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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.
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.
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.
Wikimapia is a major privately-owned volunteered geographic information (VGI) project to collect information about places. Over the past ten years, Wikimapia has attracted hundreds of thousands of contributors and collected millions of data points, including towns, restaurants, lakes, and tourist attractions (http://wikimapia.org).
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All data is available through the Wikimapia API. We are grateful to have all of you with us and we look forward to the benefits of bringing free knowledge to all mankind. Every new user and every new added place brings Wikimapia closer to its goal. Let's describe the whole world! From your Wikimapia team.
WikiMapia or Wikimapia is an open-content collaborative mapping project that aims to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world. It combines an interactive web map with a geographically-referenced wiki system.
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.
