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 is a project developed by the Yahoo! Research Group at UC Berkeley. As they say on their website, "TagMaps is a toolkit to visualize text (well, tags) geographically on a map. Check out the sample applications, where we use Flickr tags on a map to build a world exploration tool. TagMaps is available as a Flash component for your own website. The tags input to the visualization can be drawn from your own application - or use the data API of one of our sample applications." I would highly recommend this site to explore and discover locations.
Max Kiesler is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder
and principal of Ideacodes.com, a web consultancy in San Francisco focused on next generation websites. About Max...
