Easy, Embeddable Google Maps for Your Site

Tagzania.com offers an easy way to add contextual map experience to your site.

Tagzania: Items by LauraFries

Tagzania allows you to:

• Create a point by searching for an address or clicking on the map.
• Add a description; including links to pictures hosted elsewhere, and links to stories
• Add keywords to your ‘point’ to help other users find your content

From there, it’s just a matter of clicking “Paste this map on your site” in order to generate some code that can be used throughout your site (depending, of course, on your individual templates).

In news stories where place is important, Tagzania can help illustrate the story for a reader. For example:

Point A: Factory leaking fumes
Point B: Schoolhouse where children became sick
Point C: Bakery where bread became contaminated

I created a quick map using AAN’s offices and two hostels I worked at to illustrate some possibilities.

How do you think Tagzania could work for your publication? Or do you have a better mapping tool we should know about?