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Upload photos to Panoramio straight from your iPhone!

October 20th, 2009 by Fernando Delgado

Tens of millions of mobile users own a device with a good camera and GPS. We realize that a lot of these users may want to share photos of places with the rest of the world via Google Maps and Google Earth.

Today, we’re taking a first step toward making that possible, which is why I’m happy to announce our new iPhone app. You can download it now from the App Store. Our team is working hard on an app for Android-powered devices, so stay tuned for that!

iPhone app screenshot

The philosophy behind the app is to keep it simple: sign in (only the first time), pick a photo from your device or take a new photo, and upload it straight to Panoramio. If available, the geoposition will be automatically set, and you can optionally add a title to the photo.

This is the first time Panoramio is releasing a mobile app, so we want to hear your comments. Please send feedback, feature requests and bugs to iphone@panoramio.com.


48 Responses to “Upload photos to Panoramio straight from your iPhone!”  

  1. 1 P11D

    Excellent app, I have always had amazing photos to upload taken from different amazing parts of the world only to be stopped by the complexity of the old procedure. Well done.

  2. 2 LK

    Can’t wait for the Android app!

  3. 3 Sergey Nazarov

    in Russian AppStore is No Application :(

  4. 4 Wim

    Thanks Fernado, excellent app!

  5. 5 Brian Sloane

    Looks neat. Do this images show up on Google Maps immediately with the Panoramio collection?

    Also, is the geoposition data taken from the photo itself (if it is in the camera roll) or does it get set from where you are when uploading?

    I guess I will just give it a test to find out.

  6. 6 Tell

    It’s pity I cannot see Panoramios pictures only uploading.

  7. 7 Craig

    Really looking forward to trying this, I’ll just have to wait until I can get a good photo on my iPhone. I hope this doesn’t increase the work load on the reviewers or degrade the quality of the pictures that make it through to GE.

  8. 8 Jeffrey Friedl

    Do you now have an API for uploading photos? When your iPhone-app announcement went up, I got a flood of mail from your users telling me about it, suggesting that I should finally (after all these years) be able to write a plugin for Adobe Lightroom so that Lightroom users can export their photos to their Panoramio accounts.

    When I asked Panoramio about an API a long time ago, your response was somewhat baffling, implying that you had never heard of someone geoencoding their own photos. Maybe your view has expanded since?

    I would think that Lightroom’s demographics (professional photographers, and serious non-pros) and their much-higher-than-average-quality photographs would be something Panoramio would want to court.

    If you open up an API, I will write a plugin for Lightroom that uses it.

  9. 9 Yan Lyesin

    Excellent application! Excellent start! Definitely there are some features to add! And I am sure - you already working on those: tags (new and existing), browsing existing photos from Panoramio account, show nearby pictures based on current iPhone location, bookmarked users/places, etc…
    Also, it looks like your API is already in place and working nice - please, share API with community (particularly with Jeffrey Friedl (http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies)) and he will write Lightroom plugin for Panoramio uploading!

    Thanks a lot, Panoramio team! Best of luck!
    Looking forward to seeing your updates!

  10. 10 David

    Genial trabajo !, ya lo estabamos esperando, a ver como afecta a la subida de fotos, seguro que los usuarios tendran mucha más facilidad para geoposicionar las fotos… más fácil imposible.

    Good job!

    Saludos,

  11. 11 Ramiro

    Next challenge…. uploading photographs straight from my EOS 400D??

  12. 12 Don Tucker

    I second the call for an Android version.

  13. 13 Дмитрий Семёнов

    Why free applications is available only for some contries? No Aplications in Europe. No App inRussian Store. No App in Estonian Store.
    Russian Tourist is very perspective in future. And dont forget what one from Google owners is russian too. I think this is iTunes. And Apple development cours. The reason is Copyright problems.

  14. 14 Mike

    Finally the app I was waiting for. But why it’s not able to use GPS coordinates from pictures taken outside the Panoramio app? They have GPS tags.

  15. 15 luciano passos cruz

    Very precarious and complicated check the photos of the competition. Before it was much easier.

