Google Maps Mania (a blog devoted to all things Google Maps) has a post about some New Zealand Google Map Mashups (What is a mashup?)
One of the mashups is a street map index at Mayo. I entered “Summerland Dr” and was immediately taken to my own street in Waitakere City. I tried to be tricky and put in “Rimu Dr” which is in Wairoa, Hawkes Bay and … it found my parents’ place. Roadwatch has a speed camera index and Tagzania (not specifically NZ) is trying to tag the whole planet.
Google Maps – just type in New Zealand!
Wikipedia links:
Googlemaps
Mashup
Tags
All of the necessary information to be able to do this is freely available on the web. Google are happy to share the API so that we end users can have a play and create our own Google Map Mashup. It could be an interesting project if someone had some spare time.
Related posts:
I’ve done another roundup post of new mashups for New Zealand here:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-zealand-google-maps-real-estate.html
It includes a mashup from Real Estate group Harcourts..