Sunday, September 17, 2006

Wikimapia

I stumbled on the Wikimapia website today, while looking for a map of a local map, and thought it an interesting idea. The basic idea is a cross between Google Maps and a Wiki. The page is a simple fullscreen interface to Google Map data which allows you to simply label interesting places, either on the satellite imagery or on the road map. There are some buttons on the top right hand corner of the page, which I found slightly hard to find at first to label places. Labels show up as boxes which provide information when you click them.

This could be very handy if your looking for someplace to go in a specific area, and is definitely another interesting page to show your friends

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