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Archive for January, 2008

Forte São João Baptista in Mozambique

January 29th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

I never expected such a resolution for a relatively unkown place as Forte São João Baptista in Ibo island in Mozambique:

But I was even more surprised after discovering that my friend eSHa took a photo right there.

It feels almost like touching these guns with the hands.

Last evening Google Earth updated the Panoramio layer adding almost 2 million photos. We added photos up to around ID 6,700,000 almost duplicating the amount of photos available in Google Earth.
We finally could fix one of the most requested issues in Panoramio; the backlog of reviewed photos. The backlog has been reduced from 1 […]

Grützi!! We meet in Zurich on Saturday January 12th

January 10th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

After the Italian guys organized the first Panoramio meeting in the real World, I thought that a forum could be a good idea, so I created the forum “Rendezvous in the real world” and it worked! People is already organizing meetings in Philippines, Malta, Australia, Bali, Chicago, Valencia…
We meet on Saturday, January 12th, at […]

New interface for the photo page in Panoramio

January 9th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

Some days ago we released a major redesign of the photo page in Panoramio. The goal of the new design is to make possible to see and explore the place where the photo has been taken.
Several elements have been emphasized: the satellite image, the photos nearby and the political World map. We added a […]