Andrea Ballatore, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani,
Wikimapia is a major privately owned volunteered geographic information (VGI) project to collect information about places. Over the past 10 years, Wikimapia has attracted hundreds of thousands of contributors and ... including towns, restaurants, lakes and tourist attractions (http://wikimapia.org). Unlike OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia adopts a 'placial' perspective, favouring rich descriptions over ... we first trace the origin and development of Wikimapia as a for-profit project, intimately linked with ... data model and characteristics of its community. As Wikimapia discussions are rife with copyright issues, we discuss ...
Tópico(s): Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
2018 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Hsiu‐Min Chuang, Chia‐Hui Chang, Ting-Yao Kao, Chung-Ting Cheng, Ya-Yun Huang, Kuo-Pin Cheong,
... Existing map services such as Google Maps and Wikimapia are constructed manually either professionally or with crowd ... that the proposed geographical information retrieval model outperforms Wikimapia and a commercial app called 'What's the ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2016 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Geographical Information Science
... information provided voluntarily by individuals. Sites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | GeoJournal
... Through a qualitative analysis of reported incidents in WikiMapia and OpenStreetMap, a typology of this kind of ...
Tópico(s): Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
2014 - Taylor & Francis | The Cartographic Journal
... web-based mapping tool of Google Earth and Wikimapia. The information has been assessed on the urban- ...
Tópico(s): Global Energy and Sustainability Research
2014 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Cleaner Production
Menglin Wang, Qijie Li, Qingwu Hu, Meng Zhou,
... track data like OpenStreetMap, collaborative map data like Wikimapia, social websites like Twitter and Facebook, POI signed ...
Tópico(s): Automated Road and Building Extraction
2013 - Copernicus Publications | The international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/International archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Tomoyo Sasao, Shin’ichi Konomi, Vassilis Kostakos, Keisuke Kuribayashi, Jorge Gonçalves,
... can co-design shared online repositories, such as Wikimapia and Wikipedia. However, little work has examined how ...
Tópico(s): Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
2016 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Tópico(s): Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | GeoJournal
Matthew Haffner, Adam J. Mathews, Emily Fekete, G. Allen Finchum,
... explicitly geographic forms of , such as OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia, few have focused on these aspects with implicitly ...
Tópico(s): Sharing Economy and Platforms
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Geographical Review
Christian Bittner, Georg Glasze,
Tópico(s): Web Data Mining and Analysis
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information
Elif Sertel, Raziye Hale Topaloğlu, Betül Şallı, Irmak Yay Algan, Gül Aslı Aksu,
... Additional geospatial data from open sources (OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia) were also integrated to the classification in order ...
Tópico(s): Remote Sensing in Agriculture
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Bocar Sy, Corine Frischknecht, Hy Dao, D. Consuegra, Grégory Giuliani,
... web 2.0 technologies (e.g., Flickr and Wikimapia) and the increase of the use of participatory ...
Tópico(s): Landslides and related hazards
2018 - Wiley | Journal of Flood Risk Management
... from three geographic information sources: Open Street Map, Wikimapia, and Google places. The extracted geographic information is ...
Tópico(s): Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques
2022 - World Scientific | Journal of Interconnection Networks
... APIs) public, such as Google maps, OSM and Wikimapia [3][4][5]. In terms of the democratic ...
Tópico(s): Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
2017 - IOP Publishing | IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science
Giti Khoshamooz, Mohammad Taleai,
... facilities was calculated based on data captured from Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap. Moreover, for measuring the movement popularity ...
Tópico(s): Automated Road and Building Extraction
2017 - Wiley | Geographical Analysis
Ying Zhang, Puhai Yang, Chaopeng Li, Gengrui Zhang, Cheng Wang, Hui He, Xiang Hu, Zhitao Guan,
... approach using three sources, namely, OpenStreetMap, Google and Wikimapia. The results showed that the proposed approach obtained ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2018 - IGI Global | International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
Ying Zhang, Minghe Gao, X. Zhang, Puhai Yang, Qunfei Ma, Cheng Wang, Hui He, Xiang Hu,
... compare the results with those from OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia. The final results indicate that the proposed approach ... par with Google Maps and outperform OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia.
Tópico(s): Web Data Mining and Analysis
2018 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
A. Viji Amutha Mary, Konduru Sandeep Kumar, Kesa Pavan Sri Sai,
... the results with those from OpenStreet Map and Wikimapia. The final results indicate that the proposed approach ... with Google Maps and outperform OpenStreet Map and Wikimapia.
Tópico(s): Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
2019 - American Scientific Publishers | Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
Mehmet Akif TAŞ, Sevil Sargın,
... site yapılaşmaları, Google Earth Pro yazılımı, OpenStreet Map, Wikimapia çevrimiçi platformları ve arazi gözlemleri ile belirlenmiş, ArcGIS ...
Tópico(s): Public Spaces through Art
2019 - Süleyman Demirel University | lnternational Journal of Geography and Geography Education
... the state of Bahrain assesses the quality of Wikimapia, a form of VGI, in accurately identifying elements ... in an urban context from the Global South. Wikimapia demonstrated high levels of positional accuracy and relatively ... socioeconomic polarization can be addressed. These results highlight Wikimapia's potential as a data source for urban ...
Tópico(s): Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
2020 - IGI Global | International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research
... web-map services, such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) and Wikimapia, are mostly based on volunteered data collected by ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Survey Review
... etc.) or the so-called Volunteered Geographic Information (Wikimapia, Open street map, Google My Maps, etc.) also ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lecture notes in computer science
... nogo nadzora goroda Moskvi, "V Mitino poyavitsya."72 Wikimapia, "Stroitel'naya ploshchadka."73 χ2 (1, N = 115) = ...
Tópico(s): Electoral Systems and Political Participation
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Democratization

Péricles Luiz Picanço, Luciene Stamato Delazari,
... com diferentes tipos de familiaridade com os sistemas Wikimapia, OpenStreetMap, e Wikiloc, com o objetivo final de ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2016 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ | Boletim de Ciências Geodésicas
Using Google Earth and Wikimapia, we can try to reconstruct the journey from Beijing to Xanadu described by Marco Polo in the Milione. A possible ... the Venetian traveler. Keywords: Satellite Images, Google Earth, Wikimapia, Marco Polo, China.
Tópico(s): Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
2017 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... due to people’s participation from apps like Wikimapia etc. In this paper we are presenting a ...
Tópico(s): Geographic Information Systems Studies
2011 - Springer Science+Business Media | Communications in computer and information science
Daisuke Yoshida, Eugenio Realini, Mirko Reguzzoni, Venkatesh Raghavan,
... update, and sharing. Popular collaborative projects like OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia, and other services that collect and publish user- ...
Tópico(s): Geological Modeling and Analysis
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Applied Geomatics
Mouayed Y. Ahmed, Maythm Al-Bakri, Luma Layth Abedulridha,
... as Google Map (GM), OpenStreetMap (OSM), Flickr service, Wikimapia and others. All of these services called open ...
Tópico(s): Data Management and Algorithms
2015 - Chulalongkorn University | Journal of Engineering
Neeraj Kumar, Steven M. Seitz,
... on Wikipedia, GPS coordinates to places listed on Wikimapia, places and dates to find named events using ...
Tópico(s): Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
2016 - Springer International Publishing | Advances in computer vision and pattern recognition
... travels of Marco Polo, using Google Earth and Wikimapia. In that article, we reconstructed the Polo's ...
Tópico(s): Linguistics and Cultural Studies
2017 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal