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Windows Live Local offers New Zealand Streets and Route finding

Microsoft Windows Live Local (Gasp, what a clunky name) now has New Zealand street mapping and driving route finding. It includes major roads and state highways, along with cities and suburbs but I can’t get it to show street names on the map! (any ideas?) If you enter two addresses it will locate them and does a reasonable job of finding the shortest or quickest route. The image shows the route from Queen Street to Auckland International Airport (NZAA). Not quite perfect (the first offramp will not terminate on Broadway) but other than that it’s Ok. http://local.live.com/ Via scrappad Read more →

Mind Mapping the AUGI ADT/ABS Community

Richard Binning’s post on the Architectural Desktop/Autodesk Building Systems Community at AUGI caught my attention for two reasons: There is soon to be a new ADT/ABS Community at AUGI! A great MindManager Map, which you can download, that he’s using to document the structure & code being developed for the website. If you don’t have MindManager you use either their free trial or free viewer to view mmap files. This community looks like it will become a valuable resource for ADT/ABS users. AUGI Membership is free and gives you access to a whole world of CAD resources for all the... Read more →

MindManager + Apple Mac = ?

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Kiwi & Aussie Roads in Google Maps!

Yep, street level mapping for New Zealand & Australia in Google Maps, soon for Google Earth I hope! Google Earth Blog: Down Under and Kiwis Get Roads in Google Maps Google Maps Mania: Big News: Google Maps street maps for ALL of Australia and New Zealand! Read more →

What is ADT?

The danger of searching for content based on acronyms like ADT: What is ADT? “It’s a condition induced by modern life, in which you’ve become so busy attending to so many inputs and outputs that you become increasingly distracted, irritable, impulsive, restless and, over the long term, underachieving. In other words, it costs you efficiency because you’re doing so much or trying to do so much, it’s as if you’re juggling one more ball than you possibly can.” From robhyndman.com » Blog Archive » Still More on the Myth of MultitaskingThey are talking about “Attention Deficit Trait” not Architectural Desktop Read more →

All about Arial

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BIMology

Tomislav Zigo has a new’ish blog, BIMology, with useful tips for Architectural Desktop users. BIMology Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice Read more →

Autodesk New Zealand Design Masters Quiz

Last night I attended the Autodesk New Zealand Design Masters Quiz (2007 Launch event). It was a mix of serious, well mostly serious, software demonstrations and quiz show fun. “Pre-Quiz” Dealer and Customer presentations showcased the full product range with AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor and Map demo’s featuring in the quiz. A highlight was New Zealand Olympic Gold Medal Triathlete Hamish Carter. The tale of his journey to Olympic glory was great to hear. He also assisted TV’s Ric Salizzo run the quiz giving away loads of prizes, unfortunately not to Table 22! Photos below: Some of the crowd (approx 400),... Read more →

This is not your typical tourist

If you visit the world famous (in New Zealand) Huka Falls you’ll see lots of tourists. Typically they will have a camera, maybe a camcorder, but it’s rather unlikely they will be blogging with a Blackberry… I spent the weekend showing Shaan Hurley, Autodesk Blogger, part of the North Island (between Auckland – Taupo) and snapped him blogging from Huka Falls. You can meet Shaan at the Autodesk Design Masters Event in Auckland. Read more →

Catching the Building Ideas Bus

Today I hit the road to catch a bus. It was out of the office to see some new software in action, at the Salesoft Autodesk Building Ideas Roadshow, and also a chance to see couple of new’ish stores for the first time. The bus looked impressive & the roadshow had a nice demo of Revit Building 9, Revit Structure 3 and Robobat ROBOT Millennium (an analysis package that works with Revit Structure) working together. It was the first time I’ve seen Robobat and, while Structural Design/Analysis is not our thing, it was interesting to see it in action. If... Read more →