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1. wikimapia.orgWikimapia - Let's describe the whole world!

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   Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.

2. www.historians.org › perspectives-articleWikimapia: “Let’s Describe the Whole World!” - AHA

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   Oct 26, 2006 · Creators of wikimapia, Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, simply wanted to “describe the whole plant Earth.” So they put together an online resource that allows users to label places and things on google map satellite images.

3. www.researchgate.net › publication › 233475586Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data ...

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   May 1, 2012 · Wikimapia’s effort to describe the whole world allows users to identify and provide detailed descriptions of Earth-surface features, along with links to related on-

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WikimapiaWikimapia - Wikipedia

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   According to the website, Wikimapia is an open-content collaborative mapping project, aimed at marking all geographical objects in the world and providing a useful description of them. It aims to create and maintain a free, complete, multilingual and up-to-date map of the whole world.

5. www.academia.edu › 4835950 › Wikimapia_Lets_describeWikimapia - Let's describe the whole world! - Academia.edu

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   It describes the four stages for recognising the quality of a resource, it reports on a survey of geographical information professionals on VGI, SDIs and virtual globes, and it clarifies the differences between UGC, VGI, citizen science, crowd sourcing and neogeography, which can be confused with one another.

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6. www.delenemartin.com › 2007/04/19 › wikimapia-lets-describeWikimapia – Let’s Describe The Whole World! | Thoughts Have Wings

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   Apr 19, 2007 · “WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia.” The actual process is pretty straightforward.

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   What is Wikimapia?

   • Wikimapia - Let's describe the whole world! Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.

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   Who created Wikimapia?

   • Wikimapia was created in Russia by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev in May 2006. The data, a crowdsourced collection of places marked by registered users and guests, has grown to just under 28,000,000 objects as of November 2017, and is released under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

   Wikimapia - Wikipedia

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   How does Wikimapia work?

   • The navigation interface provides scroll and zoom functionality similar to that of Google Maps. The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid.

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   What is a Wikimapia layer?

   • The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid. Both kinds of items may have textual descriptions and photos attached to them.

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8. photos.wikimapia.org › aboutWikimapia / About

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   What is Wikimapia? Wikimapia is a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge. Our goal is to describe the whole world by compiling as much useful information about all geographical objects as possible, organize it and provide free access to our data for public domain.