Panoramio's Blog

We just added a new server. Photos should load much faster now. Also some bizarre bugs that some of you got the last days shouldn’t appear anymore. We are working right now on database issues. You will see further improvements in the site peformance during the next days.
Since Panoramio’s layer in Google Earth was released […]

Official Google Blog announced last Saturday that Google Earth has added a new “Geographic web” layer that includes articles from Wikipedia, comments from GE community and photos from Panoramio. See also Techcrunch.
The layer is visible by default, you don’t need to do anything. Next time you open Google Earth and zoom into a […]

Andrew “Banzaj” Fedorov just translated Panoramio (Русский) to Russian. Спасибо Andrew! A big step for Panoramio, thanks to Andrew, now 145 million people from Russia can enjoy Panoramio in their own language.
Already many photos from Russia were posted in Panoramio, my favourite places are the wooden churches of Kizhi, Saint Petersburg and […]

Since yesterday Panoramio is full translated to Korean thanks to Sungbong Cho. I believe the translation will increase very much the photos located Korea.
Unfortunately there are almost no photos from isolated North Korea, “the world’s worst Internet black hole”, according Reporters without borders. Internet use is completely forbidden there, only a few officials are […]