Wikimapia is an impressive Google Maps/wiki mashup aiming to describe the Earth. The interface is exceptionally user friendly and it takes seconds to place a Wikimapia on a web page (though not this one because WordPress doesn’t like that kind of thing.)
I’ve placed a Wikimapia example on Juicy Geography to demonstrate. How about getting students to describe their place for homework on the first day back? The site doesn’t require any form of registration and although there is an option to report spam, I can’t help feeling that a lot of places will end up with less than flattering descriptions!
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