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Wikimapia reached 1 million places

wikimapia.org — Wikimapia announce the creation of the 1,000,000th place. This place is Upper Room Apostolic Faith Church situated in Kansas, USA. WikiMapia is a free, multilingual, online wiki map, it allows people to mark physical locations on a map and add description in wiki style.

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  • doscrash, on 10/12/2007, -22/+2The advertisements make this lame.
  • ZorboMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I'm surprised it wasn't a Starbucks.
  • evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's only a matter of time before somebody adds Jimmy Hoffa's burial site...
  • jjbird, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Hey I can see this place from my dorm room! (well just the corner of it, there is another building and some trees in the way)

    • Wogna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Wow!!! Another digger lives in kansas besides me? AMAZING!!! I thought i was the only one in kansas with a computer.
    • anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29So when are you two getting a room then?
    • gweedo767, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Native of Kansas here as well. In fact...from where I sit I manage a network of over 80 machines (so sorry, you aren't the only one).
    • mikemac, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17Hey, Kansasans! Evolution rocks!
    • StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So do gay people!
  • falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What are they all used for? I bet only 1/5 is useful.
    • supanaturalhigh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, I was just checking out my area, and a lot of them were random things that were either blank or "don't know"...
    • databyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11One in my area says "This tree has been cut down"
    • eismcsquare, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are right. I was looking at some Indian cities (was surprised to see a huge number of entries for some big Indian cities), and it turns out that most of entries were junk, something like "XYZ's house".

      I hate when people screw around with such beautiful, helpful and informative wikis - and I know Indian tendency of basically abusing anything available to them. Before you mark this as a racist comment, please note that I too am from India. After trying to (report) 'delete' some of these stupid entries, I realized that its too big a task to clean it up, and that ***** me off all the more. We actually do not deserve anything like this. All IP address from India should be blocked to prevent further abuse of this site.
  • 0nIC2, on 10/12/2007, -22/+0wow 1,000,000 places??! damn thats alot.

    http://www.smashsomestuff.com
  • malice8691, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2We already have google maps. I don't find this useful.
    • trovoltex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5We have books, though we don't need wikipedia?
    • hobg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google maps has maps for most of the US and Europe but Asian cities are not well mapped. Wikimapia lets users map these cities. If you see the statistics you'll see that the most mapped city is Mumbai, India and most of the other cities in the top ten are from Asia too.
  • TheoDork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Why does WikiMapia have roads and intersections near my house that don't exist?
    • stickyfingers, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1sure they're not Tubes... (sorry had to get that in there)
    • NJank, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5its a wiki. fix it.
    • marc.smith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2thanks for the laugh, NJank
    • merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"its a wiki. fix it."

      Sorry, the map itself is untouchable. Only the locations on it are editable. Of course, if you, or any of the dorks that modded you up had actually followed the link, I wouldn't need to tell you that.
  • Lucky7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't know why I have never seen this before, but it is definitely my favourite wiki, if they could add some sort of directions functionality, I could stop using google / mapquest altogether.
  • bitwiseplatypus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm seeing the maps okay, but I'm not seeing any "places". What's the deal?
    • ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The way this stuff works is through the Google Maps API. You see the map because Google's bandwidth is fine. Howerver, I am guessing at times (like a digg front page mention), the server storing the places (the server(s) we know as wikimapia) can get pretty bogged down.
    • bitwiseplatypus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Actually, it seems to work fine in IE. Places don't show up at all in Firefox. Sigh.
  • Adoozie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It's really a shame that about 990,000 of them are just labeled "my house."
    • Gundabad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yeah I think the vast majority of these entries are just people fooling around. I there were so many placed labeled and mapped out, but none of the wiki style page entries for any of them.

      My personal favorite though was at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, where I went to college, a small square labeled "this is where I lost my virginity"
    • NJank, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1go profs go!
      you could always look at all the spots by the engineering building labelled: Where I was instead of losing my virginity." "And again." "still there". "yup". "stop looking, it's embarassing enough"

      BSME '00
    • roadmr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So you should report them to be deleted. Wikimapia policy explicitly prohibits adding non-general-interest places such as "My house" or "this is where I work". And actually, I've also been deleting locations of companies who obviously added their info just to promote themselves.
    • insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Deleting companies is stupid. If you delete all commercial locations, your gonna have a pretty bare map. Considering no business entry is going to overlap anything else, it's dumb to remove any entry. Their mistake is that they don't let you set a category. You should be able to set private business, public business, private home, public area, etc. Then filter what you want to see.
  • bastion_xx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice use of the Google map interface. I'd like to see some form of user tracking but a novel "wiki" approach....
  • KevinJ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Tell me if this sounds logical:

    Write a spider that searchs for locations people want to mark, then gives them possible address and asks them if that address is correct.

