / business, a description and tags .
And you’re done!
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Posted by: john in Summer of Code
I’m giving a talk on “How to have a kick-ass ICT career” at Victoria University tomorrow.
How to have a kick-ass ICT career
Tuesday 15th July 2008 - MYLT 101 13:10 - 14:00
Summary:
Getting a job can be tough. In the first of the career seminars,
John Clegg will provide some information on how to get a great ICT job and
kick start your career. John will tell you what the hottest companies like
Trade Me, Sidhe, Weta and a host of start ups are acutally looking for in a
new graduate. He’ll also offer advice on how to get a job, where to look,
who can help you and some tips on how to impress.
Should be interesting, I’m trying to graduate my presentation style to Presentation Zen style. (Looking for good images is time consuming!)
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Posted by: john in New Zealand, Technology
The net is ablaze with all the iPhone pricing rip off.(Although that haven’t stopped some from queuing up already)
My 2c on the whole pricing thing is Vodafone have set the prices so that they don’t marginalise the rest of their smart phone line up.
If you sell a iPhone 3Gfor $500 or $199, then why would you buy a Nokia N95 at $1399 ?
Steve Jobs set the pricing in US so that iPhone would blow away the competition. The pricing here doesn’t reflect that 
Unfortunately, NZ’s probably not big enough to invoke Apple pulling the iPhone from the Canadian marketplace.
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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 New Zealand emergency services ie. Police, Ambulance and Fire Service. This update will better represent the way that you think and use addresses in your neighbourhood. The update adds another 1500 suburbs to ZoomIn. We’ve now got a total of 2986 suburbs in our address database.
We’ve completely rebuilt our address system from scratch, which gives us a chance to get all of the address cobwebs out of the system.
Changes to ZoomIn urls
The new address data means changes to the ZoomIn URL’s. Don’t worry, all of the old URL’s will still work, they’ll automatically redirect to the new address url.
Here are some examples:
OLD: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/wellington/wellington+wharf/waterloo+quay/28/
NEW: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/wellington/pipitea/waterloo+quay/28/
OLD: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/auckland/auckland/queen+street/
NEW: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/auckland/auckland+central/queen+street/
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Posted by: john in ZoomIn, mapping
We’ve just completed the update to the map imagery on ZoomIn. It’s now live on ZoomIn maps API. (There’s no need to change any code, its an seemless update)
We’re in the process of completing the update to the addressing backend and geocoders.
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