Mountain-related blogs and sites also followed the events, and a Basque newsblog produced a little map of the route to Annapurna, the peaks and Iñaki’s position there. Now that map can be viewed with the new 3D view, and it’s striking.

Eventually, Iñaki didn’t make it. But he didn’t die alone. Iñaki Ochoa de Olza’s body now rests there forever. It was an impossible task to recover the dead body from 7,400 meters of altitude and the family was quick to ask all rescuers to come down as soon as possible, letting Iñaki rest in the mountain, which, probably, would have been his own desire.

Another great map in Tagzania, all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters, also in the new 3D fullscreen view.

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We have included this 3D option in our embedable code, so that you can have a 3D map in your website or blog. For example, you can show that place, The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, in London in your website easily.

Big Ben. Houses of Parliament map

You can get the embedding code in any page in Tagzania. It’s tuned to show the 3d view right now, but if you want another view or want to tune something, click in the Customize link and you have some options there.

We also added a “Big map 3D” link to our maps. And, if you like maps, then you´re going to love it. In the following link you can see the Empire State Building and New York´s skyline in 3D. Routes also are nice to see in this 3D view, for example the popular race between Behobia and San Sebastian. It´s obvious that those places with 3D buildings look nicer than those without, but there´s no doubt this API will help the appearence of new 3D images.

Apart from that, you might have noticed that we´ve made some other changes, such as making easier the embeding process and a “cleaning” of the “Open Maps” section (we´ve left only most popular links according to statistics).

For Mac and Linux users, well, you’ll have to wait until August (that’s what Google promised), but in the meantime just can download the KML archive and open it with Google Earth’s client application to enjoy the 3D views.

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Currently Hiart and Iker are in New Zealand. As we can see in the following photo, after New Zealand, they will travel to Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan and India.

What is most interesting for us is the way they are registering their journey through three ways: by , publishing their photos and tagging the places they visit on Tagzania:

Around the world

They also have with them a GPS, but that’s something we’ll tell you soon.

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Jean Nouvel has several works in Spain, some of the best known are the Agbar Tower in Barcelona or the expansion of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. Also in Madrid, he participated in of one of the most striking hotels in the city, the Puerta America Hotel, designing the 12th floor.

The French architect became famous with the Arab World Institute in Paris. Since then he has worked throughout all the world and has done projects like the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, the Lafayette Galleries in Berlin (have a look to its surprising roof) or the Dentsu Tower, in Tokyo.

Jean Nouvel’s buildings map - Tagzania

On this map you can see some of Jean Nouvel’s projects. If you want to post on Tagzania some of his buildings, remember adding the jeannouvel tag and that new point will appear on this map.

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This event is having some impact on Tagzania, because the website that is driving the initiative, International Polar Year, is encouraging users to join the event by adding their location and the tag “ipy2008changingearth.” If you have a look at the added points, you’ll realize that most of them are schools where information relating to the International Polar Year is taught.

ipy2008changingearth tagged map - Tagzania

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Nowadays that place is a luxury hotel known as the Taj Lake Palace (image in Flickr), located in Udaipur, Rajasthan, an area full of luxury hotels.

This and other hotels are part of the list of the 101 best hotels in the world produced by the Tatler magazine, part of the Condé Nast group.

Best hotels of the world map - Tagzania

Exploring the list of luxury hotels is an interesting activity, perhaps you could discover where to go next holidays. If you want an island, you can choose a luxury hotel in Santorini, Bulgari’s exclusive hotel in Bali or a more atypical destination as a luxury hotel in Easter Island. Other famous islands such as the Maldives or Seychelles also have some resorts in the list of the best hotels in the world.

Not all hotels have white sand beaches and crystal clear waters, we can also find a luxury hotel in the Chilean Patagonia (near the impressive Torres del Paine). Those who like staying in palaces and castles also have a wide choice: the famous Château de la Chèvre d’Or near Monaco, a historical palace in Rome, Residenza Napoleone III, or a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires.

JK Palace Capri has been declared this year’s best hotel in the world. Booking a room in any of these hotels is not for all economies, probably. But if you happen to be near, at least you can visit their halls. For us, Tagzania makers, one of the 101 best hotels in the world is quite close, in the Basque region of Rioja Alavesa, the Marques de Riscal hotel designed by Frank Gehry.

Have you already decided? Where are you going to go these holidays?

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The Garage event is in Madrid, Feb 18th, 7 pm at the Teatro Lara.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Following this initiative, and this other collecting photographs of workplaces, we have taken a few pictures and we have uploaded to our Flickr account.

The doors, with the characteristic “CodeSyntax green colour”:

We love Ikea ;-):

Our own Mountain view:

In a few months Tagzania will move to the office next to CodeSyntax’s.

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In the map below, we can see all seven stadiums. Actually, there should be only six, but Dublin’s Lansdowne Road is set to be redeveloped by April 2010, and meanwhile, all matches are played in Croke Park. This stadium is owned by the Gaelic Athletic Association, whose constitution until recently did not allow foreign sports to be played on their ground, and rugby is an English sport.

6_nations tagged map - Tagzania

Modern stadiums like Stade de France or Welsh Millennium Stadium are listed among older ones, such as Italian Stadio Flaminio, Murrayfield in Scotland, or rugby’s cathedral, Twickenham, in London.

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