Now you can use Tagzania to search for postal addresses in Norway, Denmark, Finland and partially Russia (24 cities).
That's how we found this hotel in Denmark at Rytoften 3, 8210 Århus DK, or a couple of IBM facilities in Norway and Finland, at Strandsvingen 14A, Stavanger NO and Laajalahdentie 23, Helsinki FI. Remember the tip: put the two-letter country code after the address for better results.
As for Russia, addresses need to be entered in the Cyrillic script. We're afraid that if you search for 17 Nevsky Prospekt, Sankt-Petersburg, you won't find the beautiful Stroganov Palace that sits there. You have to search for Санкт-Петербург, Невский пр., 17
We've created a page in the documentation side of Tagzania listing the countries in which address search is available.
tagzania - Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:33:43 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/address-search-in-several-northern-european-countries
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Minimap sidebar for Firefox
A friend of Tagzania, geo-hacker Tony Farndon has created an interesting tool, the Minimap Sidebar addon for Firefox.
This plugin for the Firefox browser is compatible with Tagzania. See the following screenshot (full size here):
You drag an address from any given webpage to the lower grey area of the sidebar, and it gets stored locally on your browser: each of the addresses saved there generates a map, with added options; one of those, right-clicking the mouse, lets you save the place in Tagzania, see effect in the next screenshot. There are other goodies in the tool as well, and the official page explains it all.
Thank you Tony for this plugin, we've added it to our 3rd party tool list.
tagzania - Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:45:15 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/minimap-sidebar-for-firefox
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This plugin for the Firefox browser is compatible with Tagzania. See the following screenshot (full size here):
You drag an address from any given webpage to the lower grey area of the sidebar, and it gets stored locally on your browser: each of the addresses saved there generates a map, with added options; one of those, right-clicking the mouse, lets you save the place in Tagzania, see effect in the next screenshot. There are other goodies in the tool as well, and the official page explains it all.
Thank you Tony for this plugin, we've added it to our 3rd party tool list.
tagzania - Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:45:15 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/minimap-sidebar-for-firefox
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Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Map ads, geo-advertising
We have partnered with a new innovative mapping service: Mappam, a geo-advertising platforn. Basically, Mappam places ads on maps. We at Tagzania, as providers of a mapping website, have decided to try the service and show their ads. Others may do the same as well. Advertisers may choose to buy or place ads in certain spots of the maps, and the same ads will show in all the sites of the Mappam affiliate network.
So, if you check Horley, a town in England near Gatwick Airport,
You'll a small little icon. It's an ad by Nestoria, a real estate search engine. Clicking on it will the ad. If you further click on the content, Nestoria will pay some cents. Part of it for Mappam, part for Tagzania (in this case).
The same spot, in another mapping site, OpenStreetMap: You will see the ad again. So, Nestoria bought ads to be placed in certain points, and they are shown in all sites of the Mappam network, in Tagzania as well as in OpenStreetMap
In other parts of the planet (and the maps of Tagzania), randomly placed ads of Mappam itself appear: they promote themselves, that's all. Look at one of those here, for instance, near a surfing beach in Spain.
So, the geo-advertising world has several elements: Mappam the broker, the affiliate mapping websites like Tagzania, advertisers buying placements for campaigns, and of course, you, the users. We don't want users to be alienated by excess of ads. There are ways in which the appearance of the ads can be regulated, to show only one in every view, for instance. We don't want map spam, of course. So, any concern or thinking about this, we'll thank that, and we're sure the Mappam people (small, new and innovative enterprise now) we'll also thank the feedback: they are not obviously for spam either, they just one to create a new geo-marketing platform, useful for advertisers, affiliate websites and map users. If you have any concern, enter into the conversation about Tagzania in our mailing list or contact Mappam.
Tagzania already shows ads. You have seen the textual advertisments served by Google in our pages. It's the well known system called AdSense. Those ads provide a stream of revenue that's OK for us, in order to maintain and improve the service of Tagzania. We want to introduce another complementary source now with Mappam, and not only because of the revenue, but to make a trial with a new model, geo-advertising.
tagzania - Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:57:14 -0400
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So, if you check Horley, a town in England near Gatwick Airport,
You'll a small little icon. It's an ad by Nestoria, a real estate search engine. Clicking on it will the ad. If you further click on the content, Nestoria will pay some cents. Part of it for Mappam, part for Tagzania (in this case).
