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Archive for November, 2007

Las Médulas: man made landscape 2.000 years ago

November 29th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

Las Médulas, located near the town of Ponferrada in León province, Spain, used to be the most important gold mine in the Roman Empire. Las Médulas is listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites. The contrast between green of chestnut and oaks with the red color of the mountains in Las […]

Friends of Panoramio meeting in the real world

November 28th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

I just discovered this photo of a group of people from Panoramio, Gruppo Amatori di Panoramio, meeting in Montecanino, Italy.

Later I discovered that they already have met several times in Camogli , Asti and Monte D’Alba. They are: Marco Ferrari, Francesco Favalesi, Franco Truschello, Daniela Brocca, Valerio M, Alberto Gemme, Gilberto Silvestri, Luigi Barbadoro, […]

Panoramio in Belarusian, Latvian, Galician and Asturian

November 22nd, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

Thanks to these great guys, now Panoramio is translated to four more languages.
Latvian: Ainars Bruvelis, paldies!
Galician: Christian Álvarez Rodríguez, gracias!
Asturian: Andrés Menéndez Blanco and Héctor Xil, gracies!
Belarusian: Andrej Kuźniečyk Дзякуй!
The rest of the languages are updated continously with the contributions of many translators. However sometimes you will see some sentences in English mixed […]

More than 200 cool sightseeings in “Places”

November 16th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

Many people have contributed with new locations to the list of cool places in Panoramio. We have collected more than 200 great locations and last weeks we made some improvements in the Places page, making easier to browse locations randomly. You always can find a link to “Places” in the top of the site.

The idea […]

500,000 photos from Panoramio added to Google Earth

November 9th, 2007 by Eduardo Manchón

After the October update was canceled, yesterday the November one was done and 500,000 photos from Panoramio have been added to Google Earth. Now 2,5 million photos are available in Google Earth. The next update will be around December 10th.
Now from Google Earth you have a directly link to correct misplaced photos and to flag […]

Since last week we have forums for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Magyar, Arabic and Hindi, so people can use their own language in the forum. We selected those languages because are the most popular languages among the users of Panoramio.
People seem to enjoy the new forums, specially the Spanish community […]