I am enjoying finding new sites that are innovatively using tagging. This one uses emails from your cell phone with attached photos to tag places of interest in the cities that you visit. It will be interesting to see how it evolves. There are currently only two tags in Boston.
"Social mapping tools" like Foundcity connect your journeys through the physical world with maps you can tag and access from your desktop or share with your social network. Snap a picture with your cameraphone, add a tag in the message body, and send the message to nyc@foundcity.net (also in Brooklyn, San Francisco, and Los Angeles right now)
Foundcity is a social mapping tool for creating a personalized map of your life on-the-fly. Using your mobile phone, you "tag" or capture photos throughout the day, label them with any words you want, and send them to your map. At home, you access and customize your map, which you can share with friends, keep private, or publish openly.
As a visitor to the Foundcity site, you view a map of all tags and connect with the people and places that share your interests. By plugging in to the network of Foundcity users, you learn what others value in the city as you surf their hotspots. By publishing your own tags, you share what you know about your city.
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