AusAB: Address Book maps for Australia
I was recently upbraided by a friend for writing this blog as if I were an
What better way to celebrate
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:
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 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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