We love your comments
Yes, that’s right. We want to know what’s your opinion about the new Tagzania.
Some of you have already done it by posting a comment in this blog (thanks Rhys!), using the mailing list (like Mkk or Jason) or writing us an email to tagzania (at) gmail.com (like our IPY friends and Matteo have done).
That’s the only way of improving Tagzania, knowing your thoughts on the new version.
Thanks a lot!
Tags: Tagzania
November 30th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Hi there!
The new Tagzania looks *really* good!
However, there seem to be a few problems showing maps with many points:
A couple of examples:
1) http://www.tagzania.com/paste/user/kennethmac2000/airport/
This is showing only a handful of all the points I have defined with the tag ‘airport’.
2) http://www.tagzania.com/paste/user/kennethmac2000/airport+eu/
This should show the points which have both the tag ‘airport’ and the tag ‘eu’, but it is in fact showing nothing.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Hi Kenneth,
Thanks for your time! And, we’re glad you like this new version.
We’re still working on Tagzania, improving some bugs and features. What you mention is true, and we’ll fix it soon.
1) You can see about 200 points here: http://www.tagzania.com/paste/user/kennethmac2000/airport/?n=200
2) That’s missing in this new version. We’ve added to our To-Do list.
Thanks Kenneth!
Mikel
December 6th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Hello again,
Thanks for your quick feedback!
Is there any reason for limiting the default number of points on a map to 10? This seems like an awfully low default value.
Would the 200 points you suggest not be a better default?
Ciao!
December 9th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Hi Kenneth,
You’re totally right and we’ve just changed the default value.
Have a look to your Airport map, does it look better?
Thanks a lot for your time!
Mikel
December 10th, 2008 at 10:12 am
It looks better, but the number of points still appears to be capped at 25 or something (definitely not 200!). Why not just allow an unlimited number of points?
(I’m guessing a map which shows an arbitrary subset of the available points isn’t that much use to most people.)
Also, more out of interest than anything, why do some of my points now show up with airport icons and some don’t? How does Tagzania recognize some of my airport points as airports but not others?
Keep up the good work! =)
December 11th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Hi Kenneth,
Let’s go step by step. Now there are 200 points in the big maps.
The reason for seeing some of your points with the airport icon is because we’ve changed some of them. We’ll soon implement a system to customize every icon.
Thanks for your comment!
December 12th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I changed my password three times, and still it does not recognize me when i log in. what is the problem?
December 12th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Hi Sandi,
We’ve sent you an email with some questions to solve this problem.
Mikel
December 14th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Hello one more time!
The big maps are definitely looking better now, but have you removed the ability to manually override the number of points with the n parameter?
I am looking at a big map of all my points tagged as being in the European Union (tag: ‘eu’), and some just aren’t showing up (Barcelona, for example), even if I attempt an override with n=1000, ie:
http://www.tagzania.com/paste/user/kennethmac2000/eu/?n=1000
I can understand that it might be computationally difficult to plot a million different points on a map in real-time, but are these limits of 200 or whatever really necessary?
It defeats the purpose of Tagzania somewhat if you show someone a map of your points and some of the points are missing. :S
December 15th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hi Kenneth,
We haven’t removed that possibility, it’s still there, but the maximum points are 200 per map.
And you’re right about the computational difficulties because of having too many queries in our servers.
But it’s something that we should think for our future. Specially for advanced users like you.
Thanks again for your feedback.
Mikel