Viewers are able to click on any marked object or street segment to see its description. Both kinds of items may have textual descriptions and photos attached to them.
Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid. The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). The navigation interface provides scroll and zoom functionality similar to that of Google Maps. The Wikimapia website provides a Google Maps API-based interactive web map that consists of user-generated information layered on top of Google Maps satellite imagery and other resources. Wikimapia intends to contain detailed information about every place on Earth. It aims to create and maintain a free, complete, multilingual and up-to-date map of the whole world. Īccording 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. A study from 2017 remarked that the site's popularity was in decline. Since 2018, following years of declining popularity, the site has gone nearly inactive with the site's owners having been unable to pay for the usage of Google Maps and the site's social media accounts having remained derelict. Although the project's name is reminiscent of that of Wikipedia, and the creators share the " wiki" philosophy, it is not a part of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation family of wikis.
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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 was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev in May 2006. 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.
Wikimapia is a geographic online encyclopedia project.
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