What is Wikimapia
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 combines an interactive web map with a wiki system. Both registered users and guests have already marked over 20,000,000 objects and this number grows every day. Currently over 1,500,000 people have joined the Wikimapia community.
Wikimapia’s daily audience is more than 1 000 000 unique visitors and this number is constantly growing.
You can learn more about Wikimapia here from the documentation wiki
Wikimapia Ads
Wikimapia Ads is the service that allows you to place your advertisment right on the map where people can see it.
It’s perfect for local businesses: hotels, restaurants, shops etc.
Pricing
First month of your ad on Wikimapia is free of charge! Then only 9.99$/month.
What does Wikimapia Ads service offer?
You can place a marker with custom tooltip and a special advertising block on the place page.
Your tags will stand out from the other objects on Wikimapia with their more noticeable custom icon and tooltip text. The advertisement block with your text on the place page will be positioned right at the top after the photos where it would draw most attention. Also, there will be no other ads on your page.
That’s how it will look:
You can either chose an icon from our set or upload your own with your company logo.
How to create an ad
Press ‘Create ad’ button and fill out the form:
1. Place Id
- Go to the map
- Browse for the place you want to promote or find it using search
- Select the place by clicking on it
- When the place page is open, copy the id from the address bar of your browser
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=...&show=/55/
, where 55 is the place id - Alternatively, you can get this id from the link to the place page, e.g. in
http://wikimapia.org/55/
55 is the place id
2. Icon
You can either chose an icon from our set or upload your own with your company logo. Requirements are 16x16 pixel, png or jpeg.
3. Tooltip text.
Enter short text for the tooltip on the map, you will see how it looks on the preview.
4. Your custom description block for the place page. You can preview it instantly as well.
Press ‘Submit’ and your ad will be published on the map after it passes a short moderation in 1-2 days period.
How to edit your ad
If you want to edit your ad, you can do it any moment by choosing it from the list of your ads. You will be able to edit the icon and the text of your ad just as you put it in at the start. The changes will appear after moderation in 1-2 days period.
How to cancel your ad
To remove your ad from the map you should select it from the list of your ads and click ‘Cancel Ad’.
Warning! To restore a cancelled ad contact our Ads support ads@wikimapia.org