The same spot, in another mapping site, OpenStreetMap: You will see the ad again. So, Nestoria bought ads to be placed in certain points, and they are shown in all sites of the Mappam network, in Tagzania as well as in OpenStreetMap
In other parts of the planet (and the maps of Tagzania), randomly placed ads of Mappam itself appear: they promote themselves, that's all. Look at one of those here, for instance, near a surfing beach in Spain.
So, the geo-advertising world has several elements: Mappam the broker, the affiliate mapping websites like Tagzania, advertisers buying placements for campaigns, and of course, you, the users. We don't want users to be alienated by excess of ads. There are ways in which the appearance of the ads can be regulated, to show only one in every view, for instance. We don't want map spam, of course. So, any concern or thinking about this, we'll thank that, and we're sure the Mappam people (small, new and innovative enterprise now) we'll also thank the feedback: they are not obviously for spam either, they just one to create a new geo-marketing platform, useful for advertisers, affiliate websites and map users. If you have any concern, enter into the conversation about Tagzania in our mailing list or contact Mappam.
Tagzania already shows ads. You have seen the textual advertisments served by Google in our pages. It's the well known system called AdSense. Those ads provide a stream of revenue that's OK for us, in order to maintain and improve the service of Tagzania. We want to introduce another complementary source now with Mappam, and not only because of the revenue, but to make a trial with a new model, geo-advertising.
tagzania - Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:57:14 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/map-ads-geo-advertising
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Send tweets from Tagzania, location presence made easy
Today's Google Developer Day, and Tagzania's team is split between two of the locations of this global tech event, two of us in Madrid, two in Sillicon Valley... so, where's, for instance, team member Luistxo Fernandez, the Information minister of Tagzania, here or there? Well, check his Tagzania user page, there's a notice saying where he was last seen.
Now, we mark presence thru Tagzania, you can say at any location if you're there (just for a beginning, soon more presence-messaging options will surface). Check the Here tab in any Tagzania place. And, look well, there's an extra option, activate the Twitter thing if you want to synchronize your Tagzania location with a tweet towards Twitter, the leading presence app of the web so far.
A message will automatically be sent to Twitter. This one was sent from the Where 2.0 Conference venue , the Fairmont Hotel of San Jose:
There's the short message, the link to the map, and some coordinates after the L: thing that will make it compatible Twittervision, that hypnotic mashup.
So, if you're in one of those Google Developer Day venues, a Caribbean beach, or anywhere, mark it, say I'm here, and simultanously tweet that. It will also work with the like/dislike messages of the Here tab, as well as with the new ones to be added in the future. At the same time, besides Twitter, we'd love to add other presence apps to that option, so you can use your favorite one.
tagzania - Thu, 31 May 2007 04:34:09 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/twitter-location
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Now, we mark presence thru Tagzania, you can say at any location if you're there (just for a beginning, soon more presence-messaging options will surface). Check the Here tab in any Tagzania place. And, look well, there's an extra option, activate the Twitter thing if you want to synchronize your Tagzania location with a tweet towards Twitter, the leading presence app of the web so far.
A message will automatically be sent to Twitter. This one was sent from the Where 2.0 Conference venue , the Fairmont Hotel of San Jose:
There's the short message, the link to the map, and some coordinates after the L: thing that will make it compatible Twittervision, that hypnotic mashup.
So, if you're in one of those Google Developer Day venues, a Caribbean beach, or anywhere, mark it, say I'm here, and simultanously tweet that. It will also work with the like/dislike messages of the Here tab, as well as with the new ones to be added in the future. At the same time, besides Twitter, we'd love to add other presence apps to that option, so you can use your favorite one.
tagzania - Thu, 31 May 2007 04:34:09 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/twitter-location
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Comment and review places
We've introduced some new options in Tagzania. First of all, now you can comment and review places. Below a given location and its description, there they are, the nearest points just until now, but look, there are a couple of new tabs in the interface.
It's easy to guess. The Comments tab lets you leave comments on any place in Tagzania. The Here tab is for a series of preset messages, right now you can say I'm Here, or say if you like or not some place.
Come and test it. Wanna comment the Eiffel Tower? Are you right now at this Conference site? Tell it at Tagzania.
tagzania - Tue, 29 May 2007 14:31:03 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/comment-and-review-places
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It's easy to guess. The Comments tab lets you leave comments on any place in Tagzania. The Here tab is for a series of preset messages, right now you can say I'm Here, or say if you like or not some place.
