{"id":10878,"date":"2007-10-31T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T07:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/three-things-to-like-about-wikimapia\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T07:46:09","slug":"three-things-to-like-about-wikimapia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/31\/three-things-to-like-about-wikimapia\/","title":{"rendered":"Three things to like about WikiMapia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here are three things that I like about WikiMapia<\/a> :<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00c2\u00a0It’s brings together the excellence of Google Maps<\/a> and the social power of Wiki<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The results are better than anywhere else.\u00c2\u00a0 Even Cyprus<\/a>, which usually gets little attention on the web, is covered pretty good.<\/li>\n
  2. It’s easy to add landmarks and notes.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s something I really missed so far on Google Maps, where I can just see maps and search for geographical locations.\u00c2\u00a0 With WikiMapia, I can find something, mark it down with the notes, and then send the link to somebody else.\u00c2\u00a0 I won’t need to provide the instructions like “find two major roads crossing at the bottom of this map and then follow the one that goes up until second turn on the right. You’ll see a sort of triangular white building.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s our office” any more.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a link<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. WikiMapia pages score pretty good in\u00c2\u00a0 Google search results (I hope it doesn’t sound like invitation to spammers).\u00c2\u00a0 To find map to our offices now all I need to do is search for brief company name – “mmvirtual<\/a>“.\u00c2\u00a0 The map link is the second result after our own web site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

    Here are three things that I like about WikiMapia : \u00c2\u00a0It’s brings together the excellence of Google Maps and the social power of Wiki.\u00c2\u00a0 The results are better than anywhere else.\u00c2\u00a0 Even Cyprus, which usually gets little attention on the web, is covered pretty good. It’s easy to add landmarks and notes.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s something I … Continue reading Three things to like about WikiMapia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[1042,2070,19,307,1044],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-geography","tag-google-maps","tag-tools","tag-wiki","tag-wikimapia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9108,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/19\/google-maps-for-the-whole-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":10878,"position":0},"title":"Google Maps for the whole world","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 19, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Slashdot has this post notifying everyone that Google Maps now cover all the world. 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