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The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid. Both kinds of items may have textual descriptions and photos attached to them.
United States. Apple Maps - covers the whole country. Bing Maps – covers the whole country. Google Maps - covers the whole country. Libre Map Project. MapQuest - covers the whole country. The National Map by the United States Geological Survey. Roadtrippers - covers the whole country. TerraServer-USA - covers the whole country.
The aim of WikiProject Maps is to improve the quality of maps across the Wikimedia Foundation. The Maps for Wikipedia page is an overview of different formats and tools for maps available on Wikipedia. The Map conventions page provides advice for creating and improving maps. The Map workshop page can be used to add your map requests and your ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
2006: WikiMapia is launched; 2009: MapTiler released as open source software for tiling of geographic data for web maps. [28] 2009: Nokia made Ovi Maps free on its smartphones. 2012: Apple Maps, the first vector-tile based mapping app, [29] is launched, replacing Apple's own Google Maps client as the default mapping app for its platforms. [30]
Wikimapia: Places – Map: Combines Google Maps with a wiki system for polygonally defined areas; currently supports 35 languages 13,300,000: CC BY-NC-SA [65] Wikimedia Commons: Misc – Electronic media: Repository of free electronic media; a Wikimedia project: 110,014,031 files CC BY-SA and some other free licenses Wikinews: General – News
Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003.
OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a website that uses an open geographic database which is updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and also import from other freely licensed geodata sources.