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Here are the winners of the Panoramio monthly Contest for September 2008 edition. Those photos were uploaded in September and voted in October. The sponsor ATP will contact the winners during the next days in order to send the prizes.
First Prize of Scenery category

taken in China by 黄河影人
First Prize of Heritage category

taken in Romania by […]

Since today photos from Panoramio up to ID 13,760,000 are included in Google Earth, this means almost one million new photos added.
The date of the next update will be around October 24th and will include photos reviewed up to October 10th. However we are testing more frequent updates and maybe you will see your photos […]

Am 11. September findet ein lockeres Panoramio Treffen in Berlin statt. Der Treffpunkt ist die Pferde Skulptur vor dem Hauptbahnhof um 18.00 Uhr. Ich werde auch dort sein und hoffe, dass viele Leute kommen. Je nach Wetterlage und Anzahl der Teilnehmer können wir entscheiden, was wir machen. Vielleicht eine Photo Tour oder wir setzen uns […]

In the past adding more photos to the maps has always slowed down the performance. Now that is history. Check the new Panoramio mapplet, included as featured content in “My Maps” tab in Google Maps and you will see hundreds of thumbnails displayed simultaneously and smoothly updated while panning the map. Truly amazing!

Only three months ago we announced that Panoramio had reached one million photos. Today I am very happy to write that the number of photos has doubled and reached 2 million. As usual the quality of the photos uploaded by the community is outstanding. Thanks for sharing, ¡mil gracias!

We are very (and we mean very) happy to announce that Panoramio will be acquired by Google.
The integration of photos from Panoramio in Google Earth has been so successful since John Hanke suggested it that we see the acquisition of Panoramio as a natural consequence. We have tightened our relationship with Google Earth more and […]

Four years ago I was in Potosi (Bolivia) and I took some photos from its beautiful colonial buildings. When I uploaded those photos to Panoramio some years later I had some problems mapping them. I could not remember the exact position of those photos, especially because the satellite images were not that detailed at that […]

Mapping photos has three main ingredients: photos, places and people from all around the world. That’s why Panoramio should be available in as many languages as possible. The good news are that from today German and Catalan versions are available for localized browsers. Thanks to the kind people that help us, eSHa with the German […]