One million places and counting
The last time I checked in on Wikimapia was about three months ago, shortly after they launched. There certainly weren’t many locations mapped out yet. Amazingly enough, they have recently added their 1,000,000th location! I checked back and took a look at San Francisco, and was stunned by the level of tagging that was going on.
At each zoom level, Wikimapia allows you to browse places that have been wikied by other users. As you zoom in, the smaller plots begin to emerge. For example, at the high level in San Francisco, the major neighborhoods have been defined. Zooming in, you’ll find little pockets of information like where somebody’s cat died.
To be honest, I haven’t looked back at Wikimapia, but I will now. It’s especially been helpful in deciphering exactly where the neighborhoods in SF end and begin (which most people can sit and debate for hours on end).
August 18th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Hey Joel !
This is Bonny from the SF Bloggers’ meet up ! It was great to talk to about blogs with blog fanatics (not including the French…ssshhhh) Anyways, I checked out my house on Wikimapia and left some comments on Berkeley, since no one has said anything on Berkeley just yet. Did Google come up with that or is that someon else’ mash up ? Anyways, thanks for linking, and I’ll link you too ! You’re right linking is velly velly important !