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Name Wikimapia
Note WikiMapia is an open-content collaborative mapping project, aimed at marking all geographical objects in the world and providing a useful description of them. It combines an interactive web map with a wiki system. The goal of Wikimapia is to create and maintain a free, complete, multilingual and up-to-date map of the whole world by compiling as much useful information about all geographical objects as possible whilst enabling free access to our data for public domain. Wikimapia intends to contain detailed information about every place on Earth.
Update Frequency Hourly
Area Global
Temporal -
Timeliness < 1 hr
Data Policy Freely accessible
Data type Geospatial data
Copernicus service product
Data format Vector dataset
Quality Control Procedure Manual
Dissemination View and Download Service
Inspire themes

Annex I: Geographical names
Geographical Coverage

Multiple Countries /Not a specific country
Status -
State Ready

Data Providers

Data provider Role Is network
Wikimapia Team Originator

Requirements

Requirement Level of compliace Note Information costs Handling costs
Population - Building Block Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target.
Population - Reference Building Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target.
Population - Diplomatic Buildings Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target
Industry and Utilities Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Transportation network Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Settlements - Building Block Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Settlements - Building Footprint Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Hydrographic network Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Toponyms Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Land Cover Partially Auxiliary datasource used by interpreters to contrast with availbable very high resolution (VHR) image sources. Not fully compliant due to update frequency, coverage and resolution issues.
Industry and Utilities Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target
Population - Point of Interest Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target
Settlements - Built-Up Areas Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI.
Toponyms Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target.
Population - Settlements Partially Coverage is not complete.