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
Source: http://www.tagzania.com/blog/news/map-ads-geo-advertising
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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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