Come and test it. Wanna comment the Eiffel Tower? Are you right now at this Conference site? Tell it at Tagzania.
tagzania - Tue, 29 May 2007 14:31:03 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/comment-and-review-places
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Ignite talk about Tagzania at the Where 2.0 Conference
Tagzania will be present next week at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose. Luistxo Fernandez, one of the guys behind this web effort, will also give an Ignite talk, a fast 5 minute pitch talk with 20 automated slides, during the Conference opening event on Monday, May 28 at 7:00pm. It's free to attend it, if you happen to be around downtown San Jose on Monday, confirm you're coming here.
Ignite talks are an attractive format first essayed in Seattle, but O'Reilly Media, organizer of Where 2.0, is exporting the idea elsewhere. It will be a pleasure to share the stage with other participants.
The Conference proper will be next Tuesday and Wednesday, and if you happen to meet Luistxo and coleague Gari Araolaza, featured here, come and say hi!
On Thursday, Tagzania's envoys will attend the Google Developer Day in San Jose and the Googleplex. And not only there, but also in Madrid (it's a global event) where Josu Azpillaga and Txus Sanchez, these two guys below, will show up at that venue.
Finally, Luistxo and Gari will also be at the WhereCamp event at the Yahoo Campus, on June 2 and 3.
tagzania - Wed, 23 May 2007 10:45:49 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/ignite-talk-about-tagzania-at-the-where-20-conference
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Ignite talks are an attractive format first essayed in Seattle, but O'Reilly Media, organizer of Where 2.0, is exporting the idea elsewhere. It will be a pleasure to share the stage with other participants.
The Conference proper will be next Tuesday and Wednesday, and if you happen to meet Luistxo and coleague Gari Araolaza, featured here, come and say hi!
On Thursday, Tagzania's envoys will attend the Google Developer Day in San Jose and the Googleplex. And not only there, but also in Madrid (it's a global event) where Josu Azpillaga and Txus Sanchez, these two guys below, will show up at that venue.
Finally, Luistxo and Gari will also be at the WhereCamp event at the Yahoo Campus, on June 2 and 3.
tagzania - Wed, 23 May 2007 10:45:49 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/ignite-talk-about-tagzania-at-the-where-20-conference
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Search for addresses in Brazil and some new European countries
You can now search for postal addresses in Brazil when posting thru Tagzania's interface (for registered users). That's how we found the US Consulate in Recife, searching for Rua Gonçalves Maia, 163, Recife, BR.
Some additional European countries also have now geocoding: Portugal, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. To test it, we searched for the addresses of some venerable geographical institutions in those countries, and that's how we found the Portuguese Geographical Institute at 107 Rua da Artilharia 1, 1099-052 Lisboa PT, the Institute of Social, Economic and Regional Geography, Poland at ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30 00-921 Warszawa PL, the Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at Bocní II, Praha 4, Hlavní mesto Praha 14100, CZ, and the Geographical Research Institute of Hungary, at H-1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45 HU.
Remember the tips for address searches, and just add the country codes BR (Brazil), PT (Portugal), PL (Poland), CZ (the Czech Republic) and HU (Hungary) for locations in these new countries with address search capability. tagzania - Thu, 17 May 2007 04:26:01 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/search-for-addresses-in-brazil-and-some-new-european-countries
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Some additional European countries also have now geocoding: Portugal, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. To test it, we searched for the addresses of some venerable geographical institutions in those countries, and that's how we found the Portuguese Geographical Institute at 107 Rua da Artilharia 1, 1099-052 Lisboa PT, the Institute of Social, Economic and Regional Geography, Poland at ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 30 00-921 Warszawa PL, the Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic at Bocní II, Praha 4, Hlavní mesto Praha 14100, CZ, and the Geographical Research Institute of Hungary, at H-1112 Budapest, Budaörsi út 45 HU.
Remember the tips for address searches, and just add the country codes BR (Brazil), PT (Portugal), PL (Poland), CZ (the Czech Republic) and HU (Hungary) for locations in these new countries with address search capability. tagzania - Thu, 17 May 2007 04:26:01 -0400
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/search-for-addresses-in-brazil-and-some-new-european-countries
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