Should I mark the place, and call it 'What is this'?Ĥ6. I found something on the satellite image that I want to know what it is. In the answer/explanation we could make links to 'perfect' examples how we would like to see the description, pictures, wikipedia link, add other languages, rectangle, polygon etc.Ĥ5. Can I tag it? What information can I give in such a tag?Ĥ2. What information should I provide in a place tag? What information should I not provide in a place tag?Ĥ1. Which places should I tag? Which places should I not tag?Ĥ0. Why are the rectangles different colours?ģ9. Why is the tooltip (when I hover over a place) not always the same as its title?Ĥ5. What are all those options under the View menu?ģ4. What are Geotools and what can I do with them?ģ3. What is the Wikimapia/Home menu item for?ģ2.

When I look at place's description page, there is a line near the top that says, for example, 'World/xxxxx/yyyyy, 3 km from center'. Why is the title bar showing the wrong names?ģ0. How do I use all those things on the Wikimapia screen?Ģ9. How do I change the language on the map layer? (I can't read the street names in Japan, Thailand. I have created a description in a new language for an existing place tag, but it is not shown in the list of created places although my place tag counter has increased by one.

When I look at the available languages, my language isn't there. I can see a number of different strange language codes at the bottom right of the place info, but how can I tell what they are?Ģ5. How many users use XXX language interface?Ģ4. I'm using the (language XXX) language translation of Wikimapia, but some words and phrases are in English. I found a place described in a language I do not know, but I want to know what was written. Which name should I give to this town in language ZZZ?Ģ1. The town I'm describing has a name in language XXX and a different name in language YYY. What languages should I translate my place tag into?Ģ0. Can I remove a place's description in a particular language without deleting the entire place?ġ9. Someone wrote a nice English description of a place but marked it as Vietnamese. Why do some places in Denmark show me a Russian name instead of, say, Swedish?ġ7. Why do I see the tooltip info for place XXX in language YYY?ġ6. When a place is written in several languages, but not mine, how do you determine which one to show me?ġ5. How is the default language for my created places determined?ġ4. How do I change the interface language?ġ3. How can I see Wikimapia (or mark places) in my own language?ġ2. What is the status of the translation into language XXX?ġ0.

How can I help translate the user interface into my language?Ĩ. It should explain that anything other than a neutral post is subject to deletion, and repeated infractions will limit or ban the user.ħ. There should be a part of the FAQ dealing with religious posts and racial slurs/ insults in the forum and the map. What is the basic IDEOLOGY of Wikimapia?Ħ. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, inspired by Google maps and Wikipedia.Ĥ. WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth.

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