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

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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

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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

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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

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Partnering with Nestoria, the real estate search engine

Nestoria Spain launched yesterday marking the European continental debut of this real estate search engine, which has been british till this moment. Nestoria shows homes located on maps, but the maps themselves are richer than just that: in the UK, they show a variety of local information mapped, from pubs to taxes. In Spain, there are fewer layers of local info so far, but some of them are interesting, they're user generated and among them, there are Tagzania's points, the ones that our users add to their maps.



That's the screenshot of an area of Barcelona, Montjuïc,
and there they are, those POIs, taken from Tagzania's database using an API that we will document soon.

We invite our Spanish users to document your barrios. Those interesting pinpoints will now be visible not only in Tagzania but in Nestoria as well.

tagzania - Tue, 15 May 2007 06:37:06 -0400

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70,000 hotels added to Tagzania

An addition of a set of Points of Interest to Geonames, an open web service that Tagzania proudly uses, lets us now display 70,000 geocoded hotels worlwide that you may search through Tagzania's main search option:

• Search for a given hotel name like Hotel Savoia and look at the results in the Placename area of the page.
  
• A brand or chain plus a city (Sheraton Rome)
• or even a name plus a country code (Sheraton IT, where IT stands for Italy: here's the 2-letter country code list to use this tip with ease).

The hotels available are mainly in the US and Europe, as this map by Geonames shows, but we hope that with time coverage will be better in other areas of the world.

tagzania - Mon, 14 May 2007 10:50:21 -0400

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Map showcases in Blogspot and Twitter

When Tagzania launched, our first blog was in Blogger/Blogspot, but then we moved here, to Tagzania's own domain using Bitakora blogware (a free blogging platform for Zope). However, we decided to keep that Blogspot, changing its conception... Finally it has evolved to become a gallery for embedded maps, Tagzania examples pasted into HTML.

At the same time, some weeks ago we added ourselves to Twitter, so we also do microblogging there. Short news about features, and examples with a URL to visit, that's all we're posting in Twitter for the moment, trying not to be too insistent.

You may follow that blog and our tweets to be informed about curious map examples. If you are in Twitter, feel free to add Tagzania as a friend.

tagzania - Wed, 09 May 2007 09:30:01 -0400

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Lines and points combined on maps

A little tweak over the capability to draw lines and routes that we created for Tagzania some weeks ago: now, both elements are shown in combination in users' pages and tags.



So, you can use a common kewyord for a certain map, tag both routes and points with that term, and a nice map is created that wat. For example, user Fiz is mapping some races, marathons mainly, over there, and he has added some interest points to one of those races, the Marathon of Prague, that will be held next sunday, on May 13th.

tagzania - Mon, 07 May 2007 03:49:22 -0400

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