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.
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!
As you might have noticed, we’ve done some changes in Tagzania.
This changes have been done thinking on users, hope we’re right and you enjoy them.
Some weeks ago we launched a survey to know what do you think about Tagzania. Our idea is finding ways of improving our service.
One of the things we’ve just developed is the tag suggestion. Every time you add a new place you have to add some tags. If you’re a hard user and you’ve got a lot of tags, it’s not easy remembering them. With this tag suggestion feature, you just need to type three characters and we’ll show you the tags you’ve already used with those characters.
In these example you can see how I’ve just typed “tok” and Tagzania suggests me “tokyo“.
These days we’re doing some research work to discover your feelings about Tagzania. We’d like to know what do you think about our new version and which improvements should we develop. In fact, we’ve got two different surveys, one for our active users and another one for the visitors (like people coming from search engines).
This morning we sent an email to our users so that they can answer some questions in this survey.
We’ve also added some text and a link in Tagzania to the visitors survey.
We’d really appreciate if you could take a minute to help us improving Tagzania 
Trying to cleanup the site, we decided to remove drastically and then start adding elements to the page. So we removed latitude and longitude data for the regular view (and Microformats, as the lines of code worked for both of them).
Now after so many of you requesting the coordinates, we have decided to show them again. Of course, Microformats are active too. Thanks for your feedback and enjoy!
If you want to learn about microformats, take a look at these links:
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