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User Guide: Searching
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Searching
There are three things you can do with Wikimapia Search: you can search for places (the default), you can search for cities, and you can find locations via their geographic coordinates (longitude and latitude). All search functions are accessed via the text box and red Search button at the top right of the main Wikimapia screen. Just type one or more keywords into the box and click on Search. Your search results will be displayed in the window that opens, and you can then click on one of those, or check the next page of results if there are more.
The search results are presented in order of their distance from the map location you currently have on screen, although sometimes a few major cities are placed at the very top if they match what you searched for.
If you enter two or more search terms, you will find results where ALL those terms are present, so if you search for Santa Monica this means you will find locations where Santa AND Monica are present. It is not possible to search for places with Santa OR Monica. Nor is it possible to search for the entire string "Santa Monica", the quote signs are simply ignored and the results will be the same as if you entered Santa Monica (or Monica Santa). Capitalization is not important either, Monica and mOnIcA will produce the same results.
If you know the longitude and latitude of some place you can use Search to go directly there. Just enter the coordinates in the search box and then click on the "Go to this location:" that comes up. You can enter the coordinates as either decimals or degrees, minutes, seconds; so "50.5" and "50 30" are equivalent. The one thing you MUST include is the letters E/W and N/S after the numerical part, to specify whether it is East or West, and North or South. Two examples that are equivalent:
74.044w 40.689n
40 41 21 North 74 2 39 WEST
