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New map design for Mapapel

June 10, 2010 - 2:55 pm

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Last weeks we’ve been working on Mapapel’s map design. OSM’s Mapnik map style is cool but we wanted to customise it, doing something similar to traditional tourist maps.

This is the first version, we’ll continue improving it. Please, let us know what you think about this style change at our Mapapel – Facebook page.

OpenStreetMap workshop at Nonick conference

May 12, 2010 - 2:55 pm

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Nonick conference is one of the most important and famous events in the Basque Country. This year’s edition has an interesting programme, featuring community management tasks on Friday. There are also some workshops on Saturday morning. Tagzania Services will give a workshop on OpenStreetMap at 11:00. You’re invited!

Tagzania sponsors State of the Map 2010

May 11, 2010 - 4:28 pm

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Tagzania Services will be sponsoring this year’s State of the Map, the annual OpenStreetMap international conference, in Girona, on July 9th, 10th and 11th. We also sponsored last year’s edition in Amsterdam.
Tagzania Services has several projects using OpenStreetMap, such as Mapapel, printable quality city maps, or EuskalMapa, a map of the world in Basque [...]

New Mapapel version launched

March 12, 2010 - 9:02 am

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We’ve just launched Mapapel’s first version. We already talked about this project before attending to the SOTM09 in Amsterdam. As we said, we want to offer printable quality city maps (that’s why we use OSM data).
Obviously, there are a lot of things to fix and improve in this project, and we also have thought on [...]

Gipuzkoa Provincial Council releases all its geo data

November 27, 2009 - 4:18 pm

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Today, it’s a great day. The Gipuzkoa Provincial Council has released all its data in the B5M geo website under a free license.
The “Legal information” page has some changes including what we believe is a license compatible with CC-BY:ç
The content geographic information corresponding to the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council may be reproduced, removed and reused freely [...]

EuskalMapa

November 19, 2009 - 1:23 pm

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This is not the first time we talk about Tagzania’s commitment with OpenStreetMap. The project is well-known internationally and the community is really strong in most European countries. But our local reality is not so wonderful, OSM is only supported by few dozens of users and there’s a lot to do on the map (even [...]

Let’s map the world, step by step

September 16, 2009 - 3:08 pm

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You already might know we’re really involved creating the free wiki world map. As individuals, we’re mapping several areas of the Basque Country (users Gari Araolaza, mikeltxo, kere, dreguera, aitzol).
Tagzania Services has also supported OpenStreetMap by sponsoring the State of the Map conference; we’re also talking with our public administrations to liberate their (their?) geo-data. [...]

What’s after the State of the Map 2009?

July 14, 2009 - 3:22 pm

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State of the Map 2009 is over. Congratulations to the OSMF for organizing such an event with good speakers. It has been a pleasure for us sponsoring this year’s SOTM09.
There were many interesting talks, I’ve chosen my favourite ones for the Video nominations.

Making Money with OSM – Frederik Ramm (Geofabrik): OpenStreetMap needs companies around [...]

State of the Map 2009 and more

July 10, 2009 - 11:50 am

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These are the slides we’re showing in the State of the Map 2009:

There are other things we haven’t shown you, like the Tagzania app for Android we’ll publish soon. Have a look at the demo below:

Mapapel, print your city map

July 7, 2009 - 5:26 pm

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These days we’re starting a new project, Mapapel. Our goal is offering printable quality city maps to our users. Currently, we’re testing the idea so we’ve published a prototype of the Mapa San Sebastian (map of Donostia-San Sebastián).

We’re using OpenStreetMap as data source. You might remember we already use OpenStreetMap data in Tagzania.com thanks to [...]