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Superbowl 2008 is almost here. New England Patriots and New York Giants will play the XLII edition of this amazing spectacle. The match itself is already great, but the most interesting thing tends to be its halftime show, full of famous singers and incredibly expensive advertisements.

This year’s Super Bowl will be played at The University of Phoenix Stadium in Phoenix, Arizona. This stadium is already tagged in Tagzania, but you can also find more Superbowl stadiums.

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All Super Bowl stadiums are tagged in this map, starting with Superbowl I played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (where 1932 Olimpic Games were placed too) and finishing with a stadium that is still under construction: Dallas Cowboys new stadium, home of Superbowl XLV in 2011.

But this under construction stadium is not the only treasure we can find in this map. There are a few demolished stadiums such as Tampa Stadium or Tulane Stadium.

Tagzania started its way two and a half years ago. The first place we tagged was Olduvai Gorge, a place known as the cradle of humanity (Wikipedia).

The text written in this first point is quite beautiful and deserves to be remembered:

“It all began here. Humans stood up and walked. Now we have the Internet, but we are still territorial animals.”

And that´s why Tagzania was created, a project that helps us not to forget our Tanzanian origin, to remember our favorite places, where we walk through every day or those we would like to see in the future. Our places in the world.

Currently, Tagzania has surpassed 70,000 places tagged and still evolving, but without forgetting its inception, our territorial beginning.

A brief but interesting article on PDA: the digital content blog, reminds us of the importance is gaining aerial advertising that aims to capture the attention of those who use the maps on the Internet.

Following example shows Coca Cola’s aerial ad in Arica, Chile.

Coca Cola advertising (Arica - Chile) map - Tagzania

But this is not the only example, we may also see other advertisements as KFC in Nevada (near the famous Area 51). Even the “war” between browsers has come to the geolocation, however, it seems that here Firefox takes advantage to Internet Explorer. Just for curiosity, have a look at below Firefox logo. Isn’t it strange?.

There’s an area particularly prepared for aerial ads, Barcelona. In a quite reduced area like Zona Franca threre are many samples of aerial advertising: Honda, DHL, ABX, … Another example is the nearby Ikea Badalona shop and the giant letters of its roof. The Swedish company is an example of taking advantage of air marketing and many of the Ikea stores around the world have aerial advertisings.

These attempts to make great images that capture the attention of someone up there are not new. A good example is found in the Falklands. In December 2006 an Argentine blogger discovered a few words in front of Stanley. After several contacts, they discovered they were 60 metres in height words “written with” painted white stones. Those words written with stones (Beagle, Barracouta, Protector and Endurance), referred to four ships of the British Navy, and stones were laid by crews of these ships that sailed around the coast of the Falklands. The first stones were placed at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Help us find interesting aerial ads and post them to Tagzania using the aerial_advertising tag.