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Friday, May 26, 2006

Wikimapia

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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