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2 million photos from Panoramio in Google Earth

September 20th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

Yesterday 300,000 new photos from Panoramio were added to Google Earth, that means that the total number of photos in Google Earth is 2 million right now.

We also added a new feature a couple of weeks ago. Now you can ask for a second review for your photos in the case they have not been selected for Google Earth. First, check the photo acceptance policy for Google Earth and if still you think that your photo should be in Google Earth, please, submit the photo ID using this review form. We will take a second look to the photos and inform you by e-mail about the decision.

Still there is a long delay bringing the photos from Panoramio to Google Earth. However we have realized that this delay works like a quarantine with very nice effects. First during the time that photos are only in the map of Panoramio.com, they are reviewed by the visitors of the site, making difficult that inappropriate photos are sent to Google Earth. Second, during the “quarantine” the photos are viewed, added to favorites, commented, etc. thus each photo gets a popularity level that correlates quite well with its overall quality. This is extremely important because when you explore a place in Google Earth you first see the best photos and only if you zoom-in enough you get the all the others, from more to less popularity.

As anyone else, I want to see my fresh uploaded photos in Google Earth as soon as possible, but I understand that people want to see mainly the best shots from Panoramio in Google Earth, therefore I am very happy to discover the good side of the delay, it makes waiting easier. Anyway, remember that Panoramio’s map gets hundred of thousands of visitors every day, so even if your photos are still not visible in Google Earth, right after being uploaded they are available to many people.

By the way, the next update of photos will be on October 15th (notice: this update was canceled, the next one on November 15th).

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  1. 1 hebbet on Sep 20th, 2007 said:

    When is the next update?

  2. 2 Eduardo Manchón on Sep 22nd, 2007 said:

    Sorry, I forgot to include this information in the post. It will be on October 15th.

  3. 3 Yves75 on Sep 22nd, 2007 said:

    Bonjour,

    sauf erreur de ma part, je ne vois pas les nouvelles photos sur Google Earth alors que plusieurs de mes photos devraient être concernées par la mise à jour.
    Y a t il un décalage au niveau de Google earth ou bien est ce un autre problème.

    Tous mes encouragements pour votre formidable travail.

  4. 4 Albert on Sep 22nd, 2007 said:

    One more question: Which is the highest ID uploaded to GE now? :-)

  5. 5 Paul Myers on Sep 25th, 2007 said:

    No Joaquin, it is 3500000.

  6. 6 Joaquín Cuenca Abela on Sep 26th, 2007 said:

    I don’t know, but I think it should be around 3600000.

    Cheers,

  7. 7 Honza Verfl on Sep 27th, 2007 said:

    Hello Eduardo, I do quite agree with you about the delay thing and selection effect, particularly because I so often see so many pictures that are far better than mine and they are also usually more popular and it is good that they show up instead of some of my very poor shots. Anyway, the sheer number of possible visitors is great here, i would never dream of showing my pictures to almost 1000 people around the world!

  8. 8 rubenn on Sep 30th, 2007 said:

    Whereas I do realise that many of the photos posted on GE are better than the ones I have submitted, I still fail to understand why there are so many images on GE that by anyone’s standards should not have been accepted.

    With respect,

    Rubenn Dovar

  9. 9 bolyak on Oct 2nd, 2007 said:

    Three of my photos were uploded, the highes ID was 3689261.

  10. 10 Philippe Stoop on Oct 3rd, 2007 said:

    Eduardo said :
    “However we have realized that this delay works like a quarantine with very nice effects. First during the time that photos are only in the map of Panoramio.com, they are reviewed by the visitors of the site, making difficult that inappropriate photos are sent to Google Earth. Second, during the “quarantine” the photos are viewed, added to favorites, commented, etc. thus each photo gets a popularity level that correlates quite well with its overall quality.”

    Hi Eduardo !
    You’re right… in theory ! But this “quarantine” does not work as well as it should, especially in very touristic places. When you download a photo, it can been in the “all photos” tab, but only for a short time, because it is quicly replaced by more recent pictures.
    A few months ago, the photos had a second chance to be seen, when they entered the “popular” tab, because the newest popular appeared on the firs page of the tab. But now, the first page of the popular tab shows the oldest popular pictures. If there are many pictures on that places, new pictures are very difficult to find, even if they have been commented by many people.
    It is not a problem for “old” panoramio members, who have very popular pictures, because their personal page are often visited by people who did not find their new pictures on the map. But it must be very frustrating for newcomers.

