Tagzania: Folksonomies for Google Maps

Luisxto Fernández wrote me yesterday to alert me the launch of  Tagzania. It's a web app that merge two of the most exciting technologies: folksonomies and Google Maps. Tagzania is very similar to del.icio.us, but instead of bookmarking pages, it allows you to bookmark places in Google Maps.

After you sign up in Tagzania you can install a bookmarklet. Imagine that while browsing by Google Maps, I want to bookmark Plaza de Oriente in Madrid. I double click on it, click the bookmarklet and I get redirected to the new entries' page in Tagzania. On the left, the map is shown and on the right I fill the title, description and tags fields. Save and voilà.

As in del.icio.us, entries can be filtered by tag but they can also be displayed in Google Maps, i.e. all entried with tag «madrid» in list mode and in map mode. Tags are also syndicated.

It's a wonderful new world. Imagine that users bookmark restaurants all over the cities. Then, I could go to Tagzania and filter the restaurants in New York: tagzania.com/tag/ny+restaurants (anyone yet). Of course, in the description you could even add a comment about how good is it.

The enterprise that developed Tagzania is CodeSyntax, from Vasque Country. They are experts in Zope. and of course, Tagzania uses Python, Zope and MySQL. They also launched the Tagzania's weblog. Weeks ago they also presented another Google Map-based web app for San Fermines (famouse bull races in Pamplona).

Kudos for CodeSyntax. I really love the idea and implementation and I'm waiting the minutes before they get slashdotted.