Tagzania doesn’t want to deal with just one provider, that’s why we use Mapstraction, and specially OpenStreetMap. Until today, you had to add a new parameter to the URL to see your places in OSM, now it’s a little bit easier, you just need to click on the OpenStreetMap link (below the map, see the black box on the image).
The Forbidden city, Beijing, from GMaps to OSM:
Finally we’ve got some new icons in Tagzania. This was one of the requests from our users. These are the new categories:
There are also some changes in the way we select the icons for our places. We think there were too many things in the adding process. Now, after clicking in the “personalize your icon” link:
you’ll see all icon options in new layer:
Hope you like it, and, remember: keep telling us what you want in Tagzania!
This change has been done because of users like you, thanks a lot!
I’m back from my Camino after nearly 800 km with my bike and gathering a lot of interesting data: hostels, restaurants, churches, etc. Now starts the hard work, taking all the data to OpenStreetMap.
I’ve started with three interesting places every pilgrim should visit in the Way of St. James: Roncesvalles-Orreaga, O Cebreiro and Samos.
Roncesvalles – Orreaga before:
And after (see it in OSM):
O Cebreiro before:
and after (see it in OSM):
And, finally, Samos before mapping it:
and after (see it in OSM):
I gathered data from a lot of other places, but I need time to upload it to OpenStreetMap.
by Mikel Lizarralde
Two years ago I did the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) by bike. I took the GPS with me and I tracked the way to upload it to OpenStreetMap. Today I’m going to do the same way, from Roncesvalles/Orreaga to Santiago. This time, the goal is getting more data to improve OSM maps in towns and villages, and adding also POIs for pilgrims. I’ve written it on the OSM wiki. Ultreia!
By Mikel Lizarralde
Humans love doing lists. Do you remember the new seven wonders of the world? Now there’s another competition going on, the new seven wornders of nature. After a popular nomination process with 77 places all around the world these are the 28 finalists:
Amazon Rainforest
Angel Falls
Bay of Fundy
Black Forest
Bu Tinah Shoals
Cliffs of Moher
Dead Sea
El Yunque
Galapagos Islands
Grand Canyon
Great Barrier Reef
Halong Bay
Iguazu Falls
Jeita Grotto
Jeju Island
Kilimanjaro
Komodo National Park
Maldives
Masurian Lake District
Matterhorn / Cervino
Milford Sound
Mud Volcanoes
Puerto Princesa Underground River
Sundarbans
Table Mountain
Uluru
Vesuvius
Yushan
The final declaration of the New Seven Wonders of Nature will be in 2011. You can vote for your favourite places here.
Last Friday we attended the Basque Android developers (and hackers) meeting, Etxekoandroid.
Etxekoandroid has been promoted by Juanan Pereira with the goal of creating a developer community around Android. The first meeting was held at the Korta building of the University of the Basque Country, in Donostia-San Sebastian.
We talked about the new firmwares and new works like Jesusfreke , TheDude’s , Haykuro and so. There were ideas about new apps and also some questions regarding to the future of Android.
We have created Tagzania Mobile, with the aim of working more and more on Android (and also other mobile platforms). Our first step is Tagzania’s Android app, which you can see a demo in the video below:
We’ll launch it soon and we’d like to attend the upcoming Android Developer Challenge.
Our users will be able to add new places and search for them in Tagzania.com wherever they are with this new app. Currently, we are working to integrate the GPS tracker so that we can send them to Tagzania.com.
We’ll keep on working on it.
Last weekend we attended the State of the Map annual conference in Amsterdam. Apart from taking part in the lightning talks we also sponsored the event. In our talk, we mentioned how we use OSM in Tagzania and we showed our new project Mapapel.
You can read some comments about Tagzania’s experience in the SOTM09 here.
The presentations and videos can be found in the SOTM wiki.
Tagzania’s new t-shirts have just arrived to our office. T-shirts have been designed by Zaldieroa, as brilliant as usual.
Hope you like it. You’ll have some news about these t-shirts soon.
Next week we’ll attend the international State of the Map conference in Amsterdam,and we’ve got a few questions for the OSM experts.
We’re talking with Josemari Aranburu, chief of B5M, the Geographical information office of Gipuzkoa (a Basque region), about getting their data licensed for OSM. Gipuzkoa is the smallest province in Spain, but their GIS infrastructure is probably one of the most exhaustive and detailed. Have a look and zoom in, don’t forget to try their bird’s eye view too: Donostia
Josemari is interested on sharing data with OSM, but there are some open questions that would like to have answered before going further:
We’ll try to get some answers on this questions from Amsterdam, but don’t be shy and help us from now on!
There was something we hidden when we renewed Tagzania, route distances. The information was in our database but it wasn’t shown. Now you can see this information below the map, have a look at this image of the Donostia beach walk:
You can choose how you want to see the distance, kilometers or miles. This can be selected in the user’s preferences page.
Distances are back in Tagzania because you asked for it, this time through UserVoice’s feedback app.
Go on telling us what you need!
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