Wikimapia – cool use of Google Maps

I’ve always liked Google Maps, but the really cool thing is the fact that it is open, which means people on the web can use it to do very cool things. Like Wikimapia, for example, which is a place where people can put squares around places in the sattelite map and describe what the place is. Now, Wikimapia announced their 1,000,000th place on the map, which is a good reason to go check it out. Here is, for example, a close up on Tel-Aviv in Wikimapia.