Commentaries and photos

We added possibility to comment places and to add a photo (it's in menu).

GPS to WikiMapia (at this time for Windows only)

We release beta program for connecting Wikimapia site and GPS receiver.


To connect WikiMapia with GPS receiver download this small software (174kb). Unzip it, start it, select com port and press "Start GPS" button.


You will have window like this:





Then press "Show on WikiMapia", a default browser will be opened, cross will show your current location:




If you have warning about missing dll files, you may download them directly from this page (1mb).




We are waiting for your sugestions, ideas and bug reports by e-mail (wikimapia@gmail.com) or our blog.

Mobile devices: MGmaps and WikiMapia

Cristian Streng, the creator of MGmaps (Google maps for mobile devices), provided a basic support for Wikimapia in his latest MGmaps release.

Download the software for you phone or another mobile device you may from http://www.mgmaps.com/download.php.

Later I will write about another software to use with Wikimapia on PDA's.