This is the first post on how to use Wikimapia. In this first edition, I will go over the basics of adding a new place. My original blog post (which has been reposted here: Wikimapia) has received a number of search engine referrals that indicate some people do not know how to add a place. This post is for you! It is really quite simple. The following images are clickable for larger versions.
This is the home page you will see when you head over to Wikimapia. Since I dig Seattle, I will choose to take a look at that lovely city (you can see it is highlighted). You can navigate there by clicking and holding to scroll the screen (like is done in Google Maps) and using the zoom panel to choose different levels of closeness. OR if you are trying to get a location (or near to one) that already has a box around it (like Seattle), simply click the box and it will take you there.
This is what Seattle looks like after clicking its box. I think I will check out the University of Washington and see if there are any places I can add. Before that, I will zoom in a bit to help find UW.
There it is. At this zoom level, clicking on the box will not zoom me in (like it did when I was zoomed way out), it will just pull up the information on that box. I will zoom in a bit more to see the UW.
As a side here, when I get close to some places, like UW, it can be overwhelming with so many boxes. If I would like it to be more serene, I can go to the “view” menu and select “no places”. The result is the above image with just the peaceful UW. I will zoom in a bit more (and turn places back on) to check out the Physics and Astronomy building.
And there it is. Now I want to add a new place because it looks like the Foucault Pendulum is not marked yet.
To add a new place, go to the “Wikimapia” menu and select “Add New Place”.
A new box will come up that you can move to the location of your place and resize it to fit (which I haven’t done yet in this image). Once the place and size is correct, click “save”.
Up comes the information box. This is where you help “describe the whole Earth”. Choose the language you are writing in and whether the place is private (like a home or personal spot) or public. Give it an apropriate title and provide as many details as possible. In this case, I simply put that the place is the Foucault Pendulum in UW Physics Astronomy building and provided a link to information on the building and on focault pendulums. Then provide keyword tags to help people find the location by searching. When you have provided all the information, click “save”.
After the information is saved, your place will be on the “Upcoming Places” list. People will now have to approve the location you just marked. It is all peer reviewed so there is no guarantee how long it will take to be approved (if approved at all). Now, you sit back and wait!
In order to see your place, you need to turn on “Upcoming Places” by going to the “view” menu and selecting “Upcoming Places”. This will allow you to see all the new place markers that are up for review (more up upcoming places at a later date). Upcoming places will be outlined in yellow instead of white. Compared to earlier, the new Foucault Pendulum location is listed as well as Kincaid Hall (lower right).
That is it! Prettly simple, eh? You are now on your way to describing the whole Earth! The demo location at Wikimapia: The Physics Astronomy building at the University of Washington.
The Matt’s Wikimapia Blog “How To” Series:
How To #1: Adding a New Place
How To #2: Upcoming Places
How To #3: Pictures and Comments
How To #4: Adding Wikimapia and Google Maps to your Website
How To #5: YouTube in Wikimapia!
How To #6: Adding Polygons
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What should be the minimum score to get an upcoming place published?
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I believe it is after 5 positive reviews. I will see if I can find out for sure.
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Ah, I have new information about upcoming places. To have an “upcoming place” become an official place (from the Wikimapia FAQ):
-must be at least 24 hours old;
-must have more than 2 positive votes (yes) and 0 negative (no);
-with 1 negative vote, it needs at least 8 positive;
-places with only 2 positive votes and 0 negative will be automatically approved after one week.This information has also been added to my How To #2: Upcoming Places. Hope this helps!
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srilanka
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When was the last update you did on Nigeria
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Do you mean for the map imagery? I have nothing to do with any of that, nor does WikiMapia. Map imagery is obtained from Google Maps which they obtain from various sources.
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Dear Sir/Mdm,very glad since having Wikimapia in my web , unfortunately it seems like it is not yet updated since last month ,specially around
my village ;Bengkulu province,SumateraIsland,
Indonesie,some areas is unseen and still fogy ,
Please be kind of you to update it,Thanks very much ,.Mizwan.M.
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Hello, thanks for visiting! I will update my about page to be more explicit about this.
1) I am a fan of WikiMapia but I have nothing to do with its operation. It was created and is maintained by two Russian fellows: Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, not me.
2) Wikimapia obtains their map imagery from Google Maps. This means that even the creators of Wikimapia cannot control when map images are updated.
