Photo acceptance policy
Until now we have been very laxists with the moderation of photos in Panoramio, only deleting sexual explicit photos. However many users have complained about the photos that have no relationship whatsoever with the place they were taken (close ups of people, for example).
We understand some people want to share their photos with their friends using Panoramio, and we have absolutely no problem with this. It’s even one of our goals. But there are pictures that definitively cross the line. Hint: posting your head on a white background is not ok, posting you having great time with friends in a beach is ok.
We are implementing the concept of “private” photos, ie. photos that don’t show up in the main page. But until then, we have to ask you to be reasonable with the pictures you post, or they will be deleted (we will keep you a copy for a while, so if you had no copies of a deleted photo you can ask us for it.)
Another kind of problematic photos are logos, copyrighted photos, or mini images copied from some web page. Those are also not allowed because of legal issues. We are proud to host your photos, but it doesn’t mean we can host any image you send us.
So far, the vast majority of photos we have received are stunning photos of places. Please keep it that way. Keep rocking!
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PANORAMIO should be exclusively to us -geographical and historical fans - so i think it is quite right to PANORAMIO to delete those photo or words that DO NOT contribute to our main goal: the increase of historical and geographical knowledge of the locations that we visited or our communities. If it does not fit the site goal DELETE AT ONCE ,otherwise it will be overloaded soon losing all its purposes . there are many eletronic photoarchives people can store theirs images . PANORAMIO MUST KEEP ITS PURPOSE OF BEING A GEOGRAPHICAL SITE FOR GEOGRAPHICAl FANS !
Hi, as PANORAMIO said pics should show the geographical place they where taken.
As a matter of fact I have tried to upload some pics but they don’t show up in GoogleEarth. Are they put exclusively by PANORAMIO?
Agendalegal, this post is very outdated, check our help section to see the new policy.
Anyway we are developing ways to filter photos in order to show only descriptive photos about places.
Angel, photos uploaded to Panoramio take around two weeks to show in Google Earth.
Eduardo