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Panoramio in Google Maps

May 14th, 2008 by Eduardo Manchón

Since last Thursday some searches in Google Maps displays photos from Panoramio in the left bar, including the option of watching more photos over the map. Try for example to search for “London” to get some cool photos from the city.

Also since today in Google Maps there is a new feature called “More…” located beside the satellite, map and terrain buttons. After clicking over “More…” you can check the option “Photos” to see Panoramio images displayed over the map in a cool interface.

I am very glad to have this new feature. I love it and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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  1. 1 ACiD on May 15th, 2008 said:

    awesome addition

  2. 2 nigwil on May 15th, 2008 said:

    This is wonderful.

    An extension would be the ability to choose temporal alignment for the photos, say by season, so the panorama of photos can be viewed by spring, summer, winter or fall.

  3. 3 Ian on May 15th, 2008 said:

    Great to see more pictures back in the less popular areas of the map. Good work by all the team.

  4. 4 Filipe Freitas on May 16th, 2008 said:

    Yeah i noticed it!
    It’s so handy!!

  5. 5 Petteri Kantokari on May 16th, 2008 said:

    That´s a really cool feature but I wonder what happened to my photos. I used to have hundreds of them in Google Maps but now they are all gone! Zooming in does not help, they are not there anymore:(

  6. 6 Tony Reid on May 17th, 2008 said:

    Whilst I will always welcome further exposure of all our photos on Panoramio especially on Google Maps, there seems to be a discrepency in the photos displayed.

    I have a number of shots that are prominent in a couple of areas due to the lack of other photos. When I look on Google Maps as described I do not see ANY of my shots.
    I have photos that have been selected for Google Earth, have a blue dots in Google Earth, have plenty of views, appear at a higher level on GE than other nearby shots, and some are on the Panoramio Favorites pages.
    Everything seems in order. Except they don’t appear in Google Maps.

    Now this could be just me and my photos, but I doubt it.
    I have looked closely at the differences between Google Earth and Google Maps in the areas I normally have shots in. I have noticed that what is displayed in Google Maps is a sub-set of the full Google Earth/Panormaio set of shots.

    From my observations I would say this sub-set is based on a date criteria.
    Could it be that Google Maps have an older copy of the Panoramio photo database that excludes more recent shots of mine and other shots??

    Does any one else out here have similar experiences of this great new feature, all be it possibily flawed??
    Tony

  7. 7 Isaac on May 18th, 2008 said:

    Alucinante!!!… panoramio sigue dando cada vez más caña. Enhorabuena

  8. 8 Cephas on May 18th, 2008 said:

    Yeah the feature is really good one, hope u guys just keep adding such sort of ones. Some of my pics uploaded a long time back are still not selected for GE, hope to have these on GE…
    ID: 7793541
    ID: 7793461
    ID: 7822659
    ID: 6563432
    ID: 6563369
    ID: 4051821
    ID: 3821510
    Keep up the good work….

  9. 9 Steve Crowther on May 19th, 2008 said:

    I uploaded some very helpfull images of the exit signs from Orlando International Airport over 10 months ago and they don’t even appear in Earth.

    I have hundereds of images taken to help visitors but what is the use spending the time if they don’t get displayed?

  10. 10 Petteri Kantokari on May 19th, 2008 said:

    Tony, the majority of my own shots have been in GE for more than a year but they are not in Google Maps anymore. So, could it be that Google Maps is missing BOTH the old photos AND the new ones?

  11. 11 Tony Reid on May 20th, 2008 said:

    Clarification: I mentioned “Panoramio Favorites” in my earlier blog post. Of course, I meant “Panoramio Popular” pages.

    Petteri, It does seem like a subset of the main photo database.
    However, I do know that the team are looking in to this issue.
    Tony

  12. 12 =Mark on May 22nd, 2008 said:

    Has anyone attempted to get in touch with the powers that be to resolve the issues concerning the overlap of GE, GMaps and Panoramio? Or am I just dreaming?

  13. 13 Ben Tremblay on May 22nd, 2008 said:

    I decided to make life difficult for myself and /not/ include that in my “Peaks, Mountains, Hills and Trails” map … for one reason: I don’t want /all/ the pictures taken in a certain area.

    I just now looked at your photos tagged “mountains” … a very nice selection.
    With flickr I could get a GeoRSS feed for that tag but I can’t find that here.

    Is this planned?

    ben

    p.s. I don’t see “subscribe to replies” … hope I can find my way back here if/when there’s some response

    ab006ATchebucto.ns.ca

  14. 14 Anonymous on Jun 3rd, 2008 said:

    Please update all photos in zip code 70124. The photos are a couple of years after Katrina and many updates have taken place. If I saw that on Google Map, I would think New Orleans was still totally devastated. Reginelli’s is up and running.

    Thank you.

  15. 15 Chad Whitacre on Jun 10th, 2008 said:

    Just found Panoramio through the Google maps layer. Neat service.

    Posting here because I randomly clicked the “Opt Out” link at the bottom of this page and got a 404:

    http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/annc_panoramio.html

    Oops!

  16. 16 Augusto A. Machado on Jul 13th, 2008 said:

    Não é o sol entrando pelas folhas e galhos da árvore e refletindo um solo avermelhado ou o pináculo de igreja ou qualquer outra imagem que nos impressiona, mas é sim, a alma do fotógrafo quando capta a imágem e reflete nela o espírito do amor e da dedicação pela arte de fotografar. Parabéns pelas imagens. Hoje é 13 de julho de 2008.

  17. 17 Lytvynyuk on Jul 24th, 2008 said:

    Nice service !! BUT there is Picasa which has all same functionality!!!

    SO why to invent bicycle again!!???

  18. 18 melania on Jul 24th, 2008 said:

    come creare un blog su panoramio?

  19. 19 HAVIRHO on Nov 12th, 2008 said:

    I noticed some strange behaviour between Google Maps and Panoramio.
    I uploaded my photo’s a long time ago in Panoramio, and i selected the correct geographic positions.
    In Panoramio they are correct, however looking in Google Maps, it’s a real mess, geographic positions are all wrong.
    F.e if you choose the place BICHLBACH in Panoramio: http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=47.420707&ln=10.791605&z=-2&k=2&a=1&tab=1 it shows the correct geographic position. If you now search for the same place in Google Maps, it’s a mess, the church for example is really placed somewhere else…..

    Hope google can tell me what is wrong.

  20. 20 Eduardo Manchón on Dec 1st, 2008 said:

    Havriho, I see the photos in the same postion in Panoramio
    http://www.panoramio.com/map/#lt=47.420707&ln=10.791605&z=-2&k=2&a=1&tab=1

    and in Google Maps
    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=BICHLBACH&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.522172,67.675781&ie=UTF8&ll=47.420313,10.792319&spn=0.006141,0.016522&t=h&z=17&lci=lmc:panoramio

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