3) Google Maps purchases the map images (often from satellites or airplanes) from other companies (often Digital Globe or NASA). This means that, to an extent, Google Maps does not even control when images are updated.Unfortunately, what that means for you (and many other people) is that you just have to be patient. The map images are updated when they can be, those images are purchased by Google Maps, Google Maps then integrates them into their software, after that implementation Wikimapia will also be updated. Things just take time.
I hope that helps explain things. I wish I could update the images for you, but I am just a fan myself and have no control of anything.
Thanks for coming by!
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If you could help me -
Why my information can not be viewed in my language script even though I selected Hindi. It still comes in english script.How can I correct it?
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dear sir
in india at tamilnadu didigul city was not updateted thank you -
i love this site .i want to add my place.how can
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Why my information can not be viewed in my language script even though I selected Hindi. It still comes in english script.You might be viewing it in English because it is the language that the place was written in. Changing your language does not translate the place information. You would have to add your information in your language for it to be shown in your language. If this is not the problem, I am not really sure what the answer is. I would try contacting Wikimapia and asking them.
in india at tamilnadu didigul city was not updateted thank you
Please see comment #8 or my about page for this information. Short answer: Wikimapia (of which I am not part of) does not have control over when the images are updated, that is up to Google Maps.
i want to add my place.how can I do this function
Follow the steps in this post. Is there still something that you need help with?
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How to resize (increase) Guntur City (of India) area? It currently shows smaller than it is supposed to.
Please advise.
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thank you
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You are welcome!
You can edit the information in a place by opening the place information page selecting “menu” in the upper left and clicking “edit this page”. Put in the correct information and click “save”.
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Hi Matt
Please address my question below ..
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How to resize (increase) Guntur City (of India) area? It currently shows smaller than it is supposed to.Please advise.
Thanks
>SK
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You must either issue a “delete” report or a “resize/move” report in the “report problem” menu of the place information page.
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in add new place —wad do u mean by review is there any granter for my new place
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HOW DO I GET MY PLACE ON THE SEARCH LIST ? AND IN CAPITALS
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When adding a place, should one add the parking lot as well or just the physical building?
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how did i am adding the place
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in add new place —wad do u mean by review is there any granter for my new place
When you add a new place it must be reviewed by other people to make sure that it is a real place.
HOW DO I GET MY PLACE ON THE SEARCH LIST ? AND IN CAPITALS
When you add a place it will automatically be added to the search. You should NOT use all capitals. All capitals is equal to yelling and is not proper netiquette.
When adding a place, should one add the parking lot as well or just the physical building?
I suppose that is a judgement call on your part. I suppose the best rule of thumb is to just try and make sure your place isn’t overlapping any other location, but I don’t see why you couldn’t mark the parking lot as well, but it really is up to you.
how did i am adding the place
I am not really sure what your question is…
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Dharwad-Hubli map is vey old. Kindly Update
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Dharwad-Hubli map is vey old. Kindly Update
Hi, thanks for coming by. I have addressed this issue in a number of places, including FAQ #4. You question will be answered there.
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can u make it more user friendly please !!!!
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can u make it more user friendly please !!!!
Well, as stated in FAQ #1, I have no affiliation with Wikimapia so have no control over its function. That being said, Wikimapia seems to be extremely user friendly. You want add a new place? You click “add new place”, pretty simple.
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Kindly let me know when the publishing gets completed. Thanks
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When what publishing gets completed?
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it is wonderfull
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This Website is very nice & useful for us,
Please update the “Gandhidham-Kutch (370201)” map is vey old, please update the same.
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I am glad you find it useful.
Please see Matt’s Wikimapia Blog FAQ #4 in realtion to your map request.
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A very good blog!
would you please let me know:
1- How can I edit the SIZE of an upcoming place?
2- How can I have pictures of more resolution. eg
for villages?thanks
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Thanks!
Question 1: See Matt’s Wikimapia Blog FAQ #13
Question 2: See Matt’s Wikimapia Blog FAQ #4
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I registered, but can’t resize yet.
Menu doesn’t have the resize option.
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You probably just need to wait till they approve your registration and then there is a wait period of three days (I think) until you have the other options. The registration thing is new for them and I think they are still working out the kinks.
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can i get a posting of Madurai in Tamilnadu, India
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What do you mean by that?
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How often is the satellite picture updated? The area I want to see ic covered by clouds!
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The answer to that can be found at my FAQ #4. Hope that helps!
