TagMaps is a toolkit that gives you new ways to visualize text on geographic maps. TagMaps can be used to communicate key characteristics of location-based data in an easy-to-understand interface. Check out the sample applications, where we use Flickr tags on a map to build a world exploration tool.
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TagMaps - Mapping and Photo Visualization, Design Demo, Max Kiesler
"Whenever I'm getting ready to travel somewhere I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at images and maps of the location. I usually go to about 4 of my favorite sites for photos and 5 different mapping sites to get ready for the trip. TagMaps lets you do both at the same time and much more."
TagMaps makes geo-tagging useful, Webware, Josh Lowensohn
"TagMaps is a project with a lot of promise. It has the casual, exploratory feel you get from Google Maps, but it also mixes in a dash of visual appeal with the Flickr shots. I could easily see this becoming a mobile-phone app or surfacing on blogs and social-networking profiles."
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TagMaps Toolkit, 7.5th Floor, Fabien Girardin
"Based on their first experiment to Visualizing the Crowd’s “Mental Map” Using Flickr Geotagged Images, Yahoo! Research Berkeley has now introduced their TagMaps toolkit..."
New callback function in TagMaps, Yahoo! Developer Network blog, Shane Ahern
"So, today, we are releasing an update to the embeddable TagMaps badge. Using the updated module, you can implement a JavaScript callback function on the page where you have embedded TagMaps. On that page, then, you can create any service you can think of that takes advantage of knowing what tag the user is interested in, and where in the world it is located."
Popularity: 15% [?]
The world is a big place. There are thousands of maps out there that provide unique details about any given destination. MapMixer is a new site that combines those maps with Yahoo! Maps to give you a better view of the world.
It's easy to mix your own map. Upload an image of your map, use our layering tool to align it with Yahoo! Maps and we'll do the rest! Your map will have all the features of Yahoo! Maps (zooming, panning). You can also syndicate it on your own site or blog.
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Launch: Merge Your Map on Yahoo Maps with MapMixer, Lifehacker, Gina Trapani
"Really neat tool for folks who don't want to have to draw a whole new map when they've got one already—just scan and upload to MapMixer and you've got it online."
Yahoo Launches 2 New Hacks - Interview with Bradley Horowitz from Yahoo, Read/WriteWeb, Sean Ammirati
"The user simply finds a couple intersection points on both the map and his/her image and then the system automatically morphs them together. In our interview, Bradley explained the process as being 'like a big sheet of rubber, the map is kind of stretched and rotated, and then applied to the Yahoo Map.'"
Yahoo MapMixer: The easiest way to add an overlay, Ogle Earth, Stefan Geens
"MapMixer lets you do three things that Google's tools don't... I can't help wishing that maps made with Yahoo MapMixer were exportable as a KMZ file today, so I could use this tool to create overlays I can show in a KML-savvy client of my choice."
Popularity: 14% [?]
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