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UID 32
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
Created on March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m.
Last modified on March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.

Data Providers

Data provider UID Data provider Role Is network Created on Last modified on
593 Wikimapia Team Originator March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.

Requirements

Requirement UID Requirement Level of compliace Note Information costs Handling costs Created on Last modified on
121 Population - Building Block Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
139 Population - Reference Building Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
123 Population - Diplomatic Buildings Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
115 Industry and Utilities Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
23 Transportation network Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
22 Settlements - Building Block Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
116 Settlements - Building Footprint Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
24 Hydrographic network Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
113 Toponyms Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
146 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. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
155 Industry and Utilities Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
140 Population - Point of Interest Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
114 Settlements - Built-Up Areas Partially Dataset completeness is location dependent. Available in Rapid Mapping SDI. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
159 Toponyms Partially Low update frequency. Accuracy is lower than target. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.
129 Population - Settlements Partially Coverage is not complete. March 20, 2018, 6:28 a.m. March 12, 2021, 4:16 p.m.