  11. 11 Aldo Ferretto on Oct 4th, 2007 said:

    It wiil be nice to see some statistic data (a table or a graph) showing the growth of Panoramio pics versus time, starting from the beginning (August 2005 ?):
    1)max photo ID#
    2)total number of Pics on Panoramio
    3)total number reviewed
    3)total number accepted/rejected
    4)total number in GE
    5)……

    Hi
    Aldo

  12. 12 Pascal on Oct 5th, 2007 said:

    Bonjour,
    Je ne parviens pas à expédier mes photos sur Google Earth via panoramio…Que faire?

  13. 13 kayak on Oct 8th, 2007 said:

    Muy buenas.

    Me alegro que llevéis este ritmo de crecimiento, seguid así.

    Sé que tal vez este no sea el mejor lugar para esta sugerencia, pero…, por qué no modificáis el sistema de visualización de imágenes para que todas las fotografías tengan la misma posibilidad de mostrarse. Me refiero a que en el actual sistema dais más prioridad a las fotografías más antiguas respecto a las que son nuevas, impidiendo a estas últimas poder ser más populares.

    Un saludo!

  14. 14 DeEtte Fisher on Oct 9th, 2007 said:

    Hello Eduardo,
    Many of my pictures have been accepted for Google Earth ( I think in the end of August or the beginning of September), but I still don’t see them in Google Earth. I thought they would be included on the September 19th Google Earth “add”, but they weren’t. How do I know if they will be on the October 15th “add”?
    Thank you,
    DeEtte

  15. 15 Aldo Ferretto on Oct 9th, 2007 said:

    It wiil be nice to see some statistic data (a table or a graph) showing the growth of Panoramio pics versus time, starting from the beginning (August 2005 ?):
    1)max photo ID#
    2)total number of Pics on Panoramio
    3)total number reviewed
    3)total number accepted/rejected
    4)total number in GE
    5)……

    Hi
    Aldo

  16. 16 hebbet on Oct 10th, 2007 said:

    In Help (http://www.panoramio.com/help/#GE_3) the next update is now on Nov 15th 07. What is right October or November?

  17. 17 jm on Oct 11th, 2007 said:

    improvment idea: show the total number of view images per user on the front page of each user.

  18. 18 franke on Oct 14th, 2007 said:

    Is the help wrong? In help the next update is on 15.11.07

  19. 19 volksvan_de on Oct 14th, 2007 said:

    Super , habe jetzt erst diese möglichkeit entdeckt und gleich ein paar Fotos geladen !

  20. 20 Dominik on Oct 15th, 2007 said:

    Why my photo, if approvated, not included in google earth, http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3803571

    Il mio inglese fa quasi schifo, speriamo bene! :-)

  21. 21 Stefano on Oct 18th, 2007 said:

    Quando è il prossimo aggiornamento?
    When is the next update?
    Perchè io ho carcato delle foto verso la fine di settembre e i primi di ottobre.
    Because I have uploaded my photos to the end of September and the first week of October.

  22. 22 .|_ Chris on Oct 21st, 2007 said:

    and this update when will appear on GE?

    I mean… we are at october 21th… and the upload to GE it was on october 15th… but the photos aren’t on GE :S:S

    why?

    cheers

  23. 23 Carl on Oct 21st, 2007 said:

    I’m new to Panoramio and have uploaded several photos already that I have personally taken over the years of places I have visited. I did this because Google Earth is on my computer at work and on my breaks, I’ve been enjoying “touring” places I’ll never get the opportunity to physically visit. Not just the typical places tourists would go but cities and towns around the world similar to the city in which I live as well as places similar in size to places where my friends and family live. It really is fascinating. So I decided to upload photos of places I felt would be interesting to people cruising Google Earth. Most of the photos I uploaded are of places that aren’t already on Google Earth and I hope all of them will be accepted once reviewed.

    I do have a quick question that wasn’t addressed specifically in the Panoramio faq: on average (a “ball-park guesstimate”) how long does it normally take from upload to Panoramio to review for Google Earth?

  24. 24 wissam abi zeid on Nov 6th, 2007 said:

    hi i need to upload some photos but i can’t what should i do?

  25. 25 Andrei Radu Georgescu on Dec 3rd, 2007 said:

    Hello,
    I have seen that some of my uploaded photos to Panoramio,have the icon “this picture has been selected for google earth”.But I cannot see them in Google Earth.Wouid you be so kind to tell me why?
    Yours faithfuly!

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