Wikimapia

Wikimapia is a collaborative geographic wiki that layers crowdsourced place information onto satellite imagery. Launched in 2006, the platform covers over 32 million geographic objects contributed by its community. The REST API provides programmatic access to places, categories, streets, and geographic searches using API-key authentication. Responses are available in JSON and KML formats. The API supports bounding-box queries, coordinate-based nearest-place lookups, full-text search, and detailed place retrieval including geometry, photos, comments, and community-tagged categories.

Wikimapia publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Geospatial, Mapping, Crowdsourced, Places, and Geographic Data.

Wikimapia’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 7 more developer resources.

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20.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessFree

1 APIs

GeospatialMappingCrowdsourcedPlacesGeographic Data

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Composite quality — 20.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Wikimapia Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: wikimapia
name: Wikimapia
description: Wikimapia is a collaborative geographic wiki that layers crowdsourced place information onto satellite imagery.
  Launched in 2006, the platform covers over 32 million geographic objects contributed by its community. The REST API provides
  programmatic access to places, categories, streets, and geographic searches using API-key authentication. Responses are
  available in JSON and KML formats. The API supports bounding-box queries, coordinate-based nearest-place lookups, full-text
  search, and detailed place retrieval including geometry, photos, comments, and community-tagged categories.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/wikimapia.png
tags:
- Geospatial
- Mapping
- Crowdsourced
- Places
- Geographic Data
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikimapia/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: wikimapia:rest-api
  name: Wikimapia REST API
  description: The Wikimapia REST API provides access to crowdsourced geographic data including places, categories, streets,
    and languages. Supports place search by bounding box, coordinates, or full-text query; place lookup by ID with configurable
    data blocks; nearest-place and nearest-street queries; and full category and language listings. Requires an API key passed
    as a query parameter. Responses are available in JSON (default) and KML formats. The free tier allows up to 100 requests
    per 5 minutes per domain.
  humanURL: https://wikimapia.org/api/
  baseURL: https://api.wikimapia.org
  tags:
  - Geospatial
  - Mapping
  - Crowdsourced
  - Places
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://wikimapia.org/api/
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://wikimapia.org/api/?action=my_keys
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/wikimapia-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://wikimapia.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://wikimapia.org/api/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/Wikimapia
- type: Blog
  url: https://wikimapia.org/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://wikimapia.org/api/?action=my_keys
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/wikimapia
- type: Plans
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikimapia/refs/heads/main/plans/wikimapia-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikimapia/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/wikimapia-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/wikimapia/refs/heads/main/finops/wikimapia-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Wikimapia

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APIs 1

Wikimapia REST API

Pricing Plans 1

Wikimapia Plans Pricing