After my complaints about the lousy state of Australian online mapping, my wishes have come true, the ProjectX guys behind the ZoomIn New Zealand maps have come out with an Australian ZoomIn maps beta. It looks great, although maybe the maps are a tad more ugly than the NZ maps, is this down to the underlying map data, or am I just mistaken? It’s also a little slow from the UK, I’m assuming it’s just on a titchy server right now, and there’s beta code running with lots of logging and debugging info.

The URL‘s have a lovely hierarchical feel to them e.g. http://www.zoomin.com.au/australia/vic/melbourne/cremorne/gwynne+street/ for Crateman’s location, sure that’s a bit lengthy, but it’s jolly readable. Nice one chaps, where next? ZoomIn’s front end would certainly look nice on say OpenStreetMap’s data.