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.

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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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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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Wikimapia REST API

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