Wikimapia API

Please note, you have a special trial key for using this tool. To obtain full capabilities of Wikimapia API create a regular key here

Required parameters	Additional parameters
function key This is your trial API key for using API examples. You can create a regular key here bbox This is coordinates of the selected box, writen in format: lon_min,lat_min,lon_max,lat_max. You can use this parameter, or specify each coordinate separately (listed below). lon_min lat_min lon_max lat_max This is box coordinates. lon means longitude (λ), lat means latitude (φ). x y z This is tile coordinates.	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.

Required parameters

Additional parameters

function

key

This is your trial API key for using API examples. You can create a regular key here

bbox

This is coordinates of the selected box, writen in format: lon_min,lat_min,lon_max,lat_max. You can use this parameter, or specify each coordinate separately (listed below).

lon_min

lat_min

lon_max

lat_max

This is box coordinates. lon means longitude (λ), lat means latitude (φ).

This is tile coordinates.

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.