  16. 16 Draken

    Don’t you see the contradiction?

    http://www.panoramio.com/help/adding_photos

    “Panoramio doesn’t support batch uploads. Each photo must be individually uploaded to ensure the best quality and geolocation accuracy.”

    With this app. the best quality will never be achieved. Sad, very sad indeed.

    Panoramio will rapidly become a poor quality photos dump.

  17. 17 alexs

    Please a version for Windows Mobile!!!!

  18. 18 moriza

    I upoaded two photos with the iPhone apps. I am sure the photos has geotags since it was taken on my iPhone (and it shows on Picasa), but the Panoramio app. did not place them on the map automatically. I had to do it manually on the web. Did I miss something?
    We’ll try a couple more pictures.

  19. 19 fiorililla

    ON my recent visit to sicily I took a photograph of a lilac/bluish plan situated next to poppies, I though it was a cornflower …. I can see the same flower in one of your photos and going on google I also noticed it lives in sicily.
    I would appreciated if you could mail me its name. thanks for your help regards fiorililla

  20. 20 AustinMN

    I think this is a sad thing for Panoramio. I have never seen any camera - even the best DSLR - that had a screen that was adequate to evaluate the photos for upload. Now here is a mechanism for uploading from an inferior camera with no way to evaluate the worth of the image before doing so. So sad.

  21. 21 Henk

    This is all fantastic, but why don’t you repair the old upload interface? I’ve uploaded a lot of images, but you guys lost them during the upload process (the only thing that remains after uploading is an corrupt internet page with white thumbnails).

    Don’t fix it when it’s not broken!

  22. 22 Matthew Walters

    I take thousands of photos on a two-week trip, then spend days editing them to ensure only the best are put forwards for Panoramio and hence google earth. I crop, level, sharpen, stitch and adjust until I am happy. What a waste of time.

    Matthew

  23. 23 Joe W

    Wow. There are already way too many lousy quality photos on Panoramio! I can only expect this app to bring the quality of Panoramio even further down. Too bad - RIP, Panoramio.

  24. 24 Muzza from McCrae

    I have almost 6 pages of photos waiting to be assessed. Oldest being uploaded during September. Are photos still being assessed and loaded onto Google Earth?

  25. 25 ataman ayvaz

    yarışma kazanan fotoğrafları neden göremiyoruz?
    Ataman ayvaz

  26. 26 patricia gomez

    gracias a esta persona tan especial que quizo compartir esta pagina con todos los paisanos, que nos encontramos lejos, si dios lo permite pronto estaremos compartiendo con nuestra gente querida de nuestro pueblo

  27. 27 Patrick

    Great application! Was waiting for it for a long time! Thank you!

  28. 28 Peter

    you better get your work done… since 2 month no new photos are updated so why uploading to a site thats abadoned by its developers…. :(

  29. 29 Adel

    I agree with the other comments, it is dissapointing that Panoramio had put a lot of effort to serve an inferior camera and fast track publishing the phone cameras, and we spend days croping and selecting great shots to publish, and we wait months to see them in google earth.

  30. 30 Mauro & Ornella in India

    We took thousands of shots during our honeymoon travel and just a few of them where worth the publishing on Panoramio, some of them that looked good on the small monitor of the camera where blurred or out of focus when we viewed them on our PC. So we think it is wrong to allow picture uploading from cellphones that have bad lenses, small monitors and no way to evaluate on an informed basis the REAL quality of a picture.

  31. 31 Faintlightofdawn

    What an innovative idea!

    I have an iPhone and the camera is hopeless, so hopefully these uploads will not feature prominently on the world map.

  32. 32 vêtements femmes

    I think this is a sad thing for Panoramio. I have never seen any camera - even the best DSLR - that had a screen that was adequate to evaluate the photos for upload. Now here is a mechanism for uploading from an inferior camera with no way to evaluate the worth of the image before doing so. So sad.

  33. 33 skida

    This is a worrying development indeed. There are so many things not right with Panoramio, yet instead of getting the basics right, the team seem to have been working on this feature which will open the floodgates - not good when you have difficulty just treading water.

