Wiki + Google Maps = WikiMapia!

Here’s a cool project – make a google map that allows people to tag anything on the face of the planet and write stuff about it. All you do is zoom into a sufficent scale and click “Add Tag” in the upper right hand box. This allows you to draw a box around a location, then add textual information about it. When you’re zoomed out, all the boxes are (obviously) smaller and clickable so you can zoom right to it. Like any other Wiki, pretty much anybody can add information to the points. There aren’t a lot of them out there right now, but I can imagine this sort of thing catching on. We’ll have to see about putting Very Spatial on the map 🙂


One Reply to “Wiki + Google Maps = WikiMapia!”

  1. Adella

    The wikimapia is exceedingly cool. I spent a fun hour or so locating and populating JCU’s research stations, as well as our 2 main campuses so that the world could see how lucky we are. As well as a great place for shameless self promotion, it will be (I hope) an important record of significant places, as defined by the users instead of the people with the money to make maps. The democratisation of cartography is very exciting.

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