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User Guide
| Language: | English • العربية • Беларуская • Ελληνικά • Español • Português • Русский |
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| User Guide |
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| Getting started |
| Guidelines |
| Philosophy |
| Advice for new users |
| Editing places (tags) |
| Introduction Message |
| Adding place |
| Places and place tags |
| Languages |
| Polygons (outlines) |
| Photos |
| Addresses |
| Categories |
| Parent & Child tags |
| Comments |
| Deleting places |
| Deletion criteria |
| Linear features (Transportation) |
| Roads edit |
| Railroads edit |
| Ferry edit |
| Rivers edit |
| Other UI features |
| The main screen |
| Wikimapia's URL |
| Map types |
| My account (profile) |
| Geotools |
| Searching |
| User Script |
| Community |
| Forum |
| Finding help |
| Experience points |
| User account |
| User levels |
| Other users |
| Voting |
| Vandalism |
| Banning users |
| Miscellaneous |
| Miscellaneous |
| Technical issues |
| Satellite images |
| To do |
Wikimapia User Guide
The User Guide is intended as an introduction to Wikimapia and a reference manual on how to use the features of Wikimapia in English. In the box on the right you will see links to the Guide's sections. Clicking on any one of the links therein will take you to its respective section. The User Guide also provides advice on how to conduct oneself in the Wikimapia community.
What should I read?
There is a lot of information in the User Guide, and we do no expect you to read and absorb it all before starting to use Wikimapia. There are, however, some sections that are perhaps more important than others to help you get off to the right start. We would recommend you read the sections about Guidelines, Philosophy, Languages and Advice for new users. They are important articles to help you understand why things are done as they are. After that, you can try the sections about the Main screen, Places and place tags, Polygons and the Introduction Message. After these, you may follow other topic(s) that may interest you.
Brief history
On July 3, 2009, the Wikimapia Team performed a major update to Wikimapia. The versions before and after this date are known as Wikimapia Classic and Wikimapia Beta respectively. Some features of the old Classic version are now only available in the Wikimapia Classic map view on the main screen. During that update, a variety of new features were added including the ability to map linear (transportation) features (roads, railroads, rivers, ferry routes). The "user level" concept was also reorganized. The Wikimapia BETA version is as of this date, the default version.
Other recommended reading
- Wikimapia Chronology
- Wikimapia English index
- Wikimapia blog
- http://wikimapia.mattjonesblog.com/
- http://wikimapia.org/api/
- Wikimapia entry at Wikipedia®
- "Borderless" - Wikimapia's community-created unofficial anthem
