What is the use of Wikimapia?
Main principles. According to the website, Wikimapia is an open-content collaborative mapping project, aimed at marking all geographical objects in the world and providing a useful description of them. It aims to create and maintain a free, complete, multilingual and up-to-date map of the whole world.
What is the disadvantage of Wikimapia?
Those useless pieces of information which does not belong in a map. Another disadvantage of Wikimapia is with the way it highlights landmarks as it tends to clutter the interface and if there are other landmarks found within the bigger landmark, the data gets all jumbled up and you find yourself lost, figuratively.
How do you edit Wikimapia?
How to edit a place
- When you select a tag, click on the red "Edit" label on the top-left corner.
- Choose "Edit this Page", and make your changes as necessary.
- Choose "Save" when you are done.