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WikiMapia
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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.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Wikimapia
- Website.logo
- Wikimapia logo without label.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 96px
- Website.screenshot
- File:Wikimapia screenshot 2025.png
- Website.commercial
- yes
- Website.type
- Geographic online encyclopedia
- Website.language
- 101 languages, including English
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.author
- Alexander Koryakin and Eugen Saveliev
- Website.country_of_origin
- Russia
- Website.current_status
- Active
- Website.revenue
- From AdSense and Wikimapia Ads
- Website.content_license
- Creative Commons (CC BY-SA)
- Website.users
- 2,500,000 (latest available figure)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- wikimapia.org
- Image
- World map blank shorelines semiwikimapia.svg
- Motto
- Опишем весь мир!
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- Alexa rank
- 6921
- Commons category
- Wikimapia
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- native label
- Wikimapia
- social media followers
- 6047
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Main principles
- Features
- Viewing
- Map editing
- Administration
- User levels and special roles
- Quality of contents
- Licensing
- Business model
- Interoperability
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
==History== 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 , and is released under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). Although the project's name is reminiscent of that of Wikipedia, and the creators share parts of the "wiki" philosophy, it is not a part of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation family of wikis. 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. A study from 2017 remarked that the site's popularity was in a steady decline since 2012.