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Finally the winner winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for April 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in March and voted in April. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in Poland by T.Techlowiec

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Spain by mauriclefer

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Iran by salehyar

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Mexico by peszao

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Unfortunately due to technical issues the April’s update of Panoramio photos in Google Earth has been postponed to the end of May. The last weekly update was on April 25th adding photos up to ID 20980000 to Google Earth. The difference between the weekly update and the monthly one is that new added photos are displayed only in very low zoom levels in the weekly update. You have to wait until the next monthly update to see photos in different zoom levels according to popularity.

We added a new question to the Help page called “Spam in comments“. The idea is to discourage campaigns of comments for the Panoramio contest. Sending hundreds of comments with links is simply spam. If you get spam I recommend you to add a comment to one photo of the spammer including a link to that question. Normally after receiving one or two comments the user doesn’t spam anymore. This solution is far from perfect, but in the near future we will add a way to report comments and block users that abuse comment. By the way, this new policy starts now, so it doesn’t apply for comments made before May 7th.

I also would like to clarify that the final winners of the contest are only the ones included after the announcement in the blog. The contest page might be technically available before the announcement, but we always need some extra time for technical tasks and verifications.

Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for March 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in March and voted in April. The sponsor ATP (Mike Chean) will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in India by bimands

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Brazil by R & F Faraon

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Poland by Ula Ch-L

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Argentina by mslp

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for February 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in February and voted in March. The sponsor ATP (Mike Chean) will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in Romania by Bubu-Pescar

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Spain by Sonia Navas-Aranda

First Prize of Travel category

taken in France by Faydoner

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Ukraine by Lada Stupina

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for January 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in January and voted in February. The sponsor ATP (Mike Chean) will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in United States by davidcmc58

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in France by Skyhunter

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Germany by Jess.Froese

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Antarctica by LichtenHansen

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Starting today, a new feature lets you browse popular user-contributed photos from Panoramio at major landmarks around the world. The many people who virtually visit Paris to see the famous Eiffel Tower or the Notre Dame cathedral in Street View can now also browse the wide array of user photos taken in the vicinity. Just look for photo thumbnails at the top right of the Street View image, and click to view. You can also connect directly to the community behind this great photo content - a link to the author’s Panoramio page is shown with every user photo.

The feature is available in many other places too: New York, San Francisco, Rome, Tokyo, Barcelona, Sydney and New Zealand, to name just a few. Anywhere, really, where Street View is available and where users have contributed lots of high-quality photos; of course, this usually is near famous landmarks but you never know where you’ll discover more to see. With user-contributed photos you can inspect architectural details and close-up quirks, or see what is happening at a place at more than one time of day, or see whatever else it was that inspired the photographer to press the button. Take a look at this video to see more:

If you are a Panoramio user, you may already have a photo in Street View. If not, what are you waiting for? Just contribute your best photos to Panoramio and remember to geo-tag them. Google’s image-matching algorithms will analyze them at some point to see if they are also a good match for a Street View location. At the most famous places in the world, competition for space is already tough — take a look at the range of images of the Sagrada Familia — but on less travelled roads the world is still largely a blank canvas. Please help to fill it in!

Posted by Frederik Schaffalitzky, Software Engineer, Google Zurich

Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for December 2008 edition. Those photos were uploaded in December and voted in January. The sponsor ATP (Mike Chean) will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in United Kindgom by Nick Weall

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Russia by Nikitin_Sergey

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Switzerland by Racz (Shaman) Peter

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Greece by givrgos10

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for November 2008 edition. Those photos were uploaded in November and voted in December. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners during the next 30 days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in Italy by …. man_giu….

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Ukraine by Leo N

First Prize of Travel category

taken in France by anico61

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Greece by kostvil

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

My good friend Luistxo Fernandez from Tagzania.com pointed me to this photo. It is a representation of the city of San Sebastian created by the children from the ikastola (Basque language primary school) of his 5 year old daughter. It looks pretty much like Panoramio

Argazkiak.org | Donostiako mapa © cc-by-sa: Luistxo. F

Cool, isn’t?

Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for October 2008 edition. Those photos were uploaded in October and voted in November. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners during the next days in order to send the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category

taken in The Netherlands by Michda

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Romania by gabiavram

First Prize of Travel category

taken in France by digitaaal

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Colombia by SUASAIRASS

Full list of winners

Congratulations!