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Use Wikimapia in Google Earth!

By Matt Jones | October 1, 2006

Alexandre and Evgeniy, the two Russians who created Wikimapia, have tipped me off to their new Wikimapia Google Earth Layer. It is a cool addition to Wikimapia that really increases its felxibility and usability. For more info, see my post: Wikimapia Invades Google Earth! Full details are at that post (and feel free to digg it there!).

Addendum: Wow, the Digg Effect is pretty amazing! The post at my Wikimapia Blog was dugg about 16 hours ago (it is 5:15pm now). It has since been dug an additional 586 times! Check it out and digg it yourself: Wikimapia Invades Google Earth @ Digg. Because of the publicity, my Wikimapia blog has had over 7000 visitors since midnight! Now for some big bloggers, that is nothing, but for me, that is HUGE! My site (at all my blogs) has been running a bit slow because of the traffic (not because of bandwidth, but because of the amount of SQL requests), so please be patient! Anyway, just thought I would update you… if you happen to care about such things!

Addendum II: So here are the final stats for the 24 hours after my article was dugg: 676 Diggs; Visitors (includes the hour before the Digg as well but none of my visits): 8433 Page views with 7387 Unique Visitors. For a nice graph of the Digg Effect, click here. I think my day of “popularity” is over now. ;)

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5 Responses to “Use Wikimapia in Google Earth!”

  1. Pursuing Holiness Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 3:35 pm

    links from Technoratithe evangelical outpost — Culture, politics, and religion from an evangelical worldview. : Families are Red, Singles are Blue: Marriage, Fertility, and the Mid-Term ElectionsThreads from Henry’s Web : Gleaning from the Christian CarnivalMatt Jones’ Random Acts of Verbiage : Use Wikimapia in Google Earth!Threads from Henry’s Web : Christian Carnival CXLI

  2. Julia Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 6:14 pm

    I guess your blog is one of the few on the topic eh?

    popularity is wacky ;)

  3. Matt Jones Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 6:36 pm

    I got to “break the story” so I got some links from some of the big Google Earth blogs which really helped the Digg effect. Very strange having that many people come by for sure.

  4. momo@maroc.ma Says:
    January 11th, 2007 at 4:18 am

    salut ca va

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    April 15th, 2007 at 8:53 am

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