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WikiPlaces — Wikimapia access on the go

Jul 9th, 2009
by pronvit.

I’d like to introduce you WikiPlaces app — the first and only way to access Wikimapia.org on the go!

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Wikimapia is great service with the aim of adding information like title, notes, photos and comments to all interesting locations on Earth. It currently has over 10,000,000 places marked. Unfortunately its Google Maps-based interface is deadly slow in Safari on iPhone.

And here WikiPlaces comes to help you. It uses publicly available KML feed from Wikimapia to overlay its objects over standard Google map. You can find very interesting information about places near you and all over the world. Anywhere it will be either helpful or just fun to play with.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=320536683

http://www.mifki.com/wikiplaces

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  • Majid Alfifi

    Is this still available? I couldn’t find it in the US App Store…

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  • Mohammad

    Hello Majid,

    It’s been removed I guess due to it’s commercial usage, while wikimapia doesn’t allow using it’s API for commercial apps.

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    Majid Alfifi reply on May 30th, 2010 11:06 am:

    Thanks Mohammad. That is probably why. I was wondering if someone used their API in a free but add-supported app, will they still consider that commercial use.

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  • Mohammad ِAlfares

    I guess they would

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  • http://www.mifki.com pronvit

    No, it wasn’t removed by wikimapia. I removed it myself because it hit some wikimapia limits (number of requests, etc.) after several days. And I removed it until there’s clear documentation on their limits.

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  • Mohammad ِAlfares

    Thanks pronvit for the explanation. Did you put ads on it?

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    pronvit reply on May 30th, 2010 11:32 am:

    Yes, it was ad-supported. We discussed possibility of both free and paid apps with wikimapia admins. Now I’m waiting for finalized documentation from them. Unfortunately it takes toooo long.

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  • Majid Alfifi

    Thanks pronvit.
    It seems they are still not sure how to manage this. They are also still experimenting with the API. About 1 month ago, I found many of my unit tests started failing and I found they changed the structure of the XML returned.

    Did you communicate with them regarding the limit? Did you consider sharing revenues with them if that’s what they are looking for?

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  • http://www.mifki.com pronvit

    >It seems they are still not sure how to manage this.

    Seems this is exactly what’s going on.

    > Did you communicate with them regarding the limit?

    They said that limits wouldn’t be very limiting, ie. generally only protection from bots.

    > Did you consider sharing revenues with them if that’s what they are looking for?

    Yes, they mentioned revenue sharing for paid apps.

    The problem is that our last conversation was more than month and a half ago and still no news from them.

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