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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 [update] , [4] and is released under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) .
- Alexander Koryakin and Eugen Saveliev
- 2,500,000 (latest available figure)
- May 24, 2006; 17 years ago
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Aug 16, 2006 · Wikimapia users created first million tags 22 November, 2006 the amount of tags reached 2 millions 9 October 2007 5 million tags March, 2008 Wikimapia forum start to help users communication and collect feedback. September, 2008 Wikimapia interface translation started. 4 December 2009
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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. It should be plain and simple so ...
What is Wikimapia. 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 combines an interactive web map with a wiki system. Both registered users and guests have already marked over 20,000,000 objects and this number grows every day.
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. Place your cursor over outlined areas and a label pops up. Double click on outlined areas and find more content.
The first subdomain created for a non-English Wikipedia was deutsche.wikipedia.com (created on Friday 16 March 2001, 01:38 UTC), followed after a few hours by catalan.wikipedia.com (at 13:07 UTC). The Japanese Wikipedia, started as nihongo.wikipedia.com, was created around that period, and initially used only Romanized Japanese.
A wiki forum was created in 1999 for discussion of the newly created PhpWiki software. This became one of the larger software-related wikis. This became one of the larger software-related wikis. Sensei's Library , a wiki dedicated to discussion of the game of Go , was created by Morten G. Pahle and Arno Hollosi in October 2000.
