Using updated wikimapia API to export data

Question

My goal is to get a json export from Wikimapia. I'm trying to use their updated API but I always get no objects returned no matter what coordintes or categories I specify.

Here is my example query (?key=example is a valid key, but I also tried my own API key with the same result):

http://api.wikimapia.org/?key=example&function=place.getbyarea&coordsby=bbox&bbox=46.7674%2C56.1952%2C48.5939%2C56.8782&category=17&count=100&format=json

P.S. this answer is no longer valid as it uses deprecated methods

Answer 1

Have a look at the tool I developed : https://github.com/martinedoesgis/wikimapia-export

I use function=box and it is still working, but it looks like function=place.getbyarea isn't.