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Matt
Thanks for your continuous help and effort on this.
How to show a City at a Lower Zoom level. Currently Guntur City (which is one of the larger cities in south east region of India) shows up at Zoom level-7. But for it show up at Zoom Level-4 or 5, how can we do this?
Let me know at your convenience.
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The zoom level relates to the resolution of the imagery. For that answer, see FAQ #4.
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Matt
Thanks for the reply, but I don’t mean the resolution. But the square block that represents the city/region. How to get the square(/rectangle) block (identification block) of the Guntur City showing up at zoom level 4 or 5?
Currently the corresponding square/rectangle start to show up only when zoomed to a level-7 or so.
Thanks.
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The zoom level that place markers can be seen depends on their size. At lower zoom levels a box (not a place maker) is put around the larger cities. Basically we have no control over when the place makers show up. If you think a place marker should show up sooner, you should contact the guys at Wikimapia. Sorry I can’t really help!
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That’s fine, thanks for your update.
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when were the photos taken? specifically what date…when I view a town how old is that image that I’m looking at?
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There is no way to find that out as far as I can tell. If you use Google Earth, there is a Digital Globe layer that will give the date for their imagery (which isn’t everything). That is the only case that I know of where you can see the dates.
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THanks for the answer Matt…have a great day!
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i want to registrat this place
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I don’t know what that means…
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Mr. Matt Jones! Please show me how to delete a place in wikimapia! my father was angry with me when he known that I was add a comment above our house:( he aked me to remove it and delete this place:( please tell me how to do it:(
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Hi!
How do you correct the spelling of a town? The correct spelling is Binan, NOT Bican. Actually, the first “n” should be spelled with this symbol “~” on top of the n.
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Hi there,
I have had a quick look around and have a question. My appologies if you have responded to something similar.I would like to set up a layer that allows the identification of scuba sites, then people can load up pics, video or dive reports (text). Can I use wikimapia to do this, i.e the portal to a site that would house all of the info that people submitted.
Thanks
Kane
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Hi ! Matt’s This is very good and very helpfull.
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hi, its 0750GMT on 11/14 in Spore. I cannot seems to be able to add places at all. Is Wikimapia under maintenence? Pls help. Thank you.
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Mr. Matt Jones! Please show me how to delete a place in wikimapia! my father was angry with me when he known that I was add a comment above our house:( he aked me to remove it and delete this place:( please tell me how to do it:(
You can either go in and edit the page and delete the information in it. If it is an upcoming place, you can just wait till it gets negative reviews. If you are a registered user, you can issue a delete request.
How do you correct the spelling of a town?
In the place information page you just go to “edit” in the menu and change the information.
I would like to set up a layer that allows the identification of scuba sites, then people can load up pics, video or dive reports (text). Can I use wikimapia to do this, i.e the portal to a site that would house all of the info that people submitted.
Wikimapia doesn’t do layers. You might be able to do something like this in Google Earth.
Thanks Vishnu!
I cannot seems to be able to add places at all. Is Wikimapia under maintenence?
As far as I know everything is working, you would have to actually contact the Wikimapia folks to be sure. If it still doesn’t work, try updating your browser and/or use Firefox.
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Hi! It’s me again, the problem is that the spelling of this town - Bican (14°16′11″N 121°2′59″E) should be BINAN. There’s no way to edit this since it is the actual name of the town, not a place or location that has a MENU box on the upper right corner. I included the coordinates to help locate the town’s spelling that needs to be corrected. Hope you can help.
Thanks,
Eric -
Humm, not sure what to say. I cannot see anything that says “Bican” at any zoom level. Ant any rate, if it is something embedded in the map it would be something you have to let Google Maps know about because Wikimapia doesn’t have anything to do with the actual maps being used. Wikimapia just places boxes around things.
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how i can zoom the places
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With the slider on the left hand side.
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Hi. Brcko District is not in Srpska Republika.
Brcko District in Bosnia And Hertzegovina.
No Republika Srpska, No Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine. Only Bosna i HercegovinaThanks
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Sir,
I have added some places and information that i know personally and sure about the same.How can i block others from editing or missusing by entering wrong information on the places i added.
Thanking you.
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Hi. Brcko District is not in Srpska Republika.
Brcko District in Bosnia And Hertzegovina.
No Republika Srpska, No Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine. Only Bosna i HercegovinaThis is not something I, nor Wikimapia can change. Names of locations that are part of the map are controlled by Google Maps so you would have to take that up with them.
