Wikimapia Reviews and Details

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• Open Infrastructure Map

  Wikimapia has some of those, with links or sometimes descriptions with photos. http://wikimapia.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Prosperity and Precarity in Imperial Russia's Long Nineteenth Century

  Wikipedia article for Chikino states that the pedestal for the monument commemorating the visit of Alexander II was later used for the monument of Karl Marx, then for the monument of Stalin (neither of those two fellows ever visited the place, as far as I know). Quite a convenient object, now in the need of some stucco.... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Humor and cynicism of the operators at Area 51

  It's still up http://wikimapia.org/ (not https for some reason?). Source: over 2 years ago

• Trying to get someone from every province to comment Day 1

  Somewhat oftopic but why we guys aint using this ABSOLUTE BRILLIANT web service : wikimapia.org anymore? Long live the regions! Source: about 3 years ago

• FoRL ⬜🟦⬜ seeks to derail 🚂 Putin regime with these train-wrecking insurgency tactics published for all RF resistance members to act upon asap!

  It is advisable to choose rail tracks leading to military units or other government facilities in order to avoid possible civilian casualties. To search, we recommend using wikimapia.org, military installations are indicated there, which are not visible on ordinary maps. Also, according to satellite maps, you can assess how the object is "operating". For example, at the base, to which the branch you have chosen... Source: about 3 years ago

• There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway. (2019)

  I took Amtrack around the US: Sacramento -> Santa Barbara -> LA -> New Orleans -> New York -> Boston -> Syracuse -> Chicago -> Sacramento. I didn't buy the Rail Pass because I wasn't sure before I started that I'd enjoy it so much. What was great was WikiMapia – as the train was rolling through the countryside I was able to know what was around me. http://wikimapia.org/... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• How to know if construction is about to begin?

  Wikimapia often has information about individual plots - https://wikimapia.org/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Monument to Lenin in Dubna (Moscow region). This is the second tallest monument to Lenin in the world, the height of the figure is 25 meters + the pedestal is 12 meters. Photo: @perunivan

  An interesting fact is that originally, there was a matching monument to Stalin across the water: it's the approach to Sluice #1 of the Moskva-Volga Canal, and the two statues were put there to welcome travellers entering the canal from the Volga side. The other monument was dismantled in 1961, but the platform which supported it still remains. Source: over 4 years ago

• Jabhat al nusra al manarah al bayda media video titled "Scenes from the liberation of al mahta checkpoint by Zara thermal plant east of the village of Harbnafsah" Northern Homs Region May 19th 2016

  Location of the thermal plant in zara that al nusra took over for a short time. Source: over 4 years ago

• Mahbere Dego: Clues to a Clifftop Massacre in Ethiopia

  Bellingcat and colleagues from Newsy and BBC Africa Eye have located the execution videos from the EthiopiaMap Telegram channel to a cliff approximately 15 kilometres South of Aksum, a city in the wartorn Tigray Region. The closest town is Mahbere Dego, which may be the last place these men were seen alive. Source: over 4 years ago

• Jemal Countess (from Getty) on Mai Kadra Massacre - After conducting 47 interviews in Mai Kadra and Humera it became abundantly clear that the massacre at Mai Kadra and the attacks in the Northern Command Base were probably planned at the same time and were part of a larger plan. (via Twitter)

  The problem here is that those interviewees were telling an extremely manicured version of the massacre that's favourable for Amhara nationalist narratives. For example, one of them, Debas Kebede straight up lied about being taken to Bereket by the TPLF who allegedly tortured him and killed many of friends there because the Bereket is located in the Fashaga triangle which has been controlled by Amhara militias for... Source: over 4 years ago

• Syrian Army tank rolls into firing position before slinging a round at the camera - Raqqa - 6/2/2013

  Think I recognise that building from the 93rd Armoured Brigade base in Ain Issa - Located here. Source: over 4 years ago

• Is anyone else annoyed by how out of date the Google Earth imagery is for Saskatoon? Here's what I mean:

  Just on the topic of satellite maps wiki mapia is an informative site. https://wikimapia.org. Source: over 4 years ago