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Since some minutes ago you can submit your photos uploaded in April to the Panoramio contest. Those photos will have the link “submit to the contest” and can be voted in when they will get the “vote” button.
You can vote for the photos uploaded in March until the end of April. Now photos in […]

We want to celebrate the 5 million shared photos in Panoramio in Google Earth with a Panoramio meeting in Barcelona. In some weeks we will have meetings in London and Paris. The information about the meeting in Barcelona below in Spanish language.
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Queremos celebrar los 5 millones de fotos compartidas en Panoramio en Google Earth […]

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 […]

New header

March 6th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

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.

New search engine

February 20th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

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 […]

The D-Day and Omaha beach

February 20th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

Saving Private Ryan maybe is the most realistic film ever made about the landing of the Allied forces in German-occupied France on June 6th 1944, but with so many explosions and fast camera movements you can’t really see the place at the film. This mini-panoramio can help you with that:

Around Omaha you can […]

Chernobyl and the abandoned city of Prypiat in Ukranie

February 11th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

You might have seen on TV see images of the sarcophagus that covers the reactor number 4 from Chernobyl Nuclear Plant that exploded in the accident, but this mini-panoramio gives you a wider perspective:

Actually there is not very much to see around the plant, but what is really amazing is taking a virtual walk […]

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 […]