I have added some places and information that i know personally and sure about the same.How can i block others from editing or missusing by entering wrong information on the places i added.
You cannot guarantee it. This is a wiki which means that anyone can edit things. Some users can “semi-protect” an article which will prevent too much tampering, but that does still not guarantee it.
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its fentastic way
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I added many places forgetting to log in, as a result my added places had not been recognised or contrubuted to me. Nor could my friends verified my ‘added places’ , they told me they have voted for the ‘upcoming places’ after they thought it is an accurate description. Yet it is still on the ‘up-coming’ places names. Is there anything I can do to change that? How can I find out if there are any objections or how many votes my ‘added places’ had received?
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how can i add a none rectangle shape (as many vertix as i want and a rectangle with a rotation)
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I added many places forgetting to log in, as a result my added places had not been recognised or contrubuted to me. Nor could my friends verified my ‘added places’ , they told me they have voted for the ‘upcoming places’ after they thought it is an accurate description. Yet it is still on the ‘up-coming’ places names. Is there anything I can do to change that? How can I find out if there are any objections or how many votes my ‘added places’ had received?
Being logged in or not will not change people’s ability to vote for the upcoming places. As far as I know, there is no way to add those created places to your user account. Even if the upcoming place has been voted for and has all the positive votes, it will not be official for a period of time. Just be patient.
how can i add a none rectangle shape (as many vertix as i want and a rectangle with a rotation)
This is not possible right now. I believe the guys at Wikimapia are working on it though.
hi
how can i box my house
and named it
give me steps to do thatPlease read this post again.
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hi cant name my house in the given map .i cant got idea by readung itstroctions too.can u help me plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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I’m not really sure how I can make it any clearer.
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How long does it take after issue-ing a “Delete Request” for a place to be actually deleted ?
Does deletion need to be approved by some other registered/admin user ?
Does a “Delete Request” by a registered user (I am registered user) carry preferenceI am talking about Non-Upcoming places
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pliz update dimapur
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the bagmandle is opposet off bankot,last vilge of raigad dist in maharastra end off india & start arebian sea and end off savitre rever.
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how i add my house name in my home place.? please help me.
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This is a great concept and wonderful resource. However, as a long-time GIS user, using simple rectangles to identify areas is extremely limiting. Most places in the world don’t fit neatly into a rectangular box. I would love to see the ability to outline areas with polygons added to the interface. It would solve a lot of overlap problems.
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Please find my place in Pachal Village. My place name is Hatade
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I have my own residence at Kolkata, i want to put my address and location- 1/23/1,Naskarpara Lane, Dhakuria, Kolkata-31
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Dear Matt,
I don’t realize how to place name of the city on map. For example in Slovenia is tag for every village, but in Croatia and Bosnia only for captals.
Tnx,
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how can i easily go to the marked places
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how can i find out my marked place
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How long does it take after issue-ing a “Delete Request” for a place to be actually deleted ?
Does deletion need to be approved by some other registered/admin user ?
Does a “Delete Request” by a registered user (I am registered user) carry preferenceThat I am not sure of. I believe that has to go to admins, but I am not entirely sure what that process is. Some users can select “Delete location” from the place menu and it will be deleted in about 14 hours. But not sure about the “delete request”.
However, as a long-time GIS user, using simple rectangles to identify areas is extremely limiting. Most places in the world don’t fit neatly into a rectangular box. I would love to see the ability to outline areas with polygons added to the interface. It would solve a lot of overlap problems.
I completely agree. And I think the guys at Wikimapia agree as well and are working on changing that to allow for various polygons.
I don’t realize how to place name of the city on map. For example in Slovenia is tag for every village, but in Croatia and Bosnia only for captals.
This is up to Google Maps and will depend on their coverage.
how can i easily go to the marked places
You can use the search functions in the menus.
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i want to add a place in jeedimetla area in hyderabad
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to add a place
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For a given place described in two languages ,is it possible to delete one language description and let the other language description remain without deleting the place
I realised in many places(where I roam in Wikimapia) people write English description without paying attention to the language selected(generally Hindi or Arabic)
Ideally I should be able to change language for the place instead of adding another one
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Dear sir,
First time I am using it & it is very interesting for me to find my Sweet Home & Village. But , want to add some identification i.e. name of my Home & important places of my village. How I will make it , & some places marked wrongly so , I want to chage that.