  34. 34 《阿鵬》B@ngk☺k

    I can’t agree more with AustinMN and Matthew Walters. Although I am not a good photographer, I always try to present to my friends select photos with the best composition and quality I can do. A lot of energy and time was spent. I DO NOT like SUPERFICIAL job!

  35. 35 JRS

    Thanks for this application: it gives me another way to upload photos to Panoramio. I don’t think AustinMN or Matthew Walters get it: you can still use the existing mechanisms, but here is a way to upload iPhone photos directly. You can always delete them if you don’t like them later! Thanks again, Fernando.

  36. 36 Claudio Pedrazzi

    I am not so sure this is a good development. The team could be literally flooded with low quality photographs, and the review process could be dramatically slowed down. In my humble opinion there could have been more useful issues to work on… but anyway let’s wait and see what the brave new world of iphotos will bring to Panoramio.

  37. 37 ipotpal

    I think this is a sad thing for Panoramio.

  38. 38 Michał Wieckowski "Rennus"

    Hi, please help,

    Sorry that I put this kind of info in this topic, but I have to react quickly and have no time to find admin’s e-mail. One of users called EDWIN FICK is spreading some spam which apparently, is a trojan, as it was reported by some other user - coud someone make an order with this idiot - is it possible?

    Please be careful! Examples of comments of that miserable person below:

    http://www.panoramio.com/photo/25166421

    http://www.panoramio.com/photo/27945109

    I love Panoramio and I hate this kind of behaviour….

    Best regards,

    Rennus

  39. 39 Adelz1

    It has been 2 months and i dont see my photos on google earth, this is very frustrating… can anyone help with this problem the photos are selected, approved ID number are in the range.

  40. 40 A. G. COLOMINO

    COMPARTO LO DICHO POR CLAUDIO PEDRAZZI, ESTO TRERÁ CONSIGO UN ALUVIÓN DE FOTOS DE POCA CALIDAD, QUE HARÁ LENTO EL PROCESO DE REVISIÓN DE FOTOS… DE HECHO YO DESCARGUÉ FOTOS A PRIMEROS DE SEPTIEMBRE Y TODAVIA NO HAN SIDO REVISADAS, ENTIENDO POR LA ENORME CANTIDAD DE FOTOS INSERTAS EN PANORAMIO.

  41. 41 Sababoy

    Hello dear manager. I’ve got a bad problem and please help me. when uploading my photos I don’t see the part to enter the photo’s profile. I found out this is necessary to take part in competition. what’s the matter and what should I do? in forum to below address I asked about it:

    http://www.panoramio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=256621#256621

  42. 42 r4 card

    IT is really nice thing that with help of this we can download over photo on over i-phone.Thank you for this post it has very useful information.This article contain some meaningful information.please keep posting like this with this useful information

  43. 43 James Gregor

    I love this app! What a great way to get the most worldwide photo coverage. Yeah really great photos are….well, great, but I mostly use the panoramio app in google earth to find interesting locations to visit. so the more people uploading lots of pics, the more old ruins, abandoned cemeteries, waterfalls, and awesome overlooks I can visit!
    Great job!

  44. 44 Kelly

    I think it’s fascinating that people think that it’s a waste of time to do something carefully simply because someone else may do the same thing differently. This is a great development - I’ve happily contributed using my iPhone and enjoy the process very much. In the future, once a significant database of photos develops, there’s no reason why fresh mechanisms for parsing qualitatively cannot be developed.

  45. 45 Pablo Andrés C. P.

    Esperando que pronto se haga realidad también para móviles con S.O. Symbian.

    Soy un usuario que gusta de Panoramio, de niño siempre quería como una mezcla de mi mapa de viaje con un album fotográfico personal, así que ojalá pronto pueda utilizar en algún viaje para llevar mis recuerdos a Panoramio con mi Nokia 5800.

    Saludos desde Antofagasta de Chile.

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  47. 47 Mario Esposito - Photography

    We want the Android App too.

  48. 48 çiçekçi

    hi supperr photo thanks

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