I don’t know if I’m out of the loop or something, but today I was browsing the web and stumbled upon Wikimapia. At first glance it looks just like Google Earth. But if you look closely you will see little squares over the major cities. If you clikc a square it will zoom you in to that city and display the area map with a lot more squares.

Each square represents a popular location. It could be an airport, museum, school or neighborhood. Once you click on a square it will zoom you in to that location and give you the location’s name and description. You can even vote on if the information is useful or not. There is a way to edit entries as well by clicking on the menu icon for each location.

I’m not sure if there is a way to make money or gain anything from Wikimapia. You can add links to location descriptions, but unless its an authority site and highly relative I doubt the editors will keep it up. This is just a fun site to play around with. Hope you enjoy.