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What if maps and other reference sources adopted wiki technology? Well, they're starting to thanks to mashups. Wikimapia allows users to add tag and annotate locations found in Google Maps. You can edit them as well. Here's a screengrab. (Via Google Maps Mania)
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Nice implementation - I really like what they're doing. Steve, on a similar note, you may also want to take a look at my pet geo-aggregator project, http://www.blockrocker.com.
Anyway, best of luck to the WikiMapia team - I'll be following their work with interest!
Posted by: Rod Edwards | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Wow! Now I can locate the world's largest ball of yarn!
Posted by: Will | Friday, May 26, 2006 at 01:41 PM
Neat idea, but flawed execution. I can't tag anything, and apparently there are errors on the page. I'd report it, but there's no place to report problems. Glad it seems to work for some people.
Posted by: | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 07:42 PM
this is good site
Posted by: jithesh | Saturday, August 12, 2006 at 06:09 AM
Nice work. Keep it up.
Posted by: Hussain S. | Monday, August 14, 2006 at 04:25 AM
It is pretty exciting..but can not see my home. Its in Pyuthan Valley Nepal..no zoom avilable in my area...can you help?
Posted by: Begam | Monday, August 28, 2006 at 01:48 PM
Our residendence building is wrongly named after only one of 12 residents. The name of the Building is missing. Waas not able to edit the info as there were Errors on page.
Posted by: Dilip Dahanukar | Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 11:02 PM
sonamukhi lal bazar
Posted by: rana gorai | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 11:28 AM
good idea.. bur there is a problem because satellite map and topographic map are not perfectily aligned; in lecce there are also 20m of distance. so: where insert a point? which map is wrong?
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=40351843&x=18167417&z=17&l=0&m=h&v=2
Posted by: florixc | Friday, September 01, 2006 at 01:00 PM
aaaaaaaa very good site
Posted by: sanchit and nilesh | Tuesday, September 05, 2006 at 12:23 PM
Good site needs more details
Posted by: Tamal Lahiri | Monday, September 25, 2006 at 05:22 AM
this is the best site for searching anything anywhere in the world...........
Posted by: nand kishor | Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 10:35 PM