Panoramio's Blog

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 […]

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 […]

King George Island, the largest of the South Shetland Islands has stations from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, South Korea, Peru, Poland, Russia and Uruguay. Look at how many houses, it has to be one of the most populated place in Antarctica

In King George Island there is an airport and even a Russian Church built in […]

I always wondered how were research stations in Antarctica. I found some with good satellite images.
Rothera Station (UK)

Troll station (Norway)

Casey Station (Australia)

Marambio Island station (Argentina)

One of the best shots I have seen in Antarctica is this one made from the Belgrano station (Argentina)

After browsing a little bit I realized that Antarctica is more interesting […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]