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- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29So when are you two getting a room then?
- rocke86, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Firefox
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Ad-less Internet - 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.
- ZorboMan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I'm surprised it wasn't a Starbucks.
- databyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11One in my area says "This tree has been cut down"
- 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" - mikemac, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17Hey, Kansasans! Evolution rocks!
- Adoozie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It's really a shame that about 990,000 of them are just labeled "my house."
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's only a matter of time before somebody adds Jimmy Hoffa's burial site...
- roadmr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5So help the project by adding information.
- falcon707, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What are they all used for? I bet only 1/5 is useful.
- evilTak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Hmm, I didn't get any ads.
- TheoDork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Why does WikiMapia have roads and intersections near my house that don't exist?
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=37939621&x=-122077766&z=19&l=0&m=a
You weren't kidding! hahah. - Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6It usually happens when you click on a location.
- 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. ;)
- 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"...
- 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.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=40694436&x=-73729591&z=13&l=0&m=a
- marc.smith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3cheers to whoever labelled the boats in NYC's east river......"look, a boat"
- trovoltex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5We have books, though we don't need wikipedia?
- 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....
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So do gay people!
- dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Just about every location I clicked on had no or useless information.
- 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.
- 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." - 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.
- 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. - 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) - marc.smith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2thanks for the laugh, NJank
- 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. - JF1288, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1None of the most described cities are in America.
- 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.
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just added my company. Now if I get caught surfing Digg, I can call it marketing!
- 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)
- 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.
- 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. - 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. - 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 - johnie1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox
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Loads of site redesigns (digg - Minimalist - http://userstyles.org/style/show/538 ), don't like the layout of a site... redesign it. Every time you go there, your design.
You can redesign bits of Firefox aswell. - 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.
- 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 pisses 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. - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's nothing. I found where a pirate buried his treasure!!
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=41834602&x=-71410047&z=18&l=0&m=a&tag=treasure
Fool. It will be all mine by...uhhhh.... next week. Maybe the week after. I can't get up there before then. Don't any of you folks get any ideas!! - jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I used it just now to let the police know where I buried the bodies.
- sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fixed.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=45571755&x=-122693317&z=15&l=0&m=a
:P - sstidman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like you also found a drug dealer. I found a drug runner:
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=27366946&x=-82712031&z=15&l=0&m=a - 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. - 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 - dodgingcars, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@roadmr
So there is 5 valuable things out of a 1,000,000.
No thanks. -
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