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Wikimapia
Who runs Wikimapia, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest collaborative web mapping alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- OpenStreetMap
Measured from Wikimapia’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Wikimapia01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Wikimapia
Wikimapia wikimapia.org
Wikimapia is an online editable map - you can describe any place on Earth. Or just surf the map discovering tonns of already marked places.
Wikidata: geographic online encyclopedia created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev in 2006
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
02 · Privacy
What Wikimapia tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 11 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Wikimapia
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Wikimapia, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Very close - 02
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close - 03
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close - 04
company owned by System1
Very close - 05 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
Very close - 06
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 07
Paraguay-based Korean wiki website
Very close - 08
Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Very close - 09
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 10
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Very close - 11
Webcams from around the World - WorldCam
WorldCam features an extensive network of live webcams from around the World. Portal offers a map and the search engine for internet cameras. Search the portal for beach, ski, animal and other cams.
Very close - 12
American digital media company
Very close - 13
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 14
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Very close - 15
Webcam Galore - Weather Webcams Worldwide
Thousands of Webcams from all around the World at Webcam Galore - with previws and archive images.
Very close - 16
site news
Very close - 17 allrecipes.com Top 10K
food focused online social networking service
Very close - 18
American directory company
Very close - 19
free, collaborative database about films
Very close - 20 AllMusic allmusic.com
American online music database
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Wikimapia’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Wikimapia uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Wikimapia adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Wikimapia’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://wikimapia.org/css/bootstrap.css?660
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Maps
- Google Maps page source: maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js
- Email hosting
- Yandex Mail MX mx.yandex.net
- DNS hosting
- Hetzner DNS NS robotns2.second-ns.de
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on wikimapia.org 18/20
- Cloudflare · not on wikimapia.org 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on wikimapia.org 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wikimapia.org 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wikimapia.org 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wikimapia.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on wikimapia.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on wikimapia.org 3/20
- DocuSign · not on wikimapia.org 3/20
- SendGrid · not on wikimapia.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on wikimapia.org 3/20
- PHP · not on wikimapia.org 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on wikimapia.org 3/20
- GlobalSign · not on wikimapia.org 2/20
- OneTrust · not on wikimapia.org 2/20
- Mailchimp · not on wikimapia.org 2/20