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
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.
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 
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!
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