New update: around 600,000 new photos from Panoramio added to 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 hours. Also during the day some uploaded photos and comments were delayed. Now those problems are fixed. I am sorry to say that the tag’s page is still disabled and it will take around 1 month to be back. We could just switch on the tag’s page again, but this will make the whole site very slow.
The good news are that we are almost done with a couple of new features:
- Change of copyright licenses: You will be able to choose the type of copyright license you prefer for your photos, standard copyright or any license from Creative Commons. You will be able to change the license for all your photos by once or select the license for single photos.
- Original file access: You will be able to restrict the access to the original file in case you don’t want other users to get it. Only the author of the photo will be able to access the original file.
These 2 features have been very much requested and they will be online shortly.
Archives
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
Categories
- css (2)
- html (8)
- Interaction Design (6)
- javascript (11)
- miscellaneous (25)
- new features / improvements (54)
- panoramio (37)
- personal (1)
- places (25)
- Uncategorized (5)
Thank you very much. Nice to read that. Panoteam does a great jobb. (Always)
Greetings from Sweden and Happy Eastern
* R©my *
I am glad to see that photo appeared in GE .thanks ~
Thank you for the new features.
Too bad i missed this “shipment”, i’ll hurry up for the 26th deadline!
Hi, I would like to know if commercial photos are against google politics, because in my city I´ve seen a lot of commercial pictures, including telephone numbers of stores and it´s so sad… I´ve already sent an e-mail to Google Earth but I don´t know if they´ll read it.
Thanks!
Greetings from Brazil!!
I was waiting for the March 15 update. Since then I have looked several times for the following photos that have been selected of GE: 7426959, 7426647, 7406419, and 7405892. So far, I haven’t seen them. Thanks for Panoramio — it makes GE extra special. Bill
Just yesterday I was able to download full resolution files by clicking on the image inside the google earth browser, it was great. Has that feature been turned off? If the images are not copywrited it would be great to have that feature back.
Thanks
I hope the default original file access will be set to “open for everybody” and if someone cares she/he will be able to restrict the accesibility to her/his pictures. In other case many pictures will be seen as a mere “bigger thumbnail” just because many people will be unaware that their images availability is restricted or they just won’t care to make them accesible.
And I must admit that access to the original files is a great value of the Panoramio service for me. And it has NOTHIG to do with any kind of commercial use. With the kind of photography the Panoramio is about (I mean mainly geographically rather than artistically oriented) details of a picture are often crucial.
Another reason I like the accesiblity of the original files so much is that they are great source of pictures taken by many different cameras that can be used to get familiar with photo-quality issues specific to photographic equipment available on the market.
By the way - even now anyone wishing not to share the original file can simply upload only a version he/she accepts to be public available.
Cheers
Szymon