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Adding Information to ZAT
ZAT helps you find travel-related websites. If a website is not already in ZAT, please add it. ZAT associates a website (link) with a Place on a map.
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[edit] Add a Link
In ZAT, a link is attached to a Place on the map. This can be for a specific location (called a Spot) like a webpage for a specific hotel, restaurant, or sight, or for an Area (such as a webpage listing all the restaurants in a city or the top travel destinations in a country). When you link to a website, you attach it to a Spot or an Area on the map.
[edit] Add a Place
A Place is a travel destination. It can be a Spot (a specific location) like a restaurant, hotel, store, or museum, or it can be a larger Area like a city or country.
[edit] Spots
Spots are the atomic units of travel. A Spot has a precise location — a specific point on the map or a unique postal address. You can add spots for any specific location, such as a hotel, campground, restaurant, sight, museum, hike, shopping, or whatever you want. For any Place that contains other Spots, you will want to use an Area instead.
[edit] Areas
The main feature of an Area is that it can contain other Places, just like a city contains Spots like restaurants and hotels, or a state contains other Areas, such as cities. An Area always covers an area on the map.
There are several types of Areas:
- political divisions like countries, states, provinces, cities and towns
- regions, including geographical regions such as continents, islands, valleys and mountain ranges, regional divisions like New England or the Pacific NorthWest, and travel destinations such as the wine country in California or the Oregon Coast
- preserves like national, state, or regional parks and scenic areas
- other kinds of areas, like suburbs or neighborhoods
An Area is like a section or chapter in a guide book, since it can contain multiple places. Anything that you can imagine would be a good subject for a chapter (or a section of a chapter) in a travel book can be an Area. Areas allow you to add links that don't correspond to a specific Spot or which deal with a group of Places that are located in a defined area. For example, a website that lists the best restaurants in Seattle should be linked to (the Area for) Seattle and a website that talks about the natural wonders in Yellowstone National Park should be linked to (the Area for) Yellowstone.
[edit] Create an Interest
An Interest lets you find and share specialty travel information with like-minded travelers. Everyone has different needs and desires when they travel, and ZAT can be tailored so that it meets those needs and desires. You can join existing interests on the MyZAT page; for example, if you are interested in scuba diving, you can join the scuba interest and find good places to go scuba diving.
An interest can be very specialized, like knitters looking for good places to buy knitting yarn, an people who love penguins, or an interest for people with special dietary needs to help them find suitable restaurants. Interests can be more general, like an interest for families with young kids, or an interest for couples looking for romantic honeymoon destinations. If you can't find an existing interest to fit your travel needs and desires, you can create a new one.
[edit] Create a Tag
Tags are used to create new categories of Spots and Areas. For example, if ZAT did not already contain a category for Italian Restaurants, you could create one. Before you create a new Tag, you should make sure that it doesn't already exist, and that it doesn't make more sense to use an Interest.
