Wikimapia

Wikimapia
Type of site
Geographic online encyclopedia
Available in101 languages, including English
Country of originRussia Russia
Created byAlexander Koryakin and Eugen Saveliev[1]
RevenueFrom AdSense and Wikimapia Ads[2]
URLwikimapia.org
Commercialyes
RegistrationOptional
Users2,500,000 (latest available figure)
LaunchedMay 24, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-05-24)
Current statusActive
Content license
Creative Commons (CC BY-SA)[3]

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.

  1. ^ "Wikimapia Team". Wikimapia.org. 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference WMAds was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference WMTerms was invoked but never defined (see the help page).