About Wikimapia

What is Wikimapia?

Wikimapia is a multilingual open-content collaborative map, where anyone can create place tags and share their knowledge.

Our goal is to describe the whole world by compiling as much useful information about all geographical objects as possible, organize it and provide free access to our data for public domain.

It should be plain and simple so that anyone without prior experience with maps could get along, and the descriptions should be as apprehensible and interesting as if you asked a local.

One of the main characteristics of Wikimapia is that it's constantly changing, striving to be always up to date and correct and to collect more and more information from all the sources at hand.

How does it work?

Wikimapia data is wholly made by Internet volunteers, who contribute to the project on their free will. Marking places, adding descriptions provided with proof links, giving them appropriate categories and uploading photos to Wikimapia let people easily share information about the world with their friends or publicly. While contributing, user gains experience and gets access to more advanced tools (e.g., linear features for marking roads, rivers, railroads and ferry routes). A user can also share Wikimapia data to blogs, sites and social networks, as there is an option to put the map on your page.

What you can do?

Wikimapia exists and grows thanks to our users contributions. There is place for everything that can be found on the Earth. You know something about a place, that no one else does? Find it on Wikimapia, you may be surprised with what someone else knows about it, and if it's not marked yet, you can add and describe it yourself - simple tools for map editing are available to all users. You can create place tags for all kinds of static objects and areas, write descriptions and add photos for them, edit existing ones, organize objects in categories for better data structuring, leave short comments, etc.

You can literally become an explorer, searching, using filters by countless categories, see photos and descriptions of places you've never been to, and discover places you want to go, all of them added and described by people like

Want to know more? Sign up and try our tools, you can get familiar with them and our guidelines on documentation page.