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 lat lon Coordinates of the "search point". lon means longitude (λ), lat means latitude (φ).	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 geometry location This is an option to get one or more blocks with place data. Full information returns by 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.

function

key

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

lat

lon

Coordinates of the "search point". lon means longitude (λ), lat means latitude (φ).

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

geometry location

This is an option to get one or more blocks with place data. Full information returns by default.

count

This is a variable that determines the number of results per page. 50 is default, 100 max.