Tagzania Blog http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en Tagging the planet Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:37:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 TagzaniaBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Still alive http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TagzaniaBlog/~3/KWW0kqRPRaU/ http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2010/06/10/alive/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:24:52 +0000 mikel http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/?p=127 Months after our last post on this blog, you might think we’ve disappeared, but not, we’re still alive. Not publishing doesn’t mean Tagzania.com is abandoned. We’ve been doing some small improvements but our small company has been focused developing a new project: Mapapel, quality printable maps.

This new project uses OpenStreetMap’s data for creating the maps. OSM gives us a wide range of opportunities, such as editing the maps design

Mapapel - Zaragoza

After launching Mapapel, we’re back to improve Tagzania.

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New OpenStreetMap link

The Forbidden city, Beijing, from GMaps to OSM:

http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2008/12/04/tagzania-and-other-maps/

]]> http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2009/11/26/openstreetmap/feed/ 0 http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2009/11/26/openstreetmap/ New icons in Tagzania http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TagzaniaBlog/~3/CwCQgGNMM3k/ http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2009/11/04/new-icons-in-tagzania/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:57:05 +0000 mikel http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/?p=115 Finally we’ve got some new icons in Tagzania. This was one of the requests from our users. These are the new categories:

  • Castle
  • Language
  • Parking
  • Police
  • Port
  • School
  • University

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:

Tagzania icon selection

you’ll see all icon options in new layer:

Select you icon - Tagzania

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!

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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:

Orreaga OpenStreetMap

And after (see it in OSM):

Orreaga OpenStreetMap 2009-10-28

O Cebreiro before:

Cebreiro OpenStreetMap

and after (see it in OSM):

Cebreiro OpenStreetMap 20091028

And, finally, Samos before mapping it:

Samos OpenStreetMap

and after (see it in OSM):

Samos OpenStreetMap 20091028

I gathered data from a lot of other places, but I need time to upload it to OpenStreetMap.

Mikel in Santiago de Compostela

by Mikel Lizarralde

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By Mikel Lizarralde

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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.

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Android logo

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.

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You can read some comments about Tagzania’s experience in the SOTM09 here.

The presentations and videos can be found in the SOTM wiki.

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Tagzania t-shirt

Tagzania kamisetak

Hope you like it. You’ll have some news about these t-shirts soon.

]]> http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2009/07/08/tagzania-t-shirts/feed/ 2 http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2009/07/08/tagzania-t-shirts/ Questions before the State of the Map http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TagzaniaBlog/~3/ViwvpiGJYOM/ http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/2009/07/03/questions-before-the-state-of-the-map/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:00:56 +0000 mikel http://www.tagzania-blog.com/en/?p=57 Next week we’ll attend the international State of the Map conference in Amsterdam,and we’ve got a few questions for the OSM experts.

We’re talking with Josemari Aranburu, chief of B5M, the Geographical information office of Gipuzkoa (a Basque region), about getting their data licensed for OSM. Gipuzkoa is the smallest province in Spain, but their GIS infrastructure is probably one of the most exhaustive and detailed. Have a look and zoom in, don’t forget to try their bird’s eye view too: Donostia

Josemari is interested on sharing data with OSM, but there are some open questions that would like to have answered before going further:

  • He’d like to keep their own copy of the data, so that they could be the data store for OSM in their area of influence. So would it be any chance to have the OpenStreetMap data in distributed servers? For example, B5M could care about data in Gipuzkoa.
  • How can collaborate public institutions and OSM? Is there any options for public institutions to get feedback from OSM, so that they not only provide data but can reuse the information added by OSM users? or does OSM only offer a one way data transaction for big data providers?

We’ll try to get some answers on this questions from Amsterdam, but don’t be shy and help us from now on!

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