    This you wouldnt need to locate it by finding it on a map but rather by typing in the name
  • kris33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is cool, but it has lots of desinformation.

    OSLO does not lie in Buskerud, Oslo lies in Oslo(yes it do)
  • JF1288, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1None of the most described cities are in America.
  • marc.smith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3cheers to whoever labelled the boats in NYC's east river......"look, a boat"
  • pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just added my company. Now if I get caught surfing Digg, I can call it marketing!
  • Christo91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wooow i can see my school :p didn't find diggers around me :( and for bitwiseplatypus it's might be your browser or let it load longer 'cause mine take a bit long time to load...
  • bamfsog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is perfect for translating directions into a map.

    "OK, go down to the McDonalds and make a right. Then go to where the Piggley Wiggley used to be and make a left. Go past that one tree till you see that guy with the mean dog's house. Turn left."
    • airship, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2So the map tags would read:
      "McDonald's (the one I mean, not the 52 other ones on this road",
      "Where the Piggly Wiggley used to be",
      "That One Tree", and
      "That guy with the mean dog's house"?
      I think this could be extremely useful.
  • halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -4/+01,000,000=wow
  • Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Most areas have ***** resolution.

    Next....
  • dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just about every location I clicked on had no or useless information.

    • roadmr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So help the project by adding information.
    • dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@roadmr

      So there is 5 valuable things out of a 1,000,000.
      No thanks.

  • DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1HEY PETER! I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE!

    God I love Jesus jokes.
  • Ghostal, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Ugh, it had to be a church...just what the world needs more of.
  • jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I used it just now to let the police know where I buried the bodies.
  • ianiention, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1just tried the site - it's cool. Have added my village (we have those in the UK :)).
    be really great when the content expands, but then i suppose at some point it'll become unmanagable.
  • Falc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I found the Catawaba Whore!!!
    http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=39409365&x=-74715132&z=17&l=0&m=a

    there are some pretty funny entries on this thing. some immature college/high school kids could have a lot of fun with something like this.
  • surfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's a bit annoying when Google changes the maps though. I labelled a hotel in Hong Kong and it would appear the hotel has moved since I last checked. ;)
  • magnusdopus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This site could be so cool with a better interface. That div in the upper right corner is kind of hard to find. Kudos nevertheless.
  • insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What's great is you can hide even more mockery in other language tabs.
  • ashepard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1A million pieces of garbage is still garbage. The very first thing I clicked on:

    Arbor Lodge Neighborhood
    fasdfasdfasdfasfd
    This place information is in need of expansion, add more information. Click 'Edit place info' in menu to provide some useful information.
  • acomj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1err..

    why is the boston gas tank in harvard yard? Not even the right city (although the correct state)

    http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=42377691&x=-71117506&z=15&l=0&m=a
  • cnicko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wouldn't this be really cool to use as a treasure hunt of sorts?
    Like a meld of the TV shows "The Amazing Race" and "Treasure Hunters" with geo caching thrown in. Only without all the airfare (or security lines)! One location provides a clue to the next, etc., until you find "Congratulations! You've found Waldo" or some message to indicate you've reached the end.
  • calacanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=40694436&x=-73729591&z=13&l=0&m=a
  • OpinioNate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a nice idea, but unfortunately for them wiki sites are not typically as well policed as wikipedia is. No one cares about cracks in the sidewalk or where an a-hole lives, yet those places seem to be the rule not the exception. Without some kind of oversight, you'll never separate the wheat from the chaff, and 1,000,000 places is a helluva lot of chaff.

    Try http://www.waymarking.com
  • gmallard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Data is stale.

    Lots of places in Orlando FL where the trees shown went down in the '04 'canes.

  • daviddisco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://globalcoordinate.com/atlas.aspx has 6 million places
  • cybersupam, on 11/15/2007, -0/+0ooof, i found this far better than single google earth site (or say software)...coz its image i found far more original than google earth...after i knew this i stopped using google earth n even uninstalled it from my system. I sincerely thank to the providers of wikimapia, n wish them to continue it for a long range of time.
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