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Copyright, when wikimapia started they did not consider how their geodata was copied. It is now heavily encumbered by copyright and unusable out side of the sit
by emj 3y ago
Copyright, when wikimapia started they did not consider how their geodata was copied. It is now heavily encumbered by copyright and unusable out side of the site. Things may have changed; it has been almost twenty years since Wikimapia started.
But yes I loved wikimapias concept, but using the data ment that everyone who cared about that used Openstreetmap instead. And since the goals of OSM and Wikimapia differ a bit you wont have that discussion you are talking about.
- ogurechny 3y agoWell, my question was not about things OpenStreetMap does (and does quite well). My question was about something it does not provide at all. Why haven't similar communities in other big cities across the world created similar sites (“own/better Wikimapias”) to collect information on everything they find interesting in their neighborhoods? Seemingly useless pedestrian bridge across highway is a perfect case. Maybe they did, and I haven't found those? Hopefully, my examples show that such projects can slowly grow into enormous treasures.
- emj 3y agoSorry my implicit answer was that you got all the nerds into Openstreetmap and Wikipedia, so the critical mass was not there for other stuff. Wikimapia just got a bad rep, and there really wasn't room for other services when Wikimapia did what it did good. I mean looking at the Wikimapia for Stockholm you get the feeling it is a Russian map for the next step after managing to obliterate Ukraine. Not something mapped by locals caring about the city.