Stephen Withers has updated his Whereis script for Address Book.

This script offers much better mapping of Australian addresses than the default “Map of” service in Address Book provided by MapQuest.

The new version (1.7) has been updated to take account of recent changes on the Whereis site.

It works well for me. And it’s clever, successfully parsing addresses as varied as “1/2 High Street”, “Unit 1, 2 High Street”, “Level 1, 2 High Street” and “10-14 High Street”.

Whereis for Address Book is donation-ware and available from the developer’s web site.Address Book, Australia, Australian addresses, whereis, mapquest, plugins

By default, the Address Book Dashboard widget uses MapQuest to look up and display a map for the location of your contacts.

Rob Griffiths (of macOSXHints fame) provides a script and walk-through on MacWorld that will replace the MapQuest look-up with Google Maps, giving you pop-up balloons and all the other Google Map goodness.

I am not much of a widget man myself. I prefer to use the plug-ins for Address Book itself — Brian Toth’s Google Maps plug-in and UK Streetmaps.

But widget nuts will love Rob’s tip.