Saturday, August 26, 2006

Registration

We finished main routine with premoderation, but usability must be improved and some upcoming-to-map formulas. Finally, next week we plan to attack registration routine (with Karma, of course).

Stats:
Places before premoderation 1,282,468 (stalled)
Places to moderate 7,716 (saturday, half day, for the first fast look 75% of them are really ok)

p.s. We reading many emails with suggestions. Many good letters.
p.p.s. In great country India people use Wikimapia to mark their homes. I cannot say is it good or not. They just do it. So we have to handle this somehow, we need to find a solution.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Premoderation

It's just a matter of time.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

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






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



Friday, August 11, 2006

Improvements

We made many improvements during last two weeks, mostly in code speed and usability. We still want to check on natural Mac's Safari (our tests are on latest Safari Mac OS Tiger using PearPC PowerPC, seeing some `glucks` with rectangles).

Sunday, August 06, 2006

How to add a Google Map to any web page in 30 seconds.

1) Go to WikiMapia.org site and find a part of the map that you need.
2) Click WikiMapia at the top right corner and choose map on your page link.
3) Move and resize frame you see to desired view, adjust view setting if needed and copy given html code to your page or blog.

That's all.

Here is a map placing example of Egypt pyramids:


Some sites already using this technique:
bostonist.com
aimk.blogspot.com

Friday, August 04, 2006

Language distribution on 3 aug 2006

English 728136
Vietnamese 29963
Russian 25361
Portuguese 19892
Arabic 13337
Spanish 10123
Hindi 8237
Polish 6800
Chinese 5648
Romanian 4070
German 3990
French 3180
Hungarian 2522
Japanese 2225
Belorussian 2029
Korean 2019
Italian 1883
Dutch 1223
Hebrew 942
Turkish 811
Bulgarian 739
Armenian 657
Norwegian 551
Croatian 531
Latvian 435
Thai 406
Swedish 242
Persian (Farsi) 197
Finnish 193
Lithuanian 184
Estonian 176
Danish 114
Czech 113
Greek 109
Slovak 79
Slovenian 51
Serbian 20
Swahili 5