{"id":3954,"date":"2007-01-18T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/18\/tagmaps\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:41:11","slug":"tagmaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/01\/18\/tagmaps\/","title":{"rendered":"TagMaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tagmaps.research.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"TagMaps\">TagMaps<\/a> is a really cool little toy from Yahoo&#8217;s research labs that I just stumbled across. It&#8217;s using heavy concentrations of tags on Flickr and overlaying them on a map, allowing you to zoom around the map and see how people have tagged their city. Here&#8217;s the official verbiage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  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.<\/p>\n<p>  The World Explorer engine analyzes the information tied to the photos (such as location and tags) to find the main &#8220;attractions&#8221; in each location and in every zoom level and compute their &#8220;importance&#8221;. We use the tags, on the map, in varying font sizes, to represent these attractions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sample of the World Explorer, centered on Seattle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object><embed src=\"http:\/\/tagmaps.research.yahoo.com\/embed\/TagMap_embed.swf?tagapiurl=http%3A\/\/tagmaps.research.yahooapis.com\/services\/rest\/taglookup.php&#038;mapheight=500&#038;mapwidth=500&#038;startingaddress=Seattle%2C%20WA&#038;startinglat=&#038;startinglon=&#038;zoomlevel=5&#038;mapviewtype=map&#038;minfontsize=14&#038;maxfontsize=45&#038;showphotos=1&#038;searchtype=relevance&#038;showprompt=1&#038;bcookie=8g83k0p2n0uqk&#038;b=3&#038;s=11\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(via <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/central\/discuss\/72157594485485115\/\" title=\"Flickr Central: TagMaps - something new from Yahoo\/flickr\">Flickr Central<\/a><\/cite>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TagMaps is a really cool little toy from Yahoo&#8217;s research labs that I just stumbled across. It&#8217;s using heavy concentrations of tags on Flickr and overlaying them on a map, allowing you to zoom around the map and see how people have tagged their city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}