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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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: 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