Wikimapia reached 1 million places
A copy of http://www.wikimapia.org/#doc=news.html.
August 16, 2006
We announce the creation of the 1,000,000th place. This place is Upper Room Apostolic Faith Church situated in Kansas, USA. In the same time was placed a Stony Mountain Curling Rink in Canada and Doeblinger Bad Public Sweeming Pool in Austria.
There are many of Earth towns and cities have already been tagged - down to grocery shops. Wikimapia is based on the same principle as Wikipedia, a free-access encyclopedia created by the online community. For well-mapped countries like US and in Europe, Wikimapia is an additional tool, helping locate interesting places. But in asian countries, with almost no mapping, at least digital, this is a very useful tool.
Wikimapia has also come in for criticism, partly for its technology that needs to be smoothened, but more so for the fact that it can be misused with unwanted content. It's a privacy threat and can create problems. But it's not only a problem of Wikimapia itself, Internet is a dangerous thing, like the life.
WikiMapia is a free, multilingual, online wiki map, it allows people to mark physical locations on a map and add description in wiki style.
Current WikiMapia statistics
August 16, 2006
We announce the creation of the 1,000,000th place. This place is Upper Room Apostolic Faith Church situated in Kansas, USA. In the same time was placed a Stony Mountain Curling Rink in Canada and Doeblinger Bad Public Sweeming Pool in Austria.
There are many of Earth towns and cities have already been tagged - down to grocery shops. Wikimapia is based on the same principle as Wikipedia, a free-access encyclopedia created by the online community. For well-mapped countries like US and in Europe, Wikimapia is an additional tool, helping locate interesting places. But in asian countries, with almost no mapping, at least digital, this is a very useful tool.
Wikimapia has also come in for criticism, partly for its technology that needs to be smoothened, but more so for the fact that it can be misused with unwanted content. It's a privacy threat and can create problems. But it's not only a problem of Wikimapia itself, Internet is a dangerous thing, like the life.
WikiMapia is a free, multilingual, online wiki map, it allows people to mark physical locations on a map and add description in wiki style.
Current WikiMapia statistics
| Most described cities Bombay, India - 55577 Calcutta, India - 52099 Manila, Philippines - 42665 Madras, India - 29690 Ponnani, India - 24384 Bangalore, India - 22206 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 20723 Hanoi, Vietnam - 20387 Mangaluru, India - 19022 Hyderabad, India - 18820 Ahmadabad, India - 16945 Delhi, India - 13254 Thiruvananthapuram, India - 12400 Moscow, Russia - 8792 Mormugao, India - 8724 Bhubaneswar, India - 8659 Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 8643 Dammam, Saudi Arabia - 8296 Visakhapatnam, India - 8163 Indore, India - 6980 | Most used languages English - 886213 Vietnamese - 32530 Arabic - 28106 Russian - 27591 Portuguese - 23635 Spanish - 11242 Hindi - 10774 Polish - 7292 Chinese - 6411 German - 4691 Romanian - 4436 French - 3911 Hungarian - 3010 Belorussian - 2786 Italian - 2460 Japanese - 2385 Korean - 2092 Dutch - 1332 Hebrew - 1086 Turkish - 936 |
posted by Alexandre Koriakine at 3:26 AM
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