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A collection of "objects
- The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry).
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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.
- Alexander Koryakin and Eugen Saveliev
- 2,500,000 (latest available figure)
- May 24, 2006; 17 years ago
- From AdSense and Wikimapia Ads
Nov 29, 2011 · Created by. Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev. Launched. May 24, 2006. Revenue. From AdSense. Current status. Active. WikiMapia is an online map and satellite imaging resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information, in the form of a note, to any location on Earth. [1]
Since its inception in 2006, Wikimapia has always used Google Maps to plot its data layer as it was the only source available for five years. Presently, Wikimapia regards Google Maps imagery the best source in most cases.
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.
Wikimapia's map layer. Viewing this answers many of the questions one might have about how to map features shown on the satellite imagery. When beta was introduced, Wikimapia administration provided two comprehensive examples: [1] & [2] The colours used on the map layer include the following (square brackets denote categories) [1] : Satellite.
As a registered user there are ten map layers to choose from they are: Map - Wikimapia map layer Viewing this answers many of the questions one might have about how to map features shown on the satellite imagery.
Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.
