Wikimapia is an open-content collaborative map project. This library is a Python (2.7, 3.3 and 3.4) implementation of wikimapia api.

Documentation available in tutorial.

Library is in prerelease stage, so use --pre option:

pip install --pre wikimapia_api

from wikimapia_api import API

API.config.key = 'YOUR WIKIMAPIA API KEY'
print(API.places[55])

Firstly, clone git repository:

git clone https://github.com/cybernetlab/wikimapia_api_py wikimapia_api

For developing and testing you should install additional packages:

cd wikimapia_api
python setup.py develop
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run tests execute:

python -m unittest discover

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