• 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:

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’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

By Mikel Lizarralde

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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!

• We are using UserVoice’s Feedback application. You can see it in the left part of every page in Tagzania. We want to enable new ways of getting users feedback and UserVoice’s tool looks great for that. If you click on the Feedback button, you can see other users suggestions or submit your own ideas about Tagzania, you can also report any bug you found.

• See all your tags: some weeks ago we developed a tag suggestion feature to help those who are adding a place in Tagzania and don’t remember which tags they used before. But some users gave us some feedback about the tag suggestion so we decided to insert a button to see all your tags during the process. Have a look to the “See all your tags”option, and then what happens after clicking on it.

• Download all your places without limits: this is another user request. Some of you have a lot of places added in Tagzania. Whenever youaa wanted to download the KML with your places, there was a limit of 200 points. Now you can download a KML with all your points, whithout any limits, on your user page (i.e. www.tagzania.com/user/your_user_name), next to the “Edit preferences” button.

• Contact us and permalink links are another change we’ve done. If you click on the first one, you can send us a message about something you’ve noticed on a certain place (wrong info, wrong place, …).

This changes have been done thinking on users, hope we’re right and you enjoy them.