What is "wikimapia"

Wikimapia is a privately owned open-content collaborative mapping project, that utilizes an interactive "clickable" web map with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.

Created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev on May 2006, since then it has become a popular mapping website. The data, a crowdsourced collection of places marked by registered users and guests, has grown to over 25,000,115 objects as of August 2015, and is released under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).

Although the project's name is reminiscent to that of Wikipedia and that the creators share the " wiki" philosophy, it is not a part of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation family of wikis.