India faces yet another online security 'threat'

Google Earth is no longer the biggest concern of security agencies. A bigger security threat posed by online mapping is lurking on the Internet.

It is called Wikimapia. The website, which its promoters claim "is inspired by Wikipedia", combines high resolution satellite and mapping imagery created by Google Maps and the easy interactivity of Wikipedia. It is called Wikimapia. The website, which its promoters claim "is inspired by Wikipedia", combines high resolution satellite and mapping imagery created by Google Maps and the easy interactivity of Wikipedia.

Simply put, it means users can go to wikimapia.org, identify locations on the high-resolution maps there and enter more information about the locations. The information gets automatically stored on the maps. The site has already added four million locations since it was created in May 2006. The site can be accessed in 64 languages and a user does not need to be tech-savvy to access all the information available (unlike on Google Earth).

Source: HindustanTimes