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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.

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01 · 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.
- Google MapsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Wikimapia

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Wikimapia match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 6 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,217
Vector: 384-d
Query: 40 ms

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.