Tagzania Home | Mailing list |About

2005/08/25 17:12:06.433 GMT+1

Tip to identify places

It's fun to browse satellite maps. It's not unusual to find things that are worth bookmarking. Problem is that, outside the US, the UK and Japan, there are no maps at GoogleMaps to help identifying with names what you see in satellite imagery. But, here's Tagzania to help you.

Let's show it with an example. Suppose you find something nice, like this town, of clustered houses, a streetplan of medieval trace. Somewhere in Spain, but we don't know the town's name...

Well. To begin, let's bookmark it as an unknown place. We'll have something like this:

Next, let's switch to the List interface, where no images are shown, but there's the option to open other map views. One that covers most of the planet is Multimap. So, from the next interface we go to Multimap, and there it is!

(Click the next one to enlarge)


So, that's Frías. We have the name, and zooming out a little bit, roads, the context, the river that passes by... Maybe a place to stop in our next travel.

Posted by: tagzania.2005/08/25 17:12:06.433 GMT+1
Tags: multimap tip | Permalink | Comments (0) | References (0)

Post a comment





The CAPTCHA image

Please enter the letters shown in the image in the following text box. Provided by Captchas.net