Please help as soon as possible.
Thanking You
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Dear Sir,
I would like to see my place in older image for the year 2001 or before. is that possible? if yes , please advise how?
Regards.
Hussam
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Khalil that is a great questions. I actually had tried that the other day and it would have deleted both languages. So it appears that right now you cannot just delete on of them. What I would suggest is just deleting the text if you know it is incorrect.
GOUTAM, I’m not really sure what you want from me. I think I have laid out pretty clearly how to add a place.
Hussam that is not possible. Whatever map is there from whatever year is all you get and Wikimapia has no control over that.
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Any system to mark roads with road names and in the direction of the road
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I entered a dozen or so places before I was registered and granted two “Yes” votes initially. This means that those place are hanging in limbo (some of them are pretty obscure!). Is there any way to retroactively “claim” these places? I suppose I could recruit friends to vote “Yes” for them, but it would be simpler to just apply my current status to them.
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Comment on Khalil’s comment (a meta-comment?).
I’m not sure what you mean by “the language selected”. Since English is my only language I have written descriptions in English of a number of places in non-English speaking areas. I have also added a second language to non-English descriptions. The effect, as far as I can tell, it to display the description which matches the “language selected” (that is, in the “language” drop-down menu in the viewer window). Thus, if a Japanese description exists and I add an English description (using the “add another language” choice in the descriptor’s drop-down menu) I see that (”en”) if I select English, and the original (”jp”) if I select Japanese. It is true that in that case (two languages, en & jp) that if you select Arabic you will get the English description, and won’t even know that the Japanese description exists — I think that should be fixed. But (as a French friend says) the most widely spoken language in the world is bad English. So it makes sense to make that the default if the selected language doesn’t match any of the extant descriptions.
But, if there are two languages, why would you want to remove one of them? If the content is a bad translation, or simply incorrect, fix it. Otherwise you are cutting off lots of viewers. There is no reason that you couldn’t add a Hindi or Arabic descriptor to, say, Niagara Falls.
If you are talking about people ignoring the “Add Comments in XXX”, where “XXX” is the language of the description, then I can see an argument, but not a very strong one. At most, the comment should be transfered to a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) language description.
My two cents.
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PLS SIR IDENTIFY MY NATIVE PLACE KESHAWPUR NEREST OF NEWARIYA BAZAR AND BORDER OF JAUNPUR AND VARANASI
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A PS to Khalil.
I have just encountered another language phenomenon which may be related to your original post. (I do wish you would return to this (currently) monologue and help me understand your exact point.)
While scanning Tanzania I found a description marked as “en” (English), but written in an Arabic script. Given the location I assume it is either Arabic or Somali (not Farci or Urdu or …), but can’t be certian. The problem here is that someone has coopted the “en” designation, without providing any English text. At this point I can’t add English as an additional language. So, should I ask that the place be deleted, for non-compliance with the standards? I don’t see how to change the language designation for an existing description, which would be the best solution.
Comments? Please???
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Thanx Matt and Cyril
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Ah well, just remember the formula for a happy life — Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down!
Many people just don’t bother read the “rules”, or simply ignore them. My reaction (if I can’t fix it) is to shrug and go on to the next problem. Sometimes I can fix things, and I try, but often not.
Good marking!
Cyril
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please confrm my resistation.
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Thanks for giving this information to get the knowledge of places and roots
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Hiya Matt!
Could you tell me how to remove a place please?
I put up my firends block of flats labeled The Blue Pixie house. She is not happy and wants it removed! Please help!
Kindest Regards
Jo
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how to add place from larg zoom level ???
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@Jo : Issue a delete request from the bottom right of the place details window OR from menu choose “Delete”
It takes minimum 8 days to delete
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How do you add a box around something that is too large to fit in your window at the zoom needed in order to add places? For instance, Lake Washington in the Seattle area.
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this is one of the greatest breakthrough of our generation.i pray more grease to your elbow.I am from IKOLE EKITI,in EKITI STATE OF NIGERIA,i will like your assistance in developing that place of mine as i see in the sample of venice place in ITALY.
I have being trying all my best to make use of all the new development in the WIKIMAPIA but most of the terms and soft ware names were killing please help.
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Many people just don’t bother read the “rules”, or simply ignore them. My reaction (if I can’t fix it) is to shrug and go on to the next problem. Sometimes I can fix things, and I try, but often not.
