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    • Now We’re Flying!
      • We’ve had a busy week here at Snapper, rolling out the ability to pay for your bus fare by Snapper on Valley Flyer and Airport Flyer buses. The first Snapper-enabled bus left the Waterloo depot in the early hours of last Sunday morning and by lunchtime every Valley Flyer bus had been fitted out with Snapper equipment.
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      • hutt-valley

        • Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Travelling In Style
      • Wellington’s Airport Flyer service has been given a $4 million facelift, and we think it’s money well spent. The Airport Flyer fleet now has nine new NZ-built buses, featuring leather coach-style seats, extra leg-room and air-conditioning. Of course, the new [...]
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      • airport

        • Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


    • Snapper welcomes 8 new Merchants.
      • We are happy to announce 8 new Reload and Acceptor Merchants that have come on-board in the past week strengthening our network in the suburbs: Bay Foodkmarket, Island bay; Bay Discount Tobacconist, Kilbirnie; Molesworth Goods, Thorndon; Anitas Bookshop, Featherston St   Adding to the Subway Launch the following sites will be using Snapper for its queue busting abilities: Subway Featherston St,
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      • kilbirnie
      • island-bay
      • thorndon

        • Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)


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Relevent newsitems are geotagged with location information.

Geotagged newsitems are indicated using the geotag icon.

Geotags are also export in RSS feeds using the GeoRSS standard. A GeoRSS tagged feed item has this format:

<item>
<title>Can you replace the Hilton?</title>
<geo:lat>-41.284896</geo:lat>
<geo:long>174.778531</geo:long>
</item>

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The location information which makes this possible is provided by OpenStreetMap and the Nominatim AC auto-complete tool.

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