Third party tools

Third party contributions are welcomed. Some of our users have already become developers, and contributed with nice tools. Different web projects make interesting uses of Tagzania as well. If you have some idea to contribute, please contact by email with Tagzania at gmail.com, or join the mailing list.

The Minimap addon for Firefox

This plugin for the Firefox browser available at firefox.spatialviews.com is compatible with Tagzania. See the following screenshot: 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, a nice development by Tony Farndon, a geohacker friend of Tagzania.

Handling microformats: Tagzania userscript for Operator

Another tool by our friend Tones. Microformats and Tagzania get along very well: install and learn more here.

Tagzania Mobile with J2ME Map

J2ME Map is a free application that you can install on a mobile phone. It works with the latest generations of phones and is equipped with a series of map-related utilities: see Yahoo or Google Maps, for instance. It can display Tagzania items on a map very easily. There's an option to add an URL to view, and what you need to add there is a RSS link from Tagzania. It doesn't work with individual item locations, but it works with user and tag pages, and their combinations.

So, to reproduce in the mobile phone the contents of this page: www.tagzania.com/user/neptuno/biennale

You have to enter thus through J2ME Map:
http://www.tagzania.com/rss/user/neptuno/biennale

Download from here, to get in your phone images like the one shown above (those are two consecutive screenshots). Thanks to Thomas Landspurg, creator of J2ME Map. Follow the development of this interesting tool in its blog.

From Google Earth to Tagzania (Mac)

John Christopher Burns from Atlanta (GA), created a script that is useful for Mac users of Google Earth, the client application. The script lets you save a given location from Google Earth, and open Tagzania's posting interface to save it at your account. Mr. Burns warns that it probably only works with KML that has one placemark in it. It it does seem to work, but be careful out there.

Tag watch

Richard Kirkcaldy from England created a tag watch utility or aggregator. You adjust the tool to search for a given tag, and the resulting page aggregates content from Technorati, del.icio.us, Flickr (pictures shown as slides) and Tagzania, showing a map.

Cool Tagzania links

Not a tool, but a trick that makes Tagzania links appear with those familiar red pinpoints.

It's a CSS design hack contributed by Tagzania's ambassador to Massachussets, Brian del Vecchio, and he shows and documents it here.

Tag based search engines

Keotag and Gada.be are two tag-based search engines that integrate results from Tagzania.

Gada.be's default search doesn't show Tagzania results, but the social option does indeed. Permalinks can be created like this:

After a given search in Keotag, a row of icons appears, if you click on Tagzania's favicon you get the latest locations tagged with that term (see screenshot).