Good advice Cyril!
Could you tell me how to remove a place please?
You can issue a delete request (which takes time). If the place was just marked, just give it negative votes and it will go away.
How do you add a box around something that is too large to fit in your window at the zoom needed in order to add places? For instance, Lake Washington in the Seattle area.
I have mixed feelings about this issue. In my personal opinion, something, like Lake WA, that is very large and not very square should not be marked. Others may disagree. And that is fine. For instance, someone marked all of Seattle. In my opinion, it is too large to mark, BUT they had put a bunch of info from Wikipedia so I don’t have a huge issue with it. One of the things that Khalil suggested (but I haven’t tried) might work. Mark the location smaller, zoom out and resize to something larger. The other option that I have seen people do for large places like lakes etc. is to make a smaller marker in the middle of the lake just to provide the information - it doesn’t have to be full size for people to know what it is.
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If someone has incorrectly places a rectangle over a place..how to you change it? I can’t seem to find out how to drag the rectangle to the correct place. Should I just delete it and make a new one? Thanks!
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Nevermind about the above post ^ I found out!
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My experience (limited, as I’m a fairly new user) is that there is an upper limit to the size of a marked region. That is, if you can’t create a region at a particular zoom level, getting the message:
Size limit
We are sorry, you cannot add objects at this zoom level. Please zoom in closer.
Then you cannot move or resize a region at that same level. Thus, the largest region you can define is what will fit on your screen at the maximum zoom level allowed, and it cannot be made larger than that.
At thought (I haven’t tried it). It is possible that by setting your monitor attributes (the dialog box you get by right-clicking an empty spot on your desktop) the the highest resolution, you will be able to define a larger region than at a lower resolution. I don’t know how much this will help, assuming it works.
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Not sure if this is the place for this.
For people who can’t “see” enough details in an area of interest. If you want to mark a place in anticipation of better images in the future, and are in an area that Google has maps as well as satellite images, you can switch to “map view” and locate the place relative to the streets and roads, marking there and then, even though the satellite image just shows a blur you will know that the mark is in the correct place.
Well, almost –
Unfortunatly when the satellite images are updated there is sometimes a shift, leaving ALL the marked places in the wrong place. For example, this was recently true of Mongolia, where almost all the places in Ulaan Bataar had shifted a dozen or more metres to the west, relative to the boxes supposedly marking them. (I spent a couple of hours moving all the places where it was obvious where they should have been, which was most of them.) Anyway, sometimes Google updates the images and DOES NOT update its own maps! So a place marked on the map does not exactly match its place on the satellite images. As an example of this, the city of Kanazawa, in Japan, has all the of streets shifted to the side compared to the images. Just bring it up at a very high zoom and look at the hybrid image. The lines representing the streets run right through the buildings.
I haven’t figured out how to complain to Google, so if anyone out there does, please yell at them.
Yours,
Cyril
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When are you going to update this area with high resolution images? http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=21613188&x=84350538&z=15&l=0&m=a&v=2
Thanks.
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If you are replying to my post, go back and read what it says, not what you want it to say. Otherwise:
For once and for all — nobody at Wikimapia can update the maps or the images. Only Google can do that. Second, this blog is NOT part of Wikimapia, it is an act of kindness of one individual, and he (perhaps unfortunately) can’t change anything in Wikimapia save by petition.
So if you have a problem with the images, go knock on Google’s door and complain there, not here, nor to the creators of Wikimapia itself.
Just another user, butting in.
Cyril
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my place add GANDHINAGAR,MUTHARASANALLUR,TRICHI 101 wikimapia super
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i am debendra kumar behera vill- astak post- gopabandhunagar via- ahiyas dist- bhadrak my native place is astak is panchayat of hasanbad on block dhamangar , the baitarani river is flowing on side of our village
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How can I locate a place using its geographical coordinates? It’s quite simple in Google Earth. Is there the similar functionality in wikimapia?
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How to create wikimapia link?
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FYI,
I just wanted to let you know about an official name change of one of the states in India. As of January 1st, 2007, the state of Uttaranchal in Northern India is now officially known as UTTARAKHAND. The name change was made official in December and promulgated in the New Year.
Please change the category name for this state in your listings.
By the way, this is a great endeavour in popular cartography.
