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- Wikimapia (stylized as wikimapia) is a geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map that utilizes Google Maps with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the 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.
- Canada
List of all Canada states, regions and cities with all...
- All Countries
Click on the country of your choice to view the respective...
- India
List of all India states, regions and cities with all...
- USA
List of all USA states, regions and cities with all...
- Russia
Russia Russia . Adygeja; Aga; Alanija; Altaj; Amur;...
- Australia
List of all Australia states, regions and cities with all...
- Italy
Italy . Abruzzo; Apulien; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania;...
- United Kingdom
List of all United Kingdom states, regions and cities with...
- Canada
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.
Wikimapia (stylized as wikimapia) is a geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map that utilizes Google Maps with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
- Advice For New Users
- Exploring The Map
- Adding Place
1. Wikimapia is not a very complicated thing to understand, so you could probably figure out everything just during its usage. If you face anything that may seem obscure, please read this manual carefully (you don’t need to memorize it but you'll see how it helps to know what topics are covered here) and don’t be afraid to ask more experienced user...
Main article: User interface Wikimapia provides a lot of data, you just need to know how to get it. 1. First of all you can choose how to "view" the map. Different map typescan give you "different views" and information. 1. You can search for a particular place. Just type keywords, its address or coordinates in search bar. You can also search type ...
Main article: Adding places First of all, we recommend to use ‘Satellite + old places’ map type (choose it at the top menu) for adding new places, this will prevent creating duplicates. Find the place you would like to tag and make sure this wasn't done already. Then, select "Add Place" from the Menu at the top of the screen. You may have to zoom i...
Wikimapia was launched at 24 of May in 2006 by two Russian Internet entrepreneurs Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by the idea of creating a site, where wiki philosophy would be combined with an online map.
Wikimapia [5] is a privately owned open-content collaborative mapping project, that utilizes an interactive "clickable" web map with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
What do you get when you combine the images and functions of google maps with the collective editing power of wikipedia? You get Wikimapia. Creators of wikimapia, Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, simply wanted to “describe the whole plant Earth.”
