New Zealand's been Google mapped
Google knows where you live. As first noted on NZBC, Google went live over the weekend a new service that lets you see maps of most New Zealand streets. To look for your street, surf to maps.google.com then search for 'New Zealand'. Hold and drag to pull the map around your screen, then start zooming in.
The move is - but of course - a precursor to more Google ad services. In the US and elsewhere where Google Maps (and the 3D Google Earth) are already established, Google's street directories are populated by locations of hotels and many other business and services you may wish to search for.
Unlike Wises maps, you can see property boundaries too.
For more on Google's ANZAC invasion, read Miserable buggers.
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Comments
I use google maps when searching streets but http://www.zoomin.co.nz/ is great as well. I use it on my website http://www.nz-tourism.com
Posted by: Robert | September 6, 2007 9:59 PM
It would be interesting to see how Wises will respond to the big challenge.
Posted by: Cristian | March 22, 2007 2:14 AM
Too Slow! No useful search. Hangs before its finished. Didn't ever get to see the place I wanted (in central Auckland).
Posted by: John | June 5, 2006 10:14 AM
Wow, that zoomin site Jen mentioned beats the Google maps - it even has an aerial view of the PCW towers...
Posted by: Mary | May 23, 2006 12:37 AM
Hi Greg, due to the fast times and low pay of the young journalist about town I actually live a little further out.
I was in fact trying to zoom in on PC World Towers, which are about 2cm to the right of where I chopped in Photoshop ... and I was too fed up to capture another screen. Google Maps are frustratingly slow, I have to say, even on our fibre connection here at the Towers ...
Posted by: Chris Keall | May 22, 2006 7:08 PM
Needs more functionality if you wish to actually search for a street name rather than just explore known locations. The http://www.zoomin.co.nz/ website is more tailored to street searches in New Zealand.
Posted by: Jen | May 22, 2006 7:02 PM
So by the above map screenie we can assume that CK lives in the ponsy/yuppie area of town? ;-)
Posted by: Greg | May 22, 2006 5:17 PM
This has to be good. Wises is far too slow and seems to be getting worse.
Posted by: Ant | May 22, 2006 4:35 PM