Cheers,
Rajiv
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Rajiv Rawat
Department of Geography, Ross N424
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@ amin yeah right
@ Anonymous would have been nice if you provided for some tags. as it appears, Gandhinagar is like 57 kms away from Mutharasanallur and where the heck is Trichi?
@ Debendra maybe we should ask the local disaster bureau about that river flowing on the side of your village
@ Alex you type in or copy/paste the coordinates on Search at the upper right corner then click on the result. the center cross will then point to the said coordinate. it’s also quite simple in Wikimapia.
@ Amit on the upper left “Wikimapia” drop-down menu, there’s a choice for “Map on your page”. you can take it from there.
@ cethirien congratulations on the official name change. however, things here hasn’t changed that much. the recent comment no. 108 still holds true so as Matt’s Wikimapia Blog FAQ #4 which you were kindly asked to check before commenting. -
How do you modify a place name ? Can you move a existing place pointer to it’s precise location ?
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hi sir i want to mark my home in wikimapia in india m p bhopal gulmohar naveen door sanchar colony 29b /E8how can it view
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1.HOW TO REMOVE THE MARKED MAP?
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HOW CAN I ADD THE NAME OF MY COUNTRYSIDE, thank you. SAIKOUK
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I have posted a location 136,Allen by Road,Ambala cantt,Haryana,India.Pls let me know when will it be approved.
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I am Debendra Kumar Behera Village-Tala Astak Post- Gopabandhu nagar Via- Ahiyas Dist- Bhadrak
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hi my name is ali i have posted a comment and on it i have mentioned my email pls tell me how can i delete my comment
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Matt
Just want to say thank you for the great job you are doing to answer everybody questions and concerns the best you can. Keep up the good work.
Thank youAntonio Szilagyi (DeltaQ)
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Even tho I am logged off - It states that I am still online. I seem to have the same features available to use - and i am able to add/edit places even tho i am logged off. Is this normal??
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Sir,
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Hello everyone. Sorry for not responding more frequently. If I don’t answer your question it will be because of 1 of 3 reasons: 1) I have already answered the question. 2) I don’t know the answer (I don’t work for Wikimapia) 3) I don’t get paid for this (that sounds fairly crass, it really is more of a pragmatic issue, please feel free to donate! [see side bar])
Thanks to those who have also answered questions!! And thanks Antonio, I try!
Even tho I am logged off - It states that I am still online. I seem to have the same features available to use - and i am able to add/edit places even tho i am logged off. Is this normal??
I don’t know if that is normal or not. It could be that their cookie is not changing after logoff, but I really couldn’t tell you.
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PLS ADD PANDURANG SHIRKE HOUSE IN CHIVELI CHIPLUN
MAHARASHTRA INDIA -
I am sorry to write that I had tried my best to add my place, but your inst. is very long and tough to understand to a layman. Please do easy mathod.
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I am sorry to write that I had tried my best to add my place, but your inst. is very long and tough to understand to a layman. Please do easy mathod.
I hope this doesn’t come across as being too sarcastic:
Step 1) Click “Add New Place”
Step 2) Click “Save”
Step 3) Write information about the place
Step 4) Click “Save” -
yo how come i cant get live sat and give me some points b from the man
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hi,
how do i find out my user level
User levels.
Level 0 (Unregistered and newly registeres users) - simple functions like add/edit place, add photos. Some restrictions to avoid vandalism.
Level 1 (Registered users) - almost all available functions.
Level 2 (Advanced users) - all functions and some administrative (like protect article, etc.).regards
Prabhu Thomas -
if i want to delete my details or block my place for permanent basis how coulld i do that
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the location i added is incorrectly shown to be in South Jordan, Utah rather than West Jordan, Utah. It is my first attempt at adding a location, and I have just registered so maybe the reason I cannot find a way to report or correct the error is due to my newbie status but it would be nice if there was some notification of that or visual cues about that on the map. The entire city of South Jordan is misplaced, overlapping a large portion of West Jordan.
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hi
how to prevent others from deleting/edting my place,
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Thanks, Matt, for such a great blog and all your help with this brilliant site. Tom, Plano, Texas
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hi….plz let me know how to creat and write the name of home owner at the respective place….?
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From Wikimapia
“We are sorry, you cannot add objects at this zoom level (there are already too much places).”
