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Again more winners, now are published the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for November 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in November and voted in December. We will contact the winners via e-mail during the next 30 days in order to organize the prizes.

First Prize of Scenery category taken in Poland by Małgorzata Kasiewicz

First Prize of Travel category
taken in Turkey by Süleyman BULUT

First Prize of Heritage category taken in Portugal by CACorrêa

First Prize of Unusual Location category
taken in Romania by Ela_edy

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

On July 2005 I co-founded Panoramio with Joaquin Cuenca. Today, four and a half years later, it is time to leave.

Panoramio is the coolest thing I have ever done. I went through the greatest adventure of my life with this project. However for some reasons I can’t really explain I like changes and challenges, so it is time to move on to a new project.

First of all I would like to introduce you to my substitute, Gerard Sanz, an awesome Catalonian guy that will take care of the Panoramio community. He has already been working together with me and the Panoramio team for some weeks behind the scenes and learnt a lot about Panoramio. Previously he worked managing the Blogger community for 2 years. He is very passionate about Panoramio and has a lot of energy and many new good ideas for the site.

Acquisitions can be complicated, and the private nightmare of a founder is the site not surviving the process, but after some time Panoramio feels very comfortable at Google. It has been migrated to its infrastructure, has reached almost 20 million high quality geolocated photos and it is integrated with many other services: Google Earth, Google Maps, Streetview, Google Search, Google Maps API… I want to thank Panoramio community for its patience during the hard adaptation time.

Panoramio success is mostly due to the people that use Panoramio daily, awesome individuals that have been always supporting the project, sharing great photos and genuinely caring about the site. Among that group of people, I would like to mention the forum moderators: Panamon_Creel, Cleber Lima, NAGY Albert, Matthew Walters, SantoB, Peter Uspensky, Daniela Brocca, Volkan Yuksel, FSup, NightHunter, Igor Fedotenkov, Will51, Tony Reid, © mimipet.com, IPAAT, Nguyen Bang Giang, © Andre Speek, Jessica G., Baycrest, Draken, W140, hvbemmel and DL1LAM that tirelessly contributed in the forum.

I can’t list everyone I would like to thank, but I will try. From Panoramio team: Gràcies Roger, Tack Erik, Köszönöm Gyuri. You rock guys! Danke Sebastian Holzapfel. Special thanks to Fernando Delgado, Samuel Widmann, Frank Taylor and John Hanke. Gracias al malagueño Jose Florido. Danke Eva-Maria Kott for the name Panoramio. And of course, gracias to my co-founder and old time friend Joaquin Cuenca.

Even though I am leaving the Panoramio team, I am not leaving the Panoramio community. I am looking forward to having some spare time to share the hundreds of photos that I have not uploaded yet. So I´m not saying you goodbye, but see you around in Panoramio.

Again more winners, now are published the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for October 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in October and voted in November. 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 Romania by Heldrak

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Spain by jr.copy

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Spain by sayo2009

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Italy by Arnie54

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Again more winners, now are published the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for
September 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in September and voted in October. 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 Hungary by Kéri Sándor

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Spain by bullheadred

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Serbia by DaliborDelibasic

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Slovenia by ♥♫♥ TIFFANY ♥♫♥

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

I am very glad to announce winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for August 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in August and voted in September. 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 Romania by Marian Radulescu

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Italy by tu-quoque

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Turkey by Mustafa-K

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Russian Federation by ZNikolic

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Tens of millions of mobile users own a device with a good camera and GPS. We realize that a lot of these users may want to share photos of places with the rest of the world via Google Maps and Google Earth.

Today, we’re taking a first step toward making that possible, which is why I’m happy to announce our new iPhone app. You can download it now from the App Store. Our team is working hard on an app for Android-powered devices, so stay tuned for that!

The philosophy behind the app is to keep it simple: sign in (only the first time), pick a photo from your device or take a new photo, and upload it straight to Panoramio. If available, the geoposition will be automatically set, and you can optionally add a title to the photo.

This is the first time Panoramio is releasing a mobile app, so we want to hear your comments. Please send feedback, feature requests and bugs to iphone@panoramio.com.

In the previous post I announced that Panoramio will be in maintenance for around 48 hours starting on Sunday September 20th 12:00 GMT (13:00 Continental Europe, 05:00, San Francisco, 21:00 Beijing).

After that maintenance work the site will be back to normality on Tuesday around 12:00 GMT with some minor changes and removed limitations. All comments, tags and favorites will be displayed again. Also the 32 thumbnails per page will be back. You will see more photos on the map and reviewed photos will be added to Google Earth weekly. Also you will be able to upload up to 10 Mb files. However the “all” tab will disappear temporary and the popular tab and KMLs will not get new photos for 2 weeks. You can read more details about these changes in the forum.

I hope you like the changes, but please drop your opinion in the forum. Thanks for your patience!

Eduardo

We have to do some maintenance work in Panoramio for 48 hours starting on Sunday September 20th around 12:00 GMT (13:00 Continental Europe, 05:00, San Francisco, 21:00 Beijing).

During this period of time you will not be able to sign-in in Panoramio. This means that anything that requires to sign-in (upload photos, add a comment, delete photos, manage tags, etc) will be disabled. When you click over any of those features you will get a page with the message “Sorry, this page will not be available for the next 48 hours”. Also it wouldn’t be possible to add posts to the forum nor comments to Panoramio’s blog. Everything else in Panoramio should work normally; photo browsing, map page, personal pages, etc.

After approximately 48 hours (Tuesday September 22nd at 12:00 GMT) everything should be back to normality with some minor changes that I have explained in this post.

Sorry for the trouble, but it is something we had to do unavoidably. I am looking forward to see your newest photos on Tuesday.

Eduardo

Finally the winner winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for July 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in July and voted in August. 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 Taiwan by 乾龍

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Austria by Heferstion

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Greece by mainufo

Full list of winners

Congratulations!

Finally the winner winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for June 2009 edition. Those photos were uploaded in June and voted in July. 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 Ukrine by FWWS

First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Serbia by Pejović

First Prize of Travel category

taken in Greece by BogiWhiteFrost

First Prize of Unusual Location category

taken in Iceland by TONQUI CORUJO

Full list of winners

Congratulations!