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On Monday April 7th Google Earth updated the Panoramio layer adding around 300,000 new photos, that was earlier than we expected (April 12th).
Selected images up to ID 8,620,000 are now in Google Earth. The next update will be online on May 25th and will include photos reviewed until May 5th.

Today we have launched the geotagging monthly contest in Panoramio sponsored by ATP.

Rules:
- To participate simply use the link “Submit to the contest” located under each photo and choose one category.
- Users can submit as many photos as they want, but there is only one prize per person.
- One photo can participate in only one […]

Today Google Earth updated the Panoramio layer adding around 600,000 new photos. Selected images up to ID 7,980,000 are now in Google Earth. The next update is on April 12th and will include photos reviewed until March 26th.
Yesterday we moved to a new server and the site was not working for a couple of […]

We just released a new header for Panoramio:

Now you can explore the World and find any place in our planet from every page in Panoramio.com. The access to “Your photos”, Places and Tags are more visible with the new design. Also the link to the settings is more accessible.

Today we made some improvements in the search enginge of Panoramio’s homepage and the World Map. Now you can search for:
- Streets in some countries: “Third Avenue, New York“, “Ramblas, Barcelona“.
- Landmarks: “Eiffel Tower“, “Mount Fuji” or “Cape of Good Hope”
- Names in different languages: Saragossa/Zaragoza, Nueva York/New York, Köln/Cologne, Leipzig/Lipsia…
- More flexible inputs: Add […]

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 […]

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 […]

Do you see anything strange in these homepages?

Yes, Panoramio is mirrored for right to left languages
Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi were available some time ago, but without mirroring they were not really usable, so we decided to pull them back until we could mirror the site. Now it is ready.
It took more time […]

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, […]

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 […]