AusAB: Address Book maps for Australia

AusABI was recently upbraided by a friend for writing this blog as if I were an American. (Man, was I pissed. That was like so harsh).

What better way to celebrate Australia Day and inject local colo(u)r than with a set of Address Book plugins that deliver maps and travel directions for Australian addresses?

AusAB is a set of four plugins that offers Whereis maps of your contacts, public transport times to locations in Sydney, the option of setting a primary address for a contact and directions from one of the addresses on your own card to a selected address of another contact.

Like the StreetMaps plugin for the UK and the Google Maps plugin, the new options are available in a drop down menu when you click on a contact’s address tab.

It can only parse the most standard address formats at the moment, but the developer hopes to extend its range and add other features. He welcomes feedback – details are in the readme file on the disk image.

The Directions option will open a dialogue box asking for more details, like this:

AusAB_dialogue

In this case I am wondering how to get to work.

It’s clever too. It shows me exactly the route that I do drive:

AusAB_results

AusAB is freeware and available from the developer’s web site (along with temperature widgets and other goodies for Australian Mac users).

It’s a bloody little ripper, mate!

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