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Required parameters
Additional parameters
function
Api.Getlanguages
Place.Getbyarea
Place.Getbyid
Place.Search
Place.Getnearest
Place.Update (beta)
Street.Getbyid
Category.Getall
Category.Getbyid
key
This is your trial API key for using API examples. You can create a regular key
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q
This is the query to search in wikimapia (UTF-8).
lat
lon
Coordinates of the "search point". lon means longitude (λ), lat means latitude (φ).
format
xml
json
jsonp, jsoncallback =
This is output format.
pack
none
gzip
This is pack option. We can pack output data in zipped format. Available values: none (default), gzip
language
This is specified language in ISO 639-1 format.
options
mercator
- all coordinates will be in the Mercator format instead of the default format
data blocks
main
geometry
edit
photos
comments
location
translate
This is an option to get one or more blocks with place data. Full information returns by default.
page
This is page number. 1 is default.
count
This is a variable that determines the number of results per page. 50 is default, 100 max.
category
This is wikimapia category code: category=17 - Shop, category=203 - School etc. (a detailed list will be published later) or category text query in UTF-8: category=School, category=Church etc.
Several comma-separated categories may be stated with "AND" logic. It means that only objects which have all listed categories together would be returned.
categories_or
Several comma-separated categories may be stated with "OR" logic. All objects which have any category from this list would be returned.
categories_and
Several comma-separated categories may be stated with "AND" logic. It means that only objects which have all listed categories together would be returned.
distance (m)
Search places not farther than this value (in meters).
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