[DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program

[Stacey Verner]

I had a look at Google Maps and its a but f***** up.
 
It appears that they did some sort of automatic road detection from
aerial photo's but they have included all sorts of junk such as farm
tracks and so forth. There is even one section where they have put in
medium strip, which I think is due to a hedge.
 
Here is a link of Scotsman Valley Road (where I grew up in the Waikato).
 
Google - F**** up
http://maps.google.com/?ll=-37.774378,175.476723&spn=0.051832,0.080338&o
m=1
 
Zoomin - Pretty good but the linking isn't very good so you'll have to
pan left a bit.
http://www.zoomin.co.nz/nz/matamata/tauwhare/scotsman+valley+road/
 
Turn on Aerial photos to see the farm tracks that Google is putting in
as roads.
 
TUMONZ also showed the right stuff, but I couldn't figure out how to
create a link to the specific location.
 
Zoomin and TUMONZ are also showing a few farm tracks (but displayed as
thin dark lines so obviously tracks) that are on private property. Some
even give the impression that you can get from one road to another, but
you would have to climb electric fences and dodge bulls to do so. I
wonder what the point of showing them is?
Stacey
 
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From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Conor Boyd
Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 15:14
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] TUMONZ SDK beta program


I'm not dissing TUMONZ Online in any way, but www.zoomin.co.nz and
http://maps.google.com both have street map information for NZ (Google
just got updated this week), Alan.
 
C.

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From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Alan Rose
 
Hey nice work Phil. I've now bookmarked this as my new favourite online
map. I've been house hunting lately and having a online map has been
real handy finding locations. Perhaps you could get some sort of hook-up
with real-estate websites (trademe etc)
 
 
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From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss
 
Do you like the interface on the TUMONZ Live mapplet
(www.tumonz.co.nz/mapplet.php)? We are overhauling the whole TUMONZ
interface for version 3 and using the mapplet navigation style. One
thing we have realised as TUMONZ 2 has grown - it has become difficult
to use cause we just added stuff to it all the time. We are spending a
lot of time on getting the GUI right this time so if you want to be part
of the beta program, any feedback you can provide will be welcome.
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