Wikis Come to Google Earth

WikiMapia - a sort of Wikipedia for places - has created a layer for Google Earth that allows users to find user-annotated places from inside the software app. Wikimapia now has more than 1.5 million places catalogued. However, you can't edit Wikimapia from inside Google Earth - yet.

Tags: wikimapia, googleearth, geotagging

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[J.B.]

Maybe this tool can help sort out one of those perplexing things which has been found in Google Earth:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2006/07/19/huangyangtan_wide.jpg/

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/484568/

That's the place in the middle of the desert where the Chinese Army has constructed a scale-model replica of the entire region of Aksai Chin (occupied by China since the 1962 war with India). At 1:500, it's still 700 by 900 meters big ( = several football fields). Next to it is a base with dozens of troop transporters seen coming and going. The duplicate shows everything: rivers, lakes, roads and snow-capped mountains. It's basically a landscape within a landscape.

The problem is that nobody has been able to figure out the function of this thing. The world's biggest miniature golf course, perhaps? China's own Area 51? That's why it's the subject of so much discussion in the blogosphere.

Any ideas?