Too much grammar mistakes…
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sir,
i hve rejistred in wikimapia
i want to add my place on this map and want to see in rectungular line
what i have to do?
please help.thanks
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hi
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Hi, I’m Jaranda, an admin from wikipedia. I wonder how you become a syrop here as well. I been updating some of the miami areas local, but there are many places that are nonsense or not true, and I want to cleanup them up. Thanks
Jorge/Jaranda
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how to delete the place or comments which is added by others and not good.
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the add new place ,@ part (chooce languages) the little box was narrow , I could not click in to choose one.
Thnak you
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Hello Matt !
I’d like to express my dissapointment by Wikimapia russian co-founder Mr.Koriakine’s rasial and chauvinistic remarcs on this project.
Mr.Koriakine and his russian GRU agent fellows deliberatly puting on neighbouring not friendly to russian federation country’s placenames which are full of herasment and desinformation.
For example: Ukraine’s crymean peninsula and it’s city’s are pentioned as russian ones or Republic of georgia is vandalised by Mr.Koriakine and his fellow agent, you can’t find any remarks from me almoust 1400 placenames are delited (not to mention another users remarcs which was also removed or renamed as russians will to name another souvereign country’s city’s)
I hope firstly you put an Georgian and Ukrainian language moderators and services and secondly bring to real freeshareing service to modern democratic values not as russian GRU agent mentality wishes but realy liberal minded persons service.
Thanx for attention.
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@ Daxure: That isn’t really anything I can do anything about. It sounds like it should actually be Google that you have an issue with. Sounds like you are a bit paranoid.
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i am residing in world greatest sweet water lake
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how to register in wikimapia?
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dear sir
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HI…HOW DOES ONE ENSURE THAT A PLACE GETS A BETTER ZOOM CLARITY? I LIVE IN DIMAPUR, INDIA.EVEN THOUGH IT IS TRACEABLE, FINER DETAILS ARE NOT VISIBLE.CAN U HELP?
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i’ ve recently registered to wikimapia..now my question is how to upgrade it to advanced user status
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how to aproove place
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how the place can be approved
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dear sir,
in the proforma to add a new place u asked the link. but i don’t know the link address. to name a place is any registration is needed in ur site -
Mr Matt jones
I’m not able to add a place,a box comes which we can resize and place it on our location,but it doesn’t get saved or/and the information box doesn’t comes at all,i’ve tried it so many times and i’m not able to add a place please help me.. -
Sir please help me. i don’t get the information box after adding the place, either it doesn’t get saved or it’s something else.
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hi bhavesh it nice pales
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how to view moving picture?im very interested in wikimapia!please help me!
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Can I position Wikimapia place by entering latitude and longitude in grads, minutes and seconds?
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i have a problem in signing up/ registering my account. especially on clicking the register button. please, tell me how. many thanx.
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i want to know info. about the person who add the place in wiki mapia.
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Hi, I am Bikram Mohapatra, At: Kadamouda, PO: Hatiadida, Via-Rupsa, Dist:Balasore, Pin-756028, State-Orissa, India. near by my house is Nilamani Mahavidyalaya.
Pls specify where is it in google world..please indicate..
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WODERFULL DAGGLING AND ELOBARATE VILLAGE THAT IS PEDAKURAPADU VILLAGE————SRI
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I once received an email map with a route marked on it on Wikimapia (last year, as I recall). I used that idea to mark out a trail to recall where I ran and how long it was. This past week I tried to do it again and seem to be having problems. I can’t find any instructions on how to start a map of a trail so I had to use my old one and remove or move marks. Here is the link to one I just did: http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=38.587223&lon=68.813081&z=15&l=0&m=h&gz=0;68793404;38579255;0;12966;11;11649;617;11637;3326;11624;4152;12010;5289;12379;5418;11683;6867;11339;7371;10760;7703;11188;8680;12136;9216;12068;9302;12412;9431;12681;9506;12957;9656;13829;8894;14081;8412;14383;8079;14500;9184;15129;11845;14827;12682;15674;13121;15758;13572;14458;13325;13620;17338;10064;16029;9259;14184;7817;13218;6726;9881;1158;7854;0;7070;218;6909;3456;5193;3137;665;3431;751;6357
Question: where do we find instructions on this feature? You might also note that I was unable to turn the mapping feature off and it still wants to add more place marks. Thanks for any help you can offer. -
Matt,
Thanks for this opportunity, I need to know why my tagged place doesnt appear the marking unlike before i can see, how to get it back again. Thank you. -
HOW DO I DELETE MY MAP AND ADDRESS IN WIKIMAPIA?
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