Siegfried Reich

How to integrate Wikimapia into your blog

October 3rd, 2006

Wikimapia is a sort of combination of wikipedia and google earth. The general idea is to have space as one (important) criterion for organising information.

How to use it/see examples? There are good descriptions available at

• http://wikimapia.mattjonesblog.com/2006/09/15/how-to-1-adding-a-new-place/,
• http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2006/08/google-maps-on-your-site-in-60-seconds.html and
• http://wikimapia.mattjonesblog.com/2006/09/20/how-to-2-upcoming-places/.

Also: see the FAQ, http://www.wikimapia.org/faq.htm

Basically the way it works is as follows:

• Start www.wikimapia.org
• Select the place you want to mark/highlight (via menu entry in the right top corner “WikiMapia” -> “Add New Place”)
• Wait until others (your friends?) have voted for this location/object with “yes”. There is a toggle “upcoming places”. These are the criteria that need to be true for a place to be a “real place” (i.e., to change from upcoming to granted).
  • 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.
• Enjoy …

The frame below shows “Salzburg Research” at the technoloy centre Salzburg. You also see the domain registry “nic.at” in close distance.

 

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