Search Engine Blog

Here is what's happening on Castlemap (recent posts at the top of the page).

Switched Away From Wallabyup Now To Castlemap - January 2026

No longer doing a text based search engine (just maps now) so I have renamed the website to Castlemap.au (previously Wallabyup.au).

Map Working Well - October 2025

Map buttons and layers are working really well. There are now quick tiles up to zoom level 20 and then after zoom level 20 (L21+) it switches to a vector database lookup. The database lookup is slower but at zoom level 21+ you are only calling on the database for 1 granny flat (still quick). Todo: fix minor bugs (i.e. proposed granny flats are too close to an existing buiding (or overlapping). Then run the "granny flat tile generation script" for 8? hours to render all of Newcastle to Wollongong granny flats.

On Hold For A Bit - 26th April 2025

The granny flat map is coming along well, just have to replace a CSS "transform scale" style with a code-friendly hard coded x="0" y="0". After this change a "granny flat tile layer" will be in place on the map (which will be quicker than the current database lookup using vector graphics).

Slippy Map With Sydney Base Tiles Added - 1st November 2024

This Sydney slippy map will eventually be a property map of places where you can see floor plans of possible places to build. It's just a base map of streets/parks/etc. at the moment but I needed to put something out there just to show what I have been working on for so long.

New Domain Name - 4th November 2022

.au domains (no .com/net/org needed) are now a thing so I did a switch-o-roo from wallabyup.com to wallabyup.au and also added a short URL wal1.au.

Priorities - 11th October 2022

I'm focusing more on my housing for the disabled website rather than this site however I have some priorities I wish to do. Wal is being worked on 1 morning a week.